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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 1, 1937.

She Wouldn't Care Much For Him!

HE Lady has the good or

THE

bad

fortune to have an excess post- AIN'T LOVE GLAND' pituitary. She's the little girl who

mind. The can't get love off her

little- ordinary postpituitary; that clinging vine who demanded a pro- posal in the moonlight is transform- ed into a girl who deals in high volt- age love

and is not in the mar-

ket for any proposal that would tie her down too much.

deals to-day with a man and a woman who certainly form a contrast. Don't mix these two is the advice Katherine Townsend gives.

But don't think you can keep her

yourself.

She thrives on sensation. She craves excitement

Yet with all her insinuating graces, she's hearty. She's the type that slaps you on the back.

And whereas the's in love with you, she's also in

her- love w

She's got plenty of figure. Though small, moonless fingernails; the soft, self. It's hard to tell which you'll notice undersized in height she makes up smooth, hairless skin. first, her face, or her walk.

for it in other directions.

Her walk, we think. For it's so voluptuous as to be thrilling, even though obvious.

She's maternal, as any good post- Her hair is apt to be more drama- pituitary

but fondest of kit- tic, often silver blonde or sandy. tens. (Don't take that Her voice is certainly almost al- fire clue. Lots of people like kit- ways husky.

tens.)

t Her other physical characteristics are very much straight postpituitary the small, plump hands; the She's what Mae West calls swivel- characteristic broadish, pointed nose;

the long and crowded teeth; the about her? hipped.

THOS

NAVY'S

RUM

Origin Of Grog Issue

its

•

Need we really tell you more

(By ALAN BAUME)

sure-

HE Man can't really help it. His

sistently letting him down. It doesn't function enough.

Thyroid gland has been con-

Perhaps somebody will love him. Perhaps some warm-hearted nor- mal postpituitary can find some- in his

dried peas, and hard biscuits har- bouring weevils. No wonder, then, thing boyish or appealing that the sailor developed a prodigi- blundering inability to look

ous thirst. Furthermore, the ships

himself.

after

slightly.

Once he finds Steady job he'll stick to it, faithfully, through the years.

dynamited out.

go home

But

of those days had limited carrying And she'd better

for he would drive al- capacities for water. Progress be- stupid HOSE who believe that it is rum intransitive with "groggy” as

that has made

tween ports was slow, and the water most anybody else crazy in no time- the British companion adjective.

invariably became stale. Beer had at all.

it, 'bluejacket what he is to-day, will re- "And Grog Derives Its Name"

been the standard drink, but

We don't mean he won't make ‘a joice with him that a beneficent Ad-

Little could Admiral Vernon have too, unfailingly went sour inita

the first barrels. Rum was decided upon as good husband, as such things go. miralty has decreed, after almost thought as he watched 200 years of cogitation, that he is three gallons of water pour into the a substitute. It kept better, it was at last to "take less water with it." first gallon of rum aboard his flag- more potent, the amount considered ship Burford, that his nickname good for the sailor occupied infinite- In other words, the daily grog would be carried down to posterity, ly less. space than its equivalent în

future potency of beer; it was good for He'll have to issue in his Majesty's ships-is-to afloat and ashore, or that consist of two parts of water to one generations of British seamen would Jamaica's trade, and was most satis- of it.

sing:

factory in disguising the taste of at night. of -rum, instead of the three parts

stale water. And so it became the navy's drink, and so it remains. of water to one of rum, inaugurat- ed back in the 18th century by the peppery Admiral Vernon of West Indies fame, in the hope that if the daily tot was diluted, his men would be less sleepy and less quarrelsome. Pleasing though this news may be to Britain's stalwarts of the seas, it is still a long way from those palmy pre-Vernon days when water was re- garded with the utmost distrust and neat, and rum was drunk, pure, "uncontaminated.”

