Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1894, Page 19

PRETTY PINAFORE Indispensable Articles of Dress for Children. HOW T0 MAKE THEM Aprons With Waist and Skirt for Girls. GOOD CLOTHES PROTECTED —-+—- Writteo Exclusively for The Evening Star. OTHING KEEPS| little girls looking | neat and tidy s0| much as clean muslin aprons or pinafores. For very little girls they should be made with waist and skirt, covering up the entire dress except yoke and sleeves. For older girls they are made with bibs sewed to belts, to which skirts ‘athered half way around are attached. The first picture ts for a little girl. The apron is made with a fitted body, to which a full skirt is gathered. Pointed straps are Jet in at the under arm seams and are fast- ened in the back with a single button. It is without sleeves and the neck Is cut low | snd circular, being finished off by a gored | rule, which is 5) up front and back and St shoulder scams. | About Fifteen Years. + The second apron is for a girl of fifteen. The bib is cut to fit and has wide strips fastened to each corner and tied in large bows at the shoulders with other strips, that are fastened to the belt in the back. A ruffle of Hamburg-is put on fuli around the edge of the bib. The skirt, which reaches half way round, is and is fastened in tie back by tie strings, which are sewed on at the end of the belt. The tie strings to belt and these on the shoulders are edged on the ends ¥ crow Hamburg, which aiso runs up ra few inches. Edsead With Embroidery. The skirt of the next api only reaches Yound to the under and fs edged @bout with embroidery and has two tiny Pockets similarly trimmed. The bib, or it is very nearly t, is gathered full at neck and ws tight-fitting in the back. w: it is fastened. The outer edge of this is also edged with embroidery anc a ruifie encircles the neck. Skirt Bib are joined by a belt. and or girl who ts fond of nusement rather an apron whtch will i wiil prove very * of checked ging- wn showing the simple th full sleeves opening in both ened by three made as well as girls, five, is for nily. It ts cut ats at the neck PD The armholes are 4m both front and back. THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. 19 finished off by ruffies of Hamburg and the neck is finished in the same way. Straps, pointed at both ends, fasten in the back und For Little Brother. are tucked to the apron at the waist line, stopping on either side of the pleats in the front. ‘The neck is cut high. hort Waisted. Number six is a short-waisted apron and | is cut very pointed in back and front, hav- | ing little pointed revers, which are trimmed | with feather-edge braid as trimming. The apron has full short sleeves to it and can be worn with a school dress having coat sleeves, and the little one will still be very stylish. Large tie strings are let in under the arms and are tied in a large bow in the back. Three tucks trim the skirt. Tight-Fittinz Body. ‘The seventh pinafore has a tight-fitting body, which Around the waist is a short-gored ruffle that gives the little apron quite a stylish air. | ‘© ignore the real facts of the case:, Four pejjeve that to talk about Sen The sxirt is full and wide and the whole fastens in the back. Neck and armholes are trimmed with edging put on plain. For Afternvon Wenr. The eighth little tot wears an apron that is pretty enough to be worn in the after- noon. It has no waist, but is shirred up with three rows of shirring, from which a full heading rise: The wide tle strings hold it up on t oullers and keep it up high enough to give a short-waisted appear- ance. With Pointed Yoke. The last is made with a pointed yoke, which is cut low-neck and cut from all- over embroidery. The armholes have wide Hamburg ruffles instead of sleeves and the full skirt has several tucks. Insertion may be added to the skirt if preferable. M. E. 8. A Household Phrase That Mothers Will Understand. From the New York Sun. “Sopping wet” is a household phrase which describes the condition of a small bey after he has been coasting one hour. He goes out right after breakfast, at about 8 o'clock, warmly clad and dry, and he comes in at 9 with his rubber boots full of snow, and sopping wet. Sometimes it is hard to see how he can get so in that time, but he does. When he comes in his mother takes off his overcoat and hat, and then he sits down and she pulls off his rubber boots and knocks out the snow, and then she takes off all his wet clothes and puts on dry ones. Then she places a towel rack over the reg- ister and upon this towel rack she hangs the rubber boots, legs downward, to dry. | Then she proceeds to fill up the rack with | various other articles of his apparel, and | the things for which there is no rocm on | the rack she places over the register with the wetter parts directly over it, and those least wet stretching out over the floor. Then | she gives a final slight hitch to the towel | rack to get the adjustment exactly perfect, | and straightens one of the boots