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A most remarkable effect, strange and bizarre, in an old "Wooden Wall'1 Hore. is no scene from Gilbert and Sulli- van comic opera or even a 1935 revue. It'represents the actual dress worn by men of the Ficet a century or so ago.
In our less pic- turesque era,
October 5, 1939:
When
The Navy
fought in
SATIN
one's taste or no the commander
Portsmouth at the end of the- eighteenth century sported a great. sign belonging to one Morgan, mer- car and sea draper, who lived at No. 85, opposito the Fountain Imm, High-stree
Illa "modern" advertisement ran: "Sailors rigged complete from stem. to stern, viz,, chopeau, napeau, flying jib and desh bag, Inner pes, outer pes, and cold defender; rudder case- and service to the same; up haulers and down traders, fore slices, Inc. ings, gaskets, elc.
Stormy weather in the last cen- tury brought out "wrap rascal," a terin all too cloquent of the way A.B.s were then regarded. It merely denoles a coat of frieze worn with a feather, feit, or
·tarred convas up- TON alternating with a blue, green,. Or red scrac "frock."
SUITS
Bul yo hol when Jack Tor rolled ashore in lls mariest, he
officers will not, however, wear The King of England saw. her. asked his preference. Being a loyal appeared in a short blue jacket with white jackets and white nankeen Men of the British Navy came soul, he was emphatic for the naa row of lat gold or brass bottons all. tional colours, red and blue or blue the way down the right side ond or of trousera, sporting dashing purple either to rejoice or sorrow as & and red, he did not much care which peeping entrancingly from the cults,
The "bags of due, cloth sashes across their shoulders de- result. The days of dressing to way they went.
white duck, extremely loose and a "No," replied the First Lord, his trifle too long-well, have not our ordered vanished for
Grace' of Bedford. The King has Oxford undergraduates lately shown time.
determined otherwise, for having us how they appeared?
Cambridge, however, has not gone At this period our naval of-seen my duchess riding in a habit of
blue 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 Powera without a appointed it for the uniform of the Ings and shoes like dancing pumps
carrying wands.
All in porfect condition!corated with the royal insignia, Only rarely in its centuries of existence has the British Navy been dressed in "Navy blue."
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Defeating the U-Boat
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 accounted holidays, they put on their amarteat attire for all en- counters with the enemy!
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a long
[PON the Royal Navy devolves the all-important UPON
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!"
So it came about that as from
with silver buckles, a scarlet or canary yellow waistcoat decorated with ribbons sewn down the seams, loosely but most delightfully knotted silk handkerchief around the throut--and earrings.
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On the head such a dandy A.B. sported a low-crowned, black tar- paulin hat with a ribbon on which wus "painted" the name of his ship.
Beneath it at the back stretched down his pigtail, doubled up usun!- ly on workdays, but reaching far below the walst at holiday times, for if his hair were not long enough to satisfy pride Jack simply platted in. oakum to add to the length and greased the whole of it well!
As Inte as Victorian times the ships' commanders again emulated the Prince Regent Duke of Clarence period. Men at the Vernon wore red serge "frocks," but they had to change to blue when the first fabric wore out, because it could not be
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-Boats there are now sixty-three-cornered hats or leather Admiral of the Fleet the Hon.
John Forbes was summoned to at- April 13, 1748, following King replaced. tend on the First Lord of the George 11.'s royal. command_ad- four more British ships at sea than caps faced with red.
After the Puritan period of Admirally. He found the Duke of mirals, captains, commanders, lieu- and white striped guernseys our pre- The Harlequin's commander dress- there were three months ago, the buff and brown came the later Belford, then Be First Lord, in his tenants and midshipmen appeared in sent idea of "blazers" is derived.
Stuart colours of red and apartment surrounded by various uniforms of the colours which the increase in the tonnage of British yellow; for officers, yellow coats "dresses" which draped his furnish- duchess had worn so well when rid. ed his gig's crew as harlequins!
M. A. Thomas vessels in commission being esti-lined with red, red breeches and ings. Admiral the Hon. Jol was ing in the Mall.
mated at 276,000 toris.
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 lald up in British ports.
red stockings, or coats lined with yellow, over grey breeches with white stockings.
From the Blazer's crew in blue
The Food of the Future
Taste in food is changing. Science | The Views of Bernard Shaw, Eugene become a mechanical, unemotional "stoking up," a procces to be got Albert Sandler.
over as quickly as possible, and pre- and rapid effect upon human diet,
ferably in pelvate. Told by the scientists what are the
The Shavian Example
scam, her crow perishing of been abolished and food be taken in be taking
pill form without expenditure of swallowing two of these uninterest consumption of meat, and he attri-
The prodigious amount
Herbodeau,
small
are the staple
That hats were laced with broad gold-coloured lace. Quar- ter-deckers who wished to be truly impressive und dashingtonomies are having marked Herbodeau, Sie Arbuthnot Lane, and might do exactly as they liked,
They appeared resplendent in These returns of the Chamber red coats, faced with blue; or best foods for health and stamina, must use 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 grey and silver and other dress the quantity taken, we are discover-ent what tatters most our sense of
There are some who do not agree Ing that we have been treading the taste, for the fact of desiring a cer Issued in t British Government equally dazzling!
