“SEA FEVER” TO-DAY

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 184, 2 May 1929, Page 3

“SEA FEVER” TO-DAY

PASSENGERS AND THEIR SHIPS. Speaking at Liverpool recently, a wellknown shipowner remarked that the tendency in ship furnishing to-day is “to eliminate as far as possible the idea that a passenger is on board a ship.” Taking this pronouncement as his theme, and apologising “to the older complaint as celebrated by John Masefield,” “Lucio,” a well-known contributor to the “Manchester Guardian,” wrote as follows: — I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky. And all I ask is a ship done up to look like the land that’s dry, With a palm lounge and a ballroom floor and the loose legs shaking, And a bedroom suite with a bath complete and a w bed for the morrow’s waking. I must down to the seas again, for the call is come from afar, I can hear the tinkle of ice again in Ye Olde Englyshe Cocktaile Barre; And all I ask is a man’s hand (say, “three no trumps” or over), And a partner with sense' to understand that we’re both of us well in clover. I must down to the seas again, to the mariner’s restless path. Where the radiators line the way to the Cafe and Turkish Bath: And all I ask is for marble halls with an orchestra skilled and tireless, And a square meal and an armchair, and the news of the day by wireless.