WELL BELOW ZERO

Evening Star, Issue 20139, 2 April 1929, Page 6

WELL BELOW ZERO

EASTER IN THE ANTARCTIC THE BYRD EXPEDITION. [By Bussell Owen.] Copyright, 1928, by the New York ‘ Times ’ Company and St. Louis Post Dispatch.’ 'All Rights for Publication Reserved Throughout the World. Wireless to New York * Times.’ BAY OF WHALES, March 31. This being Easter Sunday there is no work. The camp is getting into such good shape that a day off every week will be possible whether or not there are blizzards outdoors, which make work impossible. Everyone : s reading or fixing personal effects. Jb is 28 below zero, so strolls on the barrier are not part of the Sunday programme. There is no Easter parade here, and if there were it is unlikely that the fashions would prove popular at home. There is one fashion which would certainly be frowned upon. Many of ns have cut off our hair and shaved our heads’. The idea is to see if it will prevent those bald spots which are threatening our appearance, although some are doing il just for fun. The result is amusing, for some have luxurious ‘whiskers of all colours and designs,. and the contrast with shaven polls' makes an ensemble which one’s nearest relatives would not recognise. Jt is warm enough while around the base, hut it would hot be recommended n any flying or trail work were going.on. At night one sees a group of youthful hut bald men holding a book with one hand and meditatively rubbing their .crowns with the other like venerable members of a sedate club. At feast it feels good, and, moreover, there is no one down here to care what we look like.