which had | got a triffe out of plumb. | Then she looks around at the boy, who has been standing at the window locking | out. It so happens that he looks around at the same time. They say nothing; but he knows that he can't go out again this morning. is tucked back and _ front. | SECRET SESSIONS, But Things Will Get Away From the Senators. COMMITTEES HAVE LOOKED FOR LEAKS, But Their Investigations Have Gen- erally Been Failures. ee DIDN’T WANT TO KNOW eee aa Written for The Evening Star. HE SENATE HAS begun to agitate again the question of investigating the leakage of news from the secret executive sessions, and there was some talk among the Senators recently of censuring Senator Hill for making pub- lic his speech on the nomination of Mr. White to be an asso- ciate justice of the Supreme Court. Mr. Hill saw a political advantage in the publication of this speech, so he carefully transcribed it from memory after the executive session, and freely gave it to the newspaper correspondents who asked for it. It is probable that if Mr. Hill had not seen a political advantage in mak- ing the speech public he would still have written it out to oblige the correspondents. Mr. Hill is a very obliging man. I have in my desk copies of two speeches which he which he wrote for me at the House from memory. Mr. Hill's publication of his speech on Kimball Senate rules, because the proceedings in the White case had been made public by resolution, but it was a shock to the tradi- tion-bound members of the Senate. It is janxious to have a speech in executive ses- sion published, to write it out in advapce |and to give a sketch of it to some news- | paper man, “Here is what I would say on the subject of the treaty with Finland, solemn Senator from Alaska will say to the alert newspaper correspondent before the Senate meets; and the correspondent, learn- ing later from some other source that the Senator from Alaska spoke on the treaty with Finland in the executive session, in- troduces the sketch in his report of ex- ecutive proceedings that evening. And the other solemn Senators hold up their hands in horror the next day and “wonder” how the executive proceedings became public property. If any of the members of the Senate are really ignorant of the newspaper sources of executive news, and are honestly anxious to learn about them, there is a tp which is worth twice as much as anythi that they have learned through an investi- gating committee. Not Ansious to Learn Anything. But the Senators, with few exception: not the least bit anxious to learn at all. one person could tell them; and there ar at least forty-three of the eighty-five mems bers of the Senate who would dodge tf one threw a stone to hit the man responsi- ble for the leakage. Here is a fact that il- lustrates the extreme desire of the Senators are ything, years ago a committee of investigation was appomted at tt 1. Lulph to learn how certain facts had 3 the executive session. The newspapers had published detatled reports of an executive session and a record of the vote; and the publication of Mr. Dolph’s vote had made Some explanations necessary to the people of Oregon. I think that I can say, without questioning Mr. Dolph’s honesty, that if he had been anxious to have the people of Oregon know how he voted he would have from the facts. The conditions being diferent Mr. Dolph was indignant. The investig tion was ordere? nd the sergeant-at-arms served subpoenas on a number of new paper correspondents, who admitted h some pride that they had sent out accurate reports of the executive proceedings. Where they obtained the facts for these reports they declined to say. To this committee came a witness who had been appointed to a high federal position by President Harri- son. He was chief of one of the big bureaus of the Interior Department. His appoint- Ment had been made without the Senators trom his state, not feel very kindly disposed toward him. There was opposition to his coniirmation from several quarters, and on the day his nomination came to a vote he went to the Capitol and sent in for 3 Senators to learn how the iight going. He sat in a committee room near the Senate cham- ber, and at intervals the tor told him v his nomination i him that Un- the rule than to a thou: He violated u of the Senate governing the secret executive session. And the office holder to whom he had been courteous toid the investigating committee all of these facts. Did the com- mittee report a resolution to expel the Sen- ator, or to cesure him, or to reproach him? On the contrary, the committee entirely nored this testimony. Very likely two-thirds of the members of the committee had given information from time to time to appointees whose nominations had been up for con- firmation. So without comment they passed over this transgression, and demanded of the newspaper correspondents whether any of their information had been obtained from the Senate clerks. At a subsequent discus- sion they legislated out of office the chief executive