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KOHLER

IS AN IDEA

Forty-five years ago the founder of
this business was inspired by an idea
-to build on quality alone.

Today that aim is exemplified not
only by a great manufactory given to
the making of a world-famed product;
it finds expression also in a modern
town whose interest is centered in de-
veloping and enhancing still further
the Kohler idea.

Here that idea is a living fact. Through
it Kohler has come to mean supe-
riority in enameled plumbing ware.
Headed by the famous Viceroy built-
in bathtub, Kohler products have long
won their way into the world's finest
homes and institutions.

True to their ideals the worthy archi-
tect and plumber are in full accord
with your preference for so excellent
a line. They know there can be
nothing better.

May we send you a really descriptive
booklet with our compliments?

KOHLER OF KOHLER

Kohler Co., Kohler, Wis.
Shipping Point, Sheboygan, Wis.

AND TWELVE AMERICAN BRANCHES

MANUFACTURERS OF ENAMELED PLUMBING WARE

PERSONAL GLIMPSES

LETTERS FROM THE FRONT TO THE FOLKS AT HOME

LACK of water is one of the minor

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discomforts of trench life. emphasized in a letter written to his parents in Philadelphia by Lieut. George W. Sommer, ambulance company 15, A. E. F. He tells of the joys of a real thirst after digging dugouts in the sun. The canteen detail missed them one day, but in the evening a cup of cold coffee was served for each man. That was the finest drink the lieutenant ever took, "beating ice-cream or root-beer in forty ways." Another solace in the trenches was THE LITERARY DIGEST, of which Lieutenant Sommer had several copies which he read during one of his days in a deserted German trench. He begins with the discovery of some German dugouts:

Once Walton and I had time to explore them, and, altho it was rather dangerous, we looked them through quickly. Under the dust and leaves thrown by the shells we found the things that the Germans used when they lived there, packs of leather lined with fur (for this was a "crack regiment"), cartridge-belts of leather, helmets, machine-gun supports, machine-gun clips, mess kits, British Y. M. C. A. papers, boxes from home, cards of France and Germany, rags, clothing, etc. I only carried away some things I needed, for when at the front you can't carry but what you need-A German Housewife, some needles, writing paper, and a bottle of ink.

A quart canteen of water had to last me for a day, and this did not allow much for washing and shaving. As a result, we became very, very dirty, altho I found enough water to shave when I needed it badly. The grub was not very excellentusually a can of French (South-American) beef ("singe"), and a half loaf of bread for two men for a day, sometimes more. The ration detail would go out at night with their guns, and bring back the bread, bunched and strung on a rope; "singe in a bag, and sometimes a can of coffee. The water and ration detail that night looked for our canteens, and found them in the village. The detail had been shelled and gassed and no one returned. That night the canteens made sweet music as they were brought in-strung on a stick.

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The forest was only ten years old, and was slowly being broken down and cut off by the barrages. As evening slowly fell over the woods and the shelling fell off, you could hear the cuckoos and other pretty birds piping their evening song.

Next day I thought I would start some letters. One fellow wrote home that you are either bored or scared to death in the trenches. He was pretty nearly right. That afternoon we got out of the holes and tried to make some coffee, without too much smoke. We succeeded in making the coffee, which was great stuff, but just as we got it down, a direct shell dropt in front of the three of us, and we all dived for our respective "homes." It quickly developed that the other two had been hit, so I hopped out again to dress One had just a scratch on his back, but the other had quite a deep wound

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in the left leg. I put some iodin on from a "first-aid packet," wrote out his diagnosis tag and wired it on him, and we set out together for the battalion aid station, for he could walk slowly. We encountered some shelling on the way, and once had to seek a hole, to rebandage his blessure. We arrived O. K., however, and the doctor pronounced his dressing very good and it did not have to be renewed.

When the men go back wounded, their equipment is taken from them and left in the salvage pile near the aid station. When they come out of the hospital, they receive new supplies. So the salvage pile offers a good field for getting things that you need, emergency rations, toilet articles and equipment. I needed a good Turkish towel and got one.

