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Show DEATH SPRAY TO BE DROPPED FROM PLANE SAX FKAXC1SCO, .lay 2i (LT). Mercy. Can it be nossilile that the next war will be fought with hat pinsV Something has happened to this he-man's army. First came the soft rolling collars. Next came the shiek haircuts, which didn't last long, by order ol the commanding officer. This was followed by a petition asking that stripes he provided l'oi full-length trousers worn at mess stripes of dainty colors, a different shade for each branch of the service. ser-vice. The petition didn't get to first base. .Now it's perfume. "Eau de NarcisseV" asks the formerly for-merly rongh-tongued snrge. "No; don't you love it? It's jade," replies the once bristly chinned corp. And the K. P. hoys chime out in tenor: "Clap hands, here comes Charley." I'erhaps, at that, the soldier boys aren't to blame. A new death-spraying device for airplanes is soon to be tested al Cvissy field. The device, as designed, de-signed, will drop a curtain of deadlj spray over a mile-and-a-quurtei strip of ground. For several reasons it would Ik impracticable to use the real stufl iu these tests. The flying corp.. might get careless, minds were so to work to find a good substitute. The least harmful of all gg gested seemed to he perfume some good, cheap grade. Well, maybe the soldier boy! "framed" it and maybe they didn't Anyway, in view of their othei recent bizarre fancies, it look! fuxny. |