Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1918 — American Boys “Over There" are Well Provided for in All Details [ARTICLE]

American Boys “Over There" are Well Provided for in All Details

By FRANCIS ROGERS.

of the Vigilante*

Parents and friends need not fear that the bodily wants of their boys in France are not well provided for. Many times I have shared the soldier’s mess and have never failed to get a good meal. There are no frills about the service, naturally, but all the essentials are there — wholesome food, ample in quantity and well cooked. Hospital conditions are vastly improved. Now a sick or wounded boy can count on being treated in a well-equipped hospital by the best American surgeons and nurses. I chanced to be at an “evacuation hospital” somewhere in France the day Archie Roosevelt was brought to it with a leg and an arm badly smashed. So well prepared was the hospital to meet just such an emergency that his temperature never rose a single degree above normal.

1 The simple, regular, outdoor life has done wonders for the health of the boys. Their chests broaden, their cheeks grow ruddy, their muscles harden, their eyes brighten, they gain in weight. “Does my boy look very |fat?” asked the mother of a boy I had seen a few weeks before. “He writes he has put on twenty pounds” “No,” I answered, “he wasn’t fat at all He is now just the fine, big, husky lad that nature always intended him to be.” . - ; ; s -