Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1911 — DONS WIFE’S SKIRT [ARTICLE]

DONS WIFE’S SKIRT

Young Soldier Tires at Being Removed From Bride.

Disguises Himself In Female Garments and Successfully Makes His Escape From United States Army Transport.

San Francisco. —Here’s- a romance of the army transport service in which there are neither swords nor shoulder straps. It Is a strictly proper story in spite of the fact that at the critical point the hero takes refuge in the heroine’s skirts, during the absence, of course, of the heroine.

On the records of the transport Sheridan, which arrived here the other day from Manila, the hero is described as "C. R. Talerifo, discharged soldier.” After each name is this note. “Left ship at Nagasaki." The Talerifos were married in Manila Just before the man received his discharge from the army. They applied for transportation home on the Sheridan, and the best that an unromantic Uncle Sam could da for them was to provide Mrs. Talerito with cabin accommodation and her husband with a bunk in the steerage. Although out of the army, he was still an enlisted man for the purpose of transportation, and as such was barred from accommodation anywhere but on the troop dack. Now, a honeymoon cruise is not much fun where the billing and cooing have to be done in accents loud enough to reach from the troop deck to the promenade deck, and in full view of an observing regiment of cavalry. By the time the Sheridan reached Nagasaki the Talerifos came to the conclusion that honeymooning under sdch conditions were what Sherman said war was and they decided to leave the ship and go home by liner.

They were confronted, however, by another military bar to happiness. Although Mrs. Talerifo, as a cabin passenger, was at liberty to go ashore, this privilege was denied the enlisted men, with whom her husband was classed, and armed sentries were posted at strategic points to see that the soldiers stayed on board.

Now comes the skirt act In the confusion of arrivals at the Japanese

port Talerifo managed to make his way unnoticed to his wife’s stateroom. When he came out his legs were draped in his wife’s best skirt, his wife’s cloak was around his shoulders and on his head a big picture hat formed a screen from which fell the heavy veil that hid his face. Out on deck he tripped and down the gangway to a waiting sampan. One of the sentries assisted him into the sampan and when Mrs. Talerifo went down the ladder behind her disguised husband she heard the sentry remark, as he pointed to the figure in. the picture hat: “She has a hand like a ham.” The Talerlfos went to the best hotel in Nagasaki and engaged the bridal suite on the Japanese liner Nippon Maru. .7-