Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1918 — “Boys” Got Good American Food. [ARTICLE]

“Boys” Got Good American Food.

Ts the American mother could come face to face with some of the women cooking meals for her soldier boy at the Y. M. C. A. hut over here R : would gladden her heart, says a London (Eng.) correspondent. They would prove to the American mother that her boy while here is getting real good did “Yankee, Doodle” meals, cooked by real American mothers just like herself. These women —most of them American volunteer workers—supply about 2,500 meals a day, besides hundreds of “teas” (yes, mothers, he’s got the English tea habit now; you’ll have to give him tea every afternoon when he gets back), luncheons and night meals. The “chief cook” is Hon. Mrs. Arthur Coke, and her specialty is griddle cakes “fit for a king.” One month recently she turned out 20,000 of them, six of which were eaten by ito less a personage than King George himself. The king and queen recently visited, Eagle hut. They gave the king three of the Cffkes. He cleaned his fllate and came back for a "refill.” . ,