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Show I DRILL WORK ffilS i 'KINKS'jDFJECRUlTS Maneuvering, Good Food and Regular Hours Bring Flush of Health. Intensive Or ill work was res'imei at Fort Doula-s restrv)ay morning antj the yarns strenuous prosramme of daily work that was earned out la ?t week will be folio wpyl durinc: this week. The 20ftA men of t he reciment turned out upon the drill field pouth of the fort piopfM at 7:3A o'clock yesterday morning and from that tin; until U;3ii they wore busy every moment wjth the arduous task of learning to be soldiers. Drill work was resumed at l:1S o'clock find continued until H:;:0 in the afternoon. This is the daily pmerrnnime of work for the recruits a.t the pnet. For seven hours p.n-1 a quarter every day the boys are kept on the move. The principal work now is in the "school of the squad." though some work in platoons and company formation is done. Some of thoee who have had more training are being Riven exercises with bayonets, extended order drill and other more advanced maneuvers. However, the basis of all th' work now is in the "school of the snad," and it is in t:.;s formation that the boys are put ihrouch the real hard drill work that 113 before them before they become finished poI-diers. poI-diers. ready for duty on the battle front. To many of the new recruits the work in most strenuous, but the effect of regularity regu-larity in hours and eating and the influence influ-ence of recular exercise are soon seen In the physical improvement of the. men. Thin, pale young men, who have been working In offices or other places of more or less confinement, booh begin to get color in -their cheeks, they begin to put on fles their muscles harden and the "kinks" in their frames soon straighten out. "It. sure is hard work." said one of the boys, "but it does wonders for you." Nobody a round Fort Douglas suffers from lack of appetite. The bovs do full justice 10 three meals a day, as is very evident to anyone who happens around at mess time. a |