Show PRIVATE PURKEY IN LOVE AND WAR harriet joins up with the dear oscar T dont look now but im I 1 in the jf it youre oure in an army why not me I 1 got to thinking ot of you doing your bit as a soldier and I 1 thought I 1 would feel eel better about it 11 iwas I 1 was follow following ing your example W well ell anyhow hers here I 1 am out in des moines and already I 1 appreciate all those complaints you used to make about your feet right bight now the girls have made thearty th the earmy army reverse the usual routine and d give us a light noon mea meal I 1 an and d the heavy one at night at noon we just get salads and drug store quickies but ti I three days before I 1 saw it was all a mistake as the work gives me an appetite like a horse and I 1 dont mean an ordinary horse mess sergeant harry decker says we will mil all be shouting for big meals at noon in no time and I 1 admit he is right rig 9 I 1 guess the ii g girls r a alt figured gure that they esmust must care e of their figures agures gures but th this is was so much wasted ste worry w rry thi his army routine routine will take ca care e of then their shapes thi the army has figured it out that i a girl soldier needs 2700 calories a f day to a mans but it must have reached that conclusion after watching you eat it will take a day to keep me at normal weight for years I 1 have been nipping at lettuce leaves to keep my weight down but in the I 1 can see my worries are over they can pass me mashed potatoes from now on A man Is boss of us he is colonel faith which Is a pretty name tor for a colonel ind and he will have to live up to I 1 it t if he is to get any results from Us this army he Is reputed to be a strict disciplinarian but the news should never have leaked out you know how a woman reacts when she hears bears that any man who to is to tell her what to do is a disciplinarian he has two strikes on him from the start quite a few arm army men are out fiere nere in general charge they try ty to be stern but they look pretty uncomfortable CO I 1 can tell they would rather be any place but here susie graham says they must have been detailed here as punishment for some army crime the first big laugh came when army men showed us how to make beds and dinst insisted ted that w we e make them their way and no back talk they made them pretty good at that but we made em all over again as soon as they finished we have steel lockers at the toot foot ot of our beds and you are my hang up boy of course dear oscar one of the girls asked me if it was a snip snapshot of bf abbott or costello it was just because the picture was taken in too bright a light well dear I 1 hope all Is well with you how I 1 wish we were in the same armyl your yankee doodle girl never stops thinking of her yankee doodle boy alove I 1 love you harriet P r S send me a mousetrap ajust I 1 just heard some soine funny noises VOICE FROM THE END OF THE LINE Obstruct ors of progress whose act Is a crime are those who pick change chance up one coin at a time pier banana farms to grow rubber Hea headline dUne okay as long as the rubber farms dont grow bananas TO THE LADIES the has J restricted ri ed 8 the h purchase u of nail polish polis h mascara 1114 s I 1 SCOra ca 4 0 cry ry rouge powder lipstick and facial reams creams c news T aws stern item lips that look a little human cheeks that are authentic too help some yankee bombers crewmen blast a jap out of the blue noses that mat are sometimes shiny faces that ari are real mccoy aid in trimming moe and heinle heinie and that hirohito boy hands that are as god intended nails as nature made all ten help to keep explosives blended As a help to fighting men gals alt with all mascara missing and with faces face sas as designed move a foe to segry hissing As A his legions fall fail behind just a little touch of powder not so many facial creams tend to make a hopeless chowder of the axis hopes and dreams amah A man really a good politician until he be learns to have Us his picture taken without looking directly lminto into th the elens lens says merrall chilcote shortage of meat in rasi fast 11 headline anybody who has asked tor for a hambur gerin a lunch wagon lately could have told you so I 1 nobody says elmer twitchell 1 is I is too loo far in the rear to yell for a 0 second ir front n right away |