THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1956.
The world has done me IT MUST HAVE BEEN
a world of good
'VE been round the
world,
crossed the
oranges,
a18
Equator four times, travelled almont 50,000 miles, squeezed many
scrubbed flours and corridors, washed plates, and staggered under the weight of ship's atores. One can never be sure about such things, but 1 think
the experience lins done me
a work of good.
to realise that he
When 1 joined the Merchant absolutely worn out
and
st
might
Benga
DANIEL FARSON concluding the series about his first voyage in the Morchant Navy-Around the World with a Dishcloth,
starting lee of life, with Buch thing as a "typical
Isan."
the no under
plate. attd some sea- passengers sneaked off, without
leaving anything at all.
·and shoreline. I've been tattooed in Honolulu, smelt the fresh nir bf Vancouver, zuli of pine, und the Heavy air of the Fiji Fries, redolent with cocoanut oil.
Pe swum in Colombo and shopped in Naples, Crossed the gines Indian Ocean and watched the the days grow colder and sen rougher, until mid night the waves poured into our cablu and we were too lazy to close the porthole, so that I woke to see my shoes floating backwards end forwards in the river of water under our blink.
We exchanged the New World for the Old and returned to o thick, piercing fog which chilled
tropics. I've our blood, grown this from the
ns big as CinemaScope, And now......
As for myself, someone said: Within this shinet time "At first we couldn't make you reen the glittering city of Ban oul; we thought
were Francisco
with the two lovely educated, but a boon
bridges
you
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be read you weren't it was all the famous Waikiki Beach of
night i also sympathise HOW
Honolulu with riders skimming with the bitter look of the waller as It was depraming never 494111 arrives jusÍ as the remau- receive any Úps, and I envied Font is closing: } even ay the walters, particularly those I'm a pathta with the shop assistants who dashed off the ship
aming every port dressed in the latest endlessly themselves apparently blind to end jazzlest American clothes, The customers waiting bubatient- often hiring cars for the day, ly for ervler
suon regarded ending up at a nightclub where y citatomers as "the enemy" they spent invishly, much to the
Navy hist suruzner I wirs nick of eity life and desperately wanted change. I certainly got it was insure of my futury mind was muddy. my uisure of the future, but now desc't
1 tlunk worry. mind has cleared It's an elpurating lite, with on Tinns for
although, of incurvelezza Things might be very different in a cargo boat with a crew of 40 instead of 100.
I hated it
MOLITION,
There were $14.8 when hatert the hie This WHI not due to the renditions--the only Ring really minted was
the
Sick ut proper sleep or due to
the hard work. Scrubbing com panionways with wire wool was surprisingly enjoyable. I had so and that was much that, a job with a beginning and 1 end. The feet that trampled ever me Wire ComDvasin tæd Fry sire people who stoppext To talk.
R
Though I
Brow
faluvus. Jolly
f
who
مع دائم
When I started to treat these surprise of passengers who were
there and had tast sea Tap the wall incidenta
with blo amusement, working as hard on them walking at table, I could
but
refusing
Sometimes their tips would be worried, I was amazmi at difference nade
appointing: many people left while I workert,
I even songs lle as two-and-six, and one waiter when handed 10 shillings
the
parents' honie,
SOMETHING I ATE...
If you find yourself saying that, take a tip from a man who knows
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THE Lawrences always quickly. But the nude raame will put you if to of
ter
right." smashing spasms
But an inven
of the diaphragm which had adequate supply of bland fulds my gaurod my hiccups consed by the must be given. They should not Party, Daddy," Hald youngest son. You can eat time I reached the Marchants' bo served very hot or very
cold, until you're slek." And he house.
otherwise the symptoms will increase.
WILD.
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"I suppose it's something 1 ate, doctor?" Mr. Marchant Ankl,
Rest in bed and warmth aro important.
I alro de- have some
My son's criterion for good party, alas, does not sitting up in bed.
"Acuto gastrills is the result be confined to
In Mr Marchant's case I wrote appear to
A preserlotion children. It's an unhappy of Indiscretions in taking food out
containing or alcoholic drinks," I anfd tincture of oplum. thought, but tens of thou- dryly.
cided to let him Bands, WI endure, after "Well, it was of Q their party dinner, nome a bit digestive disturbance like the ad- binge Jont heartburn-a peculiar senen mitted tion caused by regurgitation winked at mo London, of neld from the stomach slyly.
the
I'm glad to return
and
ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY
by
is added 2
water
CEDRIC CARNE
One cannot return from such a trip the same person. But i never saw one place a half as beautiful as England. San Fran- cirea was cold and clean with- out the warmth of Walkikl had nant of
Acuto KOS- natural grandour of the three into the lower end of the
irits is char- mile stretch of surf and sand in gullet.
acterised by nausea, by upper kaolin, a china clay, which can North Devon which 15 ny It can usually be rolleyed by abdominal discomfort, by ericta- be taken in relatively large the sufit and brought from the other side of
yellow
In drink of sodium bicarbonate, lions, headache, furred tongue, dores simply by mixing it with Bands the island and kept scrupulously so friendly.
