WHEN YOU JOURNEY ABROAD

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 5

WHEN YOU JOURNEY ABROAD

CABIN COMFORT The greatest aid to comfort on board ship is a large bag of thin canvas or stout drill, with six roomy outside pockets, to hang on your bunk. It will take all the brushes and oddments that litter a dresing-table, your eau-de-cologne. book, and other bedside needs. *No experienced traveller uses her daintiest silk nightgowns. It has been proved a “brainwave” to make six crepon nighties in pretty shades, so that you can wash them without ironing, and be independent of slow and expensive ship's laundries. Have a thick dressing-gown for cold weather and a crepe kimono for the heat. Interview the bath steward in your first hour on board and fix your daily bath-time. Delay may mean that all the convenient times are booked, and that you have to rise at dawn or undress again after breakfast in order to get your “tub.” For the baby, the best cot is an ordinary clothes basket. It can be packed with pillows and “lumpy things” at each end of the voyage; it will not overturn during the roughest night, and ft is light to carry up for the infant to sleep on deck during the day. Most ships have small folding cots for hire. One of these will be best for the toddler. Two large pillows to act as a mattress should be taken on board, for pillows may be scarce, or too thin for this purpose. A safety net can be bought at any big store, and is so vitally necessary that you should take your own, even if the net is said to be on hire with the cot. Children who are too big for short, narrow cots must sleep in the ordinary bunks, so a strip of strong calico, live yards long, should be prepared, to fasten to the sleeping-suits and pass right round the bunks. The calico strap will not hurt the child's ribs like leather, and it will prevent him from falling out, while allowing freedom to turn easily. A strap will npt pass between the bunk and wall.

When making children’s pants, allow a strong band at the top. When the pants are worn, they can be ripped off the bands, and new ones stitched on, thus obviating the making of new buttonholes.

Fish too small to be fried are delicious if put through a mincing machine, made into rissoles, fried in egg and breadcrumbs, and served with lemon or vinegar.