Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1919 — Delighted With Ice Cream. [ARTICLE]

Delighted With Ice Cream.

It wasJn an American base hospital In France that I found him, his eyes bandaged, lying motionless on his cot, in a quiet corner of the ward. “Howw’ould you like some chocolate ice cream?” I bent down to whisper. “Aw, quit your kiddin’!” he drawled. The Words were so pathetically wistful that it was almost a moan. “But here it is!” I said. Yet not till I sat down on the spot to feed him the first mouthful did he believe me. “Why. ma'am. I just thought you were foolin’. I didn’t reckon there was any real U. S. A. ice cream short of 3.000 miles from here, lessways not for m e.” —And the way- he smacked his lips over that one saucer repaid me for coming those 3,000 miles to make It for him. —Mary Elizabeth Evans in Letter From Paris.