clerk, James R. Young, because certain Senators professed to believe that he was the “executive leak.” Since Mr. Young’s removal the reports of executive sessions have been, if anything, more ac- curate than before. The Tappan Committee. The Dolph investigation was not the first of its kind. There were two investigations in the first half century of the Senate's ex- istence, to which reference Is made in the report of what is known as the Tappan com- mittee. “The firs ays the report, pears to have occurred before the adoption of the present rule inhibiting disclosure as regards proceedings on treaties, which will be found to explain the omission of any res- olution of censure on the occasion. In the second instance, a resolution affirming that the member had been guilty of a violation of the rules of the Senate (evidently de- signed as a mild form of censure) was adopted. The offense in that case—the vse of papers tn the Senate, communicated con- fidentially some years previously—admitted of being explained into misapprehension, and lacked therefore the ageravation of the pres- ent case, in which the breach of the rule of the Senate has been deliberate, and presents no aspect of extenuation These cases, as I said, are mentioned in the report of the Tappan committee, made just fifty years ago. The result of that com- mittee’s investigation proves how Ittle the Senate cares to visit punishment on one of its members for violation of this secret s sion rule. In this instance a nator d Mberately gave out for publication a most important confidential document; he volun- tarily acknowledged the t, offering no apology for it; and the Senate passed a lame resolution of implied censure, declaring that he had been guilty of a “flagrant violation of the rules of the Senate and disregard of its authority.” The Senator in the case was Benj. Tappan of Ohio, the predecessor of the famous “Tom” Corwin. ‘The document which Mr. Tappan made public was the treaty annexing Texas to the United States. Accompanying it were the President's mes- sage and other papers. When the documents were published in a New York newspaper a committee of Senators was appointed to in- vestigate the matter. Wm. S. Archer of Virginta was chairman of that committee, and in addition to Thos. H. Benton of Mis sour! and John J. Crittenden of Kentuck: there were Senators McDuffie of South olina and Sevier of Arkansas—in all, Senators. The publisher of the ne was summoned to appear befor tee; but before he cou ton, Senator Tappan “informed the com mittee that he had reason to believe that the | publication in question had been m ; the copy of the docum under the rules of the , Which he had given to a person about leaving the city for New York, with no injunction of con- cealment.” five spaper the commit- come to Washing- 1) made en route to Atlanta two years ago, | the White nomination did not violate the | customary for these Senators, if they are | the | Most of them know more than any | ome | raised no protest against the publication of | The man to whom Senator Tappan had given the copy of the treaty was examined, and he testified that Senator Tappan had requested him to convey it to the newspaper editor who afterward made it public. This proved the case as completely as any com- mittee could have wished. The act of Mr. Tappan, said the committee, “has been de- signed, deliberate, and, as far as the com- mittee can perceive, is marked by no color of excuse.” A resolution was reported to expel Mr. Tappan. Mr. Bayard, the father of the present minister to England, and Mr. Simmons of Rhode Island, who singularly enough resigned from the Senate in 1862 to save himself from expulsion, pro- posed modifications of the resolution. After a long debate, the Senate adopted a resoln- tion declaring that Mr. Tappan had violated the Senate rules, and later, “in considera- tion of the acknowledgment and apology tendered by the said Benjamin Tappan,” re- solved, that “no further censure be inflicted on him.” Secrets Continued to Lenk Out. Thus ended the Tappan investigation— quite as lamely as any other of the secret session investigations before or since. The Senate followed it by passing a more strin- gent rule for the preservation of Senate secrets. This rule was quite as impotent as the other. The secrets continued to leak. But there was no other investigation of the leakage until 1871, when a New York paper published the treaty of Washington. The correspondents of the paper, Z. L. White and his assistant, Ramsdell, were called be- fore a Senate committee, of which Mr. Carpenter of Wisconsin was chairman, and when they refused to disclose the source of the treaty, they were declared in contempt and were locked up from May 17 to May 27 in one of the committee rooms of the Capitol. During the discussion of the reso- lution to imprison them, Mr. Morrill, now the father of the Senate, said: “If our pro- ceedings in secret session are to be kept, let us contrive some measures by which Senators