Some of the "swells" in a cavalry regiment are more primitive in their style and manner of performing their toilets than their brother "swells" in civil life. The military "swell" is always his own valet and groom, and sometimes his own washerwoman. Rimmel's perfumes, Rowlands' Macassar and Odonto, and the rest of the toilet paraphernalia that forms a very considerable portion of the travelling luggage of a civilian "swell," are all dispensed with in barrack or camp life. When the soldier "swell" prepares for parade or a "show off" in town, he first gives his clothes a thorough brushing, then he "chrome-yellows" the braid of his jacket and the stripes of his trousers, or applies some other "reviver" to correspond with the colour of the "facings" of his uniform, cleans his buttons, spurs, boots, and pipe-clays his gloves; he then whistles a tune, or sings a scrap of a song, as he sallies down to the stable with his towel and a piece of common soap, and drawing a bucket of water at the pump, he gives himself a thorough washing, often from head to foot, a spare stall in the stable being his bath-room; the rest of his toilet is performed in the barrack-room. If he wears only a moustache, and no beard on his chin, the latter part of his face must of course be frequently shaven, so as always to appear clean and respectable; for this purpose there is sometimes a "looking-glass," about eight inches long and six inches wide, placed in some conspicuous part of the room for general use, but more frequently a fragment of a broken mirror about the size of a man's hand, and mostly a three-cornered, or some other "cornered" shape, is all the toilet-glass used or required for the dressing and shaving of eight men. The "swells" will sometimes indulge in tooth-powder, and a species of villainous scented oil purchased at the canteen, but the majority, if they use oil or tooth-powder at all, will be content with _powdered Bath-brick_, a coarse but most effective tooth-powder; and the oil used for cleaning bits, stirrups, swords, and the like, is substituted for "Macassar," to make the hair glossy. The "swells" will generally sport a riding _whip_ during their walks in town, and those of their comrades who are not so fortunate as to possess one of their own will sometimes borrow these whips without leave, and then there is a "row in the island." Many of these so-called "swells" have been well educated, and are well connected in civil life, and agreeable, nice fellows they are too; others are arrogant, conceited, and ignorant; these are termed "jumped-up swells-out-of-luck," and are often told by the old soldiers that they are "better off in the army than any of their friends at home." The idea that one man is better than another as a private soldier cannot be entertained, because it is considered that if the one who fancies himself superior to his comrades could by any means raise the money, he would purchase his discharge. The fashion of dyeing the