The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-19
NAUTICAL LINGO AT HOME.
How the Talk of the Sea Finds Place
 in a Naval Officers House.


 How the Talk of the Sea Finds Place
 in a Naval Officers House.
 In the delightful home of we'll known officer of the United States navy, now stationed here, the daily 1 household and table talk has been re- duced to the purest and most uavar- nished -o'-warese. The navM off, cer is a deep-water and heavy-weather man of so many years standing that his talk is naturally salty, and all of the members of his family-wife, grown daughters and lads-have unconscious ly picked up the dialect from him.
 How I do dread the task of break ing out my fall and winter clothes again." said one of the young women of the family to young woman caller the other day, and it took her quite five minutes to explain that in the navy "breaking out" means unpacking, re- moving overhauling gear from store- room.
 When one of the naval officers young sons wants the boy from the next house to make his appearance out in front for playing purposes, he gives shrill whis- tle like unto the blast of a bo's'n's pipe, and then, in a voice pitched in as deep a key as his treble is capable of hand ling, he sings out. "All ha-a-ands to quarters" The same boy has been off, ten reprimanded, when there is compa- ny in the house for evening tea, for walking through the hall, when the meal is about to be served, and singing out, All hands lay aft for srog!" When. as occasionally happens, the na- val officer and his wife arc engaged in having trifing tiff down stairs over some minor matter or other, one of the young women of the house has been known to walk mischevously through the upper hail. singing out, All hands bury the dead!"
 Stand by." is the ordinary phrase in this naval officers home when the ut- terer of that ship command wants to gain attention for some remark. When one of the young women of the house is ready to start down town on shipping expedition and wants to know if there are any commissions that she can exc cute for her mother or sisters. she takes up her station in the front hall and sings out:
 All O youse men that's got mail for the United States wants to know that the mail orderly is about to 80 over the side with the mail!" When the moth CTS and daughters are about starting out for an afternoon drive, the boy aforesaid generally pipes them away by singing out, bos n'smatewise "All hands abandon shp!" When a couple of his sisters get at momentary logger heads over some little matter or other the same boy yells: Collision quar- ters." and bolts for it. There arc no such words as front" and back In Ithis house It is 'for'ard' and aft" Willie, run up for ard and see if I left my gloves there' one of the younger women will say to her little brother T saw 'em aft on the mizzenrail awhile ago" the boy will reply, meaning that he saw them on one of the windowsills in the back parlor. When one of the young women wishes to hold up her father for bit of shopping money, she puts the proposition to him something like this: Papa suppose you play paymaster, and we lay aft to the pay office and you serve out monthly mon ey. need some small stores.'
 When the younger son of the house has been derelict and his mother wish es to threaten him with an interview with his father, she says, Willie. I've q great mind to take you up to the mast" When the boy is kept in the house for misconduct, he tells the boy next door from the window of his room that he's doing a trick in the brig" When his father wants his carriage or dered for a ride somewhere on business, the lad whistles the proper ships call and gives the coachman the word, Grew of the captains gig lay aft" When the boy himself is bound for morning school. he sgnalizes his depar ture by the ships word, Up anchor
 There is no such thing as floor" in this naval officers house. All of the floors are decks" The basement is the berth deck, the main floor is the spar deck and so on. Nothing is washed, it is "swabbed' A cuspidor is 'spitkt." The water cooler is the "scutt,e-butt." And so on. A retired old man-o'- wars man who would take a job as servant in this naval officer s establishment would never become