e in many
climes. What a cosmopolitan crowd it was in that frozen-in city of the
North!

The doughboy from the front soon learned that the city had its several
national centers--the British quarters, French, Italian, and so forth,
where their flags denoted their headquarters and in vicinity of which
would be found their barracks and quarters and clubs. The Yank found
himself welcome in every quarter of the city but hailed with most
camaraderie in the French quarter. With the Russian night patrols he
soon came to an amicable understanding and Russian cafes soon found out
that the Yanks were the freest spenders and treated them accordingly.
Woe to the luckless "Limmey" who tried to edge in on a Yank party in a
Russian place.

When the doughboy returned to his company at the front he had a few
great tales to tell of the eats he had found at some places. Some
companies had done well. On the market-place and elsewhere the
resourceful Amerikanski looking for food, especially vegetables, to
supplement his mess, learned his first word of Russian--Skulka rouble.
In spite of the watchful British M. P.'s, Ruby Queens and Scissors
cigarettes were soon bringing in small driblets of cabbage and onions
and potatoes. Happy the old mess sergeant who got his buddies expert at
this game. And much more contented were the men with the mess. In
another chapter read the wonderful menu of the convalescent hospital.

In the city the doughboy found the steaming bahnya or bathhouse, and at
the "cootie mill" turned in his shirt to rid himself of the "seam
squirrels." All cleaned up, with little gifts and cheery words he sought
his buddies who were in hospital sick or wounded. He got books and
records and gramaphones and other things at the Red Cross and "Y" to
take back to the company. He accumulated a thousand rumors about the
expedition and about happenings back home. He tired of the gloom and
magnified fears of Archangel's being overpowered by the Bolos and
usually returned to the front twice glad--once that he had seen
Archangel and second that he was back among his comrades at the front.

During those weary ice-bound months it was a problem to keep warm. Poor
management by high American and British officers at one time, to the
writer's knowledge, suffered American soldiers at Smolny to be actually
endangered in health. As far as proper heating of quarters was concerned
men at the front provided better for themselves than did the commander