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S 'THE BARRACKS WHEEZE" By PRIVATE CHET SHAFER (310th Sanitary Train, Camp Custer, i Battle Creek, Mich.) Look* Like Some 'if Them Couldn't Carry Command Stretcher A CURIOUS SOLDIER SENT HIS MKagffifcjS BLANKETS DOWN TO AN APOTHE CARY SHOP AND HAD THEM VOr CA Y .1 /. IF.4 YS PIT HOJltl f roXFWBSCK /.V O.V/v' (JLEEX iP^fl '/// I V > Ot t'.l.V /.V THREE. other gift ha* greater lasting mtlffygjiJy </utilities than a calendar. FAMOUS MILITARY SAYINGS "I believe it is criminal to stifle a yawn," 1st Class PvL Smith. 4? "I am glad I didn't get a pass. I jg'. will save money staying In camp."? : ' _ Pvt. Yorton. v^?* >' "Two men and a boy couldn't run /ast enough to pay mo to be a non%rv l \ com."?Pvt. Alberts, y | \ "No, thanks; I don't care for another chop."?Pvt. Grady. '/A "I wish reveille was earlier."?Corp. Hatch. "I think I'll write letters to-night."? Pvt. Brown. "The orderly from the major!* office told the office sergeant that we'd be J ?... in tuM " Pv+ 8* Whaadyuh think this is?"?Corp. Hep."?Sergeant Somes. In a Detroit hotel a notice is headed: "Many ore allied but few yet up." The head on the bugler's eard reads: "Many are called and all yet up." As a number of Jewish national army soldiers were given leaves of absence to attend the Feast of the Passover an Irish private said he needed no leave to attend his Feast of the /.--iwi Senile dinu- lo & j?J| -* 1 ^ Tottering Whv thr hu'/lrr \b. l/ltM THE ONLY STAMP OF APPROVAL 3Jl lm- THAT WILL EVER BE PLACED ON % THE KAISER WILL BE DONE WITH A N0- 11 TRENCH SHOE WORN BY JA BUCK PRIVATE FROM THE WILD REGIONS AROUND PEKIN, ILL. li/;//./; f/v rut: subject of Slimy IT IIICIIT SOT BE AMISS ggiID .IHIH' 77/17' 77/tf .4KJ/V SDI.ES rUFil.lliR ALL BOSS Iitn.riY or i:\in.isii lasts ever First Guard: "Did you challenge U^j^2$3 ?eccnd Guard: "No, I should say Mom not: ' wa8 a^raici they m'9w ac* Bit. h'til/th of Mr/tick tca? in line the Imm'w; nftrrnnon that I'rt. I nn. fuxt dismissed WS.from the base, fainted and fell tchile fsaflujl A don,., parade rest at retreat. * "That 'parade rest' fx fine." Pvt. y^L*3D> ] Italph remarked later, "but I think Van earrird it just a little bit too fur." i. ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE?AND K>W jK WAR- ALSO. IF IT ESCAPES THE NOTICE OF THE MILITARY POTHE ONLY WAY T',e Irish sergeant had a squad of recruits on the rifle range. He tried them on the 500 yard range, | but none of them could hit the target C\ /?. Then he tried them on the 300 yard, mrj the 1*0' and the 100 yard ranges in '\r-s jam. but with no better success. When they had all missed on the shortest range he looked around in despair. I Then he straightened np. ?' "Squad, attention!" he commanded. ~ "Fix bayonets! Char-r-ge!"?Everybody's. J u ???imm TRENCH / Did-it- Hdp, ^ IU Drawn by Trench ; Learn LESS Students of French must give particular thought to the pronunciation of the letter "r." In French it is pronounced with a distinct trill by making the tip of the tongue vibrate Just behind the upper teeth. Telephone operators pronounce the word "three" much like this. NEW WORDS AND PHRASES French Pronunciation Meaning le bras luh bra the arm la t?te la t?t the head la bouche la boosh mouth la langue la lahg tongue la main la mad hand . la Jambo la zhdhmb leg je uiauf,u ? **?? vous mangex voo mahzbC- you eat parler parle to speak je parle parle 1 6peak vous parlez zhuh pari you speak . too parle do you p&rlez-vous? IO(J? anglais ahglft English franca is frihsd French lentement lihtraah slowly . quickly, T,t0 Teet rapidly trca trfe very aussi oasi alco, loo que kuh What? avec av&k with , , , here Is. %olci \wasi here u is EXERCISE 1. Study the new words and ohrases. Dronouncinx them aloud. Then write on a piece of paper the English meanings, and without looking at the lesson try to give the French for each word or expression, putting le or la before the names of things. Observe that le stands before niasj culine names of things and la before feminine names of things. 