trooper who used to be able to roll
the makin's with one hand while holding in a bucking horse with the
other? For that matter, what has become of the old-fashioned trooper?

* * * *

"Austria Suggests Treating with N.S."--Headline.

No thanks; not now. From past performance, the chance is too good that
the drinks would be doped.

* * * *

Trench coats were worn by the patriotic Wall Street brokers on the New
York stock exchange during that coal-less day; as if, no doubt, to imply
that Wall Street is just as dangerous as the trenches. There isn't much
difference: In one, you may get separated from your kale, and in the
other you may get separated from your bean.

* * * *

"Hertling Thinks England Doesn't Wish for Peace."--Headline.

It all depends on what you mean by peace, Herr Chancellor!

* * * *

Now that the Chinese mission has officially visited the Belgian front,
we suppose Hindenburg will take the queue and get out from in front of
there.

* * * *

It is a singular tribute to the originality of the A.E.F. that not one
of its members has tried to write home that ancient wheeze about "the
French pheasants singing the Mayonnaise."

* * * *

The Kaiser said he didn't want any fuss made over his birthday this
year. He even refrained from making a speech on that auspicious
occasion. But, all the same, there are plenty of people who would dearly
love to give him the fifty-odd spanks to which his age entitles him, and
who, in time, will do so.

* * * *

Now that they've started with bread tickets in Paris, they might do well
in some other parts of France to begin issuing rain checks.

* * * *

The peanut crop in the States is reported to be small this year, which
probably accounts for the decline in the number of pacifists as well.

[Illustration: ON THEIR WAY.--By CHARLES DANA GIBSON

Reproduced by courtesy of "Life."]

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TO THE FOLKS BACK HOME
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_To the fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, wives, sweethearts,
and friends of the men in the American Expeditionary Forces:_