Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1919 — See Royal Glories [ARTICLE]

See Royal Glories

Yanks Anxiously Ask “When Do We Get Eats?” Only Statue That Interests Soldiers Is Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Paris. —Standing amid the glories of the royal past of France, in the park at Versailles, an American doughboy burst into this apostrophe: ■•Say, pal, where do you get eats around these diggln s ? American fighting men in leave parties led by trained .guides from the Paris headquarters of the Young Men’s Christian association war work council may be seen everywhere in Paris and its environs, enjoying the monuments of the old regime and of the empire In a truly American fashion, which does not prevent the a^socia-

tlon of the great palace of Louis XIV and “chow.” . ' “Looks like a decayed church," was the deliberate estimate of another boy in khaki as he stood before the Hotel des Invalides. Then he went inside and became enthusiastic over the marble railing about the tomb of Napoleon —because It was so “white” and hadn’t a flaw. . One of them emerged from the Invalides and grew Almost poetic about the' jrellow light coming through the stained glass windows above Napoleon’s casket. Then he caught himself, and almost blushed. In the next breath he called the Court des Invalides the “souvenir parlor of the armies of France.’! When he saw Guynemer’s airplane and learned what it was, he maintained a reverential silence of more than a minute before he began to determine its “make.” ““Perhaps the reactions from Versailles are the most illuminating.

Halting at the Fountain of Neptune, a doughboy cast his eye appraisingly down the vista of the park. “Gee,” he said, “there must be two miles cf fountains.” Best of all, apparently, the soldiers like to go and sit on the banks of the Seine —watching the river traffic. The one-fourth size Statue of Liberty presented to Paris by the American colonies watches over them here, put even it is the subject of - frank criticism. “Huh,” said one of the critics. “It doesn’t look as good as the old girl will look when we steafn into New" York harbor.”