The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 3, 1917 Page: 3 of 8
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Saturday, November 3, 1917
THE RECONNAISSANCE
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MOTHER.
(By Lieut. James A. Crain, Chaplain,
133rd Field Artillery.)
I received in the mail the other day
a letter from a mother concerning her
son who is now in the army. It is so
typical of the letters which the Chap-
lain of a regiment often receives that
I shall take the liberty of reproducing
a part of it, minus all marks of identi-
fication.
“Mr. J. A. Crain.
My Dear Sir:
“I have been reading with much
interest the little paper printed at
Camp Bowie.
* * * * $ * *
“I am sure that you do not have
much, if any time for individuals, but
I do hope that you can find a little
time to know * * *.
“If I just could know one of his
friends was interested in the welfare
of his soul I could he much better
satisfied.
“I know you have a big heart and
are concerned for every man in camp,
hut like a mother, I think of my hoy
every hour and wonder if any one
ever has time to ask him if his heart
is right with God.
“We as parents have done all we
could to bring him up in the way he
should go.
“Now I trust some good man will
find time to help him when he is far
from home.
“Don’t let * * * know his mother
has written you, T>ut if you should
know him and have a minute for him
I will appreciate it as only a mother
can.
“By God’s help we will win this
war, and I thank him every day for
the help he is surely going to give.
“Take care of my dear hoy as best
you can and He who rewards richly
will give you credit for your service.
God be with you.
Sincerely,”
There are perhaps few men in camp
who cannot say to themselves “Why,
that sounds exactly like my mother!”
That is just the point I am making.
That is just the reason why I am
taking the liberty to reproduce a part
of a private letter, and that is just the
reason I feel that the writer will not
object to my using this letter to bring
home a little lesson to you.
It sounds like your mother does it?
Then why not ask yourself whether or
not you are living so that your mother
would not be ashamed of you if she
knew'every detail of your life? It mat-
ters not how low you may fall you
will never get so low that you will
forfeit you mother’s love. Her love
will follow you, tho’ you are damned
to the depths of the deepest hell. You
may be 6 feet tall, weigh 180 pounds
and swear, like a sailor, hut to her
you are and always will be just a boy,
with a boy’s heart needing help, guid-
ance and a mother’s care.
“Day by day she yearns for you;
she wants you to be the man she
pictured you would be when you were
a babe upon her lap. She has dreamed
great dreams for you. What are you
doing to fulfill them? She taught you
purity—are you keeping yourself
pure? She prayed for you—are you
answering her prayers in your life?
She sacrificed for you—are you giving
proof of your worthiness of this sacri-
fice?
“A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive.”
National Waste.
Five years of drumming into the
public the tremendous wastes of fire
carelessness has apparently had little
effect. It probably will take a war
such as the one into which the country
is now plunged, with its measures sit
national economy, to correct wasteful-
ness which has cost millions in money
and countless lives. The extent of this
waste is presented graphically by the
actuarial bureau of the National Board
of Fire Underwriters, which has just
completed an investigation of 500,000
fires in the United States. The report
lays 21.4 per cent of the blazes to
strictly preventable causes, 37.9 per
cent to partially preventable causes
and 40.7 per cent to unknown causes,
largely preventable. It is another il-
lustration of the notorious fact that
America saves at the spigot and
wastes at the bung. Fire prevention
and food economy in these days of na-
tional saving should go hand in hand
—Exchange.
Nervous Fatigue Suffered by Patient
Result of Unnecessary Strain of
Expecting a Hurt.
That curious fear experienced by
many known as “dentist fright” is al-
together unnecessary, according to
doctors.
“The fatigue which results from an
hour or more of this dentist tension
is too well known to need descrip-
tion,” says Annie Payson Call, the
well-known teacher of nerve training.
“Most of the nervous fatigue suffered
from the dentist’s wTork is in conse-
quence of the unnecessary strain of
expecting a hurt, and not from any
actual pain inflicted. The result ob-
tained by insisting upon making your-
self a dead weight in the chair, if you
succeed only partially, will prove
this. It will also be a preliminary
means of getting rid of the dentist
fright—that peculiar dread which is
so well known to most of us.”
So well known indeed to some of
us as to shut out the sunlight for
weeks before the fatal date, the dread
Increasing steadily, till by the time the
chair is reached a state of tension has
been attained that precludes the possi-
bility of letting ourselves “go dead.”