Arriving back at the dugout, it was almost dark, about 9:30, and I could see by the broken trees and leaves that some shelling had taken place in my absence. I had a small covering of dirt over the head of the dugout, but decided to extend it. I had a thin layer of dirt thrown on some crosspieces when they started a bombardment, so I had to discontinue. It seems they had my range pretty well. Some shells seemed to burst right in front of me.

Next morning some chow came ina few beans, some jam, canned willy, bread and "singe." The water detail had gone while I was out the night before, so I had just a little water that day. Some new lieutenants were around, and we expected relief. I had taken up some DIGESTS, and finished them. We pulled out that night and met some of our company in a near-by town. There I got some water, and almost got intoxicated on it, it tasted so good. For breakfast, we had hot rice and coffee-this was certainly great. Then they shelled that town and we moved on to our company's village.

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Now we are resting in château herejust resting. It seems so good to get back to meals and comfort. The first thing was a bath, then clothes washed, the first time in a couple of weeks.

True to his brutish nature, the Hun leaves various snares and devices to murder the victors when he is forced to retire from the trenches. Experiences of Englishmen are now being duplicated in the country taken by our own advancing soldiers. Some typical German tricks are recounted by Lieut. Maurice Munhall, Company H, 130th Infantry, in a letter to a friend in Chicago: We quote:

When I finished my course at school I found my regiment at the front in the trenches. We moved out of them the next day to a rest-camp in the rear only to be rushed up again the next day when the drive started. We were sent up as counterattack troops. I took our company in what had been that morning the Hun front line. I took them in that trench at 2 A.M., under a severe shelling, into the most terrible place I've ever seen. There were dead everywhere. I learned later that the resistance to the drive was heaviest there. My boys, of course, were unfortunate enough to have to stay all night with those dead Huns, because I would not let them remove them. Just as I suspected, the cunning Fritz had devised all kinds of snares for us-I found them the next morning at daylight. He had wires attached to his dead, to guns, helmets, in paths, dugouts, everywhere,

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THERMOS

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carrying
comfort

is with our Army and Navy Over There"
and with our Industrial Army everywhere

THE THRIFT GIFT

Pays annually dividends to the recipient of many times the cost to you.

Saves food, saves fuel, saves ice, saves doing the same thing twice. Keeps contents hot from the morning meal throughout the day and night. Keeps liquids or solid foods cooked at breakfast time to serve hot or cold at lunch or dinner. Indispensable for the home, farm, nursery or sick room. Ideal for the automobilist and hunter-the food container of a hundred uses.

Thermos Lunch Kits give the worker in office or factory-food or
drink hot as it should be or cold as it can be.

CAUTION: The name "THERMOS" is
stamped on all genuine Thermos products.

AMERICAN THERMOS BOTTLE CO.

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a firm, even crust. There are no jolts, no jars, no upthrow, no sidesway -practically no vibration. The car is easy to steer, safe to drive. It is just as comfortable as the old family sleigh filled with piles of soft furs. Secure this comfort at no cost to yourself. Install a set of Hasslers and let them pay for themselves over and over again by adding to your tire mileage, giving you more miles per gallon of gasoline and oil, reducing the number and amount of your repair bills, and increasing the resale value of your car.

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Ruse That Failed. The called-up one volubly explained that there was no need in his case for a medical examination. "I'm fit and I want to fight. I want to I want to go go over on the first boat. right into the front trenches, but I want to have a hospital close, so that if I get hit no time will be wasted in taking me where I can get mended right away, so that I can get back to fighting without losing a minDon't waste ute. Pass me in, doctor.

any time on me. I want to fight, and keep fighting!"

The doctor, however, insisted, and, when he got through, reported a perfect physical specimen.

"You don't find nothing wrong with me, doctor?"

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Nothing."

"But, doctor, don't you think I'm a bit crazy?"-Tit-Bits.

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