Show Chatter Box ox Dear Suzy I was surprised to get your letter letter letter let let- ter about conditions in the Big City In fact all I thought that you people did who went away on defense jobs was to stuff 20 bills into socks for a rainy day It was wasa a surprise to me that you cant can't get all the meat vegetables and fruit in the city like we can here Please dont don't think that I 1 have been pouring It on about this stuff as I just wanted you to keep up with the home town while you were away Now dont don't get excited and sore atme at atme I Ime me because I tell you that the pine nuts are here again Good ones too that are plump and juicy But pine nuts should be barred barred barred bar bar- red for the duration as it makes people so worthless when they get geta a pocket full of oC them You know how you dont don't quit eating them until until until un un- til they are all gone and while you are doing it you are just as worthless as a liquor permit on the fifteenth of oC each month It always struck me funny Cunny that those little tiny nuts required so much attention attention attention atten atten- tion to eat and so many hands Just think of the man hours they could save if nobody ate any pine nuts Speaking of oC man hours things are getting tough here now Beside Beside Beside Be Be- side the married men who are leaving leaving leaving leav leav- ing for Cor defense jobs most of oC the girls who were working In III the stores about Delta have gone back to school Every employer Is tearIng tearIng tearing tear- tear Ing his hair out by the gob trying to solve the help problem I If I 1 Iwas Iwas was triplets I could get 21 jobs provided of oC course that I could stand three shifts a day It seems as though you are In strange stores every day when you go Into the same old one on account account ac ac- count of the help They change their help around here oftener than they do their windows From the amount of you people who have gone to the city for jobs you must I Ibe be walking on each others other's heels looking for tor work Maybe I am wrong again though and you are all working or at least going through the motions The Wildfire Federation Is startIng startIng starting start- start Ing to whoop it up about their annual annual annual an an- nual deer hunters hunter's dance You know that dance where we went to last year where the men were dressed like a bunch of oC broken- broken down sheepherders and they walked walk walk- ed all over our new shoes and ruined ruined ruined ruin ruin- ed them It will be a lot tamer this year though because as you already know they have restricted palatable beverages to the point of extinction Then too there wont won't be a bunch of showoffs there therewith therewith therewith with a belt full Cull of ammunition I If any guy gets out of oC his mind that night enough to uncover any ammunition ammunition ammunition am am- it will just be too bad for tor the guys and the ammunition They are giving a prize this year to the couple dressed In the best deer hunting costume From the evidence of oC the way most of them were dressed last year all It would take to win the prize would be some casto castoff clothing and have your husband lose his razor for tor a couple of weeks Anyway I am going to the dance and see for myself just how hog- hog wild a group can get about deer hunting That is something I dont don't understand how men and women can get so wrought up about such sucha a simple little thing like a Ii deer Write again about things In the city and when you get too many 20 bills In the socks put the rest in War Bonds Love Toots |