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NOTES OF THE DAY

PACIFIC CIBRALTAR,

FEBRUARY 14, 1935.

HISTORY WRITTEN! IN ODD PLACES

By MARGARET LANE

UR dinner plates are getting Except that they sometimes had a

mallor. Nothing, you might little cavity for the salt they wer

The Very Idea!

SNARES OF TRADITION

*By George

second ray of sun- shine recorded at Kow-

For six weeks It has been too

Empire Builder

It seems that no matter how the pations may strive for peace with one hand, they keep the other tight ly gripped around a weapon of some Box From the beginning of time, so far as historians are aware, say, vory significant about that. more like the modern tablo mat loon this year brought us America and Asia have been at But domestic detalls have their own than anything else.

They were scraped after use, out of hibernation this mor- peace, with a mighty barrier of way of writing, the history of a ocean between them which it was generation, and there is no change never washed. You got a new surning and enabled us to -oven in your table china-with-face for every using, like a but

chor's block; a clean habit, but it begin such long neglected not within the means of man to out a reason.

You could safely guess the whole shortened the life of the plates. duties as the cleaning up of cross until a comparatively short

teeth and correspondence. few centuries ago. But man has story of a nation's habits and They were always having to be ro For all that, wooden trenchere found ifon, steam and steel and manners from the way it eats and placed by now ones,

ancestors continued in general use well into the barrier is no longer a bulwark, furnishes its table.

The first plates our It seems the farther wo progress used were made, simply and satisfy the reign of Charles II. Even the cold to lick a stamp or face a in the field of science, the bearer ingly, out of bread. Four hundred rich geed their gold and sliver plate bathroom with that equanimity we are brought to wars. Inevitably years ago when you went to nonly on great occasions. Woodenwhich is supposed to be the

a plattor and horn cup were on every

peculiar and patriotic assat of now knowledge is turned into a grand supper party' you found weapon. Now, with the coming of goblet and salt-cellar in front ofitable. one, who had a sharp eye the British

Mr. you at tablo-and a sturdy'slab of aircraft capable of flying the bread, four days old and three for the niceties of these things, abroad. Pacific on a bombing enterprise, inches thick. You took your own complained twice in his diary of the niggardifness of the Lord Mayor

For years the mind's eye of an the United States has found it knife.

You carved whatever you fancied in dining his friends on wooden necessary to commence the fortifica-

from the joint (steadying it with trenchers when he had access to so admiring world has pictured tha tion of Hawali. From the reports the thumb and two fingers of your much plate, but perhaps that was B.E.B.A. (see above) as a sturdy at hand it would seem that they left hand if you were well bred, or carping. Wood was still general, in fellow breasting distant horizons We are fully equipped for any will attempt to

create there a having it carved for you by a page) splto of the new-fangled pewter, with his tooth brush firmly elench- nature of service.

Gibraltar in the Pacific. When it and cut it up for yourself on the and in any case Fepys was getting ed between his teeth, his dress a Rood free dinner at the Guild-suit neatly swinging over his arm, and maybe a monocle or a porté was first announced that the United bread trencher.

Mediaeval books of manners hall,

able cold shower on his back. Staten Government planned to

recommanded cutting the meat into develop certain islands of the small, rather than ungainly, mouth. Nobody quite knows when, or For us who here-Ladies and Hawalian group as aerodromes, the fuls, and warned their readers of why, the English dinner-pinte Arat crrrr Gentlemen, erry to ah, ah err Information was greeted with en- the indelicacy of putting unwanted got its broad rim that widened to support, er, er, er, the traditions, this scraps back into the general dish. such magnificent proportions under er, er, of a er er great er, nation, thusinam by the people on side of the water. We, in Hong-1 Gnawed bones you threw under the Queen Victoria. Some say it waser, or, (Much needed applauso) we table or strewed at random on the Introduced to keep the gravy from must say that we find our full kong, had visions of

uir link

cloth.

running off the plate, others that energies occupied in supporting The bread dloner plate was unt-it was for the servant to hold the ourselves. with the American continent, måln- tained by huge sky liners which versal in the Middle Ages, even in plate by without touching any part

We also find that the Army would shorten the distance between rich men's households, where the of it where food might lle.