And nowhere were the people which renders the gastric juices and a feeling of depression.
alkaline.
Where diarrhoes clean by attendants, without our home with new eyes and there
Mre Marchant saw me to the This time of the year I'm indicates that the Inflamma- front door, familiar horror of wet cigarette is a lot I wish to do and see often called out to visit patients ton in the stomach has spread soon be as right as rain. When and I said: "He'll onds and broken ginas.
But already I've found myself who have pirided to the empta downwards to cause an acute he is getting better put him on
gastro-enteritis. They honky-tonk atmosphere looking at maps and thinking of tons of the parly or cellar.
a light diet and, for some days, of Panema, with rows of
a new trin, for I'm afraid the bar life is iny blood unw. I can
highly atrald I
seasoned foods. am suffering roups, and foodstuffs containing an blaring music, The ugly
Mrs Marchant rang me up from diarrhoea," Mr Murchant extractives which stimulate the never return to an office, but I Accenno-sel bridge at Sydney know I shall soon return to the Mrging me 1 rome rund 10 sce said sadly, That's the main gastric secretion." may one of the ugliest cities I've
her husband. As 1 started the reason I asked my wife to call three ever seen when I could have ONL
eur I found that I myself had you."
"Why do these stamps been the loveliest with its bays
men have to [an attack of hieruos: 1 realian
drink too much every time they Mosi cases care themselves have an excuse?" all that is needed is abstinence chant naked.
Mr Mar
fem food for rotne hours to give the stomach a chance to Bettle.
There was only one thing I never geld want t the high- promptly called & bellbay over spirits and laughter of the band told him to take it for his
In
Paflection bx. Tooth Rewards a very qurues! for fresh orasige jule**
The Incredide
Though WOaTran 1 doubt if my seem, HERE early morning Serves with over stand bonhonnie twoperty Rolfuenay at 6 am.
Draft-dodgers
The Merchant Navy does not attract a delicate crowd, but, as Tetely Floy protested to me:
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You'r thirik They's be glad we're of set and not on shore."
There are a large number of draftodiers, but if they hate the idea of Service life one eau hardly blame them for taking advantage of the only other alternative.
for
Aft
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Only lunchtime the other day "I'm
Oh, how Englishwomen
HEN decided to
throw up my job
and return to live
In Engturni after eight
in New
years
York, my
incredulous, indig-
The drunken sailor has been amt always will be, because the American friends were con- drinking in port is exceptionally cerned, the hard in order to make up
lost time and is often cheaper
Tornant. and stronger than it is in Eng. They are fights but that is hardly surprising among large hunders of men with few
It is underpaid
"What on earth are you
But the pressure of work in the fruit locker, especially from Vancouver to Sydney when the ship was crowded with frult distinctions. hungry Americans, often got on my nerves. Like a group of Red Indians, the walters would swoop on the Dult locker, sur- round it, and shout angrily for fruit which I was cutting as fast s possible. I would be "D the wall as the saying went, and the Chief Steward would
disapprovingly. which
thought most unfair
When the waiters ma
To
would never fit in." 1 held They all agreed that I
become used to the greater freedom of women in the United States, to being bet- ter treated, deferred to, cherished.
have changed!
Englishwomen now walk beller.
It could be the reavit of years in the fore
Adinatedly it is an underpai career, and the new eight-hour day which started in December
English women are treated so badly, so casually, they suld. proved a disappointment. give an obvious instance, a nin Jonk who useri
Rightly
they , or ultnost, work 12 hours added, because although to
Eng- received two hours' overtime at hsh women have beautiful com- after years of clothes rationing to myself, course. I said His hour. Now it โป
pivxions, let us face it. suddenly
they everyone has new clothes discovered that he
they've gone a little mad. When I otrved more closely. how- sver. I found the change was more emphatic than that.
Sheir
Us. Bd.
fruit they would rush elsewhert. needn't work that long after all: Jury dowdy, awkward, did.
probably to hendege the ice cream an asui i would be left extuted and the fruit locker Hattened
So smart
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his day is cut down to ten hours and he still receives two hours overtime but at the new reduced rate of 2 U an hour. In other The first thing that struck me wards he lames
Mass shillings. when I returned was that every- Iwo
production of decent Now sympathise Against this, one must rememones lasked so smart. The druh clothes
and abolishing of ber that pay When I took tas se moments to have Improved ut of
and chifons good" coals of yesteryear and rationing might account for part 131 Die "earl's daughter hats" had of this smartness, but it showed heart, the job became unbear- cognition since before the war. disappeared. Every girl and in other ways. able. 1 was appalled by the when they effect on my nerves. One night primitive.
savagely woman I saw was well dressed
I saw MORE vye shadow in gay colours. I even hit a bellboy who WAR
three minutes on Oxford Street trying wu be amwoylag. and What makes me so enthusins- Hats were little bits of non- that I would see in three hours surreeding. In future, if I see the about the life is the wonder- sense or bits of guy nonsense, of Fifth Avenue and it was well someone lose his temper, I hope ful atmosphere. I have never however you like it. They were applied. Every woman 1 met my memory will be long enough met such friendliness,
becoming and worn with an air was well made up.
