SOLDIBES AND SAILORS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10625, 21 March 1896, Page 4

SOLDIBES AND SAILORS.

It is a remarkable tiling that life in the twa services will, after a certain time, change 'exactly similar characters. The surrounding!' are so completely different that the? nioiild the temperament and alter the habits of men who are very much alike in individuality when entering their, rislpectivo services. Tommy Atkins and Jack Tar Have their pecu-" liaritießj but there is end tiling that belongs tii both—namely, a\ hfeppy indifference to the future and a quick seizure of every opportunity to get away from she feirful, monotony of » flaily round of pew;e duties, but

' When the guns begin to play, AR.K.udyard Kipiih;; s4#s, both respond to thi call of dtlty; without a flinch. The Boatswain pip« hia whistle arid the drummer beats to quarters, or the bugler Eoiltids the advance, and at it these veritable tigers for fighting gb, whether dressed in bine Or red. But in peace, how different is the jovial, gay, light-hearted tar to the stiff bearing of the red coat* ! Nobne. ever saw two Bpltfiar-i. riding on one horsaj but this is. one of Jack's highest ideas of fun. Nelson, Drake, iscd Rodney obtained fot England the supremacy of the sea, without torpedo boats or irOQi-ljids. Wellington gained immortal victories Vithoiit Maxim gnns and quick-firiDg breechloaders that cddld kill at 1000 yards. So it is with', other, things. Theold clay pipe and the cheroot are discarded as obsolete, and now Old Judge Cigarettes are, figuratively as well as literally, in everybody's mdnth;