Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-09
TOMMY ATKINS WIFE.
Many a Hardship The Lot Of Her
Who Marriss a British Soldier.
aHAGHR PAY, FEW PRIVILEGES
coePed In Narrow Rooms aud Divided
lAsc I've ciaHse., "Eecosnissa'
and "uareesxnIsrd."

with the iife Of English soldiers at home
IN Africa. and overy other country ia
which fraction % the army Is to he found
But ihe woman who haroa tho soldiers
Toys and sorrows az we'll as his ratiens
and Ms shilling a day. aooms to have boon
forgotten. or considered too lrlninE an az
ccssory to be much written about Il is
true, Mr. kipling has introduced cprtAn
class OF wiyes Into some OF his works. but
he has failed TO touch upon tho masses. OF
even the better class OF wives. and the sor.
did and Immoral women he pOr,rayR In bis
Tales from the Hlilss flvo one about as
good an idea u typical "soldlors' wives"
as a puirid piece " meat would giyo Of a
Jersey COW.
In investlgatlng the English camps where
the wives Of the soldiers are allowed TO live,
I arrived at the rouoisslon that ig the
women Of India o. that Is, the English women
lead the fast and loose yfc Mr.. Kipmg
depicts the Homo Government must. IN a
measure, DO he'd responsible And just
how The cover .t Is responsible can DO
understood by enc inquirlng into their
home life Take, i1r example, one OF the
largest " tie Enslish camps THO houses
In which tho Women live are mostly old Ru0
rotten, They consiat Of but one story and
each building containing four rcomr Is al
vidod among from two to four tamilica,
Those bulldugss known 10 the people "a
huts"-aro placed IN rows at certain dts.
tahces from each uthor. and with tholr
tarrod felt roofing remind one Of tho
black spots on chcas board The utter,
yenlng ground Il sand that ia narched to "a
powder by tho Hun of summer, and reduced
TO a bog IN tho rainy wlntor months. IN
consequences, cleanliness In many cases
seems 10 DO lost art Dust ana puddles
arc tho order VI the day. aud the Interior VI
the houses vatira little.
Two or more ehlldfrn" cntltlc a soldier
20 The two rooma which each ond Of hut
affords zone child or less allows husband
and witr only une or tho rooms. and Ihuc
often two husbands, two wives and Two
babies have. only two rooma Tor the lot
The Idea Of family OF three eating
hriukng and sopnng In one small room
Win lts low, dingy ceiling, ts battered fur.
mtufe and small window Ia, TO say the
least, revolving.
In tho way Of tuulturo tho Soyornment
proyldea what 10 known an q "htp~aoy
mount for TIC married people I g,ag
TO the soldier Who IL married. with =.
tdiaAinn Of his Colonel an lto Il
table, two stools, a bohch bod pnKcr
and a shovel, The rationa allowed 20 the
married man are only the same as ara
given 10 the single mnu. and tho formrr
must take home such ratinnr ana ''alvlto
up" with hir wIfe and family Iii his Wtfa
isn't ahle To work al waahlnn or nnNine inc
hounnhold must runoiy0 ia only further sun
port ont of the seven Amllingg week
mlnuH foes allowed a aoldlor rs salary
II a Wlfo II so ill that she must be taken 10
tho hnsnltal nor hushfrldin pny h sloppel
dnirlng tha period M nor 1lnoss. on All
tho ccc-ntrlcltlea We honr Of IN mo category
VI charity this. providing a honpltal aud
compelling tho III 10 enter II aud then stop
ming mnu's nay bnrIuas hls Vito lr Wv
sici,nesn and rules abiined tD occupv
IA iho mopt ipexplichbie In Londnn
English cltles fhuro arc hospthis Il
ysqrani nlek Who have no claim, save that
OF humanity upon mo country and thay
nr, unrse1 ana dneforod frer ~ phargc
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