themselves may be a little less leaky.” It is hardly necessary to say that the Sen- ate learned nothing from Mr. White and Mr. Ramsdell. It never has learned any- thing from the newspaper correspondents who have been called before it. The excitement over the White-Ramsdell case had hardly time to subside when an- other set of confidential documents was published. These were copies of correspon- dence relating to the treaty of Washington. The correspondence had been printed for the use of the Senate, and the copies were numbered and distributed to the Senators. One of the Senators—Mr. Cragin of New | Hampshire—thought that his copy would be more secure under the cushion of his chair than in his desk or pocket. When the j Senate adjourned he went away forgetting the treaty. It fell into the hands of a newspaper man, and, of course, was pub- lished. When the publication appearad the Senators were called to account. Only one became known, and the Senator was held esponsible for carelessness only. Follow- ing this experience came the Dolph investi- gation. In this investigation no arrests were made, but five newspaper correspn- dents were held under subpoena for fifty- one days. They claimed witness fees for | the entire time, and one of the best lawyers |in the House of Representative: ft |Frank of Missouri—was ready jcounsel for them, if necessary, ,suit for the amount. j the | the committee made out vouchers for $153 each to these five witnesses. The entire cost of the investigation was about 2,000, The result was absolutely valueless. ;Some of the correspondents testified that they did not receive their information from | the Senate clerks; some of them refused to testify at all. The committee wound up the investigation by t: the oath of each Senator that he h matter under investigation. Incidentally it is interesting to record the fact that the proceedings of the secret investigating com- to bring mittee were reported as fully and as accu- rately s the proceedings of the Senate. ply Liab! of the s to Expulsion, jenate say that a Sen- ator “shall be Hable to suffer expulsion” if he “shall close the secret or confidential business or proceedings of the Senate." The rule does not say that he shall be ex- |pelled or that he shall be censured; he is |simply “liabie’ to expulsion. The rules ‘of |the Senate are violated in some particular |atmost every day. A great many Senators ate secrets is like any other violation of the rules—that it {is not sinful, but simply a little riskful. {Others go back to the senatorial oath, which binds them to observe the Senate jrules; and these hold that to. reveal the | proceedings of the seeret executive session is to violaie an oath. But their i tion of their obligation depends very much on their anxfety to conceal or reveal wha has occurred in the secret session. One of the most dignified and unapproachable of the older Senators—now in private life— sent for a neWspaper correspondent one jevening, and gave him a detailed account ;of what had been done in the secret ses- |sion that day. He had a political purpose to serve. No one could have been more | fearfully offended than he if any newspaper |man had approached him for news of an- other secret session. All of these things are of a past day. They have not occurred at this session of Congvess, and they are told of men who are rio longer in the Senate, and who are not liabie to expulsion. A pretty fair in- ference may be drawn from them, how- ever. ‘The Senate has four kinds of sessions— the open legislative, the seerct legislative, the open exec nd the secret ex! tive. Nice di: $ are made between them. When purely legislative mat: re scusse] beaind closed doors the Senators y talk about them as much as they When executive matters are dis- cussed in ope on_of course they be- come public property. But when executive matter: < et session they may not be reves hout a violation of the rules, unless the Senate, by resolution, removes the injunction of secre Evea the confirmation of an appointment is held back for two exec ve sessions, So us to make possible thefintroduction of a motion to reconsider. But ‘that does not prevent any one who is particularly interested learning just what has been done. The House of Representatives held secret sessions in war times, but never siace the we The movement to abolish the secret session of the Senate, except, perhaps, for the discussion of treaties, is growing every year, > ph of Perseverance, A Triu From Life. copy was missing. Fortunately the facts | But after consulting | made public the | rpreta- | Life in the Army is Given a Happier Outlook. THE CHOICE MEN ONLY SELECTED The Shoulder Straps Not so Re- mote as in Former Years. ALSO GLORY MAY AWAIT ae Written for The Evening Star. ROM A THIRD- story window of the building on the southwest corner of Pennsylvania avenue and = 12th street protrudes horizontally a pole from which Is sus- pended a small United States flag. Half the time the flag is neither as large nor as