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Show DROVE HIM INTO THE ARMY Inside History of Circumstance That Made Higsbee Beehigs a Defender of Hie Country. The evening that Higsbee Beehigs, rattling his 44 cents in his right-hand trousers pocket, took Mabel Shear-boom Shear-boom around ' to get a plate of ice cream he had absolutely no thought of enlisting in the army commissary. "What kind will you have?" he asked her. "You should say what kinds, not what kind," she corrected him gently. "I think I'll try every kind they've got. He-he. Won't that be a lark?" "You mustn't!" hecried. "Oh, but I shall!" she laughed merrily. mer-rily. And she started by ordering chocolate, persimmon and rhubarb. "Let it go at that, please," he implored im-plored her. "It's not being done by the best people." But she just laughed lightly and began be-gan on the rhubarb. When she was half-way through the second order, of pineapple, glycerin, olive ice and tapioca, tapi-oca, Higsbee Beehigs leaped to his feet in desperation. "Excuse me a moment," he said hastily and ran out of the place without with-out stopping for his hat and enlisted, leaving Mabel with the ice cream bill. Detroit Free Press. |