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TUESDAY, Learning the Battle Yell, To Put Zip Into Fighting, JULY 9, 1918 Part of Soldiers’ Training Makes Work in Last Training Camp Exciting and Realistic,as Described in William Allen White's yew War Book, “The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall which WHER ay horror of war and there is grimmer fy its humor, and it fs hard to But both horror and humor are set down successfully, in terms of a first class American mind, by William s@lien White, author of “What's the Matter With Kan. he of the “Martial Adventures of H Fi iia quien White and Henry J. Allen, editors respectively, of Lhe Emporia Gazetié and the Wichita Beacon, went to the front for the American Red Crow One revult is Mr. White's emwyfously interesting war T and, just now, ary and Me.” book, brimming over with observation, insi and wisdom, flavored with a racy irony suggestive of Mark Twain. “Henry and Me" find new things to see and say about Americans at the front, German atrocitle the French spirit in war, the Italian struggle, the new Faas uropean woman, and what ts going to happen after the tumult and the shouting dies. But perhaps the most absorbing chapter in the book 4s that telling how the soldiers of the Allies—including our own—are taught the lesson of hate and what is the fruit of the teaching, Here, indeed, horror and humor walk arm-in-arm The scene is what White eall “the post-graduate co! of all train-| There was one ing ca the last camp before the| but front line of trenches and their deadly | Blue Dy ond Mr apocryphal doubtless, about the French lls, who, like the Canadians, mps,” suKEeStIVE work. “Here,” he explains, “ten thou-/ are careless in the matter of taking sand men come every week from] prisoners ieY are A proud peo other training camps all over the) ple, and exceedingly demoer: A earth and are given intensive train-| German brigadier, caught un their ing. For six days, eighteen and] barrage, came up to a troop of chas twenty hours a day, these soldiers,| seurs, and when they demanded his trained by many months’ bor on| surrender, asked curtly, ‘Whe re's other fields, are given the Ph.D. in| your superior officer?” hey pointed battle lore, and are turned out the|down the bill, and he started down seventh day after a Saturday nignt| At a safe distance they threw a hand Jeetu’e on hate and shot straight up! grenade into him and obliterated him to the front, In all Franco there is| remarking, ‘Well, the world t® thas no more grisly place for the weak-| much safer for democracy.’ stomaghed man than this training| “It is told of a ©, mitt continues camp—not even the front line trenches! Mr. White, “who came acroms a aquad will kick up his gorge more sedu-|of Germans with their hands up that lously he asked, ‘How many “One 4 great basin hollowed] Kleven, they said. He afhong the hills, and in the ten thou-| pocket, found his hand sand acre plain one sees horsemen|threw it at. then galloping, soldiers running, great! sorry T have but th trucks and tanks lumbering over the between you! field; men digging, men throwing hand grenades, men clambering over trench walls, stumbifhg over crater holes. “They are taken to a part of tho are you?’ reached in his Rrenade, and remarking, ‘Um e one, but divide it se “There is also the story of the In- dian Sikhs, who begged to go out on» “ight raiding party—crawling on thar bellies with their knives as their only weapons, Finally two of them ro- ground where some trenches ai@ turned with now pairs of boots, Show. sunken in the earth. Before tho ing them proudly to their amascd trenches are barbed wire entangle-| Captain, they said humbly: ‘Ye Payy ments and ¢ jagged shell craters. | Hut you would be pained to learn how ‘The imitation enemy trenches, badly bombed by barrage, lie twenty rods beyond, The men are taken in had by the amiable Sergeant Major and taught to yell and roar, and growl end snarl, to simulate the most mur- derous passion—and the simulation of busky youth in his twenties of murderous passion is realistic enough fong we had to hunt for a ft!