The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-09
CURVED KICKS
BY BOWLEGS
ORNAMENTAL PROTEST AGAINST
ARMY's CRooKED-LIMB RULE.
Minneapolis Men Who Are Distin-
guished by Peculiar Zines OF
Beauty Think Army Order Will
Bar the Very Finest Glass of Material
Officers Motives Questioned.

Great is the indignation among the
men of Minneapolis upon whom nature
has bestowed deviated neither. limbs
over the announcement made in I h
journal $ dispatches, to the, effect
that bow-legged men will hereafter be
barred from the United States army.
According to%these dispatches, whose
reliability cannot be questioned, Major |
Galbraith, recruiting officer at Dess
Moines, Iowa, and Colonel Thomas OF |
the Eleventh cavalry, stationed at Des
Moines state positively that men with |
legs not in touch with the plumb line
will hereafter be turned from the re-
cruiting station without fear or favor.
Even those candidates who aspire to
enlistment in the cavalry arm OF the
pair of legs or a clean pair of heels
for in the late wars cavalrymen nave
fought much on foot
HEven tho | am a man OF peace and
60 no farther toward the bloody battle
fields than the football gridiron takes
against so un!i Just discrimination.
said Fred S. Head, the well.known In
surance man, who was one OF the hrst
to see the dispatch.
Given tho man s legs may, thru
process of over-development, resemble
ola, it does not follow that he cannot
lead an army to victory. Viva la bow
legs, say |.
: F. H. Christy, who travels many
miles each day in the faithful endeavor
to protect other people from burglars
tuned to the inappreciativee. attitude
Of the army officers. "While l have
not as yet felt my pulses bound or my
nerves Jingle at the sound of the bugle
and the drum, and tho l may never
fight for a chance to 90 out and die for
rt,.xy S1r
charged with egotism when l say that
legs which can carry an insurance man
thru his rounds should easily be able
to carry him to glory and soldier 8
grave said Mr.. Christy., -
~ "To man up tree it looks as 1t
the officers who have decided that the
bow-legged man should stay at home
and keep books were looking out for
their own hides, said Walter H. Thorp,
whose own legs bend slightly outward
at the kneesIresqlt of much base-
s gam Baseball Te team sa1 "Maybse these Off
GERS figure that because bullet might
90 between the bow legs of private
In the ranks that bullet would find a
billet billet in the men with commissions "A
Z. l. R. D. Hallowell has had some ex-
perience in war and is equipped with a
foundation something like a double
arch Tossing worldly prospects to the
winds, Mr. Hallowell enlisted with the
Thirteenth Minnesota, viewed our beau
tiful new Asiatic possessions, fought
valiantly with the malarial fever and
8 bad case of smallpox, and lives tC
tell the tale. ''To my mind there is
nothing in it, = said he,, in referring tc
the promised ruling. HWho can tel
but that it was my architectural I'M
'derpinning which pulled me thru my
little martial experiences?'
"The leg that bows in peace times
is the leg that rules the world,' quotf
George X. Belden, the famous football
and tennis player. 81 do not believe
the ruling would bar me, but I have
seen many good man on legs which
were hog proof.
Give me the man with the good bowed
legs,
The man with the Bonded knee.
Bent from the side of the straight W
+. and down.
That man a hero will be.
There is possibility that the you'll
Of the city whose legs might come un
der the ban, will, if the new ruling
goes into effect, send round robin t.
the army department in protest agains
the innovation. For many of them be
lieve in the adage: Gin times Of peac
prepare for war;