were: Mary stone FvT' T"'’ showing
^ ''- - T.,_ ’ I the route which led to the hidden
Front row: Hilda May^ N^'^i'^nler^'lnirjo
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Under The Peach Tree
By Betty Stinnett
o™m,i ,i,„
'^as annrn I ®
I'est, on ?r Jiked
Aircrafts Arnold
^as so m,i^!^ morning and everything
pink petals 1°"*^ could hear the lazy
iroe .t? '“'" "" '>i»
Sidewalk lik i out over the
pink lace Tl.l canopy of puffy
aliout this i>- t- what Ila loved
like this 0117*1/^”^^*^ Wock. On nights
keautiful outl'**^ trees pink foam was
^Sainst a Itr moonlight
setting of dark hliie sky.
t^kore i’a 7r /’‘°“?kt that tin’s was
“'is peS tre " ke kissed, under
kliie and silv * fPreading pink on a
jng tl.ere onTh'"“7 ®‘"nd-
kranches niad^ ^ ®nlewalk where tlie
^ «>ade a lacework shadow.
o, , —Tvwijv siianow.
(1 told if * T 1
f"'l hotli of tl. “ to Mom
*"iJ ‘took J«ok
y^o’re want.7^ ?*?’ “’s kissing
r^tilil he gla7^o k^arter
know one thW 7 ‘ 'f Job; hut I
", flarn sio^ht nf ® ^md a place
“,'"n a sidewalk? ^'""otic to do it in
old daine’s 1, ” front of some nosey
‘»i"l HiouIXl l-l
“t'"kt to havY •/“ ****“’ “A girl
stone seat and a .g"*’‘len with a
k"'*od in. Mavll in it, to get
f/'V'k'k nioney^savo?”^^^ ''ave
kou.se uS f t'« "
yon can .L k ^"»-“on like tliat.
like a girl „„ ■ f t kns.sed and engaged
to"t iY7, ;\?’/^k well, plenty^
Ila nn- of that, yo„Ve young yet,
^‘^ke'wari'T,;! 7*""“ t^itk them hotl,.
‘‘•on; hut .s|w7 ,not ipiite nine-
yoniiger. Ami after Ml" ‘ • >'®tti"g any
“S you,nr ‘‘H’ nre man
*ng yoiiinr fl,?* ^ i’ ^irls are marry-
“onght, l?an r.r.„““yf’. Why, she
* "*t 1 graduated with * V"k.of a one
With who ,8111 mar-
mar-
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ried, and half of them have kids hv
now But she dicln’t worry much about
It. My time will come, she thought It
wasnt that she didn’t ever have a
date or hadn’t ever had a hoy in love
with her or a man propose. Tim Carter
would marry her any day of the week
and he glad of the chance; hut she
still thought his eyes looked like fish
eyes. And she could never marry a
man whose eyes looked like fish eves
110 matter how good he was otherwise.’
Jf 1 get tired of looking at him on a
date, what would it he like all the
tune. ()f course there were plenty of
girls who would jump at the chance
to marry Tim Carter. He was known
as the town catch. But Ila Jackson re-
seryed the right to throw hack into the
ma rimonial pond any fish she caught
and didn t care to keep. So she kept re
jecting poor Timothy. And of course
liere were the hoys she used to go to
higl, school with. Most of then, were in
service now and Ila dutifully wrote her
s lare of letters to servicemen and her
parlor never lacked company when one
t them was home on leave. But she
thought of them just as she did her
brother Jack and treated them in ahout
he same manner. So far Ila had never
me a man that she wanted to kiss
under the peach tree. She had thought
cr !7,l Arnold Air-
craft- that perhaps she might meet him
there, the knight worth of kissing her
under the peach tree’s pink he^ve?
Some of then, had whistled at her and'
Y?Ykee ? ^°“‘kern muscle men,
yankec easy.jims’ the run of them
shmft" ®'“y that they
f ? re ker, with her small slim
ie,ure, dressed ,n well-fittin«- well
limed*^’ * *kirt, with her iyory
nted oval face and silky dark l.aH
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