The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-05-30
MARRY BEFORE HE
GOES
If You Don't, Girls, the French
Maids May Get Him.

D London-The Yank has come to Eu
: rope excellently trained and ad
! vised. But in one unmilitar.
incidental, which we could hardly ex
pect bewhiskered war department
to anticipate, our American has beer
somewhat like Achilles, vulnerably
weak. He has a susceptible heart A
mild love drive disastrously over.
whelms him.
EYES," said the high consular Off
cial, "our boys are marrying French
girls in droves."
Why they marry, or rather why
they get in marrying mood, is easily
explained You take the average
Yank who comes over OF course, he
has left a mother and sisters, prob
ably, and girl behind-all deeply
interested. he supposes, in his future.
He is billetted in an odd little village.
Either the girl back home doesn't
write regularly or the letters that
come are not satisfying. Perhaps they
are too shallow. The Yank in his
.ravels has become deeper fellow
han the giggler he was when he left.
ie wants the "real stuff" in a letter.
# she writes silly narrative Of
Swell dances" and "cute fellows" and
"scrumptious chocolates" he knows the
"wish you were here" is only half
hearted.
Gradually, unwittingly, our soldier
boy loses his acute interest in home,
and becomes curious about the odd
houses in the ancient little village,
and their funny little two-part doors
that open for rather shy smiling, very
polite people who seem to want to be
courteous, or even genufeet, every
time they meet him. The most sur
prising of his observations is that |
the girls are good, like his sisters.
He can tell that by watching them.
They are sparkling, but there is
something churchly in their vivacity.
He notices that one girl, or maybe
two sisters, live in certain inter-
esting house-rather neat girls, too.
He hears one call the other, and the
name chimes in his memory. Rene,
or Jeanne, or Margot, or Yvonne.
Pretty names. He wonders why they
don't have such lifting names in
America. By and by he notices that
Rene calls Margot excitedly when he
is passing. A big little thrill goes
through him. That is the beginning
Of the end.
In some way or other he does SER
vice for Rene or Margot, and this
to an introduction to Rene's
papa and mamma, and then quite cere-
to Rene herself.
And then-oh, pshaw, why don't
hey write back home? Fine way to
.reat a fellow And he shines up,
brushes his hair to make formal call
IN Rene, Kisses, he finds, are not tok-
ms of love, but expressions of esteem {
n friendly France; but when Rene
Kisses Hank Jones good night, with
,apa and mamma looking their pleas
ire, it makes Hank repeat over and
'ver in his straw bunk that night,
Well, that kid has won home"
Quite roughly have traced typ I
cal Franco-American romance. The e
Ugh official mentioned is in the gen. !
raj consulate of the United States at
'aris. He told me of the great trou-
lie that had been caused for our many 4
onsuls throughout France by stacks a
+ applications for marriage docu- a
lents. The only conclusion to come
0 is that you girls over in America
ad better marry him before he goes a
, war, or send him such spirited, SEN il
ible letters that he will not get INTO q
ny of thase "antanplino alliances II