New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1918, Page 5

NEW EQIT..0v Caily HLRAL B s e T T ‘AMERICAN FRENGH’ H. O. P. WASH | “issit s e DRESSE MYS[eTiO:TS Npisgs From Throats Fighting Men y l The new stock is here for summer—bheau titul models in Voiles, Marquisettes and . p Ginghams, All the new shades are repre ouT = New York, May 10.-—"American | sented and the values are quite unusually =| ® Irench” is what they speak good “They” means our American sol- 3 B diers overse The people of Franc $9 95 to $‘)2 50 B ' have given this new name to the weird and incoherent noises the boys in kha- ki make, under the impression that ) N they are using the best of Parisian H 0 P WASH ; . “parley All the same, our soldiers g ¢ fl usually manage to get what they want SKIRTS ' How the American saldiers ave learning to speak French, the mistakos An assortment that wlll please every d M they make and the dilemmas their ig- woman Materials include Gaberdines, i norance of the language leads them Piques, Plalds and Satins. Fvery woman B into, are amusingly told in the follow- should have an extra Wash Skirt for sum { M ing extracts {rom letters v n by a mer Priced &= | H YToung Men's Christian association - = \ N, # worker averseas. i $1.9§) to S»fifi,.fi@ E 3 | | Soldier Learns “Wee, Wee® doans | § > “We Haven't Any More.” B “It is amusing ta sec our troops t ing to converse with the townspeople. | One of the oflicers told me that in a : @ 'letter he censorcd, one of the men i B 4 Rn:ono ONEPRICE (10 wrote to his girl, ‘We're picking unp 1H | ] 114°)16 ASYLUM ST. W French very wapidiy. We've already | K b | ; 2 ! ou a c e B lcarned that ‘\Wee, wee' means ‘we | [§ ) 3 . A haven’t any morc.’ “One afternoon down in the village = | one of the men came up to me and | {4 ¢ A said, ‘You speak French, don't your | i ¥ M & : 1 replied that 1 could speai it just | b @ B e resl ent | little. Then he said, ‘T wish voud | M B . | help me out, There's a Frenchwoman | over there that's got my pants, and I | can't seem to make her under | i | ! that I've got to have ’em for inspec- | tion this afternoon.” T asked, ‘What's | she daing with vour pants?' and found that she'd just been washing them for him. I went over with him, and got ! off & hesitating ‘Ou est ses vantalon?' | § ! There onsued a perfect torrent of 2 words, none of which meant anything | [ : to me. So I tried out my idea of | , L L L * OPP. FOX’'S DEPT. STORE, HARTFORD. ‘When will he get them? in French. Bhe evidently had caught on to the idea that her French didn't convey | B anything to us, so she went through . & vigorous motions illustrating washing, Amazing Specials For Saturday § e o o e upon the soldler said, ‘Oh, 1 get her now. She means she's washed them 1om ur B | and can't get them dry until the sun | comes out. Much obliged. Nothing | daing toda I asked what he'd do about inspection, and he said he M | cucssed he try to borrow a pair. “A good deal of this sort of thing | reminded me of tho drawing of Cap- tain Bairnsfather, the British ofticer, | i P DIADE IN AMERICA BY THE HOUSE OF A ANC | who has done such great work dr i i V E | ing cartoons, I find, along the British f front. He has one picture of 4 | y & - Tommy gazing at a French porter at~| [ & tired in the customary long smock. | g g § | The Tommy—called Alf—has asked a | B § J i g { | simple question, to which the porter | I M has repliea with a five-minute ora Our wonderful President started out to do something big and he “put it across big”; I started out to do something and I am “putting it across” big, too. You backed up the President and bought Liberty Bonds, which compels you to save. Now Match Me--Buy Liberty Clothes The All-Wool Kind the President Wants You to Buy n TFrench. And the Tommy .. Ihe unusual values to be obtained in this Sale “That's all right. Naw how does the : ‘These, too, save you money. The only difference is that one is guaranteed by accounts for the popular approval which it has met. e : | HAH your Uncle Sam and the other is guaranteed by your Uncle Joe. French Enough to Get Things to Eat,” Soldier Says, ¥ > 3 “I'had a room in the village witn | K [ @ Smart Models Rich Fabrics Beautiful Colorings oa S dn ul S H | some people who sold cakes and frur | g ? fl | {0 our men, and one afternoon I mat | M - a young enlisted man in the hall. He An offering of extraordinary importance to the had a bag of plums under his arm, anc | 25 27 50 30 32 50 d 35 iri P ar i some money in his hand and 1 i woman desiring a smart Coat or S}llt at an unusually S g LI e 7 y . 