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A most remarkable effect, strange and bizarre, in an old "Wooden Wall"! Here is no Bсone from Gilbert and Sulli- van comic opera or even a 1935 revue. It represents the actual dress worn by
men of the Fleet
a century or so
ngo,
In our less pic- turesque era,
When
The Navy
fought
SATIN
officers will not, however, wear white jackets and white nunkcen trousers, sporting dashing purple sashes across their shoulders de- corated with the royal insignia, and carrying wands.
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 Stubbs Rd. Mary Queen of Scots, when sky-
blue was chosen.
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 their smartest attire for all en- counters with the enemy!
Hongkong Telegraph. accounted holidays, they put on
Wyndham St, Hongkong 'Phone 26615 October 5, 1939
Defeating the U-Boat
☆
The King of England saw her, Men of the British Navy came either to rejoice or sorrow as & result. The days of dressing to one's tasto or as the commander ordered vanished for a long thine.
At this period our naval of ficers were the only ones among the European Powers without a
in
Portsmouth the end of the eighteenth century sported" a great slýn belonging to`ɑne Morgan, mer-- cer and sen draper, who lived at: No. 83, opposite the Fountain Inn,. High-street."
Hla "modern" advertisement run: "Saltors riggeil completo from stem. to stern, viz., chapeaua, napeau, flying. jib and flesh bag, inner pea, outer pes, and cold defender; rudder case and service to the same; up haulers and down traders, fore slides, lac- ing, gaskets, ate."
&
Stormy weather In the last cen- tury brought out "wrap rascal," lerin all too eloquent, of the way A.B.s were then regarded. It merely denotes n.coat of frieze worn with, a feather, felt, or tarred canvas op- alternating with a blue, green,. OF red. "frock."
SUITS
ron
Berge
But. yo bol when Jack Tar rolled ashore in his smartest, ho
asked his preference. Being a loyal appeared in a short blue jacket with soul, he was emphatic for the no- row of fint gold or brass bottons all tional colours, red and blue or blue the way down the right side and and red, he did not much care which peeping entrancingly from the cuffs. The "baga", of blue cloth or of way they went,
white duck, extremely loose' and a "No," replied the First Lard, his trifle too long-well, have not our Grace' of Bedford. "The King has Oxford undergraduates lately shown determined otherwise, for having us how they appeared?
Cambridge, however, has not gone- scen my duchess riding in a habit of the fancy of his Majesty, who has elegant bluejackets in white stock blue faced with white, the dress took one better and appeared as did those appointed it for the uniform of the ings and shoes like dancing pumps
UPON the Royal Navy devolves the all-important task of guarding the shores of England, of clearing the seas of enemy raiders and of fighting the U-Boat menace.
All the gold braid and trimmings will be stored away while the ships are at sea 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.
British Navy!"
Red came next, because it was the Stuart colour, "fyne red cloth and velvet for garding” liberally embroidered with ships, Seamen wore DESPITE THE activity of Ger- roses, or crowns.
red "wide-kneed trousers" and man U-Boata there are now sixty-three-cornered hats or leather
So it came about that as from Admiral of the Fleet the Hon, Jolin Forbes was summoned to nt April 13, 1748, following King four more British ships at sea than caps faced with red.
tend on the First Lord of the George 11,'s royal command After the Puritan period of Admiralty. He found the Duke of mirals, captains, commanders, lieu- there were three months ago, the buff and brown came the later Bedford, then the First Lord, in his tenants and midshipmen appeared in Stuart colours of red and upartment surrounded by various uniforms of the colours which the
with silver buckles, a scarfet.or canary yellow waistcoat decorated with ribbons sewn down the seams, a loosely but most delightfully knotted silk handkerchief around the throat and carvings.
On the head such a dandy' A.B.. sported a low-crowned, black tar-- paulin hat with a ribbon on which was "painted" the name of his ship.
Beneath it at the Dock stretched: down his platall, doubled up usual- far ly on workdays, but reaching below the waist at boliday times, for it his hair were not long enough to satisfy prkic Jack simply plaited in oakum to add to the length and greased the whole of it well!
