Katharine Duncan Morse, The Uncensored Letters of a Canteen Girl (New York: Henry Holt and
Company, 1920).
Bourmont, December 28 [1917]
Of late I have been moved to speculate wonderingly on
the mental processes of the American public. I have been going through the
stacks of magazines in the warehouse sent from the States for one cent per to
provide amusement for the doughboys’ leisure moments. Among the rest I found
the Upholsterer’s Monthly, The Hardware Dealer’s Journal, The Mother’s
Magazine, Fancy Work and The Modern
Needleworker. I showed some of these prizes to one of the boys; “Gee, but
that’s the kind of snappy stuff to send a feller over the top!” was his
comment. That numbers of the Undertaker’s
Journal have also been discovered among the donations from home I have
heard asserted on excellent authority, but as yet I have not personally come
across any.