The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-07

that old linen was much in demand. "Scraping lint" was one of the tasks delegated to childish @ngers, and 1t is to be feared that zeal soon waned in this occupation, and that older hands were left, oftentimes, to finish the task. Hemming towels appealed to the children as more "grown-up" and if the stitches were somewhat irregu- lar, it is not likely their recipients criticised them very closely. The knitting of socks busied many hands, for cotton goods of all sorts were scarce and costly in war days so that soldiers wore home-knit woolen un- der the boots, which were then the common footgear. How queer the boots with their long leather legs, would look to. he f,ys and young men of today.
 It is said that had antiseptios been known in the '60s. the lives of many soldiers might have been saved. 1n- deed, when one considers how made quate to the demand were skill and equipment, and how favoring. often times, were the conditions for gam grene and kindred evils, mich medi- cal science has now Iear4ed to elimin- ate, almost entirely. the wonder is that so ma1-y, not so few, survtvedS and re- gained to so considerable a degree, their former health and vigor. The awful conditions of the prisons read like happenings in som fantastic tale of much earlier times, rather than well authenticated facts of compara- lively recent times, yet the common place of modern sanitation are even {,t pf t. door life which soldiers were obliged to lead, the plain food and the long. hard marches contributed powers f endurance, and many soldiers really ended the war in better physical con- dition than when they went into it. There was little of the forced inaction of the present-day trenches or wnicn soldiers complain so bitterly, for the enemy had ne such weapons as are used today, deadly as were the re- suits of the fighting of 50 yea ago.
 Good Old Camp Songs.
 Perhaps there is nothing of those old war days that has survived 90 strongly as the songs of that period. Thousands whose fathers and even grandfathers were children when these songs were new, sing, "Glory. Glory Hanelujah!" "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground,' Marching Through Georgia though other songs, like >%Just Before the Battle. Mother Tramp, Tramp. Tramp. and Brave Boys Are They" are less we'll known, except at gatherings Of the old soldiers. But books are still extant which contain these old songs, and their strains bring back host Of memories as they are sung at such gatherings. There was something about these songs which was of last ing quality, though many that were merely sentimental and without the martial spirit are now almost entirely forgotten.
 The songs came from hearts all aglow with love of country, whether that love was for the Union as whole, or for the particular part of 1t that was ones birthplace, and Dixie" and Maryland, My Maryland" must be numbered with the others men, toned as songs that will always be remembered Will Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" "Tipperary' and their companion songs be still known and sung a half century hence, like the old songs of the Civil War? It does not seem likely, although, they, too, werei inspiring to brave men in time of war.
 Probably many of the soldiers of the eos today are speculating as to what would have been the outcome of some of those old Civil War battles had