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There is quite a "gallery" "brush up" their dancing. In WORLD CRUISE! noons and evenings but morn- How thrilling that ings are usually free, except who cheer lustily at the winning addition, lessons are given in the Sundays when Holy Mass is point and all join the players Lambeth Walk, the Palais Glide, sounds--and thrilling celebrated in the Empress Room for a "Quick one" in the Tennis Eleanor Glide, and so forth. 'Phone 26615
"Won $20 at Keno" confides a by the Roman Catholle Chaplain Court Cafe. On the Sun Deck March 8, 1989
"What goes on aboard?" and Divine Service in the May- quoits and shuffleboard are in newly-found friend. "Let's cele- fair Lounge by the Church of progress, while on the. Sports brate with a drink." And that's is a question asked every England Chaplain. We attend Arena two sporting games of how it goes, so many charming In my Science and Food
where, so for the benefit of Divine Service and sec the Deck Tennis are fought to a and friendly people.
apartment I find an invitation to Twentieth century man has lost those who have never had Choir, consisting of smart little finish.
We wander down to the a Cocktail Party to be held in some of the optimism with which the great experience I will bellboys and a few other mem-
convivial souls all his recent ancestors were wont to welcome the progress of science. try to give a brief outline. hers of the crew file in one door, Library to choose a book and the Card Room; about forty are
while the laundry girls file in find half a dozen others on the invited, Let's leave New York at the other, taking their places on same errand.
At the writing chattering at once. in its practical
Feel a bit "let-down" to-day applications
either side of the Table draped tables three cruise members selence appears all too frequently eleven a.m. on January 7. to be providing # лету Jethal The siren is shrieking, in a Union Jack. Then comes are scribbling industriously for no earthly reason, so off to Beauty Parlour for a weapon, a new noise a new Those who have come to see the Chaplain followed by some diaries, no doubt, Strains of the Turkish Bath, then to the
of the senior officers. It is "Melody in F" come from the smart
and waye, facial, labour-saving device which throws the lucky ones away and quite impressive and we feel Mayfair where the Tea Concert shampoo, out of work some fresh category bid them "Bon Voyage" we are in a real Church.
is in progress so we sink down manicure, and come out feeling of working men. The latest of the
in a big casy chair to listen and "on top of the world." "Woman niways diversified reports of the pour down the gangway to
sip tea. This "afternoon tea" thy name is vanity" said a very wise man once upon a time! Department of Sefentific and In- the shouts of "All Visitors & Co., Ltd.
anashore, please."
IN A FEW DAYS the weather becomes a habit and
There are plenty of Bridge dustrial Research provides
grows warmer and the decks know when it is four o'clock by admirable antidote to sich pessi- Streamers thrown from the
crowds are filled with people taking that strange longing for "the lovers aboard and the Bridge Parties held in the Empress mism, for a considerable section of high decks fall on the
Room are well attended with the report is devoted to the sub-waving on the dock as the ship their daily dozen, sitting in deck cup that cheers".
Five o'clock! Off to the nice prizes for the winners. 66ject of human food and the slowly pulls away from the Pier chairs, chatting in little groups,
methods discovered for keeping to which she will return on May or just gazing over the side and movies in the Empress Room Horse and Yacht Racing on the which last until 6.15. Still time after deck are alwaya fun, with it both palatable and wholesome. 14 after cruising 30,000 miles drinking in the fresh breezes,
A number of smart costumes for a swim before dinner! We the betting fast and furious. Twenty years ago Britain was and visiting 20 ports..
take my eye. One charming slip into our snapplest bathing Two small bellboys throw the faced with a serious shortage of
older woman, immaculately suit and down to the Olympian dice and sailors move the horses - food, owing to political'conditions
on deck to wave groomed, is wearing a rose beige Pool to join the jolly group of or yachts. which, it is common knowledge, WE STAY
farewell to the Statue of wool dress under a top coat that swimmers, divers, and those who
Find-I-have mislaid-my-cold- During the emergency Liberty and then go to our matches perfectly, with a hat just splash.
cream. Must visit the Shop to a Food Investigation Board was apartments to unpack, secretly of exactly the same
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see if they have my favourite established, and it is under the admiring those dainty evening crowning her beautifully waved auspices of this organisation, dresses and snappy sports white hair. Another, a dashing THERE HAVE been many de- brand. Yes, they have! And what a variety of other things which has survived and grown clothes chosen so carefully. brunette, is wearing blue slacks, lightful events. A general
all the way from a package during the years of peace, that Then out on the Promenade blue pullover and a quaint little reception it which the Cruise of pins to a fully fitted dressing.
