The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-15
PRIVATE SIMMONS.


Hurrsh: hursh. : solAisrs life fox me,
Shout boys. sboaf. FOR Is uakes .you Jolly and
free Tie Ecnrsd Corps
People who havs ssen state that one of
the qnaintest spectaeles OF human frailty
q IA outbreak Of hysteYicsin girls school,
II starts without warning. generally on .
bot affornoOn, among the elder pupils.
A girl gfexles tina the giggie gets
bsyond control Then she throws up
her head and cries, "H0nk, honk. honk, :"
kke Wild goose. and tears mix with the
Isughter II the mistress Be wise she viii
say something severe 1t this point 70
check matters II she b tender
hearted and send for = drink Of wster the
chances ara largely in favor Of another girl
coilApsiug. Thus Inc trouble spreads. and
may end in half Of what answers 20 the
Lower sixth Of boys school rocking and
whoopine togsther. Given . week Of
warm weather. two stately promensdes
par diem. heavy mutton and rice meal in
the middle Of the day. . certain amount Of
nagging from the teachers. and . few other
things. some really amazing effects can be
who have he'd experience.
Nov. the mother superior Of . convent
and the colonel Of British infantry regi-
ment would be Justly shocked 1t any COM
paYisou being made between their respect
I've charged Bat Il h fact that, under
certain circumstances. Thomas In bulk can
b worked up into differing, rippling hys-
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$3.50 ~ !. ss cs.pn ~. ~ 'ne stofy:
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80 neN GCu5eu ms coaoheis
sc.se. ~. os.nk RVpu,ef VAN tne men.
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Eosne w 70 ~ 1As vain the pride.
None ~ -. sisnes gnevence WAS thaf
tne suslr wou,o g Only 2 hired carriage
weuom6, ano Nc tsst tnas me -eekiar OF
tnss Was mesGfe. Mis- McMenn4 did
not care 20 mucn- Inc ser8sants wife was
neip'ls neI 10 maze ner wedding-dress.
ahu sne VA very busy. rlane WAS, Just
snens tne 0niy mouefateiy coutented man
~ the oarracka All the rest were more or
sess misefaose.
Ana tney DAD 90 much 70 make them
nappys loot All tneir work was over At
n the morning, and Tor the rest OF the day
they could lie on their backs and smoke
Canseen pug ana swear q the punkah
cooness Aney enloyeu me- iuii nesh
meal IN me middle OF the day,
ana tnen threw themselves down on
tneir cots and sweated and slept
uti u WAS cool enough 10 go out with
tnsir towny. whose vocabulary con-
tanned less Than SIX hundred words. and
the Adjective. and whose views on every
eoncsassois Question they had heard many
months before.
There was the Csnteen. OF course. and
shere was the Temperance room, with the
second hand papers IN IL: bat a man OF
any profession cannot read for eight hours
day in Temperature OF 90 Ia es degrees
In the shade. running up sometimes to los
degrees midnight Very few men. even
though they get . pAnnikin of fiat stale.
muddy beer and hide Ii under their cots,
can continue drinking for six hours
. day. One man tried, but he died,
ard nearly the whole regiment
went TO his funeral, because il gave them
somethtng 10 do. IT Was too early for the
modified excitement Of fever and cholera
The men could only wait and wait and
wait. and watch the shadow OF the barraek
creeping across the binding white dust.
That Was gay htes
They leunged about cantonments--it Was
too hot Tor any sort OF game. and almost
too hot Tor vsce--and fuddled themselves
IN the evening. and filed themselves To dis
tentSon With The healthy nitrogenous feed
provided tor them. and the more they
stocked, the less exercise they took and the
tsmpers hegan TO wear away, and men fell
e.nrooding over Insults real or imaginary.
They haa nothing else 10 think of. The
foae OF the "rerartecs' changed, and In
stead OF saving hght-heartsdiy III
knoc1 yoar SHY lace in tnen grew labor
ioasiy pohte and hinsed that the canton
naehts were nos DIG enough Ter themselves
and their enemy, and that there would be
mere space Tor one OF the two In place
whieh u = not poslte 20 mention.
III may nave been TIE devil who arranged
the tnihg, oes the fact OF the case Is that
lesson nAa Tor tons une Been worrying
simmons IN ar aamless way. 10 gave him
cccapatsoi- Inc $40 men had their cots
side % slae. anu weaia sometimes spend
2 long sltrsnooh swearing A. each other:
pat simmohs wss airaaa o. lesson and
darcd nos chaiitaSe nlsn 10 nghI He