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NOTES OF THE DAY
PACIFIC CIBRALTAR
It seems that no matter how the nations may strive for peace with one hand, they keep the other tight ly gripped around a weapon of some sort. From the beginning of time, so far as blatorians are aware,
to
of the
LA air Hink kong, had visions of with the American continent, main-
HISTORY WRITTEN IN ODD PLACES
By MARGARET LANE
way of writing the history of a
you
reason.
They wore
The Very Idea!
SNARES OF TRADITION By George
THE second ray of sun- shine recorded at Kow-
ourselves.
tained by huge sky liners which versal in the Middle Ages, even in ninte by without touching any part { - We also find that the Army
tho
UR dinner plates are getting | Except that they sometimes had a smaller Nothing, you might little cavity for the salt they were say, very significant about that. more like the modern table mat loon this year brought us Amorica and Asia have been at But domestic detalls have their own than anything led after, uso, out of hibernation this mor peace, with a mighty barrier of ocean between them which it was generation, and there chmahal the rave for hvor You got a new sutning and enabled us to chor's block; a clean habit, but it begin such long neglected not within the means of man to even in your tablo china-rith face for every using, like a
out
You could safely guess the whole shortened the life of the plates, duties as the cleaning up of cross until a comparatively short
of a nation's habits and They were always having to be re-
teeth and correspondence. few centuries. age. But man has story
For all that, wooden trenchers found iron, ataam, and steel and manners from the way it cats and placed by new ones,
For six weeks it has been too g. the barrier is no longer a bulwark furnishes its table.
The first plates our ancestors continued in general use, well into It seems the farther we progress used were made, simply and satisfy the reign of Charles II. Even the cold to lick a stamp or face a in the field of science, the nearer ingly, out of bread. Four hundred rich used their gold and silver plate bathroom with that equanimity
you went to only on great occasions: Wooden we are brought to wars. Inevitably years ago when
aplatter and horn cup were on every which is supposed to be the peculiar, and patriotic asset of new knowledge is turned Into a grand supper party you found
Mr. Pepys, who had a sharp eye the British Empire Builder weapon. Now, with the coming of goblet and salt-cellar in front of table..
at table and a sturdy sinb of aircraft capable of flying the bread, four days old and three for the niceties of these things, Pacific on a bombing enterprise, inches thick. You took your own complained twice in his diary of abroad.
the niggardiness of the Lord Mayor
For years the mind's eye of an the United States has found it knifo.
fo carved whatever you fancied in dining his friends on wooden admiring world has pictured the | necessary to commence the fortifica-
from the joint (steadying it with trenchera when he had access to se tion of Hawail. From the reports the thumb and two fingers of your much plate, but perhaps that was B.E.B.A. (see above) as a sturdy at hand it would stem that they left hand if you were well bred, or carping. Wood was still general, in follow broasting distant horizons We are fully equipped for any will attempt to create there a having it carved for you by a page) spite of the new-fangled powter, with his tooth brush firmly clench nature of service.
Gibraltar in the Pacific. When it and cut it up for yourself on the and in any case Pepys was getting ed between his teeth, his dress a good free dinner at the Guild-nuit neatly swinging over his arm; and maybe a monocle or a port- was first announced that the United bread trencher,
Mediaeval books of manners hall.
able cold shower on his back, States Government planned
recommended cutting the ment into
Nobody quite knows when, or amall, rather than ungainly, mouth- develop certain Islands
For us who here-Ladies and Hawaiian group as aerodromes, the fuls, and warned their readers of why, the English dinner-pinte fraterrrr Gentlemen, erry to alt, al err information was greeted with en- the indelicacy of putting unwanted got its broad rim that widened to support, er, er, er, the traditions, this scraps back into the general dish. such magnificent proportions under er, er, of a er er great er, nation. thusiasm by the people or Iside of the water. We, in Hong- Gnawed banes you threw under the [Queen Victoria. Some say it waser, or, (Much needed applause) we table or atrewed at random on the introduced to keep the gravy from must say that wo find our full running off the plate, others that cloth.