wrong path for countless ages. Now tain food helps our digestion and with this view altogether, Bernard Shaw has said that eating should be One day ini the carly we are turning towards a caner and avolds fatigue to the organs." clrcular received by the "Tele-
M. Herbodeau pours scorn on all done as far as possible in private; eighteenth century the old wea- more hygienic diet. graph" yesterday, are a welcome ther-beaten, richly-Inden Cen-He is consist entirely of fruit think that food will one day be taken with those who think the world's 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 and vegetables? Will man still cat in compressed form. The scientist food will be greatly changed. are having little or any effect upon pitiable state, leaking at every ment? Will the dining table have who prophesies that one day we shall Along with other famous experts, our meals in capsules, Mr. Shaw foresees a decline in the the Mercantile Marine. Additional scurvy. ly, it must be remembered that fori England seethed with excite- any time on meals?
Meat is undoubtedly losing ground. Ing things while we dress, in Heu butes many of the fils to which wo of sitting down to breakfast, is ob are heirs to meat eating Cheese, every ton of British shipping sunk ment over the fame of that The modern world regards with viously only a poor scientist, other butter, fruit--those
of voyage, and Commodore Anson, horror 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 the famous chef, and nourishment required for the human vigour and mental alertness, he is shipping have been seized by the cheer of be into a very
space, the body demands his own food lawa. Cape Horn in terrific gales, had thinks that fish will be one of the quantity as well as quality. The
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 Spaniards in the Pacific and ed out that the sea offers a great eventually to serious illness, posal-realize that it is not many years ago that the varieties of fruit were so ex- the great Spanish variety of Inexhaustible resources of bly death.
good food which is easily digested.
Man can never be like a machine,pensive In Britain as captured treasure ship, Nuestra Senora While M. Herbodeau" thinks that taking in food as unconcernedly as within the reach of the rich; many
meat la losing ground in some quar-
But da Covadoriga.
a motor takes in fuel. Man is a frults had never been heard
of preservation Its treasure was dragged, inters he sees nothing to indicate that social and often convivial animal. Improved methods
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 fruits
vegetarian
than mere feeding, and the meal is brought across the sea so easily that alltute 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 part 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 diet has increased a ed Increase. In commercial orders through the streets of London.
Anson WILS promoted Rear-infinile variety of products which we seems very unlikely that it will over thousand fold within the last fifty for ship construction since the be- Admiral of the Blue.
As relief, perhaps, against the ginning of the year.
-raga and rigours of that voyage, The Clyde shipyards now have his men now were seen in scar- under construction
order let jackets, blue silk vests and 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 36,000 tons.
Royal Navy.
At the same time there has been a great revival of activity in British shipyards.
or on
Another large shipbuilding centre!
The famous Anson himself we can sce oven to-day in the:
is the north-east coast of England: National Portrait Gallery as
at the end of last month ship-painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. į
:
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 cuffs of generous dimensions, and big lapels all in white. is vessels.
worn over a long waistcoat de This total includes fourteen linerascending to the knee, of white aggregating 90,000 tona, forty cargo cashmore.
Its long sleeves terminate in vessels totalling 200,000 tons and threo tankers of 25,000 tons all told.filmy froth of mousquetaire lace, and its large pockets, An aspect of considerable import-heavily-embroidered, are of blue, auce in British mercantile shipping Add to it all white stockings is its relatively modern construction. pulled up into a roll above the know, shoes with neat red heels According to the chairman of one and a three-cornered chapeau- of the landing British cargo ship bras garnished with gold Inco ping companies, out of over 3,250,-tround the brim.
C00 tons of British tramp tonnage
less than 400,000 tons were built
Then the Duchess of Bedford before 1920, whereas the averags rode in the Mall in a habit of nge of the tramp vessels of other blue faced with white like the Philip Saumerez uniform: de- nations was considerably greater.
signed for Admiral Lord Anson.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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By Lichty
"I see young Snodgrass is getting married wall, that's the end of another good customer!”
to be only
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.
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 spoken the value of an occasional fast one, two, or.. three days, especially during middio- sge, 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 the future will see an oven greater ten- dency towards having meals in public restaurants than there is now. The privato kitchen has already becomo an infinitely smaller and less imper- tant place then it was in the Vic- tarian age. Will the future see it disappear altogether?
And If wo all eat in restaurants, shall we tolerate music with
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meals? To-day opinion is divided to whether we should eat to the strains. of a string orchestra; some my that If we attend to our food and dis- regard the music we insult composeT and musician, but if we listen to the musle and do not concentrate on our food we invite indigestion.
Mr. Albert Sandler, than whom no one is better Atted to speak, and whom one might reasonably expect to take the former view, says that he thinks food should be taken without music. "In the quiet of the hotel loango, when men and women, com=" fortably fed and satisfied with life, are gathered together, in the place, for mule. If it is to be appreciated.!!
David, Skene
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