As late as Victorian times the ships' commanders ́ ́again emulated the Prince Regent Duke of Clarence period. Men of the Vernon wore red serge "frocks," but they had to change to blue when the first fabric wore out, because it could not be replaced,
From the Blazer's crew in blue ad- and white striped guernseys our pre- sent idea of "blazers" is derived.
The Harlequin's commander dress-
M. A. Thomas
increase in the tonnage of British | vellow; for officers, yellow conts "dresses" which draped his furnish- duchess had worn so well when rided his glg's crow as horlequinat
esti-lined with red, red breeches and ings. Admiral the Hon. John was ing in the Mall.
red stockings, or coats lined with 'yellow, over grey breeches with white stockings.
vessels in commission being mated at 275,000 tons.
In addition there has been, during the past three months, a decrease of no less than 32% per cent in the tonnage of Idle shipping laid up in British porta.
!
the Mercantile Marine Additional- ly, it must be remembered that for
scurvy.
The Food of the Future
aro heirs
the
That bats were laced with brond gold-coloured lace. Quar-. ter-deckers who wished to be
Taste in food is changing. Selenco ↑ The Views of Bernard Shaw, Eugene|become a mechanical, unemotional truly impressive and dashing
are having marked | Herbodeau, Sir Arbuthnot Lane, and "stoking up," a process to be got might do exactly as they liked. and economics
jand rapid effect upon human diet.
Albert Sandler.
over as quickly as possible, and pre- They appeared resplendent in Told by the scientists what are the
Ierably In private. These returns of the Chamber red coats, faced with blue; or best foods for health and stamina, must uso with moderation. With re- of Shipping of the United Kingdom, scarlet, faced with silver; or and forced by economy to moderate gard to a diet, it is usually best to The Shavian Example
grey and silver and other dressing that we have been treading the taste, for the fact of desiring a cer
are discover-eat what flatters most our sense of the quantity taken,
There are some who do not agree issued in a British Government equally dazzling!
wrong path for countless ages. Now tain food helps our digestion and with this view altogether. Bernard circular received by the "Tele- Опе day in the early we are turning towards a saner and avoids fatigue to the organs." Shaw has sold that cating should be
eighteenth century. the old wen-more hygienic diet.
M. Herbodeau pours scorn on all done as far as possible in private; graph" yesterday, are R welcome ther-beaten, richly-laden Cen-
What will the food of the future food faddists, especially those who but in many other respects he agrees sign that the U-Boat depredations turion limped into port in aand vegetables? Will man atill eat in compressed form. The scientist food will be greatly changed.
be? Will it consist entirely of fruit think that food will one day be taken with those who think the world's are having little ar any effect upon pitiable state, leaking at every meat? Will the dining-table have who prophesies that one day we shall Along with other famous-experts,
seam, her crew perishing of been abolished and food he taken in be taking our meals in
pill form without expenditure of swallowing two of these uninterest consumption of meat, and he attri
capsules, Mr. Shaw foresees a decline ing things while we dress, in lieu England seethed with excite-any time on meals?
Meat is undoubtedly losing ground. of altuing down to breakfast, is ob-butes many of the llis to which we every ton of British shipping sunkment over the fame of that The modern world regards with viously only a poor scientist, ether butter, fruit-those are the staple to meat eating. Cheese, voynge, and Commodore Anson, horror the prodigious amount of by U-Boats, 11⁄2 tons of German its commander, was the hero of flesh eaten by our forefathers, and M. wise he would know that though the items of his diet, and, with his bodily nourishment required for the human vigour and mental alertness, he is Herbodeau, the famous chef, and shipping have been seized by the the day, for he had rounded Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, boy, can be compressed Into a very a shining example of the value of
Cape Horn in terrific gales, had thinks that fish will be one of the quantity
small space, the body, demands his own food laws Royal Navy.
well as quality. The dealt a serious blow to the staple articles of diet. He has point- best of foods without bulk must lead The present generation can hardly At the same time there has been Spaniards in the Pacific and ed out that the sea offers a great eventually to serious illness, posal-realise that it is not many years ago
captured the great Spanish variety of inexhaustible resources of bly death.
that the varieties of fruit were so ex-. La great revival of activity in British trensure ship, Nuestra Senora good food which is easily digested.