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A mighty bowl on deck he drew, And filled it to the brink; Such drank the Burford's gallant crew,

And such the gods shall drink. The sacred gown which Vernon

wore'

Was drenched within the same;

う

"The King, God Bless Him”

The ceremonial attendant on the

dis daily grog issue has largely appeared, though the rum is mixed in and the grog issued from a

most day

told

Of course,

very

He's

His

His nose

His face has a

erst low and so

broad and irregular.

far apart, lacking

way you

look, though осса-

He's got a coa still puffy. His featu

eyes are little, And hence its virtues guard our large wooden tub, not unlike a wash- shore,

ing tub, on which is inscribed in deep-set, listless, and

lustres God And grog derives its name. letters of brass, "The King,

Bless Him," in memory of the olden He is thick-ski In these days of modern warships, days when the whole ship's com-look-at with their own refrigeration plants,

pany. would assemble there to drink and ample storage capacities, the his Majesty's health. But, though rum issue may be, and often is, much of the colour has gone from regarded by temperance reformers the ceremony, the drawing of the he's apt to smile foolishly New Word To Language

as a superfluous luxury. But in the

rum issue is still regarded in the

sion, as though he weren quite The gallant, if sometimes fool- Royal Navy, the daily tot, remini British Navy as one of the

sure what it ell about. of

the hardy Admiral Vernon Queen scent of the days when it was not

important functions of Anne's day, may not be remember so much a luxury as a medicinal ne-

aboard a battleship. ed for his deeds of derring-do at cessity, is now regarded as a tradi- sea, nor for his spectacular exploits tional privilege to be jealously guard-

Though it is no doubt a gross libel in politics as well as war, nor for ed and scrupulously observed. The on the carrying capacity of the his sensational attacks on My Lords navy holds tenaciously to its cus British seaman, the powers-that-be of the Admiralty which resulted in toms, and it is doubtful if official- evidently have considered that one, his being struck off the list of Bag dom would ever go so far as even only, thrice-diluted tot is all that. officers after dramatically giving up merely to suggest the abolition of he can stand without impairment of but we wouldn' his command because he resented the rum issue so deeply cherished his faculties, for there is a strict did. Admiralty interference. But he will by the lower deck. never be forgotten as the man who watered his sailors' rum when he

of was - Commander-in-Chief the West Indies station, and thus gave a new word to the English language. Because of the peculiar coat of grogram, a coarse mixture of silk

་

"Tis grog; only grog,

Is his rudder, his compass, cable, his log.

His hands are pudgy, coarse, thick, ugly, foresh often than not.

more

We're not sure whether he drools, ised if he

That Night Out-

rule that no man may present or He's certainly sloppy enough Rover sell his issue to a shipmate. The women, in a way that's not too plea- teetotaller may not draw an issue, sant, but we can't be sure that he his but in lieu thereof receives an ad- really could care for anybody but

of about himself ditional pay allowance twopence a day, incidentally a los- The sailor's sheet anchor is gros ing proposition for the Admiralty,

"grog="

thous- That is what the sailorman thinks and one which costs several and mohair which he wore in foul of it, watered though it may be, and ands a year. weather, he was known to his sailor woe betide anybody who interferes, men as “Old Grog," and what more except to put a greater kick into it, natural then, or more apt, than that as the Admiralty has done "as an taken for the disposal of dregs or those stalwarts should apply that experiment for a year-or perhaps residue that may remain in a tub. name to the watered spirit that as part of Britain's naval rearma- So that no man may swill them out their Admiral, in the cause of tem- ment scheme, if rum be truly the with water and thus gain an un- lawful tot, the tubs are washed out perance and efficiency, had imposed fighting force its admirers claim.

with salt water under strict sur- upon them. And so “grog" it be

veillance, a procedure which came, to be incorporated in the Eng-

surely break the heart

*

Thirsty Diet

Extraordinary precautions

are

must

lish language and to be graced with In Vernon's day and before, the

place of honour in the dictionary. Navy's diet consisted almost entire thirsty sailor and savour almost as noun, and verb, transitive and ly of salt "meat, carried in casks, sacrilege.

She's the girl who thrives on gilt, mirrors and plush. But she will go with you to a variety show. A gift of "heavy" perfume wi make a hit with he

He's got one thought în his mind

one” and “only one. You'll be safe you keep him in crowds but not! fy safe even then. Why don't you just forget