CIVILIAN FRONT: The Belles of San Antone

In San Antonio last week were several thousand soldiers of the Third Army waiting around for the furloughs due them after maneuvers. Delay had its compensations. No need had they to pose the question: Madam, have you a daughter fair? Ready to see that the boys had a fine time were 1,000 Texas maidens.

The girls who turned out to entertain the boys were San Antonio's Liberty Belles, who have volunteered to bolster morale by acting as dates for lonesome draftees. The Liberty Belles are organized along semimilitary lines; four girls take orders...

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