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Show Ex-GI Likes Baby-Sitting Says Job Can Be Happy Avocation ALFRED, N. Y. Like many another college-going ex-serviceman, Roy A. Kane has turned to baby-sitting as a source of extra income. And for his fellow baby-tenders the 28-year-old Alfred university undergraduate has a few suggestions sugges-tions to increase the efficiency of their work. The job, he maintains, "can be pleasant and profitable if the parents cooperate." "I always smoke my pipe when I go to a home," he said, "because I have heard that a pipe-smoking man gives a woman confidence. "Also, when I get to the house, I always ask about the crmaren s health to reassure her and to find out whether I will have a pleasant pleas-ant evening," he said. Upon arriving at the home, the Fanwood, N. J., political-science major sits down with his pipe, glasses, and textbook and "looks intelligent." "As soon as I am sure the parents par-ents are safely gone, I make a quick reconnaissance of the refrigerator, re-frigerator, cookie jar, and cake box to get my evening properly scheduled. sched-uled. "If the man of the house Is a pipe smoker and has an expensive expen-sive make of tobacco In his humidor, hu-midor, I knock out my pipe and refill with his tobacco," Kane explained. ex-plained. The pipe and a magazine keep him occupied for the next few hours. "Later I go to the kitchen and prepare a snack," he said. "On one occasion I had just finished cutting a liberal slice of beef for a sandwich when I heard the sound of little footsteps. "It was 6-year-old Junior, rathei displeased. I couldn't scold him foi getting out of bed because he had caught me being naughty before 1 caught him. |