BRITISH AT HOME IN PRANCE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3029, 16 March 1917, Page 5

BRITISH AT HOME IN PRANCE

°pZT/ ? ari£ " Mzi;r. , r'si'£'.s's =°:« ta .tJ7-ssS ? {»on t;. rido" umcl l^liTZolril pioofs 1 they 011 thoir ' raterpioors, soit and expensive. If fW fn*f tbo cold, they have comfortable vellow MeToNhn 1 officor 3 soldiers. ThS JiiQes ot „ho horses shino to perfection An admirablo army without fear of th<r ar ? y wWoh ™11 dTin ! world t ™ r ?. flemo =' tllß test in tha ; , deposed of their opponents, i Ocr peasants adoro these boys, clean. iiX rn' nllT l ay 3 lan iiins; and | i■ r j Gonorous ciistomers, they iuvethe* flu dron sweetmeats and cate in V r^ : ! fi°?i t0 ««», ?00d tow P I J ,? y sta T any time in a village, it > -,Z ehf on the cleau an<l tidy ajppeari rll !r nowcomere - The rnts in the , roads disappear, and the manure hoatin [aro hidden. The girls smLXT tSi S°,Z/lu i Of the inn are washed, tho doors are repainted. Mowers ornament the casements, the washing is no more in evidence. Onr shepherdessesJiayo bcomo as channmg as those of tho eighteenth century. They wear fine' hats, corsages woll-fitting, tho under pot-, ticoare neatly adjusted over their etock-i inns now worn without a wrinkle. Tho.' ,i i;j m a nightcap and 6oiled shirt' and hideous sabots has almost disappeared. J.ho desire to please our' English l friends has permanently displaced those' m[ ore of our country districts. Iho writer then spoaka of the good; manners of the young officers who are oa leave from the trenches, and of their ex* cellont appearance. They go to fighti with nails carefully out and polished. And it was in the Xoos attack, at H& defonco of Ypres, in .the viotories to the north of tho Somme, that the German.' corpses were heaped in mounds, from" the trenoh whero they stick it out, from tho sky whore they fly, that splendid l youth keeps np its firo on the fat Germans and exterminates them.