Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-04
Embark for Cruise of Nearly
Ten Thousand Miles.
GIRLS ARE LEFT BEHIND
June Week" Is Over at Annapolis
and Sea Life Begins.
GONE NEARLY THREE MONTHS
Months Vacation to Follow Imme-
diately on Their Return
August 80. =
Special Dispatch 20 The Star.

Special Dispatch 70 The Star
ANNAPOLIS, Md, June 4-"June
Week is over While the Middies are
sun at Annapolis, they are not in
annapolis. and therefore the pretty
girls are leaving Annapolis.
SO near and so far" the hundreds Of
young future admirals are now ouar-
tered aboard the flagship Iowa. and TN.
Indiana, far out off Greenberry poin,.
ana the Massachusetts, which lies at
anchor closer in but still well away
from the docks
ho"c VINO KNOW the young scamps
rom past experience are willing to admit
'iial dirl l Left Behind Me- feeling
possibly prevails on the big decks and un-
uer broad matches of the practice squad
roh' out say that this is really an army
song while the sailors own tune is
Sweethearts IN Every Port"
Accompanied by all the hustle and bus
tie or embarkation the girls who for !,
week have forced into the background
the board of visitors I'm whose honor the
festivities were supposedly arranged this
morning saw their lads off and waved a
fearful bon voyage. Pussy little steam
launches. towing other small boats. hauled
alongside the docks, and each MILDLY
chucked his ''ditty" and his big white
canvas clothes bag aboard and jumped in.
Not Depressing to All.
While the time was depressing to some
who watched it the mere civilian who
stood on the dock and watched his hated
rival of the service shove off repressed
with difficulty his rising grin of delight
No more. at least not until next fall,
Will the situation at Annapolis be sum-
med up as skirts and brass buttons
absorbed and Obvious: cit and business
suit in eclipse" Today ii is Civilian and
ST Johnny on the Firing Lines: Battle
'hios and Middies in the Offi-g.''
The college cadet and the civilian have
not come into their own all at a bound.
however. Not in a minute can a girls con-
stancy be drowned with the recollection
still full of dress parades, strols on Low
ers' lane and stolen chats between dances
in moonlit corners outside the armory
and away from watchful cha perons. The
girl from the Pacific and the lassie from
Oshkosh have packed their steamer trunks
loaded the extra handbag that had to be
bought to accommodate the shower OF
brass buttons. shoulder insignia saiior
hats and blouses, picked up during the
week Of Irritation and lovemaking, and
stolen away.
The Same Old Story.
Each now expects to dream during the
summer of the sailor lad whose letters
will diminish in bulk and frequency.
change to souvenirs of Plymouth and
London, and then die with a spas nodic
picture post card from gay Paris. For
this time the middies will not go to Nor
folk, to Bar Harbor and to Newport,
whittier land travel can easily allow n
girl to refuse to be left behind" In
stead, they will, when the anchors are
weighed Monday morning, head down
through the capes and bear away for
Plymouth, where they are due to arrive
June %. After a cruise of nearly ten
thousand miles, including stops at Mar
seille. Gibraltar, Madeira and the Azores,
| the middies will return to Annapolis Au-
| gust 80, and Immediately go ON one
months vacation before taking up tho
routine of next years work.