He got out soon after, and he had the impertinance to stop beside me and say: 

“I hate to disapoint you, but I find I have a clean coller in my bag after all.”  He then smiled at me, although I gave him no encouragment whatever, and said:  “You’re sitting up much better, you know.  And if you would take off those heals I’ll venture to say you could walk with any one.”

I detested him with feirceness at that time.  But since then I have pondered over what he said.  For it is my Nature to be fair and to consider things from every angel.  I therfore said this to myself.

“If members of the Male Sex can reduce their wastes and increase their usefulness to their Native Land by camping, exercising and drilling, why not get up a camp of my own, since I knew that I would not be alowed to go away to train, owing to my Familey?”

I am always one to decide quickly.  So I have now made a sketch of a Unaform and written out the names of ten girls who will be home when I am.  I here write out the Purpose of our organisation: 

To defend the Country and put ourselves into good Physical Condition.—­Memo:  Look up “physical” as it looks odd, as if mispelled.

Motto:  To be voted on later.

Password:  Plattsburg.

Dues:  Ten dollars each in advance to buy Tent, etcetera.

Unaform:  Kakhi, with orange-colored necktie.  In times of danger the orange color to be changed to something which will not atract the guns of the Enemy.

Name:  Girls’ Aviation Corps.  But to be known generally as the G. A. C. as because of Spies and so on we must be as secret as possable.

I have done everything thus in advance, because we will have but a short time, and besides I know that if everything is not settled Jane will want to run things, and probably insist on a set of By-Laws, etcetera, which will take to much time.

I have also decided to be Captain, as having organised the Camp and having a right to be.

10 P. M. I am now in my familiar Chamber, and Hannah says they intended to get new furnature but feel they should not, as War is here and everything very expencive.

But I must not complain.  It is war time.

I shall now record the events from 5 P. M. to the present.

Father met me at the station as usual, and asked me if I cared to stop and buy some candy on the way home.  Ye gods, was I in a mood for candy?

“I think not, father,” I replied, in a dignafied way.  “Our dear Country is now at war, and it is no time for self-indulgence.”

“Good for you!” he said.  “Evadently that school of yours is worth something after all.  But we might have a bit of candy, anyhow, don’t you think?  Because we want to keep our Industries going and money in circulation.”

I could not refuse under such circumstances, and purchaced five pounds.