A Director and his staff met the some of the most important prob- Deck to look our fellow passen- crownless blue felt hat.
case, (Note we are lems of food storage have been gers over, making mental notes blonde in pearl grey knit with cruise members.
of those we should like to meet. touches of coral, is the cynosure cruise members and not just
At seven the dressing chimes of all eyes. There are many passengers). Then
knitted costumes by insects upon stored grain sound and we hurry to
but the Younger Set. A Cocktail THE DAY of our arrival at lovely Madeira a Treasure of wastage which costs stateroom wondering just what sport dresses in flannel seem Party for the Bachelors, and in- Hunt was held, with everyone Britain at least £500,000 a year to weer-if everyone will be to be the most popular,
*formal Tea Dance, followed by a so busy attempting to "discover" and still requires remedy the dressed for dinner and decide IP ON the Tennis Court a fast jolly "Get-Together" Dinner and the treasure we had quite a report mentions three specific
match is under way; the Dance. Early in the cruise dan- shock when looking to port we problema, the storage of apples to dress anyway,
To the smart Cooktail Bar, girls clad in shorts and shirts cing classes are held so that "discovered" the island quite and pears, the chilling of beef,
in slacks and those who are shy about appear- close. men and the keeping fresh of fish, where a cheery group is gathered and the
gratefully accept Ten years ago the "gas-storage" and
an sweaters,
ing on the ballroom floor may of fruit was still in the expert invitation to join them. (We DO menal atage; 20 years ago the feel a bit lost at the moment). term was wholly unknown. To-
Then dinner in the great day there are 3,000,000 cubic feet
We look the of storage provided to keep apples Dining Saloon.
What a choice of and pears fresh by this method. menu over.
Some Less than six years ago the first food! Let's see. consignment of chilled beef left consomme perhaps--and a tiny New Zealand for London; in 1937 piece of sole-so big. Now the two southern Dominions sent what? The attentive steward. 750,000 hundredweight of beef auggests chicken Maryland. carried in special chambers
Perfect! Ummm! some fresh enriched with carbon-dioxide, and the process has allowed meat. to green peas, and yes, a little! No no potatoes' arrive in far better, and certainly cauliflower.
want to get fat!) in far more palatable, condition (Don't than former methods of crude re- then . Pench Melba. No- frigeration allowed. Fish, again, not even a savoury to-night. which in present conditions can That's plenty. The dishes be kept really fresh only 10 to 12 follow one another in quick |
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AT THE
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Apart from preventing attacks
form
our smart
days, has been experimentally succession DA we chatter to preserved for as much As two years by new processes of "brine-table companions. All the food freezing point of which our is delicious and we consume far
C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD. sorely stricken fishing industry too much for the good of our
St. George's Building
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Count the "TELEGRAPHS" everywhere
At 9.30 the Dance Band draws
will, it la to be hoped, avail itself. figure. The man on my right With fish, with fruit, and to suggests coffee and liqueur in lessor degree with butcher's meat, the Cathay Lounge. - *Yes, in- the problem of preserving food is deed, we'd love it. not simply one of keeping it "good" during transport, but of using a acasonal product all the us to the great Mayfair Lounge. year round. In the past the The charming Social Directress scientific storage of food has approaches: blds us "welcome", chiefly helped the importer, but makes a few introductions and there is no reason why it should away we whirl, Midnight!-- not help the home producer as and so to bed. wall, as has the cognate develop
mont of canning. The Depart ment of Scientific and Industrial
Research, a Government Depart WHERE DOES the timo go? ment, has led the way, but it is. We've mot hosts of people for industry itself, de the report now and find we have many points out, to avail itself of the mutual friends. There is always ‘advances, de
something arranged for after-
shade
GRIN AND BEAR IT
a Tea for
Ports of call-are frequent in the Mediterranean and the days at sea are always welcomed to By Lichty give us a chance to rest up. Bs
fore each port an Illustrated Talk is given by the Cruise Lec- turer, and most instructive they
"Stop being rude and interrupting mother, Lucy-I can't hear a thing they're saying, at the other table!"?
are,
Cocktail parties are now tho thing when anywhere from twenty to a hundred congenial souls gather for a "get together" before dinner. And the Sports. Tournaments are "going strong" with many a hard fought battle taking place.
Up to Suez woollen sports clothes and dark evening things were "Just right" but now thin volles, smart printed cottons, and shady hats are the thing with wispy evening dresses of fine lace, net, tropical crepe and so forth the correct wear. The men have changed also, and very smart they look in their white evening Jackets.
The Outer Pool has replaced the Olympian in popularity and Mormalds and Mermen in the. briefest of suits are acquiring a golden tan as thoy, laze around the deck between dips in the pool. Such fun! Someono brings along a Victrola and all join in the choruses of the latest popu- lar songs. There are two orches tras aboard one for dancing and one for classical music. We (Continued on Page 10.5
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