Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-10-10
STRICTLY A NAVY TOWN
The Unwritten Law Tells A.
bout The Call OF A Mate
The Girl Seldom Picks
WHERE is THE FAULT?
Maids Who Follow The False God Fash,
ion Are UnreaI-SOme Beauty Hints
From Gold Brick"

1 NOW, lSu Iudl q pretty plCluIc
The cleanest boys in the country are
today enlisting in the navy Uncle
Sam won't take anybody else. It's
a different navy than when the pres
ent feeling rose up against it. I'm
going to draw you word picture
about two boys personally known
to me.
Jim Mundel was a man in an up
state town, who started in life with
a pair of horses and a dump cart.
He worked for the city, and in his
ward was very popular. He used to
blow the gang" occasionally to the
beverage with the froth on top. A
few years after he got license, but
he kept his teams, which by this
time had increased to five, at work
for the city. License helped him
"get in with the gang better
than ever. He soon went into ward
politics and got himself elected road
commissioner.
He began to pile up dirt and money.
Five teams at So per day means $25.
His drivers he paid 81. so too, and the
city paid him 50. He got a little
rake-off there, but he had other means
of revenue, and became affluent. He
got in with the other politicians
around the city and by swinging a
certain influence in state conventions
got state following He was elect
ed to the Legislature and rubbed ell
bows with men of national prominence
and power.
That's nothing against Jim, under
stand, absolutely nothing against
him, but he fills one of the frames of
this picture. Suppose his son got an
appointment to the Academy, which
is often the case. because they are
political plums. Here is where the
veneer comes in. The lad is educat-
ed. He must have brains to stand
the gait from year to year, because
one can't always get grease" by
taking brick" to a hop. In time
he graduates and is established, with
every door in the city opened to him.
Look at this other one:
Walter Brigham is a New Eng
land farmer. He is a deacon in his
church and man of prominence in
his town. He has given his son as
good an education as the public school
will open up to him. The boy is
particularly impressed with travel.
He knows the little town lacks the
means to make an electrician or ma
chinist, and he can never hope to
make money enough there to see the
| world.
His dad has no political pull be-
cause he always attended strictly to
town affairs. The lad pleads with
the father and gets oftentimes, the
consent to enlist in the navy. He is
as clean-limbed as an athlete; his
appetite never craved liquor; often
times he doesn't even know the taste
of tobacco, and his mind is filled up
with good, clean information and pa
triotism. He is willing to sacrifice
his life that yours may be saved. He
is the imam behind the gun" with
out any veneer, and stands for the
manly man, but how many of you
dears would crave an introduction
10 Walter Brigham's boy? Without
doubt the woman he loved would in
deed be loved, and he would make
constant lover. If you entertain
ed this man for four years, and he
accepted it, he would be ready the
day you named the date Many girls
have sought an introduction and are
now happy home-builders.
And girls, it is a well-established
fact, if not a well-established rule,
that "she whom he takes to the ger
man at his class graduation" is eth
err his affianced or his sister. In
self-defense why don't we girls es-
| tablish a rule that when we enter
tain a midshipman it shall be known
that we are betrothed to him, else
we would not entertain him. Make
this an iron bound rule. and Annapo-
| lis girls will marry at the rate of one
hundred year. And won't that be
better than one every three years
You know you are living your butter
| fly existence on hope of eventually
marrying into the navy, but wouldn't
take ], 1000 to | shot if ever gam
bled, on the result, not even to be a
sport.
Let your heart and not your pride
seek out your mate. If you attempt
to pick mate with the eye instead
of the mind, you are going to have a
very rough road to travel. Just for
suggestion this winter, let's all form
social club, the details of which
can be learned at the Capital office
upon request, and invite some clean,
manly Annapelitans and others to a
series of socials just for the fun OF
the thing" 1t will not be unwoman-
| ", and it will add zest to the occasion.
1t will be a very good thing for all
you dears, and you will never regret
| it, unless you belong to that great
| body who are trying to crowd into the
| inner circle when the doors are al.
| ready closed, and the waiting list is a
very large one. GOLD BRICK.
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