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Show And That, If You Please, Is True Patriotism WASHINGTON. .Sin: stood In Uio Uhwty loitn lino. And wIjwi li'-r turn rimiif to subscribe lo a fifly-dollar bond the bit of paper Hull'-' her wllh nersonal luhllnllon: she was helping lo win 1 1n; war. She was no slacker, to .''land back and defend her own Interests In-terests wllli her drawn salary In her hand. .She wan a regular Vimk, shedding shed-ding her dollars as I he boys wero shedding their blood. That money meant a whole lot a woman can find HO many uses for $50 these days but, thank goodness, she hod mail': tho Saerlflei And (ho pride of It fairly bubbled through bruin arid body, until tho voice of an aged colored man who was next In line slack a Til n 111 her soul. r tail) y '-r-.r" "I want a thousand-dollar bond, sir." The seller of bonds beamed humorous kindness: "You never In tho world could raise ull that money you mean u hundred-dollar bond, don't you?" For eonlradlollon, tho aged colored man opened a band that bedd a chunk of bills that called for a thousand-dollar bond. Tin: woman recognized real sacrifice when she saw it sacrifice that had grlddled a man's face and stooped bis back and calloused his hands Into human claws and In the seeing her own childish pride fell from her like the rags from Mint splendid princess in tho fairy tale and made her understand the big thing that Liberty bonds stand for. I And that, If you please, Is true patriotism. Pleasant Sunday Sights Above Capitol Hi!! ABOVE the green heights of Capitol hill there are streets that trail beyond the area of fine residences until they reach a section of unpretentious homes. If you hud walked out that way a Sunday morning recently you would have seen, among other pleasant pleas-ant sights : A man In overalls coating his roof with brown paint. There Is nothing glamorous about overalls, nnd brown paint Is exceedingly everydayis.;, but from Raphael to date no art's- ever daubed canvas more rapturously lir a liiiit overall man daubed tin. Down another street a man v. tacking weather strips on his f:- ' t windows, while his family looked .-. Around a corner a woman 1 tying up a leafless vine against a fence. And at the next crossing, w.. e tliere stood a white frame house with green shutters set in a garden rim:, "d around with red dahlias you would have recognized the old man who takes your umbrella when you go into a government building that treasures wonderful won-derful things. Naturally, you would have smiled recognition as one passer-l,v passer-l,v didand just as naturally the old man would have offered you a dahlia, which you would refuse for a certain cranky reason that he would Indorse. "Tlmt's just the way wife and I feel about posies. We cut them to give pleasure to others, but, for ourselves, we feel that after a Cower has had to wait a whole year to bloom, it likes to stay on its bush. I always take Sundays Sun-days after early church to putter nround the house and garden. The change from office work rests me more than anything else. You know the doctors tell us that change Is rest, and I don't know what we laboring men and women would do without our blessed Sundays. The Divine Father was thoughtful of our needs when he declared that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath." He said it with a reverence that would have kept any passer-by silent regardless of personal views and as you turned homeward by the woman who was tying up vines and the man who was tacking weather strips and the overall man on the roof, it would have come to you somehow that the Scripture line had suddenly taken on the realism of a voice, and that the voice was saying: ' "The Sabbath was made for man.'' : -- rr i Should P&dshipmen Serve a Year's Enlistment? IT IS the belief of many officials of the navy department that every mid shipman should serve an enlistment of one year. In fact, it was the nnrnosp. if the war bad not intervened, of navy department officials to recom mend that no midshipman appointed to the naval academy should receive his commission under five years, and that, after passing the entrance ex-nmlnation, ex-nmlnation, every appointee should go to sea as a regularly enlisted man nnd serve one year in the ranks before entering en-tering Annapolis. It has been suggested as a better plan to afford future officers experience experi-ence as seamen, that the course at Annapolis, should be divided. The first two years' Instruction would be given ashore at the academy, the third being spent nt sea, doing the duties and having the same discipline as all other enlisted men, and midshipmen mid-shipmen then to return to the naval academy for two years prior to graduation. grad-uation. Tliere may be some discussion as to which suggestion is best, but many officials of the department are fully convinced that no man should be commissioned com-missioned an officer in the American navy until he has spent at least one year "before the mast," not as an officer, but ns nn enlisted man. This experience, it is believed, would insure practical knowledge which would give the officer the viewpoint of the enlisted seaman which he could1 obtain in no other way. The American ideal is that men should obtain high station by beginning at the lowest rung in the ladder. They should obtain place and position by first mastering the primary duties. This is the idea that the navy officials have In mind, and it seems probable that after the present war some such method will be adopted for the future. What Is a Prune? How About This Definition? HI HAD to come all the way to Washington to find out what a prune was," 1 said one pretty war worker to another the other afternoon, ns they rode homeward on the street car. "Now, my dear," protested the other, "for 1 HAD TO ) hexven's sake don't begin to tell me about boarding-house prunes. That joke is as old as the hills." "Oh, I don't mean thnt," said the first war worker. "1 really mean it. Vou see, I am from California, out where we have nil kinds of fruit, you know. Of course, I lived in the city, but I thought I knew all nbout things that grow. "Prunes I accepted ns a matter of fact, nnd never thought nbout them one way or the other. If vou had nsked me I would have said they grew on a prune tree, or on bushes, or something. some-thing. I just never thought, that's nil. "To think that I should have had to come to the national capital to find out! Life Is a funny proposition, all right, and knowledge, sometimes, almost as curious. I had to travel clear across the continent to find out the life history of the prune. "When I go home I cn tell the folks about many things crowded street cars, and the boarding houses, and the beautiful streets, and that lovely baby hippopotamus at the zoo, nnd that time I saw the president, and many other "lings and, also, what a prune is ! "I just happened to be looking through a dictionary, and there I saw it: "'Prune the dried fruit of the plum.' I "Honest, I never knew a prune was a dried plum before. Did yon 5" j How abont it? |