bright- looking as the hundreds of other stars and stripes that fly along the avenue, but it is the only strictly official standard afloat on the thoroughfare between the Capitol and the treasury. It marks the United States recruiting office. At the door below usually stands a trim-looking soldier, in natty uni- form, the chief duty of whose immaculately gloved hands is to point upward, directing the military aspirant to the rooms above, where a veteran captain of infantry and his corps of assistants conduct the crucial tests prescribed. As a sort of background to the picturesque soldier who stands usually at the street door of all recruiting offices hang showy posters, with well-executed colored pictures of groups of cavalrymen, artillerymen and infantrymen in full dress uniform, above which is the orthodox American eagle in brightest plumage, whose extended wings blend with the red and blue | lettering head of the poster: “UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING SERVICE. WANTED— FOR THE UNITED STATES ARMY, ABLE-BODIED MEN OF GOOD CHARACTER.” was, and not very long ago, when any able-bodied man could enlist in the United States army without for- mality or trouble, and to a large extent the ranks of the fédezal military were filled with men who, either through ad- venture or force of desperate circumstances, | sought a living in the army. There were, | of course, good men enlisted then, as now, | yet as a ‘class the bulk of the older army ould fail to pass the crucial tests of the | reeruiting officer of today, Time was, with- |in the past dozen years, when, without re- ard to nationality, education or anything save known political disqualificaiions, ignorant or adventurous horn eitizen,or nglish speaking resident 2 could don the army | blue and wear it for all it was worth, but j hot so now. The federal authorities have a a long time past formed most watch- j Time almost e any ful and effacacious methods for tmproving the personal welfare of the private soldier, that have made the army of the Untted States the equal in efficiency, as well as the superior, in point of individual com- fort and advancement, to any other on earth. Superior Men Sought for. There are, of course, many officers who openly avow a preference for the old sys- tem and its consequent conditions upon the Chinese theory, doubtless, that no good man can become a good soldier, claiming that discipline, drill and experience can make the best soldier of the poorest Chris- tian. However that may be, the time has come when the United States government offers within the ranks of its standing army an honorable and profitable career |to the better class of young men of the | country, and no effort will be spared from | how on to attract into the military service |decent, respectable, and — self-advancing citizens who may resort to the army as a yocation or as an avenue to other goals. Not even France, in her proud boast that to every man in the ranks of the French army was held out the promise of a field marshal’s baton, could offer greater in- ducements to the young military aspirant than does our government today, any one of whose soldiers may become commander of the army. Indeed, one of the best assurances of the improved conditions of the enlisted men may be found in the fact that many sons, relatives and friends of army officers are antly enlisting as private soldiers, end year there are ten or more meri- torious men p:omoted from the ranks and commissioned as officers. Of course, as is well known, after an oflicer is commissioned nothing, save his own death or retirement on account of | age or disability, can prevent his advance- |ment in the natural order of promotion to the higher grades of the army, as noth- jing short of personal misbehavior or in- efficiency can prevent any enlisted soldier from competing for a commission. he old law provided only for the promotion from the ranks of “meritorious non-com- missioned officers," and left. the _pre- liminary selection of meritorious candidaies to the preference or favoritism of company commanders, but that has been revoked. The new law of 1892 provides that “ali unmarried soldiers under thirty years of age, who are citizens of the United States, who are physically sound and who have served not less than two years in the army, and wi ve borne a good moral char- acter before and after enlistment, may compete for promotion.” Promotion Open to A In other words, any and every respect- able, educated, persevering and weil-be- haved gs man who eniists in the United States army may, after two years’ serv: compete for an officer's commission. Pet sonal favoritism is not involved. The aspir- ant has ouly to meet the gpnditions pre- scribed, aud pass sufficientfy nigh to be one of the number selected. There are in te ranks of the army today sons of gen- erals, colonels and other olficers, as well as of prospering citizens, and une purpose is, as it should be,to dispel che odiura which jusuly or unjusuy attacned in former