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SEA PIE÷ANCIENT AND MODERN.

THE SEAMAN'S BILL OF FARE

The ship's deg to-day grows fat and contented on the scrups that fall from the fu'c'sle table, scraps which the sea, digs of a few years ago who sat at the same table would have relished in emphatic: preferment to the wretched meagreness of their own monotonous faro.

In those days, days of long voyagre, when the ambrosia of a seaman's epi curean ambitions was ham and eggs, vessels stood away into the uncertainty of an ocean voyage under lofty ‘royals pro visioned only with that which would keep for any length of time.....

Beef was taken out of barrels of brine in which it had soaked for years. Green it was, with here and there deeper shader of altramarine intermingled with the various combinations of the spectrum

If there was no danger of providing a shark with an easy meal the beef or pork was towed astern at a speed of three ar four, kaota "for eight hours or so.. It was then taken on board a yard or so longer than it had been formerly, coiled "up, skewered and boiled, and the cook, kept out of the galley, while the process was in action. Salt horse" isn't nice to smell during the cooking?

Then a dozen or so of sea biscuits, ör "Liverpool pantiles," as the seamen call- ed them, were placed in a hot oven to exterminate the woevils and their families, which dwelt therein; a quantity of pos soup, the main ingredients being peas, was cooked; and the meal was complete.

For months there was scarcely any variación whatever. Potatoes lasted only a short period, if they were carried at all; coffee was coffee until the voyage was half over, and then it became half coffee and half barat biscuit crumbe; and as the weeks went by the preparation became Milk was mora' camouflage than coffee. unknown, butter also, sugar. only in small quantities, while such things as cheese, pickles, eggs, etc, the seaman, nasociated with paying-off days only, when he could buy them himself.

Water, too, was rationed out very care. fully, and a lock kept on the pump in case a man should so far forget himself as to require a wash,

Caims and contrary winds frequently lengthened the homeward passage of a sailing vessel by months, and then, when stores dwindled down to famine rations. the cargo, if at all edible, was broached and contrived into some semblace of a meal by the resourceful cook Many a Beaman has lived for weeks mainly by what could be made from a sack of wheat.

But in this there were obvious draw. backs, as with tea, coffee, rice, etc.; and so serious did the position become at times that outward-bound vessels had to be appealed to for replenishment.

On one occasion a warship full of stores was sent out to the nasistance of a fleet of inward-bound sailing vessels boating to and fro at the Channel approach in the teeth of "constant head winds, and unable to make any headway.

One wonders why and how it was that men worked and endured the hardships of days and weeks of gale, after gale on such wretched fare; but for years no im. provement was made at all, until, in 1907, the Board of Trada stepped in on behalf of the seaman sud compelled the ship owner to provide more adequate provision,

The victualling scale included most of the commodities used in the kitchen at home-fish, potatoes, vegetables, sugar, butter, milk.jam," marmalade, dried fruits, pickles, and one thing they were emphatic over was a daily issue of lime- juice to every man after being out ten days and bound south of the line.

This was to check outbreaks of scurvy and the constant skin diseases which the former food supply produced.

Ever since 1907 the seaman's bill of fare.. has slowly improved, and now after his breakfast porridge the sailor decides to try, a Dover sole before the curry, or if he prefers devilled kidneys on toast be can have those, too, or maybe scrambled egge and a little carried chicken; it is all on the bill of fire.

At luncheon and dinner he is even more generously supplied, so that it is now no exaggeration to say that nearly every seaman, at sea can appease his appetite: on dishes of better. quality and greater selection than he is able to hord in his own home or at that class of restaurant which his income allows him to patronise.

-The Navy.

LONDON'S ARCTIC REGIONS,

¡BIG ADVERTISING ACHEMA" FOR CHRISTMAN,

I is possible for 25,000 people to go boating in Arg caves within a stone's throw of Clapham Junction Station during the Christmas shopping season

That is the number which boated at Messrs. Arding and Hobbs Christmas bazaar last year, and it is expected that at least the same number will seek adven- ture on the water this year in the Clap ham Junction cavee Last year 100,000 people in all went to see the caves in the. bazaar, which is one of the most attrac Live in London.

A splendid representation of the Arctic regions, with dripping stalactites, ico borgs, and snow arches, and winding waterways for honts captained by girls dressed as penguins and Eskimos, is1 spread over the gigantic lower floor of the stores. Thousands of new toys and all sorts of seasonable, surprises were to be seen in the bazaar, which opened there on November 4the

Father Christmas will visit this famous firut, and give presents to the first 9,000 children who enter the Arctic régions.-.

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XMAS GIFTS

CHEAP SALE,

We have just received a large selection of

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