Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-06-10
Marriage i'm the Navy.


Many young officers professional reputation
has been ruined and his prospects killed by an
unfortunate alliance, or by constant application
and wire-pulling to avoid the service that be-
longs to him by right for family considerations,
and many man whose ambition has never been
aroused by reason Of an early resignation to do
nestle life, will hear with sluggish blood the
music of the guns or by reason Of lack Of flt ex-
perience be rendered valueless.
Recently man-Of-war was ordered unexpect-
eddy to winter in an ice bound and isolated port
where mail facilities were Of a meager nature.
The number Of married officers who suddenly
became i'll and unfit for duty was astonishing.
Their ship was turned to ridicule and her eff
cheney must have been;impaired by their depar-
ture. An officer should by law be made to re-
main bachelor until such q time as will insure
his considering properly the significant question.
''Will this woman do me honor?" and If his
reason tells him yes then will be know that she
will do honor as representative Of his country
women In foreign and perhaps rarely visited
lands.
One Gubbins, for instance. takes his wife to
Belengarie, and the wives Of the residents call
to give her cordial welcome. The German
women, Judging from the narrowness of her
views, her lack Of knowledge Of books and au-
thors, and extreme friyolity, think she must be
see If she isn't red; the French women shudder
at her style Of dress, and the wife Of the Eng
llsh governor prOnOunces her decidedly bad
form. Then they unite in a tranquil species of
wonderment as to whether all American women
are like this one. eventually arriving at the
sagacious conclusion that she is perhaps q
trife superior to the rest, as she does not
wear feathers and q blanket. The morti-
fled officers Of the ship consider them
selves powerless. No man among us all has the
Your wife, by her unbridled tongue and singu.
lar actions, has made herself disagreeably con-
spicuous. She Is doing us all q great deal Of
harm socially and you ought to send her hOme!"
Gubblns adOres his wife, and with a happy un-
consciousness Of the fact that we are struggling
to bring our faltering courage up to a point that
will result In MIS- Gubbins' Punishment, tells us
that she's q most remarkable woman WHEREIN
we heartily agree with him), and refreshes our
dropping spirits with little anecdOte of how
last night at the dinner at the French consul's
she sat upon Lady Carraway, who was moving
out to dinner ahead of her. "What if she is the
governors wife?" my wife said. SIN America
we don't have any such nonsense; and, anyhow,
the cat may sit down with the king, IL it comes
What other naval officers than our own have
their wives and babies and nurses chasing
round the world after them? Is 1t digniaed and
proper Their presence on q station often lights
the finder OF discomfort in q vessel. that is to
burst some day into furious flame and make
that pandemOnium of the sea-an unhappy ship.
AT the ball at the prefecture, just as I've found
out that the loveliest woman in the room, lust
arrived from the capital, has no partner for the
cotilliOn, and am on the point of asking the
honor, etc., note is handed me. know it's
meaning, and, furious at this continued perse-
cutiOn, VOW stern refusal. I am doubly in
dignant that 1t should be handed me lust at this
time, for the lovely eyes Of this woman over
whom have already become q driveling idiot,
spy the femenine character Of the writing and
she draws her own conclusions as to the cause
OF my agitation and speedy withdrawal from
the scene. / rush to the buffet, toss of
bumper of champagne, and then with vast
amount OF mental swagger fercely tear open
the note.
"Dear Apemantus. The baby is dreadfully Ill.
Frank and are In despair. The doctor has
told Us 30 many things to do am almost crazy
Do, like the dear, c0nsiderate fellow that you
are, take Franks midwatch tonight. and he'd
be down the first thing In the morning.
''Yours anxiously, HELEN GRAY"
How my resolutions vanish have my fellow
victims to fancy. go. and the recording angel
Is kept busy until i've minutes past 4next morn
ing dropping tears upon the words he had
just written down. Frank Gray cOnfesses, when
he comes OF In time to take hfs afternoon watch
next day q am standing Il for him), that the In
Vulnerable things the doctor had told him to do
for the baby consisted in working small bel
lows, the nozzle Of which was inserted Ia the
baby's mouth, until ito little stomach was dis
tended, then TO treat It for wind on the stomach
Gin and water In equal parta sWeetened TO the
taste. with dash Of Angogturs bitters, and q
bit Of the tind Of Q lemon squeezed IN. Dooe. q
teaspoonfnl every time the baby's cries.
In the Italian service a o1Ecer cannot marry
unless either the lady O. himDeK ponse0 sun