* “There is also the story of the fos. tive Tommy who tried to play a pras- eal Joke on his German prisoner by sipping a lighted bomb in the Ger- man'n pocket. The Tommy then started to run; the German thougat he must keep up with his captor, and Tommy realized that the joke €o make your flesh creep; for the Very! rim, just as the bomb went Heb ‘. simulation produces the passion, 98/ «ied them both aad every wise man’s son doth know. — | “such atories a ‘ bs ories are innumerable," co: SENS Oe Youthe Ate OA MP SP iclidee tha suthon of “The Si eareh the trench and numbered ‘1 1-2 | Adventures of Henry and Me" “nt | ‘1-2 clean down the trench. Thea and} bey | ere probably the order is given to go over the top.| | cate what mi The Second Lieutenants Ket on tor] hoy pettect and down in the trench No, 1 hands his leg to No. pan down the line No. 2 boosts No. 1 to the top; then No. 1 lends a hand to No. 2 and puils| him out. The blood-curdling yeils degin and mingle in an animal roar|” that sounds like the how! of an orang: | he Martial Adventures of Henry Outang in the circus Just before it m| 224 Mo” ts published by the Macmil | fed at the aftor-show. It is the volce |‘ Company. of hel! | > untrue. But they indt. | en at war think is funny; | ° rtain impoliteness and | lac. of courtesy that prevails in war. * | And they show what a response, even from the hearts of brave, seit.| sacrificing, civilized men, a Hymn of © must win, “Phen the tine watks—not runs; Dominion of Canada | but walks—under machine gun and ‘ | shell fire to the enemy trench, As| Fifty-One Years Old) they near the enemy trench the| HE Dominion of Canada, | the courage and devotion of tahoe | army has won for her the re-| Destial how! rises, and as they jump into the shell-shattered trenches the iT ‘This is the type of dress Mrs. Castle is very t fond of. It is very simple and can be made in Fes expensively. The neck can be cut square on rounded, and the bodice laced down the front on buttoned down the back. Large medallions let in i here and there form a border near the hem, Mrs. Vernon Castle’s Favorite Dress ‘DA MORE ELABORATE GOW 7 Women and Clothes in War ‘Times FD EGRETI, \ FOR DRE: SIER OCCASION ¥ A more dressy gown to be worn on greater occasions. The material is gold cloth, over which is draped some rhinestone-studded net, covering both shoulders and hanging almost to the hem the skirt in the back, By Mrs. Vernon Castle MY FAVORITE DRESS HE type of dress 1 ha and which is very simple and may be easily and tnexpensi made, is one with a tightfitting ttle bodice, rounded or s one may see fit, at the ne rk or following the line of the front; a short, t little above the elbow, and a skirt moder: ‘a square times with a high b: fitting sleeve full, gathered at the waist, its joining betng covered up by the ending a bor which comes down over it snugly. 5 may be put on the ekirt at intervals, or large medallions let in and there to form a border near the hem, en very fond of during the past winter, vely cut K, buttoned down the back, some- ight- ately dice, eral soft tucks of various depths here ‘These may be of lace or net edged with a narrow fluting or ruffle to stand out and make a | | i | larly girlish and youthful and in perfect taste for the young matron or debutante. For those to thetr clothes more elaborate, this same style might be used, but made up in a brocade with some sort of silver figures or design upon tt. Very often the material itself will make your dress quite as elaborate and dressy looking as any amount of trimming might. For instance, the other dress you will find ple- tured on this page, though quite plain in line, 1s a more dressy gown to be worn on the material is gold cloth over which is draped some rhinestone-studded net, covering both shoulders