CUPID’S LITTLE WAYS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7914, 4 August 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

CUPID’S LITTLE WAYS.

(Extract from a Letter written by Corporal X. »t Salonika.) We become Visionishingly frank in our revealings of the. most intimate liome matters, especially those relating to affairs of the heart. I hi* is curious, but probably a n'atuVAl con*sconence of active service conditions. For example, there i.s one Jones, a private in mv platoon. The other dav Jones received a ; h’otoff’aph )l hfa sweetheart. He showed it round to everybody, which was not unusual; we all do that. But he went further. He a>ked us to gue&s the lady’s age. And c io Drowsed and arrange ! a sweep take in the matter. In the result there were two*33\s, one 32. three 30’*, one 29. four 98V seven 27’s one 20. one, 25 (Co S.M.), four 23V three 22’s, two 21V three- 10V and an 18 (Platoen. Sergeant). Tho girl was 21. A.s a matte- of fret, ho had sent tlm photograph to this devoted awn in to mark the attainment of her majority. Prize divided. Put. the exti'.xirdiuarv busini-ss that .Tones wrote and told !W stout, it. in detail, srivine In 1 tlie nctn ft! t.pnres e l recorded above. It is feO djfliotilt to kn r <w how tn fill tv,) one'* letters and not annoy the Censor!