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* Vigorous and promising as a cadet at Warsaw, Kosciuszko was sent to Germany at Poland's expense to complete his military education. At 30, while tutoring some aristocratic young ladies, he fell in love with one of them and made to elope with her. Family retainers fell upon him, pinking him often and severely before they could eject him. He promptly came to the New World to heal his wounds of heart and body and to win his spurs in real action. With Washington and his colleagues he was at once popular and prominent. In 1783 Congress bestowed citizenship upon him, gave him lands, a pension, the rank of brigadier general, thanked him. * Not to be confused with Pelmanism, from the Pelman Institute, through which Power in such things is taught. Said a Manhattan newspaper of the Charm course: "How to eat peas without mashed potatoes."