Show appearance of the american soldier has always impressed observers by GERTRUDE P BISHOP several foreign papers have remarked on the appearance of the american soldier as a type so BO strongly set in its individuality that it has evoked interest in iii a world whose jaded vision can but picture men in khaki what in him has gained such wide attention it is the american look that expression of intensified keenness the look connoting eagerness zest and best of all still unsatisfied interest in the world As far back as 1777 when burgoyne with his Ires hessians su surrendered rendered 1 to the colonial army after the battle of saratoga 0 that same impression of the american expression was apparent A hessian prisoner wrote in his memoirs we e passed through the american camp in which all the regiments stood under arms not one of them was uniformly clad each had on the clothes which he wore in the fields the church or the tavern they stood however like soldiers well arranged and with a military air in which there was but little to find fault all the muskets had bayonets and the sharpshooters bad rifles the men all stood so still we were filled with wonder not ono one of them made a single motion as if he would speak with his neighbor nay more all the lads that stood there in rank and file kind nature had formed so EO trim so slender so nervous wat mat it was a pleasure to look at I 1 them and we were an all surprised at such a well formed race if the hessians ghost returned today he would still find the slim nervous lads that stood in rank and file with the same silent expression of courage and fire but biow now clad in khaki in place of homespun through this naturalization inter of A all ll 11 peoples has come a product yet unknown the american soldier for the butchers boy the millionaires son the clerk the sport and the professor have joined the army |