Show CONTENTED FRENCH SEEMS NEVER TO IMPROVE DO 00 mm FARMING BY HUD HAND ENTIRELY AND MAKE NO HO COMPLAINT SO 50 SAYS PHILIP mm BROTHER OF DF GEO GW pigs rs ri fr paire s 6 1919 my der dear brother I 1 have written twice I 1 think since having received a letter from you but bat I 1 started to in mv v room rat rather her early tonight as aa I 1 had nothing to do and after aate getting here found that oat I 1 ari was not ot a sleepy in the least sto so will wili drop youlear you a few fear 1 hn s and sec eft if it wit wil not or relieve initial my feelings as I 1 am rath er lonesome being alone among 0 o many people whose whom ways way are so BO different from ours have been in 10 this place two days davs now and will be here for perhaps three days more but as it is a beautiful little city and the people are nice im not worrying wor much over hews being detained here this is a town of forty thousand people and everything is very pic to tur re esque us an the rail road rung run th through rough a valley and the to town us is atu btu k on the ode B de of two mountains and to lookup look up from the volley on either side bide it seems seema as aa though the he but buildings d inge were about to tumble down Y you u can take a street cr car ain b hr ia i or n ik in ii iti n in hi e ei 0 u ZI lit tin but if you walk a ik i mu no havi I 1 to ellin clim tight flight after flight of aarm 1 he haun I 1 11 the ai I 1 in before ay j each 11 main street the theae people hw have some bome id 1 aboud loca loe town here hem as 9 1 know kaow of w ra aimi I 1 lar lo 10 his s tr tiit ere re is ic no visible i ot or st port pori 1 here bof a awn of this size breaud and the wa 21 iliev chev make a livier is some what of 1 a ni I 1 farm ing I 1 ia their main industry idl I 1 went n t to the top of the I 1 this afternoon and the ol 01 other he aid side afternoon elopes gradually gradual y down wit with h thou banda of net acrea of fertile I 1 wild all their land he here re is fertile the than ours our but we are so ao far ahead of them in methods metho d 9 t that it at there 1 is no comparison at at 01 among the he peasants a j man ish who I 1 has th three re or four acres is icon sideres a b biff to farmer and every sirk 1 ie thing ta dine by hand from plant plan L WK ing to he harvest P mir n a and d even with ol 01 wheat the they y aae a the h e old d hand meth od it of harv harvesting ing that we discarded forty yea years ago and the funny part is that they dont care to progress at alt all and win seem perfectly contented with their old methods the wo we meol di eta have tubs tuba to wash a aftem or ill aen edwith en with ith the water nearly to the of the ground with tough rough surfaced boards slanting lantine lan tinz few the water and chev get down on their knees with backs backa bent away over red and rub away on the th a clothes and when we tell them of all 11 the advancement md and great labor saying baving devices in 1 the states they just look at us ug and nd limits their heads thinking i opens that we are crazy I 1 io y be here for BIX alx lx months yet but their 1 oni one good con gu lation th capt I 1 have and nd that is a the I 1 neer I 1 stay say here th the bettor better ill known knewt how to appreciate a real cold country i 1 then rhen I 1 do set get back I 1 cant chink afi any thing more to write so will say any stood bood night hugh and finish aume lm other time th boyi as I 1 dont sup ill have toy have opp opportunity riburn y to me mail this un until I 1 re t turn urn to borden bordeaux Us any we way bordeaux ith I th well after Bp pending endine four do axy B each in boners torera and ohn I 1 1 back to an and upon p u rival I 1 found ad two letters letter iron you both of which I 1 wax was very glad to U I 1 get and to know that all was veil I 1 ahad I 1 had nice time while bit in stoia I 1 as that hat is 19 an old historical city th most famous old chateaux in franc is a the there and it is sure interesting iOK to iro go there there is in an open cour in the center about an acre and the building extends entirely around that no an you can Plu dinne the size am of it the most wonderful architect archi arch tec itee lual wc work I 1 haw have ever seen man and a lot fit we was designed so ao long ago hat thebe chev have no record who b did it 1 wm i it some time in hf he 15 n h hi sons B irne kin kanir R s aari no qu queen sell who wh a are pd P d cruel q i ann and fer een livio armeni he has come secret ch chamber anther or st orvay ruth aith rome annie crime connected with it and in one dungeon kneir 13 a a harmless looking little piece of scroll work on the wall which the guide touched solle ame where and the bottom seemed to drop out of a section of the it fl ur sor which the guile told ua we waa the mouth jf if a chute thit led do down in rl in an underground stream and that thai I 1 II 11 I 1 was DRS used to lo dispose depose of the bodies of nobility who were enticed into the castle and murdered and on the out side aide of the building hideous figures of all kinds are projecting iut hut into the wr air from the cr eaves ivest short were put there to drive ow away ill the by evil spirits that the th people e believed eved infested the air in those days it t ok two and one half hair hours boom to RO go through but it massure an ore interesting yen even if it old aid make our blood run cold at times nothing more has turned up about rome going home and I 1 guess we are luck atuck here for fair re as this n is a base point and also alao a point of en em rod and unless 1 I borne 77 oilier her s r r 11 V js ch pi in ne f or mi ao 11 all I 1 it ow w w rk i arr apt ap w e he id d h 1 oil aul lin ahr gh eh as ai icv 11 hi f i riipi led with food fond and ii diw w clothe uy P on tit le f in time 1111 clr v all all our men 1 bt l gra goi d j ill 18 now and it that help me ate those nut not lo in the different frices are foremen over near ile vadura and a few of the men have a detail of french girls under be hem wl who are working on salvage cl I 1 athina hina have no more paper au will atilt have to say good bye for this time with best love to 2 all I 1 1 I 1 am As aa ever your brother philip cason |