the cold tub at a quarter of seven till bedtime. Two years later he went for another course of naval instruction at Dartmouth, and in 1911 he went as a midshipman on board the Hindustan. After this cruise Captain Campbell, commander of the ship, said of him, "The prince has, throughout the whole period of his training, been an extremely hard worker and has struck all those about him, high and low, as what we call a 'live thing.' For his eighteenth birthday the prince received a commission in the Army and a lieutenancy in the Navy. He had been for some months in France, learning the language, which he speaks with perfect 999 Copyright by Underwood & Underwood Prince Albert of England The prince is shown on the left. On his right is Major Creig of the Royal Air Force, who piloted the 'plane in which Prince Albert flew to France in the winter of 1918. nosebleed, which for a moment threatened to break up the procession, but, being a boy of some presence of mind, he carefully confined the crimson flow to the red velvet of the train, and skilfully kept from spotting the ermine edge. There has always been a close connection between the royal family of England and its royal navy. William IV said, "There is no place in the world for making an English gentleman like the quarter-deck of an English man-ofwar." So when the prince was twelve and a half years old he was sent to the Royal Naval College at Osborne, where, as Edward of Wales, he lived the simple, busy life of all the other boys, from From Leslie's Weekly Prince George ease, and getting to know the French people, whom he admires tremendously. He returned to enter Oxford. enter Oxford. His courses of study there had to be carefully planned, as he had not the full time to give that is usually required. He studied French, German, English, history, economics, and constitutional law. He proved to be studious and a conscientious worker, but nothing of a grind. He was very popular with the men and went in for all sorts of sportsfootball, tennis, golf, motoring, hunting, boating. At the outbreak of the war the prince was miserable until he could get into it. He had great difficulty in overcoming Lord Kitchener's opposition, but finally was sent. Not content with a job at headquarters, he insisted upon going into the trenches to take his chances with the rest of the men. A private of the Coldstream Guards in a letter said of him: "I must tell you about the prince, who is here with us. I can assure you he is as brave as a hero. Only last night he passed me when German shells were coming over. You can take it from me. that he is not only the Prince of Wales, but a soldier and a man, and we are all proud of him. He is not very big, but he has got a bigger heart than a lot who are hanging back in Great Britain." THE LUXURY OF BEING A RAJAH rounded by servants to dress them, fan them, attend to every wish. When they drive they are accompanied by an Copyright by Underwood & Underwood British and Italian Royalty A great contrast to the simple lives of the English royal family is the luxury that surrounds the native princes of England's great possession, India. They The Prince of Wales at the left, and King Emanuel are allowed to rule, to issue their own currency and postage, and make their own laws, as long as they are faithful and loyal to England. These princes, who are called rajahs or maharajahs, are very proud of the antiquity of their families, and some trace their ancestors back to the sun; others can only get as far back as the moon. They are sur at the right, are discussing the war situation on the Italian fighting front. escort mounted on magnificent horses, and all the people bow down to the ground. One prince so disliked to be hot that he had a silver couch hung from the ceiling by silver ropes and servants that kept it gently swinging, while artificial rain kept falling on the On July 4, 1917, American Sailors in England Played a Game of Baseball at Chelsea King George was the first British sovereign to attend a ball game; such an act heretofore was called an act of rebellion, but the war has made nearly every one more democratic. Admiral Sims is introducing King George to the captain of the American Army team. In The Trouble Buster (U. S. General Hospital No. 2, Fort McHenry) IF you can hold your head up while the others Are drooping theirs from marches and fatigue; If you can stand the greasy food and dishes, The long black nights, the lonesome road, the blues; If you can choke back all the gloomy wishes For home that seem to spring right from your shoes; If you can laugh at sick call and the pill boys, Of some bone play connected with your name; 155 WH UNCLE SAM'S SCHOOL Making Cities to Order and Soldiers to a Pattern WHEN Uncle Sam decided to raise his vast citizen army he was faced with the staggering problem of housing the men during their period of training. We can imagine him summoning the quartermaster-general for a conference on the matter and giving him some such directions as these: "I have placed in the Treasury, subject to your order, a sum of money equal to all the gold produced by all the mines of the world during the past year. With it you are to build sixteen cities large enough to accommodate the combined populations of Arizona and New Mexico, with enough stable room to take care of as many horses as there are in the state of Oregon. You must equip them with enough hospitals to hold as many people as in normal times are in the hospitals west of the Mississippi. And at the same time you must erect and furnish the two immense concentration camps from which our boys are to embark." TWELVE HUNDRED MILES OF NAILS A DAY The quartermaster-general, who was a good soldier, didn't waste any time saying, "We'll try," or, "Perhaps"; he went right ahead and executed the order to the letter. To the tune of 25,000 hammers driving home 1,200 miles of nails every day he used enough lumber to make a boardwalk four feet wide from Palm Beach to Bagdad via the Bering Straits and the Arctic Circle. His ex penditure during one month amounted to $52,000,000, nearly nine tons of gold. What do these mushroom cities look like; what kind of buildings could they put up so hastily; where did they get their water-supply, their electricity? In a standard cantonment city the buildings and spacings, if placed in a straight line, would stretch about three miles, or as far as from Madison Square to the Battery. For economy of space, however, they were arranged in the form of the letter U, with the train areas at the closed end, the whole covering sixteen long city blocks by eighteen short ones. The unit of the camp is the barrack, the home of the soldier. It is made of wood, one hundred and twenty feet long and forty-three wide, two stories high, with a low pitched roof covered with a fire-proof sheeting. At one end a twenty-foot, one-storied kitchen runs the full width of the building. Half of the lower floor is given over to the mess-hall with its tables and benches. There is also a twenty-foot company hall, an entrance, and a stairway. The rest of the floor and the top story are fitted with the bunks and lockers of the men. The record for the erection of a barrack is held by Camp Pike, at Little Rock, where one morning at nine work was begun and by 11.55 the building was completed, scaffolding down, litter cleared away, windowscreens fitted, and workmen gone. In every camp there was a complete lighting and power installation. Some |