Evening star., 1918-07-14

Washington has more Army officers
in proportion to Its population than
any city in the
Lessons in Military country-a
Salute Needed. mors Hnn,
dreds, even thousands of them. were
civilians until the war with Germany
began. They had no military training
prior to the war, and most of them
have received none since. because
I their duties do not require 1t. For
the most part they are specialists in
one line or another. giving the gov
ernment expert service in. engineering
or chemical branches, in the purchase
of quartermaster supplies. in the man.
agement of the ordnance business and
the like. They do not. and will not.
4 command troops.
One military function. however, says
the Brooklyn Eagle. which they are
called upon constantly to employ is
that vast number of them salute
very badly. The salute. as taught to
enlisted men and officers of the Army.
is very important detail of military
ceremony. 1t must be executed with
| precision and snap. To slur 1T Is con-
ners and discipline. The presence of
| so many officers and enlisted men at
the capital involves a tremendous
amount of saluting. and much of 1t is
| ter that even civilians are prone to
comment upon it. And 1t Is a fact
| that most of the slurred salutes are
| delivered by officers. and not by en-
| listed men.
| Recently a brtgadier general sta
| finnad a MT 4
visit to Washington. While walk
ing with civilian friend in F street
| he was saluted number of times,
| and with almost every salute his ir-
| ritation grew. Finally he exploded.
I'D like to have some Of these Of
fcers UP at camp for a while" he
said. I'D see that they We're taught
to salute. 1t is the very least thing
they ought to learn. The greenest
rookie in our camp knows the salute
| ing I watched High School Cadet
| salute an officer here. The boy saluted
beautifully; it was perfect. The ac-
acknowledgement OF the salute was a
crime. Here comes an officer now.
Watch him and see IL he doesn't bow
while he's SalutingS
Sure enough. the officer bowed def
erentially as he raised his hand to
the visor of his cap.
There! What did tell you? They
I'd like to catch man bowling to
me up at the camp"
! Where are the British peeresses
who. before the war, owned or man
aged some
Lady Decies in Mauve of the
0veralls Sells Bunnies "
dressmakers' and millinery establish
ments in the West End of London?
What are they doing? Where are
now those coats of arms above the
doors which gave away the secret of
their aristocratic owners identity, If
secret there was?
The war has brought about many
changes. says the New York Herald
| In these days when the degree of
ones patriotism is gauged by the
meanness of the clothes one wears,
fashionable dressmaking and millin-
cry are not the paying concerns they
| used to be.
Nor is the breeding of toy dogs by
| women of fashion an encouraging
business with the prohibitive taxa
tion that 1t Is purposed to levy on
owners of more than one dog, to say
nothing of the difficulty of obtaining
the necessary food.
Lady Decies, before the war, was
one of the leading specialists in
Pekingese in palatial establishment
in the West End. where duchesses and
countesses used to foregather and buy
the fashionable toys of the day. she
has now transformed that same pa
1atiaf establishment into a rabbitry.
where. owing to the exigencies Of
food conditions. she sells edible bun
| nj Ia Il 3 IL
prices.
This new rabbitry being on the
fringe of fashionable streets and
mean streets. 1t Is nothing unusual
to see smartly dressed society.
beauty coming out of the shop" as
to buy bunny for the days dinner.
Bunny is not exactly, offal, but you get
| more of it for your coupon than you
are allowed of beef or mutton, home
grown or frozen.
| Lady Decies herself is head sales
woman and is assisted by her sister,
both dressed in pale mauve overall.
THE government asks every ono to
keep rabbits" said Lady Decies in
answer to a question why she had
given up the breeding Of dogs for
ganda and partly a business enterf
prise. I want everybody to know
how easy 1t is to keep rabbits healthy
and comfortable in small quarters.
am here to explain and to help. and
to sell.
'I am also anxious later to teach
wounded soldiers how to keep rabbits
and how to make their hutches, and l
am ready to answer all ny customers
questions as to feeding and to sell the
green food rabbits require.
| II have only g. limited number here,
but there are more at my sisters house
at Grosvenor Gardens, and still more
at my country place, where I breed
| them and sell them to London stores.
| "Just now tho work is rather diffi-
cult, as I cannot get men to help with
the cleaning. A small boy comes in
an hour before school. and an hour
| after, which means that my sister and
I have got nearly all the work to do.
| We have to get to the rabbitry at s
in the morning and up till or we
are busy cleaning and feeding the
rabbits and serving customers as
| we'll"
Lady Decies In Just as proud now Of
her rabbits as ever she was Of her
Pekes and champion cats. As she
walked from hutch to hutch she
proudly exhibited them and their in
evitable families. all "in the pink"
and all nibbling cease1essly in the
characteristic bunny way.
She Is sure her bunnies know her,
and has names for some of them. but
all are treated exactly alike, from