Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE. [ARTICLE]

IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

Why Our Naval Officers Prefer Servici in a Foreign Port. “It makes all the difference in the world whether we of the service are at home or abroad,” said the naval officer, as he puffed his cigarette and sipped his coffee at the club. “Newport gives us the cold shoulder here. Admiral Dewey has just been received on sufferance over there. The other officers are snubbed outright by society—with precious few exceptions. But if we’re at a fashionable watering place or at any of the con tinental capitals, these same people will fall «U over one another in their anxiety to get at us andentertain us and through us to get at foreign social life. Our uniforms open to us doors closed to them abroad; here our uniforms close to us doors opened to nearly every cheap European princeling, no matter how tawdry his title or how 'besmirched his court costume. Strange, isn’t it?”—-N. Y. Times,