The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1918-09-18
YANKS GO SHOPPING
FOR THEIR BEST GIRLS

France F0rgcts the American Soldier
Is Kin to the Old-FasI,iOned Tourist
When Yankee Doodle goes to town
% buy a bale of French fincry for his
owed one across the wide waters all
france loves him and gives him of
her best, forgetting that the boy in
';haki is a relative of the American
ourist with gold-dripping hands who
vas such an easy mark in the days
before the war. It is not all fighting
md misory in France, and thc S".i
never shines more brightly than when
IN American boy fares forth to buy |
a souvenir for his sweetheart. For |
there comes moments of lull in the |
lighting, and when the soldier is at
rest he starts thinking Of the girl
| tack home Then the blues force him
10 talk about it. One young corporal
confidcd to Young Mems Christian
Association girl cantcen worker that
! he wanted to buy something for his
girl.
"Blouscs." she suggested. Cheap
here and quite unlike ours"
what matcral?" he demanded
Frightening.
"Silk, crepe de chine, embroidered
lawn"
A mess sergeant, who had been pre-
tending to read, suddenly emerged bra
2enly to demand more details. He had
| 1,D ;p1y
| had any interest in bouses. The cor
rOral was enraptured with the idea
md enlisted the "Y" girl as his shop
per.
She had a real good time next day
pricing and examining in four shops
bnenrc returning trumphantlY waving
he package. The corporal seized IT
eagerly. while the mess sergeant, from
=, doorway, impaticntly demanded 10
SOC The blouse.
"Wnit q minute" protested the COR
po~a'-owrcr, unwrappi,g the paper
onh drawing out tho thin ccrU stun
with its iiNc cmbroidcrics and its 1t
tlc tasscls and crochctcd buttons, lie
mold + up gcntly rcyrntiy
"What'rc YOU so slow for? Let .
follow see it," commanded the ser
| gcaUt
,Tnat's.thc back" explained the cor
oora'. cxhihiing the Blouse.
! "Tho bacll?" sconcd the sergeant
"Ycg. i. IS. Soc tho collar? THOSE
/; t9a-als arc in the back
(! "Cmoss you're rieht" grud%inply aA-
! mi,tcd the sergeant. Can YOU beat il:
SOC ncrc Aiigclc. Like ,his?"
Angclc spc&li3 no English. She is
Kitchen holpct but not lacking in hu.
NOR She shrugged.
! "Thcs hicn llicr ion al achcto III
| pour viSeAsdeux francs"
Il The sergeant was incrcdulous con
corning the price Of % francs, "all en-
broidod and everything" and asked
she considered this blouse pretty.
: "C'cst magnfiquc ct &C nest pa
.- cher" replied Angelo.
where do you get them" dcmande
the sergeant, while the corporal clam
orcd for an hour off to buy anothc
Even the cook an American from ltal!
caught the blouse fever and was a
oagorncss that evening to have WORD
with the young woman OF the Re
Triangle.
Il show YOU" he cried. Buy
myself Here, you open; my han'
dirty"
From small box was drawn
white silk blouse with wide blue co
lar and blue loops and buttons, one
make any girl happy.
The corporal ioyously bOaStcd he h;
bought similar one. OF ccrisc hu
but thc sergeant was depressed. !
sadly exposed his purchase, hca
tiful crepe dc chine.
"Why, that's beautiful" cxclaim'
the -"Y" girl.
"But it amt silk mourncd the II
happy sergeant.
In one sentence that young WON;
had assured him that it most assured
was silk, Of a different but equally d
srablc kind, and had made that no
com supcrlativcly happy, that bcil
just another Of the many ways
which the "Y" puts heart into o
fighters
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