New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-30

lDEklCk STEVE: Well Steve, every
day when get out of the hay, theys
~ new rumor saying that such and
such outfit is going home, and what
not else dope on the subject but the
nearest got to home yet is reading about
the worlds series. My girl writes me that
as I was coming home so quick that she
would stop writing me as | would no doubt
be gone before her letters got to me, and
amt that the limit Steve? | tells her
Steve, that If she wrote me another let
ter as fast she did the last one, l would
be in another war by the time it reached
me, which same is just some of my kid
ding chatter Steve, theys no more chance
of me being in another war than they is
of a safety razor company using the Statue
of Abe Lincoln to advertise their products
But that's kinder off the subject as the
warden told the guy which asked to be
let out Steve, and what | started to tell
you that | come near being married to
one of these French blue Damselles, which
wasn't no fault of mine Steve. I was up
to Paris at the time President Wilson was
Steve, only they made little more fuss
over him than they did me, as was stand
ing on the street SOS President Wilson
would have a chance of recognizing me
as the guy which carried Distil County
for him once by voting twice, they was
French girl yells, "Vivi LAmerique" Mt
me, which is French for, az hope
America don't 80 dry SO says, Comma
telley garlic" to her Steve, which is the
highbrow French way Of asking how h guy
Is and the like, and she says Il string Of
them trick French words Steve, which no
Yank ever knows enough of except to get
drink on. She was good looking Steve,
that If she had walked up when Mark
Anthony was getting off his love chatter
to Cleopatra in the desert. Mark would of
refused to let Cleo stir his Vim Rouge after
seeing her,
/ walks six or ten blocks with her Steve,
but for all knowed she might of been talk
ing about the sense of naming baby until
they knowed whether it was going to be
idiotic or not, but l agrees with her no
matter what it was Steve. Well we finally
comes to the second story Of a three story
house, and as l was staining in the parlor
Of the place, her old man comes in and
says nothing in English but makes a lot of
motions likes he was shell shocked, or had
married Hull Hull dancer, and | mods
my head like always does when the ton
Kick asks me il got in before taps, and the
old guy goes out of the room.
Steve, knowing me as you have for so
long, it won't surprise you what happens
then. None else but preacher guy comes
in the room, and the French blue Damsell
was doiled up like she was going to appear
In the Foliies, while the old man was rub
bing his hands and figgering how mary
cigarettes would give him after the mar
rage, for that's what they fggcred was
going to come off Steve. Well Steve. nv
girt mas fell for Stacker back home. and
the Ike, but when girl marries me she's
got to tell me about it first in United
states, so gives the old man the address
OF End Lieutenant that | knowed was
wanting to get married, and beats it. hut
outside Of that everything was lovely.
president Wilson didn't recognize mo
steve, and guess it's cause was in n mi.
aorn and looked like the other Yanks. hut
no doubt General Pershing will tell all
about me- VIZ 'e" ali
Yours I'll New York is bone drv
PETE.
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