Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-27

| The soft and unsophisticated male biped
who trusts his best girl 10 an army trans
/ port and the society of newly made second
! lieutenants en- route to the Philippines Is
handsomely illustrated without cuts) in
the subjoined racy and serio-comic narrative
/ in Manila paper Of how John" lost his
"dreamlets"
The many school marms who wandered
Philipinewards to teach the young Filipinos
idea how 10 shoot intellectually have all
had transport experience Of a more or less
interesting character. So have had the pro-
fessional nurse. But "dreamlets," as the
Manila paper irreverentlY and facetiously
calls Johns best girl in her stunts aboard
the transport as "leedin ladie," breaks the
record and incidentally, Johns too suscep-
tible heart. The GLOBE spreads the case in
FULL as an object lesson for those interested,
before its readers. Here it is:
When Uncle Sam decided to" butt i'm and
risk few chips in the Cuban Jack pot, "
| John was happy aud contented swain"
on the old man s farm in Iowa. His ideas
of the gentle art of war we're imbued by
the Village liar" G. A. r. man who It
Is dollars to dOughnuts, never got on the
firing line" but was either cooling
coffee" or sorting left handed gloves and
cap ornaments in depot of the Q. M. De
partment-supplemen by history of
the civil war, fully illustrated bound In
cloth, procured frori book agent at S. per,
81 down and so cents a month on the in
stallment plan. He poudered long over the
chapters devoted to the life of Grant and
Sheridan and concluded that he would
] tFatr L he
war held out long enough, he might come
home with 'glittering epaulets," and
headed by the village band. The old man
couldn't get next" the proposition for
some time as il was about the season of the
year for 'plantin' the crops, and John did
''late stunt" with the plough. However,
after many "con games" from the whole
family, he decided he could manage"
with the assistance of the hired man, " and
John was enrolled in the "serried ranks" Of
the Fifty. first Iowa Volunteers, Infantry
u S.V
AS Johns notions of the ''giddy round of
| pleasure" in town" was limited TO the
yearly family visit to the county fair" on
bis arrival in the foggy precincts or Frisco
he was properly" as he thought, up
against the real thing" During the hours
that were not devoted to the setting up
exercises" and the mysteries of push and
pull " he made fierce" inroads on the rcd
pop and peanut stands, " visited every free
concert hall, the dime museums of Market
street. and stayed up" until the unpre-
cedented hour of 1000 p. III. OH he was
having giddy time all right, all right.
until there loomed up in the foreground a
beauty" whose crowning glory was an
aureole of crushed strawberry" hair with
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typewriting machine down town at SO per
They could ue seen nightly promenading
the shady walks of the Preside in fact "it'
developed at such a gait that the boys began
to pick auburn tresses" from his shoulder
and brush face powder spots from the
bosom of his best blouse. But alas and
alack" there came that awful day when the
regiment pulled outs for the Philippines
and dream" bid him a choking farewell
whether she choked from her feelings or
the water front dust "deponent saith not"
John wrote regular, and the dream" wrote
more than regular, and vows of eternal
fidelity" we're exchanged by every trans.
Pacific steamer. Now in John brushing up
against the Cosmopolitan crew" who con.
stituted the big half" of his regiment, he
got ''whise" and decided that the farm held
out no "allurements like the "efFete
cast" so on the return Of his regiment he
cast in his lot with the colony in Manila, aud
having got next to" a Government job,
cabled the dream" She was willing, ave,
more than willirg," sne would wait, YES for
years, until he could build up home for
two" SO John planted every "simoleon"
he could lay his hook Onto" cut the
''totalizer" and the FOUNDERS" and, after
many moons" the home for two" was
completed "barouche and pair" and
stack of dobies "a head Of the game, " and
the dream was procured transportation on
a transport She did not get "off with the
bunch" but after many false starts, a cable
gram arrived stating sail on the next
boat" John was in the seven heaven"
He daily re arranged the furniture in the
home for two, " polished the ''barouche"
and sighed as he cast longing eyes toward
Coregdor On the eventful day that the
good ship" dropped her mud hook" in
the bay, John with the "barouche and
pair on the dock was performing like cat
on a rainy day, while waiting for the launch
to pull out"
Arriving at the transports side he hurled
himself onto the deck" expecting to fall
into the arms of the dream, but she was
not in sight. After dashing franucaly
about the ship, to the detriment of the
gowns Of many School marms, he finally
bumped into his "dreamiets" sip
ping claret up with second "tenieute"
in the saloon. To retrogade for ''b0co
hembo" the boat that carried the dream"
likewise carried whole slough" of "brau
new" officers who, to beguile their time
away on the long voyage, had "6erce
rivalry as 10 who should dance the most
attendance" on the dream" This kind of
a game" was new to her "dreamlets" who
got an awful swelled head and poor John,
in comparison with these sons of Mars
looked like thirty cents in Mexican cur
rency She even had pipe dreams" of be-
ing Mrs. Colonel SO and So and ranking"
that hateful thing who sat next to her at
table. On perceiving John she gave him
the distant stare" high hand shake and
simpered-"Ah Lieutenant, allow me to