But, says a wTell-known neurologist,
one can drop all this by a little effort,
and say to himself, “I will not cry
till I am hurt.” In fact, he cannot
only acquire the ability to become a
dead weight in the chair but will final-
ly give no more thought to the den-
tist’s appointment than to a date at
the golf club.
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Plumbago Mines.
Plumbago, Ceylon’s most important
mineral prpduct, is known all over the
world for its luster, lubricating, polish-
ing and binding qualities. In appear-
ance it is a strong black crystalline,
There are now about 1,000 plumbago
mines in Ceylon, including all the shal-
low pits, open works and deep mines.
The depth varies from a few yards to
as much as 700 feet. Most of the
mines are worked by natives, the only
Important one controlled by Europeans
being the Medapola. At the majority
of the mines the only machinery used
is the dabare. This consists of a long
wooden barrel with handles at each
end. Bound this a rope is given two
or three turns, and a bucket is fas-
tened to each end. It is worked by
seven or eight men turning the han-
dles.
When It Is Applied at Pressure of Sev-
eral Atmospheres Warm-Blooded
Animal Dies Quickly.
There is a seeming Incongruity in
speaking of oxygen as a poison; yet
scientists say that it has long been
known that if a warm-blooded animal
be submitted to pure oxygen at a
pressure of several atmospheresi it
will die as promptly and surely as if
it were in an atmosphere of pure ni-
trogen. It Is pointed out that even
exposures to lesser pressures of oxy-
gen over a considerable time are of-
ten attended with fatal results, the
most familiar of which are severe in-
flammation of the lungs, thus leading
indirectly to death.
Professor Karsner has attempted to>
define more accurately the possibly
pathologic effects of this gas, which
is being used freely as a therapeutic
agent, as a prophylactic against
asphyxia in anesthesia in the indus-
tries, and in the exigencies of subma-
rine or aerial performances. His stu-
dies show that atmospheres contain-
ing from 80 to 96 per cent of oxygen
under normal barometric pressure usu-
ally produce, in animals, in the course
of one or two days, congestion, and
finally a pneumonia, probably qf irri-
tative origin and to be described as a
“fibrinous broncho-pneumonia.”
WAS REAL MARRIAGE MARKET
Petrograd Summer Gardens Were Once
Scene of Yearly Pairing Off of
All Eligibles.
Business often plays an important
part in the matrimonial market, espe-
cially in some parts of Europe, and an
old-time custom in Petrograd was once
! responsible for the yearly pairing off
of all eligibles.
On Whitsunday afternoon the famous
summer gardens were thrown open for
the marriage mart. Girls and their
mothers, bachelors and their fathers—
the entire population, in fact—thronged
the gardens for the purpose of finding
suitable partners.
The girls put on their prettiest
clothes, and wore their prettiest smiles,
and as they promenaded to and fro,
they and their parents kept a wary eye
for a suitable husband. The girl fre-
quently held some object of value in
.her right hand as a symbol of what the
j aspirant might be led to expect in the
/shape of a dowry.
Sometimes it would be silver spoons
or a silver dish, or, in the case of one
of humble means, a homely looking jar.
When a favorable impression had
been made, the suitor would address
the girl’s companion—probably the
marriage broker or saleswoman whose
business it was to act as medium in
these transactions—and particulars of
his name, address, agq and prospects
would follow in due course.
The question of “her” dowry would
then receive consideration, and if the
union was a suitable one from all
points of view, the marriage saleswom-
an received a fee for her services.
GERMANS
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IS REPORT.
WIN WAR
(Continued from page 1.)
Choices of Beverages.
The station agent at a small town
Included in his usual requisition for
supplies two wooden pails, which were
furnished forthwith. Some time later
an official of the railroad company on
a brief tour of inspection stepped into
the new home of the two wooden pails.
He was both startled and amused at
observing a hand-made sign tacked
neatly above the utensils in question,
reading: “These pails for fire and
i drinking water.”—Indianapolis News,
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I only want to report that our cat
got drowned in the cistern this morn-
ing; the baby Is cutting a new tooth;
the cook left without warning; we are
out of sugar and starch; the stove
pipe fell down; the milkman left only
a pint instead of a quart today; the
bread won’t rise; my oldest child is
coming down with the measles; the
plumbing in the cellar leaks; we have
only enough coal to last through to-
morrow; the paint gave out when I
got half over the dining-room floor;
the mainspring of the clock is broken;
my three sisters-in-law are coming to
visit tomorrow; the man has not called
for the garbage for two weeks; our
dog has mange; the looking-glass fell
off the wall a while ago and broke to
pieces, and I think that my husband is
taking considerable notice'of a widow
lady that lives next door. That’s all
today, but if anything happens later
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Service.
