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Show WHY SOLDIERS' "GLAD RAGS'" Old Kaspar's Remark Seems to Pretty Well Cover the Modern Idea, as to Warfare. Old Kaspar's work was done and he before his cottage door was sitting In the sun. "Oh, pretty, pretty!" exclaimed his little grandchild Wilhelmir. as some soldiers marched by, going to war. "They're sure pretty," assented old KtZspar, knocking the ashes out of his pipe. "But," objected Wilhelmine, growing grow-ing grave all at once, "does not their gay apparel make them easy marks for the enemy's shot? Would not soberer habiliments lessen the slaughter slaugh-ter in battle?" "Owing to your sex," old Kaspar rejoined, "you don't know much. Can't you see that these glad rags and shiny guns serve to stir the patriotic ardor of those who stay at home and pay the taxes? Of course, it doesn't matter how many men are made crow's meat In the front, so long as the money keeps coming. Soberer habiliments, indeed!" And old Kaspar laughed scornfully. |