Show ab IN R M I 1 S ny W ir USED T BY Y M C AL A fruch towns most popular drink emporium Is bought at auction SODA INSTEAD OF ABSINTHE american girl in sky blue uniform attends to the wants of the thirsty soldiers and sailors 0 rs by ROY DURSTINE paris in the very heart of a F rench port town where traffic Is I 1 thickest there stood a barroom it vas ns just at the point where a sailors ct cr soldiers thirst was greatest as he fudged hadged up the hill it did a rattling pod good business such a good business flaat the kept a special eye on du it whenever a military tary policeman had nothing better to do he would stroll up to this bar to see sec how many m were draped over it accordingly its trade languished for there are more desirable things to no do than to be a consistent drinker in the most conspicuous place in town before long the madame found that her business had fallen on evil ways her success had been so great that it it had f ailed I 1 bids for Y M C A A public sale was announced a sale of till all the oh so beautiful fixtures without thought of price everything would go beneath the hammer of the auctioneer everyone in town knew of ct it and when you say everyone you include arthur S taylor who bied to be a newspaper man in philadelphia delp hla and who iho Is now the lend head of the Y lit 0 A in the district of 0 the port town so lie he went to th the e sale and when the bidding fell off find and the madame wrung lier her hands because the price was so low then up stepped sir mr taylor or and bought all the fixtures for the Y 31 0 A after that he dickered with the landlord and came to an agreement velch permitted him to leave the fl fixtures c where they were to leave the bar where it was but to change what passed across the bar that was only a 1 little while ago but today as you mount the hill of the town ns as you see the doors of 0 the tar stretching out their invitation to bring in your thirst find and have it quenched you will see a strange abl thing over the door you will see in large larg letters the words the red triangle inside behind the bar you will see tin an american girl in the sky blue uniform of the canteen worker and you will see sailors and soldiers leaning their elbows on the shining mahogany ond and hear them say things like give us a chocolate milk shake slake make mine pine pineapple lipple hows the Y M special today package of cookies and two strawberry sodas think of it sodas in france and yet this Is only one of three places in that one port town where the T Y M C A has a soda fountain beside the bar sits another amert amerl can girl selling soda checks and in the lulls changing the record on the phonograph nothing old about those records either with new york just e r few days away the supply of tunes Is kept up to the minute in the back room there are small tables and chairs those who prefer to rest as they drink may do so and ir trany any do you see I 1 figured it out this way 11 said mr taylor as lie he looked over the blue and olive drall drab shoulders packed along the bar 1 I figured it out that half the attraction of a bar is the so of drinking slowly and gossiping while you do it and you see it Is I 1 |