2. Make sentences with the words j for "have," number words, and nouns, as j'ai une tfite, vous avez deux jambes. il a deux mains, etc. 3. Parlez-vous francais? Non, monsieur, je parle anglais. Voulez-vous parler lentement? Oui, monsieur. Merci. Voua parlez trfcs vite. Je parle anglais trfts Tite, mais je parle francais trSs lentement. La mar-j I chande de journaux parle vite aussi I Parlez (speak) lentement, niadame, s'il vous plait. | 4. Vous avez une tSte, deux bras et deux jambes. Vous avez une langue dans la (your) bouche. Vous parlez I avcc la langue et vous mangez avec la bouche. Que mangez-vousT Je mange de la soupe. Vous mangez de la vlande, dea pommes de terre et du pain. 5. Dunnez-mol du pain, du beurre et un verre de lait, s'll voua plait. Voulcz-voua aussi unoeuf, monsieur? Oui. inadame. donncz-mol aussi un oeuf. Voilft, monsieur. Merci. Combien, madame? un franc dix (centimes), monsieur. Voilft une pifcce de sinq francs. Voici la monnaie de la pi?ce. Merci, raadame. Au revoir. LESSON 5 NEW WORDS AND PHRASES je suis, zhuh, swee, I am il est, il e, be is nous sommes, noo som, we are vous 6tes, vuz ftt, you are MAIL IT TO-DAY Thousands of soldiers in camps and cantonments throughout the country [ are maiHne their eoDies of Trench and Camp home every week. If you enjoy j Trench and Camp, remember the home I folks will get just as much pleasure out of It I Jo-yoifi -- md Camp Staff Cartoonist, Camp French 1 ON 4 I lis sont, il s5, they are oft? oo, where? [ la figure, la figur, face le nez, luh n6, nose le chemin, luh shmft, road le soldat, luh solda, the soldier les solda ts, 16 solda, the soldiers le sergent, luh sferzhfih, sergeants les sergents, 16 sferzhah, sergeants le lieutenant, luh lyuhtnfth, lieutenant les lieutenants, 16 lyuhtn&h, lieutenants le capitaine, luh kapeetfcn, captain les capitaines, le kapeetftn, captains en (with names of countries), ah, in ft, a, to, at, in (with towns) quel, kSl, what? which? (before nouns) joll (e), zholee, pretty que faites-vous?, kuh f6t voo, what are you doing? je marche, zhuh marsh, I walk, am walking, march Tons marchez, voo marshC', you walk, march je travaille, zhuh travay, I work, am working vous travaillez. voo travayC, you work, are working aller, a!16, to go je vaia, zhuh, v6, I go, am going vous allez, vooz allft, you go, are going est-ce que?, d a kuh, is it that? (makes questions) In pronouncing suis (swce) make a sound somewhat like that in "sweet," but stick out the lips and hold the tongue close to the upper teeth. The word for "the" before a plural word is always spelled les, and usually pronounced 16. French nouns generally add an 8 in spelling for the plural, but usually sound alike in singular and plural. Note the change in l'oeuf, the egg, 1 uhf and les oeufs, the eggs, 16z uh. EXERCISE 1. Review all word lists. 2. Pronounce aloud trying to understand the meaning as you read: I Que faltes-vous avec la languor je j parle avec la langue et je mange avec la bouche. Est-ce que vous marchez avec lcs pieds? Oui. je marche avec les pieds et je travallle avec les mains. Le soldat travallle avec les mains aussi. Le capitaine travallle avec la tftte. Est-ce que le sergent a uno jolie figure? Non, mais la figure de la marchandc de Journaux (the newsdealer's face) est Jolie. Elle (alle) a un Joli nez et une Jolie 1 bouche. Est-se qu'elle parle frangals i ou anglais? Elle parle frpncais : tres vite. 1 Oil soiumes nous? Nous sommes en < Prance. Vous allez ft Bordeaux ! (bordoh). Je vais ft Paris. Quel est 1 le chemin de Bordeaux the Bordeaux i road)? Voilil le chemin de Bordeaux. I Merc!, monsieur. Combien de ser- : gents avez-vous? Nous avons deux [ sergents, deux lieutenants et un capi- I taine. Est-ce que le capitaine travallle ' avec les mains? Nod, monsieur, 11 1 travallle avec la tete. i 3. Write out the English of these ! sentences. Then put aside the lesson i and try to turn the English back Into I French, correcting by the lesson after- i wards. ' Cut this lesson out, save it and . watch for the next one next week. I FORCE OF HABIT j American Soldier (somewhere in ] France)?"What's the matter?" i Injured Frenchman?"A shell Just ) hit me." American Soldier (formerly traffic i cop in U. S. A.)