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tiger-skin, and caps match of the same striped- fur.
A most remarkable effect, strange and bizarre, in an old "Wooden Wall"! Here is no Reene from Gilbert and Sulli- van comic opera or even a 1936 revue. It represents the actual dress worn by men of the Ficct a century or so ngo.
In our less pic- turesque era,
October 5, 1939.
When
The Navy
fought in
of the Portsmouth at the end eighteenth century sported a great sign belonging to ond Morgan, mer- cer and sen draper, who lived at. No. 85, opposite the Fountain Inn, High-street."
Ills "modern" advertisement ran: "Suitors rigged complete from' stem to stern, viz., chapeau, nopeau, dying jib and deli bog, inner pen, outer pes, and cold defender; rudder enso and service to the same; up haulers und down fruders, fore shoes, Jac Ings, gaskets, elc."
Stormy weather in the last cen- lury brought out "wrap rascal," a lerin all too eloquent of the way A.B.s were then regarded. It merely denotes a coat of frieze worn with a fenther, felt, pr. terred canvas ng-
ron
alternating with a blue, green, or red BETJE
SATIN SUITS
"frock.
But, yo hot when Jack Tar rolled
12h ushore
his smartest.
officers will not, however, wear The King of England saw her. asked his preference. Being a toyni appeared in a short blue Jacket with tional colours, red and blue or. blue the way down the right side and white jackets and white mankeen Men of the British Navy came coul, he was emphatle for the no- row of flat gold or brass bottons all and red, he did not much care which peoping entrancingly from the cuffs. The "bags" of blue cloth or of trousers, sporting dnahing purple either to rejoice ur sorrow as a
The days of dressing to way, they went.
white duck, extremely loose and a' not our sashes across their shoulders de- result.
"No," replied the First Lord, his trifle too long-well, have corated with the royal insignia, one's taste or as the commander
ordered vanished for a long Grate of Bedford. "The King has Oxford undergraduates lately shown and carrying wands.
determined otherwise, for having us how they appeared? time.
Cambridge, however, has not one seen my duchess riding in a habit of At this period our naval of-e faced with white, the dress took one better and appeared as did those ficers were the only ones among the fancy of his Majesty, who has elegant bluejackets in white stock- the European Powers without n appointed it for the uniform of the ings and shoes like dancing pumps
Only rarely in its centuries of existence has the British Navy been dressed in "Navy blue."
During Tudor times the colour of the British Navy was green and white up to the days of Phones: 27778-9 Stubbs Rd. Mary Queen of Scots, when sky-
blue was chosen.
The
Lower ranks under the Tudors appeared in white and green cloth as holiday best; officers in green and white satin. What is more, since "engagements" were
hongkong Telegraph. accounted holidays, they put on
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their smartest attire for all en- counters with the enemy!
U
[PON the Royal Navy devolves the all-important task of guarding the shores of England, of clearing the scas of enemy raiders and of fighting the U-Boat menace.
All the gold braid anul trimmings will be stored away while the ships are at seu on their grim tasks. History has seen many new and strange fashions in the uniforms of the British Navy, but in war-time to-day they are simplicity itself.
It has not always been thus. At one time, even officers went into battle dressed in green and white satin!
uniform.
a scarlet or with allver buckles, canary yellow waistcoat decorated with ribbons sewn down the seamna, a loosely bul most delightfully knotted silk handkerchief around-the thront and earrings.
On the head such a dandy A.D. sported a low-crowned, bluck tor- paulin hat with a ribbon on which was "painted" the name of his ship.
Beneath 11 at the back stretched down h pigtail, doubled up usual ly on workdays, but reaching tar below the waist at holiday times, for it his, hair were not long enough to satisfy pride Jack simply plaited in enkum to add to the length and greased the whole of it well!
As lale as Victorlun times the Red came next, because it was
ships commanders again emulated the Stuart colour. "Tyne red
the Prince Régent Duke of Clarence cloth and velvet for garding"
period. Men of the Vernon wore Defeating the U-Boat
liberally embroidered with ships,
red serge "frocks," but they had to British Navy!"
change to blue when the first fabric DESPITE THE activity of Ger-roses, or crowns. Seamen wore red "wide-kneed trousers" and
So I came about that as from wore out, because it could not be Admiral of the Fleet the lon. man U-Boats there are new sixty-three-cornered hats or leather-
1748, following King replaced.