Allmetively and suitably made up. Her p-
on well was but matched her nail varnish. She boked "well groomed,"
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I remember ....
The well-scrubbed look.
JAK
Gone is the well-scrubbed look and the guiltily-
applied lipstick. There are more smart women in England today than in any other country
mky
MURIEL WILDE
Hro
Avold
"It was probably something he ate as well," said distrectly. But then, unfortunately, my
with narrowing
It should be remembered too hiccups started again, and sho that strong tea and coffee are looked at me gastric irritants, zu don't say, as eyca. many du: "A good, bluck coffee
Soldier
Now
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Must
Fritz Rough It
From WILLIAM HAMSHER
Bonn.
And, the
hardest cut:
O Soldier Fritz in Chan- "Issue of foam rubber mat-
German ormy, the Boft forthwith." times seemed just too good to last.
Foam rubber mattresses, waitresses in the mess, the | sergeant - major saying
please....
It could not go on, course.
of
This week the Defence Ministry cut the luxurios which lured the first
to the
re
new
With recruits rolling up, the day of the stand-easy army is over. Hard training must start is the
official
The new army take on some of the old Wehrmacht's toughness.
But it will draw on America for its weapons— about 400 million pounds worth of arms and equip- ment the U.S. has agreed to supply.
NO MORE PLEASE remember desperately planning the right one being occupied with crufts
AN this equipment is the arrangement of my drawing, the more important task of dust- Wehrmacht.
described by the American on to defeat that tendency of ing sequins I
on their eyelids. English women to all in a solid They emerge to greet you look-
Army instructors teaching phalanx of Pemales when they ing as if they had never done
Soldier Fritz as "good stuff came up for coffee.
a spot of work in their lives.
nothing out of date." The A formation that resulted in English women
gayer.
tanks, for instance, were not scaring off the men when they They are also wittier. Not order.
delivered to the American did appear and drove them bulo whiinay or would-be funny, but
Army till 1962. masculine huddle; spoiling all with sponstanevus galety they Waitresses who served
to be sacked. the men, for instance, are The seven frigates given A colonels by Britain to start the Ger- committee has decided that man navy are also described German soldiers must line as "the best Britain
the troops in any up for their food just like manage, No mothball col-
other loction cast-offs." NATO army.
ond
chance of conversation.
seem to make fe sparkle, No
longer when two or three on gathered together does the con
Dinner parties reflect the general change In English versation relapse into the er women. No! grand dinner
vant problem or whether old parties which you know were
Feters, the gardener, will weeks before, your member to plant the early peas. the frranged face hurriedly flicked over with hostes giving orders, forgetting a dirty swaristown puff in
about the details and having a before she arranged the chiffon handkerchief, the hastily rest gulitly applled Bpstick had dis- place cards.
| appeared.
#
A quip
can
Just in time to see the end of the old stand-easy regime this week were fifty volun- teer recruits who arrived at Each brought with him a letter request. ing him please to come alone on time. Now they are unlikely to be hearing that word much longer. The civilian watchmen
SENTRY-GO The early peas are now frozen There may be some of these
Dith
Charwomen who scrubbed Those breath-takingly beauti- still, but the ones I have been and the conversation has
tocked, for the gressed to anything from a qui and polished the barrick Andernach. to have been ful, iminoculately, expensively dressed women in smart most part, by my hostess, after thussion drama to a cubicles on visiting days restaurants WeTC bower; but ter day's work at an important toh that there may be
In the Americ hobit b (nearly every day until now) there were, or I should shy art, job.
"digging their children up at are to go. Soldiers will do the roots to see how they are their own chores. growing."
more smart-looking women in
England today than I have agen
in any other country.
Gayer
excellent,
Women seem to have staged d
almost
un gates will get the sack, too. And of the volunteers claiming
Home, many are being remind→
It isn't just the clothes and No more boiled chops, cold red the make-up either. They hold wine, tepid white wine and lame bloodless revolution in England who guarded the barrack Conscription is to come in. themselves better. They walk excuses about not being able to the resulta aro better. This could be the result offer a decent cook. The food British in their impact. of years in the Forces for some has been
the wine,
I used to be asked: "What do it will be sentry-go for the the right to back out and go of them. They all seem more even it prdinary, exquisitely you think of our polleement troops, just like anywhere ed that they will be in uni-
How do else.
form aktain anyway when con- Their figures are decanted, the whole meal done Now I am asked:
worten compare to
scription starts, In proper conveyor-belt fashion. English
Americans?" No one is madly Mothers and sisters, will
Next time there can be no sitrprised when
answer: be barred from visiting the turning back, anyway. The by English Favourably."
barracks, unless they have sergeant-major will see to that. special passes.
(cobriant)
Fell-assuredt. better,
I inevitably make comparisons Simple food, well cooked, has with women in the USA, but been discovered
I do remember women in the pre- women. And they produce it wat and war days in England. I with a Bick of their left hand,
JOHNNY HAZARD
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