Show The Kilt as a Fighting Dross to Go I The Highland brigade seems to behaving be-having Highlall hard time In South Africa Every list of casualties that comes from the front contains many names of Highland soldiers and yeti yet-i curiously enough the brigade has not of late had much share In the work that produces what Is vulgarly known I I as glory They have always been In hard places where stiff marching and continual guerrilla tactics on the part of the Boers ha9 had to be negotiated Consequently although they figure largely In the casualty list they do Inrsely dispatches not appear prominently in the patches Olllcers and men must belonging be-longing for an opportunity to show I what stuff they are mode of before the campaign closes They showed this at Magersfonteln and those other terrible I placesin the beginning J the war earning undying fame for themselves but these battles were blunders at best and are not likely to be quoted in after years to the credit of the British army as a whole Speaking of the Highland brigade It is curious to notice the reversion of fooling that has taken place lately with regard to the kilt When the war began our most I rabid patilols wore up In arms against the Idea oC superseding the kilt with any dress that might be more serviceable service-able in actual warfare Now however a change Is talked of quite calmly and although it is tacitly understood that the big scheme of army reform I which the Government had up Its sleeve Includes the abolition of the 1kiltas a fighting dress no one seems j I I Inclined lo protest The fact Is that I < South African war has demonstrated demon-strated to a nicety its utter unsuitability f unsuit-ability for active service under modern I conditions As a fighting dress it will have to go but we hope to keep It for many generations as n parade uniform I is too picturesque and has too many romantic associations to be altogether done away with Glasgow letter In the Chicago Record |