Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1918 — ASKS THE SOLDIER! [ARTICLE]

ASKS THE SOLDIER!

How comes it — That, after you have been promoted you can’t get any chevrons for a. month and a half to show your pals who you are? That, oft the very night that you decide to skip mess and buy a feed of your own, the cook dishes out real steaks, fries, and apple pie? That, after you’ve paid 100 francs to a French dentist to go over your teeth, a regimental dentist arrives in the town who would do the Whole job for nothing?

That, just you’ve gone out and bought a pair of putts on your own, the supply sergeant takes it into his head to Issue better ones than those you purchased?

That, right after the distribution of cigarettes from the company fund, you get* slathers o’s ’em from home—whereas you hadn’t had a butt of any kind for a month before?

That, just after you’ve done your own laundry, at the expense of parboiled hands and a broken back, a payday comes along, bringing plenty of laundry money with it?

That, just after your barrage of letters to a girl back home has begun to take effect and her replies are becoming better and better with each succeeding mall, you suddenly discover that you don’t care about her at all? That, after you’ve taken one of those billet baths in a mess tin, you find out there are perfectly good shower baths only a quarter of a mile aw r ay, and that they were there all the time you were wrestling with the sponge?