?"Did you get its I number?"?London Opinion. PM/Ips* Kearny, California. Resident's Daughter Proud Of American Fighting Men "American boys are so At. and so 3ne! I admire them more than I hare iver done before in my life. They're lot fine because they're fit, they're fit lecause they're fine?because their ipirit is splendid, and brave, and derated." jid Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of President Wilson, thus sums up her >pinion of the fighting men of the Jnited States, after having seen thousands of them, in the camps where she las been singing. "I am singing for the soldiers be:ause it is the thing I can do?my part n the war," she said. "Every one >ught to have some share in the war, ind this is mine. It has been a delight o me to sing for them. "Winning the war?that's the great hing now. What I have seen of the toldiers and the sailors in the camps have visited convinces me that our -.-sjS American men are the sort to win a var. They will not do it alone, of raurse, but "they will do it with our . Ulles. This is Indeed a world war if democracy, a war of the peoples. "I know they will fight as American Midlers should. These men are Just iverage Americans. But they prove hat the average American is a wonlerful person. They will win because >f a force greater than mere power rith which they will fight. They will vin because they are fighting for the ight, which means everything to men >f their spirit. "They will- fight better for the fact hat each one of us is standing behind hem, doing what he can to have some >art in the war. They will certainly Ight better because of the Y. M. C. A., he enlisted man's club, and bis war une home. In whatever camp I have >een since I have been singing for the soldiers, I have seen how much the jreen huts mean to them. Miss Wilson has a high opinion of Jie soldiers, and they return the compliment. Their enthusiasm in listenng to her and in singing with her, ind their naive expressions of appre nation nave given ner a great aeai 01 pleasure. When she sang at Camp Merritt, Tenafly, New Jersey, the sol-_ ^38 liers who wero not a"b!e to crowd into .he auditorium clung to the roof, and ?eered in at the windows, to hear as nuch of her songs as they could. "A BEASTLY TRADE" By WALT MASON. Before the boons of peace return, :hose boons so long mislaid, our Teuton foes will have to learn that war's 1 beastly trade. In times of peace ;ney arraeu auu unueu, wiui ?ai msu 2nd and aim; a million gents have since been killed, and they are all to *33: blame. "Oh, it is well to plough and sow," their rulers used to say, "and it is good to ply the hoe and put up stacks of hay; it's wise to make our ilverwurst, and dyes that will not fade, but war is always best and first, the Teuton's honored trade. We like to ! see the farmers raise their rows of ? jSBm | sugar beets, and labor through the summer days providing wholesome sats; we praise the man who earns bis board with plougshare, scythe, or . ?:$?; spade, but most of all we praise the * ,/^Sai i sword and war?the Teuton a traae. And when this weary war is done the reuton must admit, that other tools Lhan sword and gun are billed to make \ hit If he goe3 back to arm and Irill, with energy Insane; if he goes Sack to learn to kill the scrap is all : -fmgj in vain. Before the scene of war we eave, and sheathe the gleaming blade, we have to make the Teut believe that war's a beastly trade. (Copyright by George Matthew
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