The Washington herald., 1920-06-13
Army Transports From ST.
IBERIA Are Honeymoon
Arks for Them.
SOLDIERS WE'D AT DOCK
Last Golden-Haired Beauty
Begs in Vain for Dough-
boy Husband.
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Manila, P. l., June 12.-Paternally,
military authorities are this week
sending home to the United States
soldiers and their brides from ST.
IBERIA.
When developments in Siberia two
months ago brought American mil
itary Intervention to an end, joy
swept over the men of the Twenty
seventh and Thirty-first Infantry
doughboys in one grand surge. Most
every soldier had a sweetheart.
800 Brides With Husbands.
Nearly 800. on various transports,
came to Manila with their lawfully
welded husbands. In some cases
there were last-minute weddings in
Nladivostok.
These brides were from every
station in life-from the humble
peasant girl in the frozen interior
to the erstwhile society belle of the
old regime. Mighty was the sigh
of relief that went up from their
hearts when, finally, they were on
their way.
Some of the girls abandoned by
their protectors donned male attire
AID shipped as stowaways. They
were on the verge of being deported
when soldiers came to their rescue
and married them at the dock.
Prettiest Sent Back.
Or the arrival of the last trans
port. reports say, one stowaway
made an attractive picture - be-
trC usered tho 'gh she was-aS, with
"a wealth of golden hair streaming
down her back and glistening in
the bright tropical sunshine, she
shouted aloud begging for a man to
marry her and holding alott 100000
rubles which she offered to the man
who would marry her and save her
from being sent back to Siberia.
And I'll make you just as good
wife as any American girl. too"
she said. But there were no takers,
and so she was sent back.
The doughboys' brides gazed upon
beautiful Manila as their Already;
here a honeymoon, started under
difficulties. was to reach its fulfill
ment. Strong but tender hands
helped them ashore. and smiling
husbands cheered them as the start
for house-hunting began.
The Red Cross stepped quickly to
the front and found home in one
large house for many of the girls
whose husbands pay. as privates, of
$50 a month would not go far to-
ward Feeding or clothing a family
let alone paying grasping land
lord. But visiting a wife once a
week or so in common parlor
where are grouped half a dozen
other billing and cooling newlyweds.
or holding hands for a brief half
hour in a dark corner of the front
yard and having ones wife under
restrictions as to when to be home
and what time to go to bed, GER
tainly is not an American dough-
boys idea of a wonderful time"
Sail for U. s.
Many of these briGes are pretty
Few of them speak more than a
word or two of English. and what
finn wants to employ a clerk whose
vocabulary can be summed up in
thu" phrases, learned, of course,
from hubby: I'll tell the world"
"Oh. boy, I'll sGy So I'm sittin'
on the world" and possibly II love
YOU" Most of the husbands have
learned enough Russian to get by.
When it comes to domestic serv-
Ice. the war brides were even more
greatly Handicapped. since first
class "muchacho.," or houseboys,
'an be employed from among the
natives for remuneration so insig-
nificant that it would hardly keep
these girls of q fairer race in hair
ribbons.
Now most CT these Russian brides
and their husbands are on the high
seas On route to the States.
(Copvright 1870. by Puhlic Ledger CoN