The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-19

iopg ago that every one was inter-
, ns,ed sertimentally or otherwise in
,bo arrival In America OF bevies OF
pretty war brides.
II yas admitted, OF course. that II
vas all very romantic, the inclina-
,Ion of the soldier left on foreign
s,,,,, to fau I'm love with the attrac-
ttvc--and near at hand--German and
French girls, but II was admitted,
Zoo that it was very imprudent of
,be loyelorn young soldier boys to
,eallv get married. This applied, of
ros,rse mostly 10 the soldiers OF the
,eg,,lgr army or those who had re-
enlisted and who intended to remain
IN tho service.
"What I'm the world" the question
vas "can a private soldier do with
wife especially n young wife, very
ant 10 chlfe under army discipline
ana fret about her husbands having
10 take orders from so many su-
periors?'
Really such bride hardly could
call her home life her own; there
could be no sitting for a chat over
breakfast: no lingering over lunch;
nothing at all that would interfere
with her husbands ridiculous drill
ing
80 there IS a great deal OF wonder
just now az 70 how It's all worked
i out. What has become OF the war
brides and their soldier heroes? And
how surprising II seems that privates
in the army can keep dheir wives in
quite the same luxury allotted the
wives OF nonCommissioned officers!
It's all come about as one of the
pecullaritics Of the new army"
Divorces are so rare ms to be almost
unheard Of. In period of two years
the writer has heard OF only one.
Tho married officers have quarters
Of their own set apart. The natureof
the officers quarters is strictly de-
pendent upon the post camp or sta
lion. At Governors Island and other
old and long established army posts
the officers quarters are very conf
Portable. They are somewhat crowd
ed az Governors Island now. At the
Preside. in San Francisco. and at
Fort Sam Houston. in San Antonio,
much the came comfortable condi-
tions prevail.
But that is rather generally known
or guessed. 1t is not so well Xnown
that the enlisted married men are
extraordinarily well cared for; that
their families are housed and their
in the old posts the married non
commissioned officer Is AZ well or
better cared for then the married
junior offlcers-lieutenants
LivcC Better as His Wife.
A private soldier in the army on
The Rhine married distant rela-
tive OF the house of HohenZollern.
The father Of the bride was the
president OF bank In a sizable Ger
man city. 1t is an amazing fact that
me wife Of this private in the
American army lived like a princess
iar better than she had lived as the
daughter Of "A bank president. with
ne provisions made by the army for
us married personnel, with the ad-
dluonal pay for foreign service, and
WIN the exceedingly favorable eX-
cnange rate, the private and his
Wlie were most affluent
NOW that they are back I'm Amer
ca and he is out of tho army, the
young woman is washing dishes and
making herself generally house
Nuey' but their first few married
months, spent in Germany. were eX-
ssteulngly pleasant and without trou-
Wesome features at all. Perhaps he
Nouid nave been wiser and his wife
mueh happier II he had stayed in the
army. They would have been as
suted then Of a comfortable home
SIhout rent worries. But It Is
olrely possible that he and his wife
H.'sht nave been sent TO one OF the
hswe[ stations. Then 1t would not
nave been so pleasant.
IS In army camps and stations.
mostly located in the cantonments
.u't by 10 per cent cost plus con-
uagtOre, where conditions ,prevail
rnnlch were described by General
,oord recently as quarters unfit
mouse either convicts OF lunatics."
IN Us IN these crumbling relics OF
W. world war that army officers
, nu men have hard time Of il taxi
s care OF their families. To the
wbi SiIIled Officers are allotted shacxs
VII, .gn would not even be used for a
ot@usned by civilians; the bachelor
IN tSn,. as rule are quartered
~ uny little cubbyholes and the sin
~ men arc quartered i'm barracks
,ss cracks OF which usually show
winds OF heaven
put Just such shacks as these give
~ women ot the army an opDor-
sly 70 show their mettle. II il
cls''o ueIiul 10 see just what their
cor.sI uanus can do toward making
a, ~ ~ 'ooIe homes OF places which
fo.nIst appear to be almost Cod
toriNen IN their barrenness.
rrnrt or enamel and OF paint. and
fs1. boards become smooth. and a
so,i Iln,Wers planted in almost anv
wi,b WI W.. grow luxuriantly IL tended
NsEklng Quarters Comfortable.
M rialhs comfortable quarters ont
biptaces OF discomfort Is the tob
nobi,. IaIs 10 the army woman And
tes,iy she performs Il, as, take the
oftsn ot a bachelor who has
tho luphed upon her work from
tsr. windows Of the bachelor nuar.
tols sns which clothing, guns pis-
4 thai UHu a. other equipment showed
= ssn Vas the abode of man. mere
eivIlizo" "ith no refining influences to
ann. sr'.a' U 30 much IS ours a marrying
solais u,at The bachelor officer and
hls ~ lbr less comfortable than
seera" ll'd brother. The theory
whsra 10 oe bachelors can live anv.
Of eogrsa get along anyway. which.
nj wbt, 's exactly right. hut once
wee M " does come with just a
msrrist OF strain TO look over The
pianos quarters, hear the sound Of
vesrn,, ana OF song. and then turn
tfavei{ oack and give the proso lc
muslrsIs phonograph (your onIg
and ~ equ'pmentl the once over
Tor rsst Wistfully go off somewbere
rest and recreatfo,, 3''''N"H'ie e