RAGES i n FRANCE
*?het) crrvATot ■*> m Denying our.
/■‘Vfc*. . 10 * * re!ves only a
( lc r:-e 1^ ,30 little weans
Sar.-u: tint** * 4 Life to them
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TltiltcU Smivj RmI Adaialltratioa
All roads of “«t*rvi»je” lead to
Franco.
■Tost think of 'Ilf fri«fh»f'll condi
tions in bleeding France, devasted
i;Mir| and mi 1 Italy All aruon 11 fond
rntimi The woman of Franco are
tilling the soil, these of Knglaud urn
\yirkingin the factories and in th«
ti.*ula whilethe im*n urn Ht the front
fjirhtiiig. The bread these nations
lire compelled to eat in In' wav com
pares • ill the excelli it product we
call maae in this country with our
nianv good substitutes. They are
inferior siihstitut> <i and in some
instances sawdust and hark, and the
bread is black and t isteiosa
il -t , *■'.
\ French woman -vritirifr to an Am
erican housewife sc.vs: “But, a fte: all,
wo have hot one thought. It is to go
thr nigh and win.”
AH A nericati housewives are at,
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last are awake to this one thought
That th in war is a deadly struggle fur
right and liberty, and that entry wo
man in the home, like every man at
front, must bo ready todo hoi boat to
go through and win.
Farther on the letter reads: “You
ask nm to tell you what l think wo
need most. I think it is flour, whoa*,
all cereals in fart. Wo are getting
ehorr of many tilings livery-thong
is very expensive. Soapthwt 1 bought
for about t>0 centimes (six cents) f nr
years ago, ea st now nearly 1 fraties
• lghtv e. nts ) ((live nil hasadva-io
ed in the same pri portion. This is
an index to conditions in France.
The l S. S. Saturn, under the
command of L'eut. K. I'- Luekel with
the Ala-kill Radio Expedition for
l'.llS, arrived June 11, to make the
annual repair! to the loeal Naval Ka
din Station. After landing inati rial
including stores and thirty-five men
under the command of Lieut. Orton,
the Saturn left for San ErannUi o to
reload material and stores for the
Seward, Cordova and Sitaa Stations
slopping here en route to pie It up
Lieut. Orton and his men.
While here the expedition will con
struct. a eoiierete d<'Ck, to enable the
I t. ling and unloading of power heats
a' nil ode*, at present it is necessary
to land most, of the material dereetly
on tile beach, which is very incon
venient especially during rough
weather.
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|n Paris, American doctors have
been working under the Children’s
Bureau to give buck liteund color to
the spindling, pale faced children of
the poor. Th *y have found (huir need
is not so much for medicine as for
well cooked, nourishing food.