years to the so-called “common soldier,” by mak- ing him as much a possivui:y to wear shoulder straps as any entezing cadet at the West Point Military Academ it may not be generally kno: law has all along provided that in ulling vacancies in the grade of second lic: ants precedence snouid be meritorious candidates from satisfactorily ve ranks who passed prescribed examina- filed by the commissioning of ;raduates of West Point, and afterward by the appotni- ment of civilians. But nowadays wie fact must be recognized that the only sure way to enter the regular army 1s thr. Point or the ranks of the army liians have little show. The, va only computed trom July 1 to June nually, and after the comm'ssioning West Point graduates and meri: listed candidates few if any ancies re- main. lt happens, however, that at pres- ent there are a few such vacancies te wnich clyilians could be appointed, but FPresitent Cleveland is understood to nave declared he would make no civillan appotaunenis, The statistics of the recruiding would indicate that young men < ning to realize the advantages of in the a , inasmuch as se | late enlistments have been on | last year two and a half times mor al Limes of cancies for. the same of the recruiting service, it :aa that last year at the recruiting offic | 19,083 applicants for enlistmeat we | jected out of a total number of 26,748, 71 per cent having been found below the re- | quired standard. Recently, v! oaly cigh |ty vacancies existed in the rants. over | 1e0o men were rejected ‘of the 1,100 that applied, and today only about 300 vacancies | in the army remain. The Work of Recruiting. In this connection something shout the re- cruiting service may not be out of yiace. The superintendent of the general reervit- | ing service is a colonel of the iTaited Staies army stationed at the recruiting Leadquar- in New York elty. There are for in- vo extensive and commodio:s j his discharge, he receive | tle and the other at Col racks, Ohio; and for the cavalry, one at bas bar- THE ‘ARMY PRIVATE You Read About It In all the medical books and journals, in the society and club p apers. You Hear About It In fashionable hotels, clubs, cafes, on the cars and wherever you go, for it is everywhere. But You Can Never Know The marvellous power of the matchless sparkling Londonderry To neutralize of high living, Till You Have Uric Acid, that deadly product Tried It. The Medical faculty pronounce it “The Most Wonderful Ameri ican Water.” J. H. MAGRUDER, Disbursing Agent, 1417 N. Y. Ave. St. 1416 Chestnut J.. Del Te SHINN & CO Jefferson barracks, a few miles from 8t. | Louis. Throughout the country there are | about forty recruiting rendezvous at which accepted recruits are collected and seni to the different depots for instruction. There are also recruiting officers at ali military posts and stations, and from time to time special recruiting offices are established temporarily at various points. Then there | is the experimental system of regimental recruiting, which consists in senting a reg- imental officer with a few assist travel through the different cities, t and villages of the localities in which © 2 ments are stationed, the object being to c2- | list men specially for the particaiar Fegi- | ments, and it has worked well. Last year | 1,500 recruits were obtained in this way, | and generally they were excelloat men, who | enjoyed the advantages of serving in the! immediate vicinity of their homes during one enlistment at least. As to the require- | ments of the recruiting service the fol cw- | ing points of the official memoranda may be quoted: “Applicants for enlistment imust be be- tween the ages of eighteen and ‘hirty > unmarried, of good character and able bodied and free from tisense. plicants are enlisted who cannot intellizil converse in English and fully understand | orders and instructions given in that lan- | guage. “Applicants are required to satisfy the re- cruiting officer regarding age and character, and should be prepared to furaish neres- sary evidence. A minor can be enlisted on- ly with the written consent of his paronts or a legally appointed guarjian, aud when his physical development is excopt!cnauly good and presents many characteristics cf maturity. “For infantry and artillery the weizht. must be not less than one hundred «nd twenty-eight pounds and not more aan cne hundred and ninety pounds. “For cavalry the height must not be iess than five feet four inches, and weight not to exceed one hundred and sixty-five pounds. Comfortable Quarters Provided. It will thus be seen that not every man can enter the military service, and that those who do enlist enjoy advantages. There has probably never been a time in the history of the army when the barrack system w so perfect in every detail of hygiene and personal comfort. No longer does the theory prevail that soldiers in bar- racks should be required daily and nightly and all the time to endure hardships and discomforts of field life. On the contrary, the enlisted men