An American writer gives the palm as to soldierly appearance among tho brilliant groups of officers now to be scon in tho streets of Paris to two widely different races.- As to sartorial get-up, tho British officer is supreme.With him "soldiering is a fine art, so thoroughly mastered that ho can spare time for every detail of dress. He is a fashion plate of neatness,' glossy leather ( and shining metal. However earelully ono has groomed oneself one feels fairly out at heel when a British colonel passes. . . . But the past masters were, not of the Continent of Eurone. Down the Bois do Boulogne would como a quartet of groat Sikhs; handsome as etchings, proud as only Sikhs can bo, unconscious as camels, with turban ends swinging, patrician descendants of 'forbears who were warriors when Britons and Gauls roamed as nomad tribes,"
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 10, 7 October 1918, Page 6
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141Page 6 Advertisements Column 5 Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 10, 7 October 1918, Page 6
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