Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-10-06

e uepal elnehE OF mathematics and / set vaIiantly
- WIN ~ make our quarters at least habitable.
government furniture has an exasperating way of
.e eeg the combined tastes of long line
OF former occupants
I'VE were assigned 10 . ton 7oor fat in cxo1ds
borough row. the where Admiral THEODORE
ForteFS daughter wrote her name with a dia-
mona on window pane when she was child
ana ne but lieutenant. Admiral Benson our
present chief of operations lived in the same fiat
and doubtless endured remnants of the same fur
nlture when he an ensign The midshinmen
called the old place the Corrals and sometimes
the notwithstanding devils! The whole row
IS gone now to make way for a green lawn, but
It's memories VIII go out only with the last of the
souls who peopled the shabby rooms
II think it must be this succession of neonJe
facing at different times the same problems and
dIflcuIteS stepping actually into each others
footsteps in work and play, which gives us that
splendid spirit of the service the warm brother
hood of thought and action that no outsider NAV
really understand. 1t begins with the plebe class
in the academy and goes on down a mans life till
he is struck off the list forever and it's warmth is
his children's heritage 1t is the unspoken gene
rosity OF the upper-class men at the academy to
lend hand to youngsters (third-class men) or
plebe alike. It begins in discipline and ends in
justice.
ut is the cooperation of officer with men, 1t
stands behind guns and sweats in the stokers
he'll 1t is the chap who stays aboard to take
another fellows duty that some waiting wife
may be happy, some child discover that the pho
tograph he is taught to call father isn't just
makebelieve. 1t is. more than any other
thing fleet efficiency. It's steady, unchanging
istence is the armament against which politicians
errors break like froth. 1t is our safeguard for
protection and against militarism.
'AIyi father had let visit the naval
academy as a girl for fear might marry naval
officer, so I looked forward to meeting my first
midshipman with a curious bareback of youth,
almost as if / to see them through the eyes
of a girl. / had determined when we went to
duty at the academy to have a home place for
the boys who were not invited out very much.
My husband told once long years ago, when
had gone all the way from Boston to Gibraltar
to be with him for four days, that no one had
ever asked him out to a single meal at the time
he was at the academy.
81 never forgot that little confidence or the look
in his eyes, and when picked my first midship
man to invite to quarters it was because he
said Yes, ma'am to and didn't know what to
do with his hands,
'The Sunday after S. reported we went to
chapel in the academy. We were seated we'll
hack and in the shadow of one of the side bal
COMES 1t was infinitely quiet there, the very
light held a quality of silence and the rows and
rows of empty pews beneath the splendid dome
seemed to be waiting tensey with me for some
expected sound.
at looked up into the rapidly filling balconies.
So many girls SO young and eager, men and
women town folk and visitors Then, as ing