From the Blazer's crew in blac John Forbes was summoned to au- April 13,
ad- four more British ships at sea than caps faced with red.
After the Puritan period of lend on the First Lord of the George It's royal command
Admiralty, He found the Duke of mirals, captains, commanders, lieu and white striped quernseys our pre- The Harlequin's commander dress- there were three months ago, the buff and brown came the later Bedford, then the First Lord. in bis tenants and midshipmen appeared in sent idea of "blazers" is derived.
by various uniforms of the colours which the Stuart colours of red and apartmen: surrounded
M. A. Thomas increase in the tonnage of British yellow; for officers, yellow coats "dresses which draped his furnish- duchess had worn so well when rid-d his gig's crew as harlequins! vessels in commission being esti-lined with red, red breeches and s. Acnirel the Hon, John was ing in the Mall.
red stockings, or coats lined mated at 275,000 tons.
with yellow, aver grey breeches with white stockings.
The Food of the Future
economies are having marked Herbodeau, Sir Arbuthnot Lane, and
stoking un," a process to he got
over as quickly as possible, and pre- ferably in private.
The Shavian Example
In addition there has bren, during
That hats were laced with the past three months, a decrease of
broad gold-coloured lace. Quar- s less than 32 per cent. in the ter-deckers who wished to be
Taste in food is changing. Science The Views of Bernard Shaw, Eugene become a mechanical, unemotional tonnage of idle shipping laid up in | truly impressive and dashing
Albert Sandler. might do exactly as they liked.
and rapid effect upon human diet. British ports.
Told by the scientisis what are the They appeared resplendent in These returns of the Chamber red coats, faced with blue; or best foods fur health and stamine,must use with moderation. With re- scarlet, faced with silver; or and forced by economy to moderate gord to a diet, it is usually best to
There are some who do not agree of Shipping of the United Kingdom, grey and silver and other dress the quantity taken, we are discover cal what flatters most our sense of ing that we have been treading the taste, for the fact of desiring a cer issued in a British Government equally dazzling!
wrong path for countless ages. Now tain food helps our digestion and with this view altogether. Bernard Shuw has said that eating should be One day in the earlywe are turning towards a saner and avoids fatigue to the organs." circular received by the "Tele
M. Herbodenu pours scorn on all done as far as possible in private; eighteenth century the old wea- more hygienle diet.
What will the food of the future food faddists, especially those who but in many other respects he agrees graph" yesterday, are a welcome ther-beaten, richly-laden Cen-be? Wit consist entirely of fruit think that food will one day be taken with those who think the world's sign that the U-Boat depredations turion limped into port in aand vegetables? Will man still eat a compressed forrn. The scientist food will be greatly changed.
Along with other famous experts, are having Bittle or any effect upon pitiable-state-leaking-at-every meat? W the dining table have who prophesies that one day we shall
our meals in capsules, Mr. Shaw foresees a decline in "the" seam, her crew perishing of been abolished and food be taken in be taking the Mercantile Marine. Additional-scurvy.
pill form without expenditure swallowing two of these uninterest-consumption of meat, and he attri
Ing things while we dress, in lieu butes many of the fils to which we ly, it must be remembered that for
England seethed with excite- any time on meals?
Meat is undoubtedly losing ground. of sitting down to breakfast, is ob- are heirs to meat eating. Cheese, are the stapĵo with viously only a poor scientist, other-butter, fruit-those every ton of British shipping sunk meat over the fame of that The, modern world regards
of wise he would know that though the items of his diet, and, with his bodily voyage, and Commodore Anson, horfor the prodigious amount by U-Boats, 11⁄2 tons of German its commander, was the hero of flesh eaten by our forefathers, und M nourishment required for the human vigour and inental aleriness, he is
and Herbodeau, the famous chef,
small space, the body demands his own food laws. shipping have been seized by the the day, for he had rounded Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, can be compressed into a very a shining example of the value of
well as quality. The' Cape Horn in terrific gales, had thinks that fish will be one of the quantity as
The present generation can hardly dealt a serious blow to the staple articles of diet. He has point- best of foods without bulk must lead
that the varieties of fruit were so ex- At the same time there has been Spaniards in the Pacific anded out that the sea offers a great eventunily to serious illness, passi-realise that it is not many years ago in Britain a8 to be only captured the great Spanish variety of inexhaustible resources of bly death.
good food which is easily digested.
