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Show NOTHING BUT PROXY SALUTE But Wounded Officer Appreciated Kiss That Came With War Cross That He Had Won. An officer, writing from a hospital in France, tells how a French officer pinned a war cross on his pajamas, and how, without any warning, one of the nurses hurried to his bedside and planted "a nice rosy kiss on the ugly mug of yours truly." There is no reason rea-son to believe that this Is a love affair. Doubtless it was a proxy kiss it represented rep-resented the feminine members of his family. Fiction nurses have been of one kind. In the illustrations they were strangely beautiful. Always their hands were cool and their uniforms fresh. Some young millionaire had been picked up and carried to the hospital hos-pital where the nurse fought for his life grim death stalking just behind the door. His identity was not known, but he was a man, wide of shoulder and small of girth. He had a flat back and his close-cropped hair was inclined to be curly. By and by he became rational. The first tiling he realized was the cooling touch of the purse's hand on his feverish brow. But why continue? He always married mar-ried her, and they lived happily ever after. |