are allowed to have soft beds, pillows and bed clothing; th ave comfortable and well-equipped mess halls, where they may sit and eat without in- decent and unnecessary haste—such, for ex- ample, as prevails in the English army, where the men go to the kitchen for food and eat it how and wherever they please. They have their good club rooms or post exchanges, and all in all enjoy greater lati- tude than ever before. They may wear civilian clothes when on pass or furlough, they are not required to attend unnecessary roll calls at night, they perform no unneces- sary military duty after Saturday moraing inspection till the Monday morning follow- ing; in fact, they now have their hours of ease and enjoyment just like officers of the army and other people who are not required to be all the time in official or business harness, and are a thousand times better off, many of them at least, than their com- rades an@ relatives at home, who toil as laborers on scanty pay and endure many deprivations. Comparatively, indeed, the army offers more inducements to the sober and loyal citizen than many other work vocations. The private soldier 1s no longer required to do garbage work in posts. Indeed, he does no work save that of general garrison po- lice, and there not a farm hand nor laborer nor any office boy in the country today who, if he performs his work well, does not do all that the soldier has to do in garrison, and more, too. Menial or servile work is prohibited, and while the proud man who has never condescended to work at all might find the army, like any other vocation of legitimate duty and labor, un- congenial, others will experience no degra- dation or mortification in any of the re- quirements of modern soldiery. And svrp- pose that the man who enlists for five years discovers that he is unsuited to the life, or that the life is unsuited to him, he need no longer desert the service. In fact, the law has so carefully provided for all possible contingencies that not the shadow of ex- cuse exists for that hateful and baneful crime of desertion from the army under any circumstances. No Need to Desert. ‘The recruit, who after three or four or six months’ instruction at one of the re- cruiting depots, feels dissatisfied with the life, has only to bide his time and wait for the first twelve months to elapse, when he wiil be entitled, under law, to purchase his discharge at the nominal cost of $120, which amount, for a specified period, is decreased at the rate of $% for each additional month of service. It would be only sensible for the soldier who has become dissatisfied at David's Island, Columbus barracks or Jef- ferson barracks in the first six months of nis preparatory service, to wait another six months in order to test himself in actual service at Some establishel post. At the end of three years, if his service has been faithful, the soldier is entitled, by Is to three months’ furlough, with full pay and allowances, at the expiration of which h may take his discharge as a matter of right, free of cost. In this way y think they can obtain remunerative more congenial occupation outside the arm: are enabled to experiment whenever however they please, at the same time r ceiving pay, rations and clothing from the overnment during a period of three month: While the purchase price of discharge after one year is a thereafter, the fact should b that the soldier fs constantly a little saving of pay, inasmu month is retained to be paid to I charge. So that though he pa i ns | | b due him. of his ent plus whatever clothing money be Indeed, from the first month into the serv! ‘ ment by depositing monthly with any pa master $5 or more,upon which he receives in- terest the rate of 4 per cent per annum Those deposits are non-forfeitable except for desertion, so that every man who en the ranks of the army may, if he chooses, be certain of his discharge at any time after the first twelve months of service. Meanwhile, the soidicr ought to and think seriously over the advan and opportunities for_self-improve forded in the army. To b clean, healthy and ings." Unlike the laborers in feids ¢ —the toilers in any of the dust-stirring cupations—he can, at all times, clean person or bes in ciean bath tub is e must ever be order The Datics Not Arduous. If the soldier ts in a large garrison (and | most army garrisons are Jaige nowadays, | Philadel phi: nd and Di Gen. Agts. for Pennsylvania, Westera, of Comedia. mid. owing to abandoned, isolated small posts), he has to perform suard duty only one day in from cigit to fifteen days. The War Department orders prohibit guard duty cf- tener than one day in five, except in emer- gency. Fatigue duty is occasional only, and fatigue hours, during the six days when fatigue is permissible, last usually from ¥ or 7:30 till 11:30 a. m., and from 12:30 or 1 tll 3:30 or 4 p.m. There may be morning or afternoon drills, or both, and evening parade five days in the week, but, as stat- ed above, there are practically, as a rule, two