Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-01-13
CUPID AT WEST POINT.


Socially West Point is small and
exclusive community living 10 state
of discipline that is supposed to pre-
clude audacities. The marriage Of a
cadet in spite of the prohibitive regu-
Iation TO a belle Of the cotillon, or
whatever dance is most popular at the
Military Academy. has therefore
stirred society 30 profoundly that ev-
cry lady at the post is talkinog about
il to every other lady. and the cadets
are wondering how fne young fellow,
sergeant 10 the second class, could
sacrifice promising career by prefer
ing the girl to the uniform, when he
only had to wait year or 50 to marry
her with the sanction of the War De-
partment.
MatTimony for subaltern officers is
not looked upon with appreciation new
ertheless. some of them marry soon af-
ter they receive com mission, and
there are good many grizzled officers
in the service who boast of an early
and happy alliance, in spite of the
creditors they had to placate for many
years. When the late General Henry
c. Corbin was Acknowledgement of the
army he made himself unpopular
among the younger benedicks of the
service by deprecating the marriage of
subalterns unless there were resources
besides the ofiieer's slender pay. Cen
eral Corbin proposed that before get
ting married the youngster should
have the consent of the War Depart
ment. He declared that the pay of a
lieutenant was barely sufficient for
one. and he was inclined to think that
when the young man set up a house
hold his usefulness 20 the service was
impaired. The intrepid Adjutant-Gen-
eral found himself in hornets nest,
bat the disciplinarians and the hard
headed old fellows generally agreed
with him. As for the ladies. they had
their opinion of General Corbin at
every post in the country from Casco
Bay to the Presidio.
But at West Point the door must be
shown to Cupid when he takes himself
too seriously. A married cadet is i'm
possible. Not only is the Academy
school to train boys to become soldiers
and command men. but the system of
discipline allows them only occasional
absences from the reservation and de-
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a preparatory school or college. The
cadet is dedicated to routine, his COM
ings and goings are regulated. and he
is allowed TO see very little of the fair
sex. Obviously marriage must eiimi-
nate him from the rolls. 1t is of
course no reproach to him: it assumes
that he has resigned. New York Sun.
Some people will take your part and
then expect you to return it.
No man should complain that his
hands are tied il be has free foot.
Father sometimes has a hard time
working his sons way through college.
The fellow who gets there doesn't
depend so much on inspiration as pers-
piration.
just because it's never too late to
mend is no excuse for coddling your
bad habits.
If you have been able to secure
good laugh during an evening it has
not been time wasted.
Cold wave in California has frozen
all the lemons. Result of its arrival
here will be carefully watched.
Upton Sinclair finds London a most
medieval. in built and impossible |
place. Our Upton never will be sat
is6ed, it seems; he didn't care for Chi
cago's stockyards. either Chicago
Record Herald. Didn even likeIiv
ing in tent on the Palisades. Might |
try a lodge in some vast wilderness.
z Even II he never thought Of IL be-
fore. the luck some people are born to
must have occurred to the Washington
father. who, stepping cut 10 the lawn
where his gleefully shsseking youngs-
ters were playing Indian. found them
using for tomahawks sticks of dyna-
mite which had fallen from passing |
wagon.