Show shipload of sold ers brides the english a homely nation are so fond of seeing their soldiers set tied down to the comforts of home that they even go to the trouble and expense of sending brides to the furthermost corners of the earth for tommy atkalns the recent dispatch of 30 young women for india in the troopship blassy on marriage bent was by no means an uncommon occurrence the good behaved soldier when he has been in the service a specified time usually finds that he Is in love and whether he is stationed on the sandy plains of egypt or in india his lady love will be invited to take pas sage on a troopship to share his lot in life the old troopship himalaya now in use as a coal holds the record of having conveyed the great est number of soldiers wives and sweethearts abroad stray stories |