Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1915 — BOTH ADEPTS IN DECEIT [ARTICLE]

BOTH ADEPTS IN DECEIT

How Signals Arranged For Between Soldier and His Wife Really Were Carried On. > • The captain had not been long married when he was ordered into camp. To be sure, the camp was in plain view of the captain’s residence, but then it was still a separation; and tolighten this terrible condition ft was arranged that the bereaved husband and wife should signal to each other often with their handkerchiefs. It was on the second day that the young wife was seated on the porch reading. “Tell me, Jane,” said she, “is the captain still signaling?” "Yes, ma’am,” answered the maid. "Then keep waving your handkerchief. I want to finish this noyel.” At the same time, in camp an officer from an adjoining company stepped up to the captain. “I say, old fellow,” he asked, “why do you keep that man out there all day waving a handkerchief?” “Oh. it’s merely a bit of signal-code practice for him.”