INSTRUCTIONS FOR MESS PARADES..

Peoples Vice, 17 May 1943, Page 3

INSTRUCTIONS FOR MESS PARADES..

by the 'Chief 3I.U3EJY.

'•exit .• • ' After receiving a half of what should ba serves, will face their original front and follow Spr. Hatchett move off smartly, for the Hess Room .A certain atmosphere and agitation, ever present in an engineers mess,must be glossed over .After the dirt and grease has been removed with; the palm of the hand from the mass table tops the plate first to be used may be placed down with the other plate two inches nearer the centre of the tabic .At no «S®no however are the plate edges to bo more than four inches apart. The eating utensils will be found to slip easily into this space in the following order $fork;knife and spoon. The next movement is to take the cup firmly in the. right hand and move over to the northern mass wall .Here will ba found a dixie containing a ; little warm water with twelve to fifteen tealeaves in it. , Thera usually are eight leaves floating and tho remainder at the bottcm.Cheuige’the- cup from the right hand to the left and retrieving the tea dipper from the bottom of the dixie commenced to fill the cup. This will be accomplished to a back ground-of rude remarks relative to the time being taken. Returning to the table,sit down and wait for .the .milk and sugar Going to the lapse of tine,Spr.Harrison being mass orderly, • instruction beyond this point cannot be given.. . ? THU