Show i 1 I ROMANCE THROBS IN l SOLDIER BREASTS i AS WAR GOES ON I Ii i Blank Biank I II By Private y i Of the Twentieth Infantry I I I She he loves me me she she loves me not j i The old words were heard yesterday esterday I Ii in perhaps the least expected ed place in inthe inthe the world They fell feU from front the lips of ofa a soldier as he hesitated between drills I to pluck the yellow petals fr from froin n a suni sun- sun i flower Little Is the man In uniform suspected suspected suspected sus sus- I of nourishing the ender Emo mo- EmoI I Yet letters in the bottom of ot l foot lockers in the barracks hold man many which have been built no n roman romances es II I since ince President Wilson sent senti out his I message mes of April 13 And they are Tea real I romances I I Of course unsympathetic rooKies rookie laughed some laughed some of them e ev en n guffawed the brute brute-at hr brutes tE at at the poor fellow who I figured in th the sunflower e episode ButI Tnt Rut they belied belled their sincerity when they i I crowded to get near the noncom when he called out the majl ma l list In the I evening of Uncle But for the mall mail pouches pouch s left lEtt without without without with with- Sam many of the romances out a perfect perfect ending ending would be ter- ter Letters are quite necessary separated separated sepa- sepa to to hold to together eth r those I I rated by the emergency Even freI frequent frequent fre- fre I quent letters often fall fail to serve the theP I P back The stories of love affairs I home d dd not often come to the surface sur sur- face The soldier somehow is reticent about mentioning his dearest dearest If if she really Is to is-to to his companions In the cantonment He feels that that'll it is out of place h he falls fails to meet with sympathetic response Letters come and go and few guess R what they tell Once in a while the uncommunicative soldier lover lets drop more of his story than he knows known smiles smiles- Letters are opened with dropped without t a smile The lettErI letter tells that she has his married another perhaps per per- I whom the service did not haps hap to one need Or she may h Ve transferred her affections to one who entered the service later than he It Is perhaps true that the man Inthe inthe In Inthe the service sometimes sometime gains an unfair advantage over the competitor for the absent ones one's fair hand The girl may he ho led 10 to o believe from fromI I j the tone of his billets doux that without without without with with- out him world democracy Is an utter impossibility and Kaiser Williams William's crown perfectly secure On the other hand she may permit him to believe that she considers him the bravest man In the world worM that she is In a chasm of dread lest the bouche her end-her bliss bUss with a hand grenade And all the time she mows knows that his 30 a month will not build a bungalow and she is inclined to favor a tired business m man n who is living living comfortably comfort comfort- ably a at home More often iii the necessary necessary separation separation- is a bond b nd which tends to accentuate the Heart throbs The soldier at least j i j Gives always alway with with- that hope A At Al t. t th thI the I e erid d of each ellch day of bayonet ot exercise I I ane and other preparation for fol coming days daysI of bloody conflict there Is la the goal of ofa I a letter from TIER lIEn |