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• ' • * • “Every thing in this part of Franceis very old. All of the towns arehundreds of years old, so you can im-. • iagine what they look like. Some peo- j pie say they see beauty in the little: towns, but to me it looks as though they had piled up a huge pile of ce- i ment and lime-stones, then cut streets j through it, and then cut out rooms\jalong the sides of the streets to livej in. All the doors open on to the little 18-inch sidewalk. One door is the entrance to the kitchen; usually the next one, in the same building, enters the cow stable. You usually find a very unique little flower garden in the rear of the house. AJ1 this seems funny to us Americans, but the natives live just as happy and are just as healthy as we are back in the States. There' vis so much of the unusual here that many soldiers are hasty in their conclusions. For instance, one boy said that all he had seen in France was wooden shoes, rotten cheese and mud. But there were men living among allthese antiquated things that were able to stop, single handed, the German drive towards Paris, and since thenopposed in iron resistance to the furious German onslaughts. So one, after a second thought, cannot but admire their spirit, loyalty and courage. Then, when you peep into their homes j which perhaps look filthy from the j street, you are surprised to find the \ tidiness of the rooms, their love of I children, thrift, etc. !
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Danville Gazette
Danville, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 13, 1918
Page 6
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