and hanging almost to the hem of the skirt in the back. This material, though very beautiful to look at, is not particularly practteal, because it wrinkles so and cannot be pressed, But there is nothing more stun- who care have great occasions, because ANU” I | Young Man. | decisions there has been no appeal— \\\” \\" j TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1918 | 1919 A Few Dry Remarks Anent the Hasting Time ¥W | Glasses Will Be Worn Only on Top of the No | When Only Rheumatism Will Cause Permanei | Crooks in Elbows; When a Clove Shortage Wil Worry Only the Cook; When the Town P. | Will Be the Hamlet’s Only Oasis, and Whe Baths Will Be Drawn Only in Tubs. } By Arthur (“Bugs’’) Baer. Copyright, 1918, by The Preas Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Wo cy HERE will be no mornings after the morning after Jan. 1, 1919. Country won't be so damp after Congress puts the dampers om, No more local soption for the sops. 8 = Nhe | : ares Nation will be drier than a dozen sticks of Chinese punk on the mezzanine floor of a Mongolian joss bungalow. | Only drink will be @ blotting paper Julep followed by a nice, cook | sip of dust from a vacuum cleaner. When a farmer prays for rain he will bave to drink it himself, Army needs the brass rails for munitions. | poe \ Chiropodists won't make any more money carving corns off of arday night elbows. ne saloonatics won't be able to take their noses down to Wanna | gimbels to match some red ribbons for their wives | -—- . | ‘The old nose rouge willgno longer be used by our more stylish souses America will be drier than a covered bridge. drier than a dead cricket in a colonial fireplace. The saburbs will be - Beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness and prohibition will be to the bone. Congress is going to take the moss off the moss covered bucket. Old town will be drier than a button. ‘They can make us drink thunder showers, but they can’t make us like it. Champagne corks which used to say pop will now have to say | uncle. No booze in shipyards after 1919 Dry docks will be dry. Columbus discovered America, but he'd never know the old place now. After 1919, village Postmasters will be elected on their merits. Old burg will be drier than a set of folding doors. Gubernatorial campaigns must contain less than 2 per cent. alcohoL The last gurgle in the last spigot will sound like the rattle of @ mummy's Adam's apple. Delirium tremens will be a lost art. Going to swat the bar fly and do your Christmas sopping early Get busy sopping days to 1919. Only 1 | When Banshe Deals Out | The Show’s Pasteboards eats Will Go to Him Who Understands the Fair Sex After “Lily of Box Office’? Displaces Chilly Best “And he actually bit his own toe* Oh, the little dear!” Blanche finally gets through am Edgar demands his seats. +. 1918 MWe The Proms Pubilahing 20, New Evening World) “ now the lady theatre tick et seller! Long has the box office been dominated by man, ‘There he has| stood impervious to thr cajol- | with a big bunch of roses, ing, Pleading—a court from wh Copsrig’ Th Edgar disappears and returns 900 For Edga is of the species Wise Guy. Th flowers go to Blanche, "Did you say you were all sob a Czar, viewing the struggling mob now! i# maniacal, in the trenches! spect and admiratio tram” for wedailton, ning-looking outside without the slightest show | out?” he asks. a ation of the Allied and! : it Seas are canvas bags m to represent) neutral world, has just celebrated her The neck can be cut square and the bodice can be laced down the For those who can afford several evening dresses, this would make | of interest. ‘To him the public nas I thought we were,” she replies wounded enemie The first wave) fifty-first anniversary On July 1 front instead of buttoned in the buck, as you will see by the accom: one of their prettiest, if kept in a dark place and hung in a blue cot- j been more or less of a necessary} “but I find I have Just