Evening star., 1943-04-19
INSTALLMENT XVII.

AANS = "A VII.
was doing peacefully at my
typewriter the other morning when
there came a knock on my elbow and
a bright young voice shouted "Heyp
at me. 1 looked up into the impish,
cheerful, and unquenchably mis-
chlevous face of the boss daughter,
Miss Sidney Winkel, age 4. Miss
Winkel was dressed like the Navy
and looked entireley too energetic
for such drizzlv morning.
I'm to be the Valentine" she
said, "and Johnny's going to take
my picture and you're to take me
up to the Service Club and carry
Johnnys things for him end wait
for him to get there 50 you'd BETTE"
put on your jacket and cap and
let's go.
I'm PCing to have my picture
taken with SDUd Parker" she added.
Spud Parker is the generals son and
Is considered quite an eligible
bachelor by the younger set.
rs Spud Parker your boy friend?"
1 asked ner Sleeplly.
oh, no." she said. Johnny and
Tom Mulvehill and 1t. Meek and
Capt. Wilson are my four best bov
friends, but you're not my boy friend
at all because you make faces and
STICK out your tongue and maybe if
you could behave yourself you could
be my boy friend"
Pure fiddle -faddle." I told her
L didn't ask to be your boy friend,
anyway. I could have nine hundred
hundred girl friends if I wanted
to-prettier than you. Sticks and
snalls and puppy-dog tails. that's
what girls are made of. So there"
Her only reply was an airv
"Myaaah," but you could see that
she was affected. The cid indifferent
treatment always gets them.
There's Tom in the cafeteria"
she said. Let's go see Tom
Thomas James Montgomery Null
Vehlll, Pfc, was apparently making
his morning rounds in search of
news. He was. at the moment. en-
gagged in his daily research in the
Service Clubs toast and coffee.
Hello, sis, he said. Hello, McGee.
Pull up chair. MCGEE, get the ladv
a drink. Something tall and cool
Such as a chocolate milk. What's
the deal, sis?"
ISIS" Unburdens Herself.
I'm to be the Valentine,' she said
"and Johnny's going to take nv
picture and old Hargrove has to take
care of Johnny's stuff until johnny
comes and l don't like him ANYWAY
because he makes faces and sticks
out his tongue and says sticks and
snalls and puppy-dog tails that's
what little girls are made of and
he's not my boy friend anyway"
NO punctuation, I said. I Wag-
eled my ears and stuck out nv
tongue at her.
The next time I come" she said,
I'm going to bring some soap and
every time he sticks out his tongue
I'm going to put soap on it because
1t isn't nice to stick out YOUR
tongue She emphasized her state
ment by paralyzing my wrist with
her fist and sticking her tongue out
at me.
Lets have no unnecessary vibra-
tions, McGee," said the Lieuthomas.
looking up reproachfully over his
glasses. Coffee is cents the cup"
He beamed at her. She beamed
back at him.
I have seven boy friends" she
said, raising one forefnger deli
cately and rubbing the other against
1t in highly jeering gesture. "I
have seven boy friends and you're
not one of them and you're not any,
body's boy friend" She hit me this
time on the elbow and I made a
horrible face at her.
'Myaaah,' 1 said Who wants to
be your boy friend anyWay?"
1 wish YOU wouldn't blow smoke"
she said. 1T makes me cough and
its not nice to smoke anyway. Old
cigarettes!"
l Wearily crushed my last cigar
ette in the ash tray. Women, the
eternal reformer," I sighed. 1T
wasn't like this in the old Army"
Miss Sidney Winkel took off her
sailor cap and arranged her big red
hair ribbon. You're a nasty old
thing and you're not nice like
Johnny and Tom and Lieutenant
Meek and Captain Wilson and all
my other boy friends,' she said.