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Show ARMY STYLES NEW TO HER Conscientious Laundress Meant Well, ! but Her First Efforts Utterly Failed to Please. At the army post a new laundry had been Installed and the management was specially anxious to please and advised that mending would be Included In-cluded in the work. The major was equally willing to be pleased and sent, among other things, a suit of duck as a first installment. The army officer's washable coats have buttons, but these are not sewed on. Instead, small eyelets are worked In the coat and the shanks of the regulation regu-lation buttons are pushed through these holes, being held in place by brass rings on the other side. Before being laundered these, buttons and rings are removed, to be put in place again after the wash. When the major's coat was returned from tfci new laundry the eyelets had been carfully sewed up and a bright brass button had been sewed firmly over each. Also the seams of the major's riding breeches, which open from just above the knees to just below, to admit ad-mit of adjustment over the knees, had been sewed up so tightly that it took the major's wife half a day to rip them. The earnest and conscientious laundress thereupon received a course of special Instruction pertaining to the requirements of the U. S. A. |