holidays in each week, extending from Saturday morning after weekly tn: ull Monday morning following, when, un- der stated conditions, the svidier is free to use his Ume as he elects in the pursult of individual happiness. But perhaps the greatest advantage of a term of enlistment in the army is the e@u- cational opportunities. There is at nearly every post a good library and reading room, where books and current Mterature are at all times accessi- There are also good post schools, where every soldier can, free of cost, ac- quire a fair education. Then, besides the school room, he has ample time to study in barracks, or library, any special course. Indeed, he can take up medicine, law, oF what not, and when he leaves the amny at the end of three or five years, he may be better equipped than if he had been in civil life, working hard by day and sti night. He will have acquired ical habits, and, possibly, will have what so many rudderiess, restless and alm- less young men in every-day life need most —iiscipline of mind and body--he will be able to begin lite with $500, or, possibly, $1,- ), accumulated under the fostering meth- ods prescribed for his benefit, and that, too, with a vigorous, educated mind, a a body, which amny life tends to develop Strengthen. And yet, should he lke the military and prefer to continue in it, he can -. to Ye are of thirty years the hope and privilege of becoming a missioned officer, whose fullest rank highest pay ultimately may be enjoyed by him as by any other. But even should he tail to"be among the fortunate commission- ed ones, his lot as a soldier is not without its advantages. The Non-Commissioned Goal. He will. undoubtedly, become a non-com- missioned officer, and the non-commission- ed officer, like an Indian chief, is beyond the pale of work, except to direct amd con- trol. There is no mit as to the time a private soldier can be awarded the chev- rons of a non-commissioned officer. He may in six months, more or less, evince that degree of military vim and sjdierly spap which will at once commend him to his su- periors. Vim and snap are needed in non- commissioned officers, and com com- manders are quick to discern avail themselves of it. The efficiency of @ com- pany depends largely upon a good and ef- ficient non-commissioned and from year to year the individual powers and re- sponsibilities of corporals and sergeants ee: more fully recognized and set ‘orth. When a soldier is discharged on account of sickness, or at the expiration of service, his travel pay is, amply suificient to carry him to the piace of original enlistment. Finally, the soldier who becomes infirm during twenty years’ service, or who may be discharged on account of disability tracted in service, may avail himself of the comfvrtable Soldiers’ Home beautiful- ly situated in the suburbs of Washington city, where, for the remainder of his Ife, he has only to draw his pension, smoke the pipe of peace, and live the balance of his ae ar wd is so constituted) without another stroke of work by except to eat, drink and be happy. > CONTAGION OF RINGWORM. Lie A Skin Disease and Some Simple Remedies. From the Popular Health Magazine. Ringworm is a not uncommon, parasitic, contagious skin disease, occurring generally in children attending public schools. It may appear on the scalp or on the non-hairy parts of the body, It Is caused by a vegeta- ble fungus belonging to the mould family, It appears as a scaly patch which approach- es the form of a ring. When two or more patches are close together they often co- alesce and form a larger patch. The dis- ease is easily carried from one child to another, or the child by scratching may Spread the disease to other parts of the body. When it occurs on the scalp the hairs have a whitish appearance and break off easily and a bald spot is the result. Cats and dogs sometimes have it and it is con- veyed Ike the itch from animals to human beings and vice versa. A common cause of ringworm among boys at school is the bad habit of exchanging hats and caps and thus transferring the disease from one head to another. The routine treatment is to wash the parts with soft soap and water and then to rub in well sulphur olntment, or paint with tincture of fodine. Some cases will not get well under this treatment and may even baie the skill of the best physicians. The hair should be cut short at the site of the trouble and even in a circle ground the spots. The remedies should be continued once or twice a day for a period of three or four days to a week and at night the child should wear a linen night cap and the hair be kept well greased to prevent the scales from flying and infecting other children. The ed child must be kept from school and away from other children, ss A St. Patrick’s Day Rarade. From Puck. XM . Gilhooley—“Tt’s kilt, shure, me hus- 1 will be this blissid day.” MeGinnis—"V y t makes ye think 80?” ‘ ilhooley—“He wint oot wid wan av thim long dude overcoats, an’ some! will be shure to trid on the tall av it”