Evening star., 1916-05-02
CODE OF STRICT RULES IN FORCE
AT THE WOMEN'S TRAINING CAMP
Discipline Maintained Regarding Santa
ton, Personal Tiidiness, Press Interviews
Intellectual Effort to Bar Candies.

Strict discipline regarding sanitation.
press interviews and personal tidiness
is in force at the womans camp. Those
in charge resent the fippant newspa-
per references that this is the Ladies
Plattshurg.
The code of rules covering life In the
camp, which is carefully guarded from
the inquirng eyes of visitors. gives
very specifc instructions against lit
terinG up the Camp property. or haNinS
dfsorderly tents. There are reprimands
and discipline" provided for offenders.
and there are official inspectors, whose
duty it is to see that all of the
rockies keep their neck cords prop
erlv adjusted. a sufficient number OF
buttons on their skirts. etc.
There was an emphatic disagreement
Of opinion at the camp opening re-
gardinr whether candies and choco-
lates were barred from the camp. one
prominent society woman drove up TO
the camp in her car and was followed
in by a chauffeur heavily laden with
luggage. which included large hoN
of candy. after a conference with
Miss Lena Hitchcock, who was on
guard at the gate, she ordered her
chauffeur to throw away the box or
Miss Hitchcock pointed out to some
inauirers rule which specifically pro-
vides that no food of any Kind is to
be eaten in the tents or elsewhere save
in the mess tent.
Miss Elizabeth F,llicott Poe. the COM
mandant however, when she was ap-
| pealed to for a ruling, said: "Of course.
| the girls can have all the candy they
want. There is no rule against IT.
| There is a rule against bringing any
| jewelry to the camp. This also seems
| to have been made only to be broken.
| for practically every girl in camp has
some. and one young woman. in par
| ticular, was noticed wearing heavy
| three-stone diamond earrings with a
| khaki suit that costs S10.50.
It's all a canard about a scarcity of
mirrors in the camp OF course. there
is but one foot-square mirror hung up
on every tent pole, but this is mere gen.
eral accommodation Each girl has
brought her own toilet articles and this
! includes mirrors. sure enough. For any
who are not thus provided there is 4
large supply of hand mirrors furnished
IN the administration tent.
| Curious persons outside of the camp
have been worrying about now five
! girls in one tent are going to get dress
| ed and their hair done up in scant
quarters and an allowance of only ff-
teen minutes. 1t was pointed out by
! some of those who seem to know that
this is where the service hats come in
handy and the girls can make their
coiffures at their leisure.
| "When are you all going to Mexico?
gueried interested youngster Of one
of the camp officers yesterday during the
public inspection. I'VE are not allowed
to give out any information: you'll have
to ask the commander" he was CURLY
informed. and the interested Noungster
started hunting for that official.
/ The first real work the rockies were
called upon to perform yesterday To
| carry more than 500 camp chairs from
the assembly tent to the reviewing stand
for the official visitors II was noticed
that some Of them shirked.