Man can never be like a machine, pensive in Britain ar While M. Herbodenu thinks that taking in food as unconcernedly as within the reach of the rich; many to be only de Covadoriga.
meat is losing ground in some quar- a motor takes in fuel. Man la a fruits had never been heard of. But Its treasure was dragged, in ters he sees nothing to indicate that social and often convivial animal. Improved methods of preservation thirty-two wagons laden with people will in future become more There is something more in eating have enabled exotic fruits gold and silver, the value of Consulting the Taste
vegeterian
than mere feeding, and the meat is brought across the sen so easily that which was £10,000,000 sterling.
so important factor in social inter- they can be eaten by all. The con- course and in the enjoyment we take mumption of fruit as a regular part through the streets of London.
"Nature," he says, "offers us an in one another's company, that it of the nation's diet has increased a Алвоп Wog promoted Rear Indnite variety of products which we seems very unlikely that it will ever thousand fold within the last fifty Admiral of the Blue.
years, and, considering the value of fruit, it is reasonable to maintain that
it will occupy an even more important position in dietetics than it does to-day.
shipyards.
Naval demands, naturally, con-
stitute an Important factor in this revival, but there has been a mark ed increase in commercial orders for ship construction since the be- ginning of the year.
The Clyde shipyards now have
under construction or
On
As relief, perhaps, against the rags and rigours of that voynge, his men now were seen in scar- order let jackets, blue silk vests and arms, signal mark in those days wearing silver badges on their of great interest in the Cen- turion.
nineteen linera, aggregating 200,000 gross tons, as well as eight cargo vessels of 41,000 tons and four Lankèrs totalling 36,000 tons.
Another large shipbuilding centre The famous Anson himself we even to-day in the
сап acc
is the north-east coast of England; National Portrait Gallery as
at the end of last month ship-painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. bullders in that district had under His outer coat of thick blue. cloth with outrageously flaunt- construction or on order 315,000 Ing skirts, lavishly embroidered, gross tons of ocean-going merchant cuffs of generous dimensions, Vessels.
and big lapels all in white, is This total includes fourteen linerascending to the knee, of white worn over a long waistcoat de- aggregating 90,000 tons, forty cargo vessels totalling 200,000 tons and three tankers of 25,000 tons all told.
cashmere..
Its long sleeves terminate in filmy froth of mousquetaire Ince, and its largo pockets, An aspect of considerable import-eavily-embroidered, are of blue. ance in British mercantils shipplag 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 garnfsired with gold lace ping companies, out of over 3,250,- around the brim."
000 tons of British tramp tonnage
loss than 400,000 tons were built
Then the Duchess of Bedford
before 1920, whereas the average rode in the Mail in a habit of
ngo of the tranfp vessels of other nations was considerably greater,.
blue faced with white like the Philip Saumerez thiform de signed for Admiral Lord Anson.,
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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 has spoken of the value of an occasional fast of one, two, or three days, especially during middle- age, and many doctors prophesy that In the future doing without food entirely for short periods at regular Intervals throughout the year will be regarded as normal procedure and no more strange than the taking of an annual holiday..
Many Architects think that tho future will see an even greater ten- dency towards having meals 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-· torian age. Will the future ses It disappear, altogether?
our
And if we all cat in restaurants, shall we tolerate music with meals? To-day opinion la 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 musician; but it wo listen to the. music und do not concentrato on our. fand we invite Indigestion,
Mr. Albert Sundler, than whom no one is better fitted to speak, and whom one might reasonably expect to take the former view, says that he: thinks food should be taken without mule, the quiet of the hotel lounge, when men and women, som--| fortably fed and satisfied with Ilie, are gathered together, is the place for music if it is to be appreciated.!