Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1916 — Meudon In Wartime. [ARTICLE]

Meudon In Wartime.

Meudon, the gay Meudon of trysts and moonlight promenades, has been , transformed into a military camp. The station platform is crowded with uniformed soldiers of all branches; men on furlough in their suits of faded blue like dirty water, showing with pride holes torn in their coats by rifle balls, convalescents wearing the old red pantaloons, used only by those behind the fighting line, often' with one leg folded up; Zouaves, whose baggy trousers, formerly blood-red, have now changed to an earthy color; Belgians in long brown coats, who never smile, and British Tommies spick and span as if they had just stepped from a bandbox. The women, in passing, glance at the war crosses and smile. —Mme. Ber-nardini-Sjoestedt in Cartoons Magazine. , ,