A SMALL CHOP PARTY
LIFE IN WEST 'AEBICAz Ono wonders (says a London "Evening News" writer) what, tho Prince'of Wales will think of .a small chop party. It will almost certainly como to.him us a. novelty—and that, in itself must be an unusiuJ experience lor him. vln West Africa, the game's lijuo 'starts at 4.30 p.m. daily and goes on (ill dark, s;i'v 6.15 p.m. The business.houses and the Government ollicca closo down, everybody; gets into more' or less appropriate raiment, and goes forth to play polo or tennis or golf, ; or. to watch it. From then: till beforo-diiuic'r-'bath-time is the best hour of the day, so say the Europeans. Custom takes them' to sit out in the open at tho club, and there, in j long chairs,.with the long drink to hand, [pleasantly weary after playing or watching others play, they smoke and sip and yarn hi the:-comparative 'cool 'of -eventide. Smurtly clad in gloaming white, servants pass to and fro with dishes of tiny sandwichre, devilled anchovies, olives, roastod almonds (or the local cr- ; sat is,, roasted ground nuts), and such things; am) a. quarter of an hour bcl'oro, ! Piirtmi; tiniy ■ they bring the drink that : if- called pink gin—gin and Angostura ■ biUorss—WoKt Africa's n.'itiunal drink". Everybody is very matey, and it's n a cheery lime; only one'topic of conversation is barred—recent, deaths.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 131, 6 June 1925, Page 16
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A SMALL CHOP PARTY
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 131, 6 June 1925, Page 16
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