The first pottery made in this (Join the Army and soo the East and West to a mere three days sucking pig would come in on a

silver dish, and as likely as not country was coarse enough etufT, World) and the Navy (Join the of travel. We were misled, it seems. there would be a roast peacock, tall despised by refined households. It Navy and see the Sea) are quite The purpose of the Hawalian aero- and all, as a trimming to one of was not until the clay of the Mid-capable of upholding our prestige Troncher bread was lands, in the seventeenth century, abrond and aboard. However dromes is something quite different. the courses. They will serve as a base for an air specially baked, considerably coar graduated from making common there are a few points which much. fleet which will form America's fraiser than the fine white bread one household crocks to glazed hand-puzzle our local friends who are line of defence and which will beate, and allowed to get nice and painted plates of a quaint elegance interested in etiquette. available in the event of threatened before it was used, so as to that people began to admit it to

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THURSDAY, FED, 14, 1935.

THE FUTURE OF AIRSHIPS

trouble in the Far East where American interests are involved.

hope,

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Thousands of lives are lost every year because of the power under the foot of reckless motorista, With every now model produced by

be

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their tables.

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For instance why should one be awakened fairly frequently at an early hour by a bombardment of sun salutes from the Silent Ser- vice? That, one supposes, is to show that though silent, they are not dumb.

Even then, it nover displaced povtor and plate in the great The mishap to the U.S. naval

If you were rich, you ignored the houses, It needed another hundred bread plate after all the best of the years and the invention of porcelain dirigible Macon will no doubt

gravy had scoped into it. A ser- to bring the china plate as we again raise the question ns to NO NAVAL RACE

vant came round after each course know it to the dinner table. and swept the sodden slices into a Porcelain 18, to all intents and

The army presenta n.more diff- whether aircraft of this type, are

Representativa Vinson, advocate great basket; this was distributed purposes, opaque glass-which is

see your fingers cult problem for when one reflects of any real value. At the time of a "big Navy" for America, is among the poor at the gate, and why you can

it against the light. It on the ease with which their din- ner, tennis and domestic plans are of the Akron disaster, and also at pains to explain that the forti-gave them a wholesome meal with through when the R101 crashed.. both fication of Hawail is not a result the added excitement of a few rich has never been anything but expen- rovealed to the bowildered ferry

and spicy flavours.

sive (even to-day in any of the big user one would be tempted to feel They gathered at the gute as atores an ordinary dozen dinners little insecure if one didn't know of Japan's abrogation of with heavy loss of life, there Washington Naval Treaty. That punctually as the rich man's gucats service of rent china will cost you that that is just the Army's way

bu. It is was an outcry against dirigibles. | may

explained in

were trumpeted to table, and by anything up to £60), but in the of showing that where there is Washington that the buikling.of

eating the discarded ment plates eighteenth century it was fashion- Britain has, in fact, long decided defence, post in Hawaii does not performed a very useful service in able novelty and put plate out of smoke there must be some fire. against further use of this type mean that America la challenging an age when dustbina had yet to the running for over.

This is not forgetting the Air be invented.

Catherine II. of Russia commis-Force (Join the Air Force and got of craft. There was a hope that any other power to a naval race in

If you were not rich, and had not sloned Josiah Wedgood to make her more air) whose failure to stage the use of helium as the levitat-the Pacific. But it is too much to

fear, that America's the nobleman's gluttonous array of a full banqueting service for 50 anything in the nature of a son- ing gas, in place of hydrogen.potential rivals in the Far Eastcourses to keep appetite for, you persone, each piece hand-painted sational crash has considerably He chose lossened thoir value to the news- would render the Macon immune will accept the situation or the ate your trencher modestly your-with a different scene. from the danger of explosion. For while Hawail is ostensibly

and remain inactive self and gathered up the crumbs 183 different ruins, parks and tour papers of the Colony. planation

Ist haunts of Great Britain and with your fingers. but it would appear from the serve a defensive purpose, It is

employed an army of artists to And we of course have much to execute, them. The Russian Em-live up-probably more than we news-to-hand that an explosion-conceivable that operations from did actually occur, emanating that base might be extended west-

In time, of course, people found press satisfied her craving to dine have to live down though we be ward. and that a fortress in mid-

it more practical to put a flat off the new English porcelain, and lleve that the editor looks after from the engines. Whether that Pacific might be looked upon as the wooden platter under the slab of what is left of the service is pre- the editions whilst our readers

xive us the traditions. was the case or not, the fact first link in a chain of strong out bread, or even a silver one if you served to-day like crown jewels.

