Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-18
SOME WANT TO STAY
IN BORDER COUNTRY
Parents Of Some Of the
Idaho Boys Need Not Be
Shocked if They Learn
They Are to Have Mexi-
can Senoritas for Daugh-
ters-in-LaW.
By ALICE PlTTENGER.

Nogales. Ariz., Dec 1S.-The men,
bers of the Second Infantry, Idaho Ma
tional Guard arr packing up and all
preparations are going forward to-
wards starting for Boise Tuesday
morning, December 10. 1t is very cold
here and it is really n full-sized SOL
dier's job to stay in the camp.
When it was decided to send the
Idaho troops home the lumber That
had been assigned to them was divert
ed to the Alabama camps and so the
Idaho tents We're left without floors
and the mess tents Were only partially
walled up, therefore the food is SO
cooled off before the boys eat it that
it don't afford much comfort.
When the order to go home was tenn
porally suspended it was very anus
ing to hear of some of the reasons the
men assigned as the cause. 1t was
the general expression that II was the
fault of the officers of the regiment.
That the officers all got more pay than
they had ever made elsewhere and SO
they were pulling TO keep the regi-
ment here.
OFFICERS NOT TO BLAME.
The fact of the matter was, or
course, that the officers had as little
t. sa" about the matter of going or
staying as the last private of the rear
rank Also it is a fact that 200 of
the men have asked to be discharged
here because they want to stay a
while | do not know of a single off,
Ger who is not going back to Idaho.
| hear that at least one mothers
boy wonders how | have the nerve to
say they look so fine and have been
III Of a
regiment / have never seen, but once
10 know Of and then he sac in front
of me at the highest priced theater in
Nogales with young lady. and he Ger
tainly looted neat and comfortable at
that time. ! have the requisite nerve
to say these things because am paid
for writing facts and not occasional
emotions.
GIRLS BEAUTIFUL.
Speaking of emotions-I will speak
of the Mexican iris here wish you
could understand the charm of some
of these pretty girls. They practically
all of them have beautiful eyes and
always seem to be smiling 1t is moi
allowable for a Mexican sirl of ths
better class to be alone with man
She either goes in groups of girls Of
else t,.kes the family. witt the man al
= sort of incident. One day a group OF
four Mexican girls came BY for tht
daughter of the house to so over II
he plaza and see something. They
..Itainy We're q merry group ant
while they were there some soldier.
with a camera came Up and asked /
they might take tt.eir picture. One aft
er another pretended she could no
comprehend till it came to the Amer
lean girl and they nudged her and sh,
also pretended she didn't understand
the soldiers all the while freely max
ing comments among themselves, AM
when finally the last one shook he
head ant spoke in Mexican
,ne of the soldiers said 1t did bea
hell how blonde some OF them were
AS all OF the girls spoke more or les
English, they were having the fun. ]
Is certainly surprising how blank an
uncomprehending they can look Whel
hey want a little sport.
PREFER TO SPEAK MEx.SAN.
An tmerican woman who keeps
store here told me the Mexican boy
and girls who were educated in tn
high school here, would come to he
shop and talk always in Mexican I'm
less she refused to speak it, and the
they would use as fluent English a
she could. know two high class Mex
lean gi- s here whose father was a Hu
erta man, and is now exiled, who M
the most beautiful girls / ever saw
with tie most courteous manners an
forms of speech it has ever been m
pleasu. to Get. II any of your son
have fallen in ,ove with Senorit;
don't raise the roof till you have see
the girl for she may prove to be