Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-11-06
Low NECKED SHIRT and TROUSERS
UPSIDE DOWN KEEP KELLEY OUT
Avoided Navy Because He
Feared to Sit Down, Lest
White Breaches Dust"

II wisht was wan av thin ships, !"
said Private Kelley, looking out as
the Maryland and the F boats passed
sailing toward the mainland. "Twould
be going back to San Francisco I'd be
now, and do be feelin' like seem tn
old crowd agin."
III you like travelling, why didn't
you join the navy in the first placer"
asked the Rookie.
mot be any means would iyer jine
the navy Kelley answered. ''Th'
only time want to travel, anyway, is
whin boat is goin' home, and In tn
navy tn ships has habit av, goin'
contrary to your wishes, and at times
stayin' there whin they arrives. There
might have been a time whin tn, spirit
av advintur called, and thought av'
! goin' In tn navy an roamin' round
tn world wit nothin' under me but a
few steel plates and tn, ocean and
nothin' over me but siveral hundred
orcifers beginnin' wit tn bosom But
me god Judgement KEEP me from get
| tin into low neck shirt and pair
av' trousers which exposed how me
frame is upholstered.
TITS thin pants for wan thing has
KEEP me out av' til navy. I've always
felt strong prejidice agin wearin'
the legs ay me trouser upside down,
wit tn big ind at the bottom, and
lately there is another thing which
has prejidiced me agin the naval
though It's what might be called a
supposititious prejidlce.
Objects TO German Whlskers.
.ris tn fear that some day tn Am
erican sailors will adop' tn same style
av' whiskers which is worn be tn
Germans. Mind We. they may not; but
I'm takin' no chances on gettin' into
q organization which is, as We might
say, av' tn same trade as thin Ger
man sailors. 'Twould be tn end ay'
me, was ! in the navy, IL they would
begin to wear paint brush on I'll, |
end av' tn chin and one av' thin mus
taches that makes man look like |
limburger was around.
Il hadn't thought av' it, but It's |
possible their fondness for limberger |
has something to do wit the way
their mustaehes turns up. Wherever
the custom ay' wearing thinf> face
adornments come from, / can niver
say. but 4 know that long befor /
iver see q German sailor wit that /
truck on his chin, me father, back in
Sligo county. had a billy goat which
trimmed his whiskers just TIL same
as thin Dutch does.
Mind We. I'm sayin' nothin' agin tn
Dutch. They has many thraits | adj
mire. wan of which is that they ext
ports large quantities av' beer. But
batwain us, don't mind saying that
should the German navy adopt the
goose step, like as the army uses, and
q file av' Dutchmen wit thin whis-
kers would come marchin' past me
doin' tn duck step, tn combinashun
would drive me to abandon tn pro-
av' post without the guard seem me.
Old Customs Forgotten.
"Whin / was a lad and was struck
wit tn navy-after had read bunk
called Tim TIL Cabin Boy, or Adyin-
lures on Swim Seas'-th' navy was
difrent from now. In thin days, to
De able bodied seaman, a lad had
to learn TO. shin up mas and say
'shivvy me timbers' and 'blarst me
top'sls's besides KNOWN how to siv-
crely injur' a shipmate be sthrikin'
him Wit q marlin spike, wit'out act
ually KILN him.
'Tis not so now. Most sailormen
would git dizzy on top ay' three
story buildin, and they niver saw
marlin spike-not to know it. at least.
They is some good machinists, ship
painters and printers, and maybe pa
per hangers in the navy dunno
bout tn las, though-and tn sailors |
IS excellent cops wit their little bill
ys on thin In place av' tn marlin .
spikes their ferocious Predecessors
carried, whin several thousand other
sailors which is tired av' water aftner {
long ocean trip is ashore, and snow
m how tired they are be ayoidln' the
Use av water entirely.
30 Down Now, Not Up.
Sailors is larnin' to go down instid
w. up. Submarines is tn important
ling nowadays. Tim, tn Cabin
Boy, il he'd enlis' today would have
o restrain the natural desire to climb,
licked UP whin he royed the seas in
! gallant windjammer about 100 feet
eng. and carrin' nothin in the way
W provisions but salt pork and hard
ack, and learn how to hoP his breat' I
md not to use more thin tn regular '
allowance av' SECONDHAND oxigyn whin
le did finally brathe An If lin was {
o enlis' and go aboard a man o war,
. waving a marlin spike and shOutin' :
Shiyvy me timbers,' or tBlars' me
opsls,' like as in the good ould days
hey'd figur' he was nutty and talkn' :
zulu at the same time, and throw him
n the BOBBY hatch"
But I guess the navy is easier than :
he army" the Rookie said, after a :
'auSe.
lis shure Crane lad We are, me
Kansas Rookie Kelley answered.
TIL navy has changed, but tbs not be
10 means asy. For tn wan thing,
fther We enlis'-'tis me opinion from Z
ookin' at sailors from behind would
axe We half yer enlistment learnin :
o set down without Dustin yer :
'reeches, an tn other half hardenin' =