OPTICIAN
LONDON PARIS
1A, Old Bond St. 3, Rue Scribe.
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HEARD IN THE CAFE.
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"So you were down at El Paso the same time we were? Bum town, wasn't it?"
"Let's see,—I knew a lad out in Kansas City and his name was—"
"No, I haven't been up in Alaska since 1908, but there's a guy in our comp'ny who—"
"By the way, where did you say you came from in New Hampshire?"
"Sure enough. We hung around there at Tampa until—"
"Yes, I got a paper from my home town in Nevada that said—"
And, in spite of talk like that, there are some people back home that think their own communities' men are doing all the fighting.