The prosperity of Victorian Eng- posts stretching towards Asin. could afford it. It saved the table

For instance, Mrs. Smyythe has remains that the big airship Certainly we do not suggest that linen, which was often extremely land was reflected in the amplitude came to grief, and it was more that is America's purpose. But it nne and elaborately arranged, and of its dinner plates, which measured been fined $6 for allowing her by good fortune than anything is more than likely that in Japan oven a stuffed quail was more enaily on an average 12 inches across. Pekinese to face the public with- else that a heavy loss of life for instance, this latest Pacific move dismembered with fingers and knife (The average meat plate to-day out its muzzle and after rending. a firm wooden platter measures between 9 and 10 inches. the account of her conflict with the majesty of justice that Mrs. did not result. When the air-will arouse anxiety, if not, sna If it had

picion.

underneath it.

They accommodated n full cut from ship controversy was at its

Gradually stale-brend dinner the Sunday sirloin and a generous Smith was the offender, she brands height some years ago, there was SPEED MANIA

plates became demode and people portion of Yorkshire pudding and the journal as a sheet of foul and who were abreast of the times had vegetables. Nowadays few of us nameless slander for ever after. considerable argument over the

the fashionable new wooden ones can afford auch princely joints and relative advantages of the rigid

instead,

most of us are dieting. They were singularly unlike what and semi-rigid types, but à fact

we know as a dinner plate to-day. which has since been establish-

They were quite flat and sometimes ed from a series of disasters is the automobile manufacturers, square, not hollowed out in the B border. that both types are liable to quicker pick-un or a greater speed middle, and without

в a feature widely advertised," serious defects. And the point

Man, in the person of Sir Malcolm to be borne in mind is that when Campbell, has driven at speed of a serious accident doea happen, 272.108 miles per hour. But that there is great risk to the big 300 miles an hour. It is probable is not fast enough. He wants to go personnel which craft of this that Sir Malcolm will break his own type carry. In the Great War, record, set up at Daytona Beach, the Zeppelins were at first used is ready to attempt the record run Florida, on February 22, 1983. He with marked success in aerial and is merely awaiting favourable raids, but as auti-aircraft men-conditions. But supposing he does

succeed In sures were devised they even-

travelling at 150 yards what then? Will man second: [tually proved more fatal to their ever venture out upon the highways

crews than to their would-be in machines

capable of attaining speed?

If so, And

will the victims. Thus the value of time saved be worth the lives that dirigibles for military purposes must be lost in experiment and in is open to question. Against the consequence? We are prepared to hail Sir Malcolm as a sportsman, long list of disasters, however, as a man of tremendous daring. has to be placed the remarkable Iron nerve and remarkable tenacity, career of the Graf Zeppelin. but apart from the advertising This airship has gone through Daytons, we feel that the practical value of his race against time at all manner of weather with little result of this test is not worth the actual harm. She has flown in risk. If Sir Malcolm, and others, every continent except Australia, make possible still greater speeds

for motor travellers wo rather hope! has crossed the North Atlantic that the products of their Ingenuity

·HEATHER MIXTURE SHADES six times and the South Atlantic will be kept at Daytona. We have on fifteen occasions, bosides too much respect for life to hurry

to meet death. visiting the Arctic regions and EACH

making a world flight. In her time, she has carried more than rule. Taking a general view of aixteen thousand passengers, aerial development, it seems nearly twenty tons of mail and more than likely that it will be; over thirty tons of freight. She in the direction of bigger and has at any rate proved that air more powerful aeroplanes rather

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