Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1916 — Permissionaries in Paris. [ARTICLE]

Permissionaries in Paris.

At the Gare de l’Est you can see the permissionaries come in by hundreds. They are of every age and grade. There are clean ones and very dirty ones. They slouch and they strut, or they walk with that peculiar trench walk, with the feet close together. They hang nbout the station entrance to buy post cards and aluminum rings, which they give away to their friends as presents from the trenches. Little family groups are waiting there for some of them or it may be just one woman with a bahy In her arras, or a woman in mourning for the 'son who will not come home any more. With a fine contempt for such things as dust and mud and the public eye,.the permissionalre Is -embraced warmly by his relations and they carry him off in triumph on the train or in a taxicab. — Cartoons Magazine.