Evening star., 1918-07-12
Private Danny
in France
BY FRAZIER HUNT.
CHAPTER 65.

For the most part the village bellies
of France have been a great blow to
soldiers. l don't know why but most
Nmericans think of French maidens
wearing high heeled shoes and silk
tockings and smelling. of crush rose
Blossoms. etc. But instead of all that
nost of the danes that soldier boys
see in the villages where they are bill
lcted wear wooden shoes and home
knit socks and smell of the cows they
are chamber maiding. And mostly
these beauties are built like brick
schol houses, from the ground UP.
and would make wonderful guards
Cor female college foot ball team
back in the states.
But now and then you do see some
fairy that certainly has got every
thing that queen ought TO have.
and when it comes to soldier boys
she can get crowd quicker with
smile than a company commander
can with his whistle. And then it
settles down to what soldier can
throw the most of the old bull In
this forrin language or buy her the
most stuff for her hair or something
like that.
Well when it comes to fighting the
weeker sext 1 will always put my
old army pay straight down on Pri-
vate Sandy Splits. Top sergeants and
ecen secund lutes have got all the
natural advantage over a mere pri-
vate of course. but when you get to
the real test you can always count
on Sandy doing all the final goodnight
work.
. Right near to where our village is
there is big aviation field where
our flyers are learning how to do
f,tc ir t,tf ND birds
over here to our town and sport
around. They all wear white bands
around their hats SO that you can
tell they are student aviators and
they have a pocket full of dough and
for quite a while they was knocking
all the fancy DANES in the burg dead
at a glance.
Well, getting back to Sandy. He
had a peachy skirt all picked out
who was the daughter of the mayor
or something like that and he was
doing right well with her until she
met one of these student flyers with
the white band around his hat. And
when he told her that he was a high
flyer and a lot OF stuff like that she
couldn't see poor old Sandy for the
camaf1ogued uniform.
Sandy couldn't get a date with her
and she wouldn't hardly even speak
to him on the street, but one day he
met her out by the statue of Jennie
dey Arc and said:
Whats eatin' on you, madamoisel-
ley?"
Well she didn't have much to say
but after a while Sandy pinned her
down and found out that she had fell
about five thousand feet out of the
blue for this aviator.
You don't mean you speak to those
men with white bands around their
hats, do you, madamoiselley?" he de-
manded in a hurt tone.
why what's the matter with them,
they are brave boys" she said
Il certainly hate to spoil your
young dream" Sandy said then, but
1 guess / ought to tell you. They
make them birds wear those white
bands so that everybody can tell they
are conscientious objectors who was
made go in the army back in the
states. They are towards and slack
ers and no real solder would even
speak to them. I'm sorry 1 had to
tell you"
1.-The nasty things" madamoiselley
said. Il was going to see one of
them tonight but I'd rather have you
come up instead. Won't you"
And now there amt a girl in the
village that will even give one of
them young flyers sivil look.