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Show ROMEO WAS CLAD IN KHAKI Played the Popular Game, Choosing the Dinner Table to Work on Affection Af-fection of Waitress. It Is natural that we should be eager to do whatever we can for the boys in khaki ; but sometimes, when the patriotic pa-triotic zeal Is not accompanied by a sympathetic imagination, the beneficiary benefi-ciary may pray to be delivered from our friends, writes "An American Woman" in the Outlook. A homesick lad is likely to want either an atmosphere like that of his own home or else the exotic flavor the expectation of which has helped him to undertake the great adventure so cheerily. In one family among my neighbors the son of the house was scandalized when one of their guests at Sunday dinner made the perfectly simple and natural request that he be permitted after the meal to repair to the kitchen where the pretty waitress was. Permission Per-mission was denied, but young Romeo was not discouraged, and this letter came "To the Girl That Walts for Mrs. So-and-So : You are the best ever. Are you keeping company with anybody?" any-body?" He added his name and a few personal details, and this delicious bit .of identification: "If you don't know which soldier wrote this, It is the one that touched your hand under the dish when you passed the potatoes." |