New Britain herald., 1918-08-01

1 1 their simplicity and gentleness. X l composite reproduction of them all would show young man with half 1 and unconscious eyes, mild, open sim 1 core; half-sad, with the Saxon mclan- ] lrholy; it would show soft lips, spmc- 1 times breaking into a smile in spite of l the penSiVenesS of the eyes; d short 1 nose frequently retrousse, and boyish l III its turn, and a general aspect of ob- servant passivity. Very seldom, indeed Tn these collections, does one find the aggressive, the dominating or the 'forceful' type of face. It is the look or a race which is accustomed to nothing but good will and to no sort of struggle This English bOy-face hates nobody, nor is there much about 1t that suggests the power of con- mand. But if we take now d page Of pictures of German officers, we find trOWnS where in the English erOuD We ind smiles or a. mildly beaming melancholy. The typical German off cer undoubtedly locke forceful. He has ben trained into that lool<-vet oftenest it is the look of mere threat and bluster rather than that of native force. But beneath the mildness and naivete of the Englshman's face. and that air of curious insuIar content with merely insular things, one feels a high degree of force We read that this particular boy, for example, with eYos like a fawn, held a company of men to the guns when all tho army besides were gone, his example and inspiration reaching to and expressing itself through to the sergeant who took command after he was killed, and then to the second sergeant when he was gone, and so on until the heroic remnant was led by a private soldier--in whom the spirit of the noble boy still lived on, and still com manded. But in the case of the Ger man-one can understand the case and SangfrOid with which he runs his best soldier through the body for an infraction of discipline. It must be confessed that our first impression from these pages full of the pictures of mild-eyed young Englishmen is one of disappointment and even one of apprehension lest the days of Marl- boroughs and WeIingtons are over.
 But the event is proving that, after all, just as the bravest are the tendereSt, the mildcst-eyed may be the most forcible.
 What about the abounding portraits of the young American officers? What impression as to personal force or the raw material of cOnquerOrs do these faces give? It must he confessed that the young American officer, as well as the American common soldier, has often certain "tough' aspect in his l1haki-a little affectation of the wild and woody. or flavor of the football sCrimmage, which is not altogether real, But he has also the keenly penetrating look. and the aspect of elan and elasticity. that the French observers and students of our arriV- ing crusaders all assign to him The American soldier has any quantity of push" in his face lis eyes are not so mild as his English brothers but his smile is much broader. The American warriors countenance sug- gests fight plainly enough. Whether it r also suggests the power of command and the ability to conquer is another question. Perhaps the face neither of Caesar nor Napoleon nor Wellington would suggest all that to us if we did not know beforehand that he was a conquerOr while t1hc face of the first boss of cang of street laborers that we may meet would certainly suggest command. All this lair of com mand" is 8 mystery. Emerson said that the only people whom he knew who really had the military eye were William Ellery Claiming and William Shepherd, a farmer in Concord.