The bread dinner plate was uni- it was for the servant to hold the energies occupied in supporting would shorten the distance between rich men's households, where the of it where food might lle.
нев The first pottery made in this (Join the Army and sucking pig would come in on East and West to a mere three days allver diah, and as likely na not country was coarse enough stuff, World) and the Navy (Join the for travel. Wo were misled, it seems there would be roast peacock, tail despised by refined households. It Navy and see the Sea) are quite. The purpose of the Hawallan aero- and all, as a trimming to one of was not until the clay of the Mid-capable of upholding our prestige Trencher bread was lands, in the seventeenth century, atrend and aboard. However dromes is something quite different, the courses. THURSDAY, FEB. 14, 1935. They will serve as a base for an air specially baked, considerably coar graduated from making common there are a few points which much Heet which will form America's first ser than the fine white bread ono household crocks to glazed hand-puzzle our local friends who are line of defence and which will beate and allowed to get nice and painted plates of a quaint elegance interested in etiquetto,
stale before it was used, so as to that people began to admit it to THE FUTURE OF
their tables.
For instance why should one be available in the event of threatened be more serviceable. AIRSHIPS.
Even then, it never displaced awakened fairly frequently at an trouble in the Far East
pewter and plate in the great carly hour by a bombardment of If you were rich, you ignored the housca. It needed another hundred Kun salutes from the Silent Ser- The mishap to the U.S. naval American interests are involved.
bread plate after all the best of the years and the invention of porcelain vice? That, one supposes, is to dirigible Macon, will no doubt
as we show that though silent, they are gravy had scened into it. A sor-to bring the china plate
not dumb. again raise the question as to
vant came round after each course know it to the dinner-tabic.
Porcelain le, to all intents and and swept the sodden allces Into a
The army presents a more dim- whether aircraft of this type are
Representative Vinson, advocate great basket; this was distributed purposes, opaque glass-which is cult problem for when one reflects see your Angers on the ease with which their din- of any real value. At the time of a "big Navy" for America, is among the poor at the gate, and why you can of the Akron disaster, and also at palms to explain that the forti- gave them a wholesome meal with through it against the light. It ner, tennis and domestic plans are when the R.101 crashed, both fleation of Hawail is not a result the added excitement of a few rich has never been anything but expen-1 revealed to the bewildered forry
and spicy flavours.
sive (even to-day in any of the big user one would be tempted to feel They gathered at the gate as stores an ordinary dozen dinner a little insecure if one didn't know of Japan's abrogation with heavy loss of life, there Washington Naval Treaty. That punctually as the rich man's guests service of real chinn will cost you that that la just the Army's way
be. It
in
· រឺទ explained
were trumpeted to table, and by anything up to £60), but in the of showing that where there is was an outcry against dirigibles, muy Britain has, in fact, long decided Washington that the building of eating the discarded meat. plates eighteenth century it was a fashion smoke there must be some fre.
defence post in Hawail does not
performed a very useful service in able novelty and put plate out of against further use of this type mean that America is challenging an age when dustbins had yet to the running for over.
This is not forgetting the Air Catherine II. of Russia commis- Force (Join the Air Force and get. of craft. There was a hope that any other power to a naval race in be invented.
If you were not rich, and had not aloned Josiah Wedgood to make her more nir) whose failure to stage the use of helium as the levitat-the Pacific. But it ta too much
America's hope, we fear, that
the nobleman's gluttonous array of a full banqueting service for 50 anything in the nature of & sen- ing gas, in place of hydrogen, potential rivals in the Far Eastcourses to keep appetite for, you persons, each piece hand-painted sallonal crash has considerably He chose lessened their value to the news- would render the Macon immune will accept the situation or the exate your trencher modeatly your with a different scene. from the danger of explosion, planation and remain inactive. self and gathered up the crumbs
For while Hawail is ostensibly to with your fingers,
ist haunts of Great Britain and employed an army of artists to but it would appear from the serve a defensive purpose, it
And we of course have much to execute them. The Russian Em-live up-probably more than we news-to-hand that an explosion conceivable that operations from did actually occur, emanating
In time, of course, people found Press antished her craving to dine have-to-live-down though we be that base might be extended west- ward, and that a fortress in mid-it more practical to put a flat off the new English porcelain, and lieve that the editor looks after from the engines. Whether that Pacific might be looked upon as the wooden platter under the slab of what is left of the service is pre- the editions whilst our readers
give us the traditions.. was the case or not, the fact first link in a chain of strong out bread, or even a silver one if you served to-day like crown jewels.
