Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-20

proper spirit In a big procession.
Regular Military Stuff
Furthermore the student body got
its instruction straight from Uncle
Sans right hand; a dozen or more
drillmasters under Captain Harry M
ing been placed in charge.
Daily for the next two weeks the
girls and boys will be drilled, forty
minute period having been set aside
for each of the classes. Further
more the classes have been divided
lar military stuff. see? - and each
company has a certain place on the
daily schedule.
Direct From PIattsburg
Not all of the instructors have been
assigned as yet but by this evening
Captain Stine's staff will be complete.
Here's the order of the day" insofar
as the drills are concerned:
Morning, 8:15.-A Company. E., b
Mitchell; S:55, BE. ]. stackpole,
DIT. J. Gould; 1905. E-S. w.
Fleming. Jr.; 11:45, F-R. G. Miller.
Afternoon-12:45, G. - Frank G
Roth; 1:25, H-Will !. Laubenstein
2:O5. John C. Herman; 2:55, k
Joseph l. Wall; 1896, L-Mark T.
Minor. and AIS, M-Instructor un-
assigned.
With Drum and Megaphone
Every one of the instructors is a real
military man. Each has seen service
IN tho regular army. in military
schools. in the State guard or at
Plattsburg. Hence the straight-from
the-shoulder lesson from Uncle Sam s
school.
All that the instructors lack are the
services of drum-and a megaphone.
It's hard to interrupt an earnest dis
cussion of the relative merits of tulle
and chiffon. say the drillmasters, with
"hep.hep" shouted the length Of
half block.
All There and Then Some
The football team was we'll repre-
sented at the first muster of the boys;
SO was the track team and the basket
ball squads; the young man in horn
trimmed spectacles was equally In evil
dence. And then in brothers bor-
roWed varsity sweater, in flaming silken
jacket of orange and blue and scarlet
In hair ribbons blue eyed. brown eyed
and gray-eyed-the feminine contin-
gent was very, very satisfactorily there.
Take 1t from the drillmasters, the
girls really did much better than the
boys"
Be all this as it may, If you weren't
within earshot of the latest style
rookie" and the drillmaster to-day,
you missed this:
The "SchooI of the Soldier
From the straight backed instructor
with recent memories of PlattSburg
In mind: THE first thing you're to be
taught this morning is how to 'dress'!"
Startled voice from the ranks:
Mercy! how does HE know"
Later, from the Plattsburger: AT
tention! Only about four or five of
you are dressing properly"
Voice from the ranks: Goodness,
me! KNOW he's looking at my hair.
It's fright"
Instructor: Now, when I give the
command March, everybody step off
with the left foot
Mental Algebra
From the ranks: "Oh, dear, why
doesn't he give us little time? /
never DO know Immediately which is
my left"
And there were other eventful things
happening all the time-things that
hadn't been worked out or even
thought of by the general staff of the
army. There was, for instance, a
slight panic following the first order
to right, dress!'' the command that
gently rubbing your elbow in the ribs
of your neighbor. One pretty marcher
just couldn't quit giggling.
When 1t Ticlkles
"'S matter?" growled the military
person. "Silence in the ranks!"
Deed. I-I-just can't" gasped
the offender. I'm SO ticklish!"
And all the time the girls We're get
ting their first lesson in the school of
the soldier" the boys in squads of four
were gravely tramping over the streets
of town and hoping that the watch
that licked off the minutes of the forty
minute period would stop or run down.