what you wan over the top leaves these das for| 1807, the confederation, which ia des. | Danylng photograph, A tiny edsing of tulle oF fine lace softens the | ton nag; the material would not tarnish for some tlme and could be | nuisance which he has delgned to/Oh, 1 just love favors mi bul at, the stretcher bearers, But by the! tined to becon & great power, was lines of the back, and a Httle ruM™le of net may be seen from under cleaned up a bit by simply rubbing it over lightly with a little clean. tolerate merely because it whe all bs Prete hey remind me of funeri time the next wave comes over, or| established as @ self-governing divis the edge of the bodice Me Gald a) caaaat any Gide tne day’s work, He has been a ~ the third wave comes, the stretcher| jon of the : og Set | ce, But now, if re-! Mrs, Skinner next appe t thk Ns b me her) jon of the Brith Empire. The origi- This costume, easily cleaned and not at all perishable, ts partieu- Coupright, 1918, by the Be | human cake of Ice. a A Mrs. § r next appears at Dearers are supposed to have cleared | nal Dominton consisted of Ontario, | SUA aban iemetceta paei een eee Ag os Beate —_———_—— ————— | ports are true, the ice is to melt and| window, Behind her in the line are the fesnches of wounded enemies,| Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova| ° . lin its place will rise a flower, th |sev | restless men, and after that every soldier is sup-| Scotia, and their union was brou d S | f the Box Office.” “A ticket for the show, dear,” she 01 brourht ef the Box » dear, posed to Jub his bayonet in every| about by the efforts of m Ereap ot ve ome of the ay's Goo tories fe tt known, It appears prob-|ways, “Let tue uco—1 guses Til take dag in the trenches, as he is ex-| and unselfish men 4g a = " hb i 1e selling of tickets In/a red one. I much prefer red to bine. pected to jab every dead body to The first Eragon was Sir John a, AND THE JOKESMITH DODGED. Jtell the court the total of his gross NOY}, BATTERN: Watser d A he Kaleors morality is pals : x tr will be declared |Oh, where did i get that lovely | 7. Bir Jo! th f com: | N elderly lady entered a store | as warped as little Willie's, he ox offices o id 9 " prevent an enemy from playing pos-|MacDonald, and his Cabinet was MEY were discussing that joke | incon 4 : pete oyment, and that| manicure? At Giggleums, you say? sum and then getting to a presuma-| up of Eanec. ti ee | about getting down off an ele-| He refused; the counsel appeaied| and asked to be shown some George Washington,’ said his | DF ee guitauewar| 46a, Gear Gae Diputhe Oe had ply disabled enemy machine gun and) parties, It did not in tian , Ne phant |to the Judai | mblecloths, A nan brought | teacher to little Willie, ‘was the great. | mear 1 ee came, gente reader, let_ns/ Mrs. Skinner decides she'll go to partie f hot include, however, it Sale «y, s , pile and showed them to t but | est man that ever lived, for he o . girls, Come ntle reac et 03 0 oldiers in the \. ‘one wh = “How do you t down?" asked the You must answer the question,” | a pile an . for he couhin't i Zl nia nee yy old ite ong akant a ‘i 2 fat i ne Ribga ee worked for the suc. pis Phe Mier jeusihi timias |sald the Judge y she sald she had seen those elsewhere | tell a ie.’ fife the mysterious. yell at he fut & bride "Pa y ‘na i : ia aa BYery time w student soldier Jabs| com of the confederation project, Can- Senn ee | ‘Phe witness fdgeted about and|—nothing su Nae [M/NOy De MAINE She: eregtest man, | 609 PAN aut RUIN OF Tne eee eee gohies the window Pee gs apicuous for their absence were Dr,| “You elim then burst out with “Haven't you something new?" she| nuther,' said little Willie. ‘Ananias was, tions we may face after the change} , (ree gare Uke @ jackal, and if he misses a bag| Charles A. Pupper and D'Arcy McGee,| “WTORs ; tut—but, Your Honor, 1 have no! gaye | wreater, for he couldn't tell the truth,’ "| takes place 1g eee TF YON Em DAYS ORE be ft counts against him in the day's who had voluntarily withdrawn their, “YOU grease his and slide) grows income, I'm a sherman, and|""1 1.4 inon brought ancther pile| Detroit ree I ave Blanche is in the box office fixing | demands markings. Wave after wave comes names in order that the new Govern. lit’ all net."