5 ) -~ an low price. Every Coat and Suit is taken from our W/ out with my pigeon French. on, r| |4 B - z [ | can get along all right, he said i FCglllar SYOCk End marked f(” thlS Sale' ll | can talk enough to get samething to | SRk 4 el j i OTHER GOOD CLOTHES BOYS’ DURABLE CLOTHES $1 8.75 Formerly Sold i, oo ptmnad o the st ane i el et For - - $29.75 | | Snemersa, A% oue wen, ro some N B - Cut full, beautiful patterns in the Formerly Sold R o m iy e necioniiess e (1 15— $18—$20—$22.50 new military effect; $5.00 value. For P F()r e $27 50 on upstairs, lost in admiration of hiz K ! Saturday $3.85. 3 § m"’""l";::rrv:.:n:hplm')' Solug the vounis B : At absurdly low prices, which are 3 ¥ $29 75 Formerly Sold e &t e B SR 1 g BOYS’ SUITS - L] | Wanted, American waiters who can ‘R from $5 to $8 less than what equally For - - $45 00 . : 9 Years to 18 Years #peak French.' Someone asked the i (et e haddioniwer Erenc RIRLD good clothes will cost next year. All full-lined Pants and double- S i l P h d S ' f e : Blues, Grays, Browns, Greens and b pecial Furchase and dale of § rer amewean ronens 5 TR A g ldes Linny 5, Grgens 5.00 — $6.00 — $6.50 — $7.50 — - B house of a Frenchwoman about 50| H M Heather effects. $10.00. B | vears old. One of the troops was de- i l | voung Southerner from Tennessee who | | : ¥ § | had enlisted as soon as the war broke | § i Specially purchased from one of New York's B out at 17 veare old. 1 would sit at|f§ i B FURNiSH!NG SPECIALS STRAW HAT SPECIAL o' 3 breakfast and hear the conve largest manufacturers (See makers' name in hat.) [ ieneat and foar GO0 tonvere | nEnms A SURPRISE—Right now Also Hats from our own stock. [ with n perfect torrent of French, and : $1.00 Live Rubber Belis, for Saturday....... . 60c opening of the season. Hudson in English, with his slow e » Silk Collars, fancy stripes ., | . 21c While they last. B Southern drawl. We tried to carry on | |3 s d $1.50 Lagle Shivts Ty ety LA Men's Sennitt Straws, value $1.50 ......... 95¢ a conversation with Madamie oursalves | § e e Men's Fancy Weave Straws, value $2.00 .. $1.45 with much referring to dictionarie FLobiichyyISIL NSOl =m0 M Cusbion Band Sennitts, value $3 $2.45 7 £ n’. ‘usl and S , va ceen 2. 3 . 0 ; il $1.25 fine Ribbed Union Suits .............. §5c e s s el Yirdnd | Hudson would stand by, #nd when we Genwine South American Panamas, good values 2 i Just looked blank after ane of her tor- 5 Fuancy Fibre Wash Ties, Special 35¢, 3 for $1,00 &6, . e Worth from $6.50 to $15.00. S, et e il e ' GLEELAL ROy AR just wants to know whether your friend | is coming to supper tonight.’ | | Maonshiner Wants fo Take Steel Hel- | met Home After tho War. i “Don’t charge it—ope n a cash account —— Get Connorized and Save Money.” “The men T worked with were reg- ulars, part of an infantry regiment i that had been included in Pershing's May 10th to 11th PR e R L e ) ° | were recruits, A great number of ONE CENT SALE | oo oroies oo g g 2oL “ALWAYS RELIABLE” i - the officers that he'd been in a good 1 1b Opeko Coffee ................ 38¢c, 2 for 39c | many wars in his Jitetime, but that - x this was the first public war he'd ever b Opeke Tes .....coonnvivn.... B0c, 2 for 3lec e el M R e S ~ o OE much pleased with the steel helmeots, 15 1b Symonds Inn Cocoa o 25e,8 28 forsZBerll [ERIGRL B ed Lt e el nelmainy| 1 Pkg. Symonds Inn Pudding 15¢, 2 for 16¢ in the hills at home, he could lie an | . B peati the ground, and no sheriff peppering | 1, 1b Cake Symonds Inn Chacolate .. 25¢, 2 for 26¢ § at nim Wit a shotun . coni nurt | him." Teaching the men how to speak ! - ll French so that their struggles when | they get overseas may be easy as pos. | this cvening in the Gramman chool | 1. Highland Schattische, Grades 4, 5 | of our allies who have hiterto looked | are heholden to France for the sible has been an important parl of | auditorium. The following program| g Solo S < fel - Blos s |to England for funds, without, how- |ery of its army. To give cred the educational work of the Y, M. . A. | will be carried ouf | h. Flag Drill .. 3 s ever, increasing the demands upon | purchases in this market is 3 d B in this cauntry. Selections - ... High School Orchestra (i o 5 ; . us. He frankly proposes to “lean on |the common causp. 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