. Book of the Royal blue . visi-tor the home seems to he wonderfullyadapted to its purpose. .Some years agoa gentleman visiting a friend who had tilled various positiinis of prominence,but who at the last had been compelled toenter one of the volunteer homes, re-marked on the beauty of the surroundingsand received the reply: Yes. it is allright if you do not have to live here,and it is fair to assume that even easeand idleness pall. It might be supposedthat one would hear many stories of pastcampaigns from these veterans, but theirlong service had made soldiering theirlife work and the inciden
. Book of the Royal blue . visi-tor the home seems to he wonderfullyadapted to its purpose. .Some years agoa gentleman visiting a friend who had tilled various positiinis of prominence,but who at the last had been compelled toenter one of the volunteer homes, re-marked on the beauty of the surroundingsand received the reply: Yes. it is allright if you do not have to live here,and it is fair to assume that even easeand idleness pall. It might be supposedthat one would hear many stories of pastcampaigns from these veterans, but theirlong service had made soldiering theirlife work and the incidents of war hadbecome so common to them that theydo not waste time discussing them. Thebooks whicli are in the most demand atthe library are not the histories of theircampaigns, but travel and fiction. Thismagnificent institution is one of whichany nation could be proud and the visitorto tlie national capital who does not in-clude a visit to the home in his programmisses one of the finest features of theDistrict of The Story of the Tele^^raph and the Part Phiyedin It hv the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Bv H. F. BALDWIN
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