The prosperity of Victorian Eng- posta atretching towards Asia. could afford it. It saved the table
For instance, Mrs. Smyythe has remains that the big airship Certainly we do not suggest that linen, which was often extremely land was reflected in the amplitude
been fined $5 for allowing her came to grief, and it was more that is America's purpose. But it fine and elaborately arranged, and of its dinner plates, which measured Pekiness to face the public with- 12 Inches across. out its muzzle and after reading by good fortune than anything is more than likely that in Japan, even a stuffed quail was more easily on an average
(The average meat plate to-day else that a heavy loss of life for instance, this latest Pacific move diamembered with fingers and knife
will arouse anxiety, if not sus- If it had a firm wooden platter measures between 9 and 10 inches.) in the account of her conflict with did not result. When the air-picion.
They accommodated a full cut from the majesty of justice that Mrs. dinner the Sunday sirloin and a generous Smith was the offender, she brande Gradually stale-bread ship controversy was at its height some years ago, there was SPEED MANIA-
plates became demede and people portion of Yorkshire pudding and the journal as a sheet of foul and nameless slander for ever after. who were abreast of the times had vegetables. Nowadays few considerable argument over the
the fashionable new wooden ones can afford such princely joints and
most of us are dieting.. relative advantages of the rigid Thousands of lives are lost every Instead.
They were singularly unlike what and semi-rigid types, but a fact year because of the power under
the foot of reckless motorists.we know as a dinner plate to-day. which has since been establish- With every new model produced by They were quite flat and sometimes ed from a series of disasters is the automobile manufacturera, aquare, not hollowed out in the a tendency and to economise en hiccups) is so exhausting that we
border. that both types are liable to quicker pick-un or a greater speed middle, and without
is a feature widely advertised. serious defects. And the pointMan, in the person of Sir Malcolm
NO NAVAL RACE
where
of the
i8
man
to be borne in mind is that when Campbell, has driven at a speed of "|
iniles per hour. But that a serious accident does happen, there is great risk to the big 300 miles an hour. It is probable In not fast enough. He wants to go personnel which craft of this that Sir Malcolm will break his own COLLARS ATTACHED type carry. In the Great War, record, set up at Daytona Beach, Florida, on February 28, 1933. He the Zeppelina were at first used is ready to attempt the record run with marked success in aerial and is merely awaiting favourable fraids, but as anti-aircraft men-
conditions. But supposing he does succeed in travelling at 150 yards aures were devised they even a second: what then? Will tually proved more fatal to their ever venture out upon the highways crews than to their would-be in machines capable of attaining:
this
will the And if so, врева victims. Thus the value of time saved be worth the lives that dirigibles for military purposes must be lost in experiment and in is open to question. Against the consequence? We are prepared to hail Sir Malcolm as 'a sportsman, long list of disasters, however, as a man of tremendous daring, has to be placed the remarkable tran nerve and remarkable tenacity. career of the Graf Zeppelin. but apart from the advertising value of his race against time at This airship has gone through Daytons, we feel that the practical all manner of weather with little rosuit of this test is not worth the actual harm. She has flown in rak. If Sir Malcolm, and others, every continent except Australia, for motor travellers we rather hope
make
possible still greater speeds has crossed the North Atlantic that the products of their ingenuity „HEATHER MIXTURE SHADES six times and the South Atlantic will be kept at Daytona. Wo have on Afteen occasions, besides too much respect for life to hurry
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In fact, they hardly come up my knees.
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