Man can never be like a machine, pensive a great revival of activity in British
treasure ship, Nuestra Senora While M. Herbodeau thinks that taking in food as unconcernedly as within the reach of the rich; many de Covadoriga.
meat is losing ground in some quar a motor takes in fuel. Man is a fruits had never been heard of. But shipyards.
animal. Improved methods of preservation Its treasure was dragged, in tere he sees nothing to indicate that social and often convivial
fruits to be Naval demands, naturally, con- thirty-two wagons laden with people will in future become more There is something more in eating have enabled exotic
vegetarian.
than mere feeding, and the meal is brought across the sea casily that stitute an important factor in this gold and silver, the value of Consulting the Taste so Important a factor in social inter- they can be eaten by all. The con- course and in the enjoyment we take sumption of fruit as a regular párt revival, but there has been a mark-which was £10,000,000 sterling,
"Nature," he says, "offers us an in one another's company, that it of the nation's dict has increased a ed increase in commercial orders through the streets of London.
Anson WAR promoted Rear-infinite variety of products which we seems very unlikely that it will ever thousand fold within the last afty Admiral of the Bluc..
Royal Navy.
for ship construction since the be- ginning of the year.
+
on
As relief, perhaps, against the rage and rigours of that voyage. The Clyde shipyards now have his men now were seen in scar- order let jackets, blue silk vests and under construction or
wearing silver badges on their nineteen liners, aggregating 200,000 arms, signal mark in those days gross tons, as well as eight cargo of great interest in the Cen- vessels of 41,000 tons and four turion. tankers totalling 30,000 tons.
Another large ahipbuilding centre
The famous Anson himself we can дее even to-day in the is the north-east coast of England; National Portrait Gallery _us{ at the end of last month ship painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.j
His outer coat of thick blue builders in that district had under cloth with outrageously flaunt- construction or on order, 316,000|ing skirts, lavishly embroidered, gross tons of ocean-going merchant calfs of generous dimensions, and big lapels all in white, is vessels.
worn over a long waistcoat de- scending to the knee, of white cashmere.
This total includes fourteen liners aggregating 90,000 tons, forty cargo vessels totalling 200,000 tons and] three tankers of 25,000 tons all told:
Its long sleeves terminate in filmy froth of mousquetaire lace, and its largo pockets, An aspect of considerable import-heavily-embroidered, are of blue. ance in British mercantile shipping Add to it all white stockings is its relatively modern construction,pulled up into a roll above the knee, shoes with neat red heels According to the chairman of one and a three-cornered chapeau- of the leading British cargo ship bras garnished with gold lace ping companies, out of over 3,260,- round the brim. 000 tons of British tramp tonnago less than 400,000 tons were bullt before 1920, whereas the average nge of the tramp vessels of other nations was considerably greater.
Then the Duchess of Bedford rode in the Mall in a habit of blue faced with white like the Phillp Saumorez uniform de signed for Admiral Lord Anson.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
FLOWERS WIRED Engwiele wee "THIS COUNTRY
By Lichty
"I see young Snodgrass is getting married—well, that's tho end
of another good customer!!!
years, and, considering the value of fruit, it is reasonable to maintain that it will occupy an even more Important position in dieteties than, it does to-day.
Parallel to the problem of food in the future will' probably come the question of abstention from food at certain times, Sir William Arbuth- not Lane hos spoken of the value of on occasional fast of one, two, or three days, especially during middle- nge, and many doctors prophesy that in the future doing without food." entirely for short periods at reguler Intervals throughout the year will be regarded as normal procedure and no more strange than the taking of on annual holiday.
Many architects think that the future will see an even greater ten-. dency towards having meùis in public restaurants than there is now. The private kitchen has already become an Infinitely smaller and less Impor- tant place than It was in the Vic- torinn age. Will the future see it disappear altogether?
our
And if we all cat in restaurants, shall we tolerate music with meals? To-day opinion is divided to whether we should eat to the strains of a string orchestra; some say that If we attend to our food and dis- regard the music we insult composer and musiclon, but it wo listen to the music and do not concentrate on our food we invite indigestion.
Mr. Albert Sandler, than whom no one is batier fitted to speak, and whom one might reasonably expect to take the former view, says that ho thinks food should be taken without music. "In the quiet of the hotel lounge, when men and women, com- fortably fed and satisfied with life, are gathered together, Is the place for musle if it is to be appreciated,"
Dark Skene.