Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-04-24

- EATTLE, Wash.-Sitting a can
non as she would have sat
~ horse. the white figure of a
slender girl was silhouetted
against the vivid blue of the Pacific
sky. Beneath her around her were
all the paraphernalia Of war. Sail
ors polishing brass on the warship's
deck looked up at her adoringly. Off,
GERS in blue and gold uniforms linger-
ed at her side. The gray-haired ad-
miral Wed with the callow smooth
checked lieutenants in homage to her.
She seemed as much at home on
board the lead-colored cruiser as she
would have been In a rose drawing
room.
A girl on a warship in midocean!
Was ever a ships crew so privileged
before? Mascots there have been
aplenty, and few are the cruisers that
cannot boast goat, a cat or a dog.
But girl! A real, live. fluffy-haired,
blueeyed girl in a white lawn frock,
70 80 and come as she pleased all
over the floating fortress, to loll in
{ steamer chair in the shadow of the
turrets, to use the big guns as a
perch! Those gallant sailormen look
Cd on the cannon as the throne Of
0eir princess.
Il 10 true there was another wom-
IN on board, but the other was differ
ent In q way-no less charming, no
Les entitled to a sailors alteration.
but just a little more remote. The
other woman was Mrs. Philander
Knox, wife Of the secretary of state,
and those sailors looked upon her
with certain amount of awe; the
gfri was Miss Priscilla Ellicott. the
s!ghteen-year-old daughter Of Capt.
John Morris Ellicott, commander of
he q. 8. 8. Maryland, and there was
not man on that ship who would
not haye gone overheard in full uni.
sosm to pick up her glove.
True Daughter Of the Navy.
For Miss Priscilla was In a way
one Of themselves. A daughter Of
he navy, many of these officers had
Known her from childhood. She had
come on board her fathers ship at
almost every port of the Pacific ocean
nom Panama to Behring straits. But
0is was the first time in the men,
oryof anyof them that she or any other
e1rl had actually lived on board, dining
y the admiral's cabin, sleeping in a
waite stateroom of her own dancing
% the quarterback under the moon
hsht darning stockings on her perch
upon the long barrel of a cannon
90 Of the ships company. Truly,
ny were a privileged crew. and well
0ey knew 1t!
And when some wag Of a sailor, in
: oos'n's chair. painting over the. side,
vould lift his voice and sing the
eong from "Pinafore" about a gallant
eaptain's daughter, a ripple of girlish
u9shter would be waited out to the
eophins playing leap-frog under the
bg1s.
bow 1t happened that the armored
oalser Maryland had a girl on board
ner voyage from Honolulu to Sc
eEle last fall is a charming story
Aow q woman's scissors may be
~ potent than a sailors cutlass
cut Gordian knot of naval red
~.
rake me home with you father"
oed Miss Priscilla Ellicott to Capt.
1cott Of the Maryland at Homo
u the first days of October.
Navy Regulations Explicit.
cannot, my GIRL" replied the cap
1t is contrary to the rules"
"a. bother the old rules!" cried
aaushter. Here you are with
snip and all this party on board
going to sail back home; why
you take me with you instead of
wing me to sail on a passenger
inner alone?"
ptain Ellicott smiled at the out
OF rebellion on the part Of
pet daughter. He pulled the
- regulations out of his desk,