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Show Long-Time Resident Observes 84th Ttirthday 4 9ime When Irene got home from the airplane factory she was good and tired. This was the hour, after work and before dinner, that she always looked forward to. Her private name for it was My sissy hour." Into it, these days, she packed all the lazy, luxurious little things she loved things that used to take up a lot more than an hour of her peace-time days. She sat down at the little desk in her room. You could tell quite a lot about Irene from that desk. The water-glass filled with the small bouquet of flowers she sometimes bought on the way home. The paper-weight of pink marble. The thin, crackly blue air-mail stationery. And the big, framed nhoto- ,fyV graph of a t1""'? young man in a . vi S corporal's uni- fr rTrWr. form as good- k w1 looking a man VViCJ as Irene was i-- pretty. On the blotter pad lay the telegram that had come that morning just as she was leaving for work. With those long, well-shaped lingers lin-gers she reached for a sheet of naoer. She nibbled the end of her oen for a bit, and then she wrinkled wrin-kled up her nose at the picture of the soldier and began to write, "Dear Mr. Morgenthau , but the corporal's name was Jackson and I she called him Pete. Her round handwriting spieau naee "My boy friend is with ?he A.E.F. in Ireland. He has cabled me fifty dollars with which to buy a diamond ring. I've been thinking it over and decided to buy a War Bond to help Uncle Sam instead. This may help to bring my boy friend home soon-er soon-er and then he can help me se- leCSlowfyrinhge"began to sign her name "Irene (Letter from an actual communication commu-nication in the files of the Treasury Treas-ury Department J f Let's all sacrifice as Irene has done Bring final victory closer with the money you put into War Bonds. Make certain your family budget tops 10 percent by New Year's. U.S.Trtasury Department |
