Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1918 — French Drink Little Water. [ARTICLE]

French Drink Little Water.

, Frenchmen do not drink much water —clear, plain, uncooked and uncombined water, says the Youth’s Companion. In the French villages where United States troops are quartered every precaution is taken to safeguard the troops from drinking from unsafe or dubious wells. If the water is under suspicion. It may not be used until after it has been boiled. The conservative older villagers, peasants who scorn hygienic innovations and think the ways of their

grandfathers quite good enough for them, regard all this testing, placarding and sterilizing as nothing but nonsense—funny when it is not exasperating. ' 4