The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-01-18

IN the army.
New York sun.
The German schoolboy il not much
Of a boy according to American ideas.
He il very sedafe ana polite little
chap. He has a big hump of respect
for his elders. A superficial observer
might easily mistake him for Mark
T~ain's good little boy. He gets up
very early in the morning 10 trudge
of to school as straight as bis small
Row legs viii carry him. His face and
hands are eisan. His toy hair Is
eomted well hack from his shiny red
forehead. His trousers may be eve.
so carefully patched, they are never
ragged.
He carries his books in a knapsack on
his back. This knapSack il = great
thing. the small German hoy thinks.
because the German soldiers carry
tnapsacks, too. His favorife amuse-
msnt il to get a lot OF little white-haired
shiny faced comrades. with knapsacks
on their backs, in military line. He
marches them up and down before the
school-ronse during tho recesses
drilling .here in the socse-step or
&c ching the m how Co salute, present
and wheel This military drill Is as
dear 10 the small German heart as il
scrub. enc old-cat, or marbles 10 the
small American heart. inoiaa base
and football would be too rough for
the German schooltoy. He would he
afraid OF getting sieked in the shins Oh
OF being .unhied over In the
dirt. Ii. never gets tired, how.
ever, of trying TO turn
bis small pigeon-toeS cut a:
he marches kis company along ths
street after school. He knows al
ahont The words Of command ans
abuse which the officers use in drilling
the soldiers, because he has watches
the drills an the barracks every hoii
day. Indeed the height OF his school
boy ambition is 10 get tiny helme
hearing the arms OF the fatherlan.
and red and blue uniform. He long
20 be soldier just as an eAst-side Ne
York boy longs to become cowboy
The German sehoolhoy Is not mucl
Of fighter lie slsps and scratehe
his comrades occasionally, but b
never punches shs ny. Like his father
he can cut ail sorts Of capsrs with hi
toy swerd, but be doesn't know HOY
20 ball his fists. When another bo
slaps him he becomes very digniiied
He doesn't say. You're another," O
I'm ret my lig brother TO fix you,
Fritzie 0ppeuheimsr. He lisps cut
lig double jointed German sentence G
dssarpfosal and ~ es away 20 cry.
The German scbosslhoy has mac
better manners for bis years than tn
Gernan student When only eight o
nsne Years old he saws excuse ME,
II ycu Please and thank Yea
fifty times where the American ho
would say them enre: lie tips his ha
TO everyone who speaks with him ol
the street lie viii try patiently 70
five Minutes 20 tell Tourist whsr
the castle or library il. and doesn
laugh whsa the tourist calls the d
| hrary .he" INSTEAD Of she" or tn
castle ssshe" instead of iii
i In the sehoolroom the German boz
rs not the yoang scapegrace tina
/ Tesier has painted him. He doesn
know anything abont chewing o
throwing paper wads. He doesn
kick the boy who siss before him, AMI
he doesn't pull the hair OF his neighssor
fls doeSn I even understand the utility
81 crooked pin. His teacher alwayl
maintains such careful watch owe
kis movements that he has IA
time Tor these side issues. Ne there
| fore learns vast deal more IN the sans
lensfh Of time than the American boy
A little chap u 81 Is years generally
knows all about thEs bed man, Napa
leen. He can tell just how Napoleon
beat the coed frusSiau king 80 gena
an then in$uited the beautiful Qneen
j Louise at Berlin. He kaows Just hass
mRny thousands IT tire allied troops
put dcwu Napoleon AZ Lei;asie Ii NJ
II l.sipsie sehoeihoy he viii point
oar reveYentiy the room IN the old
ghatnaus where The wicked Napoleon
lived y hiis Ia Iseip &C.
THEN tfse German sehoolAoy ear tel
tremendous deal af anecaote bios-
ssphv ana faels concerning Marin
Luther. Frederick the eFeat, the
Great knsfurst, and other Geriasa
heroes. In fact, e IS the ssnsll Ser.
sasA by. es,neNtlon IN the history ii
his native land that makes him hat
little paisiot At IS yeas. and the
yrnvcFhial!y loyal Soldier In after
years