And the question always is whether
men shall serve, or merely be unhappy
because they cannot serve in a certain
way. If the path that they would like
to tread is—through no fault of theirs
—closed to them, it is for them to
open another path, and walk stead-
fastly therein. They may never win
fame, never gain the applause of the
world, and may even be criticized by
the foolish for seeming to shirk, but
they will have the approval of their
own consciences, and the good opin-
ions of all those whose opinions are
worth anything. Gifts, by their very
nature, are not things that can be ac-
quired—though may be cultivated—
for they are things given. If they are
not given, there is and can be no re-
sponsibility for failing to use them.—
Exchange.
MATURE FIXES NO AGE LIMIT
—
Man Who Lives Carefully Can Retain
Vitality and Endurance Indefl-
nitely, It Is Claimed.
“Three score years and ten,” tradi-
tion says, is the span of a human life.
This must be divided into three pe-
riods to include preparation, efficiency
and decay, each period lasting nearly
25 years. With the athlete, it is still
more severe. Few men at thirty-five,
it is said, have the reserve vitality and
endurance that they had at twenty-
five. Therefore the edict has gone
forth that at thirty-five the athlete
must let up in violent competitive
work and gradually back out of the
front ranks.
But there is no scientific evidence
to show that this is necessary, says
Popular Science Monthly. The human
body is simply an assemblage of cells,
which must be kept active, without be-
ing overstrained and nourished with-
out being overfed, in order that they
may be able to resist the attacks of
microscopic enemies which cause dis-
ease and decay. Under favorable con-
ditions these cells will live indefinitely
without showing signs of age of loss
of vitality. Therefore the conclusion
is reached that the “three score years
and ten” are not fixed by any natural
law, but rather by the conditions un-
der which men live and by their per-
sonal habits. The athletic champion,
then, who lives under the best hy-
gienic conditions and observes the law
of temperance in all things and at all
times, should be able to “sit tight” on
his pedestal so long as he desires.
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Germany and they describe them as
being almost unbearable for German
people.
Germans in America responded
liberally in the recent liberty bond
campaign; which would (indicate that
even they are afraid of German domi-
nation of t)ie world if not checked.
Reports show that more than 6,000,000
Germans have been lost in three years
of the war, and food conditions in
Germany have reached a point where
the poor classes starve almost, being
unable to buy the poorest classes of
food. /
The following press report gives
some idea of what may be happening:
Washington, Nov. 1.—An article en-
titled “Peace, a New Humbug,” writ-
ten by a German and circulated in
Germany by German republicans
working from Switzerland for the
overthrow of the Hohenzollerns and
the establishment of a republic, was
made public here today by the com-
mittee on public information, with an
English translation.
The writer attacks the junkers and
Pan-Germanists for instigating the
war, and declares that the war lords,
having worn out their tales of vic-
tories won, now have turned to the
farce of peace to instill patience into
a starving and war-weary people. The
farce, he says, is presented in accord-
ance with all the rules of dramatic
art on this programme:
“Act 1—The central powers make
peace proposals based upon and un-
acceptable by reason of territorial en-
largement, annexation, both open and
disguised, a colossal strengthening of
Germany as a military power.
“Act 2—The allies will fight to se-
cure a true and lasting peace, based
on mutual understanding, and putting
an end to military states, reject these
proposals, exactly as the German
government foresees.
“Act 3 and Curtain—The German
people are informed through the
belligerent (field gray) that the wicked
enemy will have absolutely nothing
to do with peace; that they insist on
the complete annihilation of the Ger-
man people; that, therefore, naught is
left but to endure through everything
to starve to the very end, to shed
their blood to the last drop—until
junker and captain of industry have
attained the object of their war, which
is the robbery of other peoples, the
enlargement of their power, both
abroad and at home.”
“Germany has tom out by the
roots the sympathy of every thinking
neutral,” the writer says. “That
sympathy cannot be recovered by any
such pathetic peace suggestion as
this.”
He concludes with a warning of
what will happen when the German
people see through those who have
tricked them and exploited their
longing for peace..
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Henson, Will S. The Reconnaissance (Camp Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 3, 1917, newspaper, November 3, 1917; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth846977/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarrant County Archives.