--Case and Comment, Rae CLO pen RE , * Mantis - , ! ir before a little mirror, Her Not a bad suggestion!" gays over, and prisoners are sent to the ment might include proper represen.) “WTR!” | Are oo a8) el se CONVINCED. _ BE PMN ri ceiatening. idea Urs | eTel Fear, if there are guards to take tation from all the provinces. Hxcept, “You take a | and get down." | HASTE, _— BF bigs fii Pe 3 STREET ER. Se Seee 4 he window ‘ | And so it will go. Managers may oxcep 4 | ( nine lor ears he had been| he said. Yo I notice that the STREET car with the fron ives at the windo' them. If risoners are killed, | for a spirit of welf-aacrifice on the part) | “WFONE OR nin Ro yanra He Daditeen| he Raid: "NAN. Wi ARPA DAS: 138 Ed a SOUR MNCL evan lery atairet’ | Pave, bUE the effect of their rantings and one hot waste ammunition’ of many prominent men the infant) “Welk you take the trunk Ine eoalOm Ane ASU daub ten aE te | Ae : da t Idle," th ' A Le Mh Wi Be: al & women will be @ on them. It may be well to pause confederation might have been han, | Gown: farm: Bey aly id laa ae wee Men “Aalont and ne -ltab," | woman for a’ that here to say that in the geytie art of naa diasen been ham- | “ano, not quite, You den't get down | “Jennie,” he mused, as they sat on Sa ate a dae osc: | Milton"—a motorman of Hibernian! “Wally , glub,” she re- | pered by partisan discord before it was, h elephant; you get it off a} 4) ‘ : T will tak & ARN extraction and a nervous wot nies, with a ¢ ni w York has had a few box office murdering the business of taking fairly Jaunched. oft an elepial Api re old fen I read the other day | tite us woman p laa ; poe: / s t ‘ ‘ jaunched goose."—Indianapolis News that ina thousand years the Lakes a The dialogue; “Docs this car go to “How's that? adiog, hut they have been asslatants menenere: Ba) Meverslely morkee pee REN at Killar il at IMMORAL WILLIE Dorchester?” 1 soe tot With the girls in full out, The Canadians, since two of FAMOUS NAMES COME HIGH DIDN'T CATCH WITNESS. PP ARREy a aie . 8. T. EDWARDS of th 1 : y 2 f Jennie clutched rm excitedly , ae steed say “Yos, leddy; get r 1 its." | charge, things will be different. I their men were crucified by the Prus- COLLECTION consisting of the HA'T the case was about noone! Son pon Pinta n Peed Manufactur ; Blanche an-]you want good se Joad up witi slans, take. few Prussian prisoners.” autographs of Lord Nelson and W seemed to know exactly What's the matter, lass?" tion said in Chi [eae ek aus a8 . F OP \noweruvoanaiicas King ean ay Perhaps you are wondering where the Captains who fought with ‘Tho lawyers theijsclvea were| “Why, a8 you promised to take me] apropos of the bomba and inforne You, leddy; get right on * Oh, how you, Delphine? You | : . 1 y ) y ipropos of the bombs and infer MIL le Maye ChUSIRABE AAA MMliiant nh ; phi u| gossip and buck the line, With th the promised humor enters this nar- him in the Battle of Trafalgar was pretty well mixed up. there on our honeymoon. don't you | chines sent to Norway under Neate And Milton’ | want to tell me what the bat did?| aid of a few compliments you ma! % : 7 % ‘ - | thin e'd better be a little eare e side. 4 u ’ ) Fative, At the camp of hate William recently gold at auction In this city ‘Then an Important witness entered |{hat'iney don't ary: wp before wi eat | perial German seal: ".Wo aint goin’ sideways, leddy; 10 ahead. I've a few nainutef Vise the ede sent ieh “Lily of th Alien White beard many stories. for $360, jthe box and was presenuy asked to| there?”’—Boston Pout, "Ob, nothing surprises me that the! get right on."—Boston Transcript. “What about those seats?” b ¥ Box Office.” j