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Show have to be." The woman looked bewildered at this news and said, "They do? But why? I thought you told me these were for the British!" And that reminds me: They say that the inevitable has happened. At one of those department-store counters coun-ters where they sell patriotic insignia insig-nia Allied and American a girl customer picked up a French tricolor tri-color rosette and said to the saleswoman: sales-woman: "Oh, this is cute! What other colors docs it come in?" i Goofy Little Stories One hears a lot of goofy little stories. For example, there's the one about the society woman who arrived at an Allied Relief headquarters headquar-ters with a lot of children's nightgowns night-gowns they had given her to make. She had apparently had a little trouble trou-ble previously because her opening words were: "These should really be all right THIS time, because I had my maid make these." So the nightgowns were inspected and the verdict was, "Well, yes, these are fine except that the seams aren't French seams, and you know they 1- |