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Sport in War-Time

... these Belgian soldiers, in occupation of a small detached post, are tranquilly fishing to add a little variety to their ration menu ...

Published: Wednesday 06 March 1918
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 73 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs 

The Art of Artfulness

... mutual respect for Shakespeare, who, if he had lived in Berlin in these lean days might have sung his swan-song on a camouflaged menu. As thus Poor, faithful Dobbin, dead and turned to steaks. Might touch the spot where every Teuton aches. Camouflage is one ...

Published: Wednesday 20 March 1918
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 853 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

FEMINA Woman's Little War Worries: GRATUITIES

... friends to a restaurant, choosing one where tips are cus tomary, select the best table, take up the manager's time over the menu, send messages to the band asking for special items to be played, and end by complacently pocketing all their change, to the ...

Published: Wednesday 30 January 1918
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 640 | Page: 43 | Tags: Photographs 

Somewhere in Flanders: CAMOUFLAGE

... the military tobacco ration. Yours ever, Jack Johnson CAMOUFLAGE A LA CARTE RESTAURANT PROPRIETOR (to Head Waiter): That menu of yours is no good-put this one io its place ...

Published: Wednesday 20 March 1918
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 683 | Page: 10 | Tags: Letter 

Telling the Tale

... there living riotously on bully beef and ship's biscuit, and tea made in a tin hat, we at home have to depend upon a muni cipal menu consisting chiefly of stray bits of oilcloth and old bootlaces scientifically camouflaged into soup and sausage. This latest ...

Published: Wednesday 13 March 1918
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 834 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

Farmers All

... getting it back a few days after date in the shape of real milk, or will it be more profitable to us to thin out the cow's menu and put up, .as -well as may be, with a C3 milk supply Farming is clearly a very compli cated industry that we novices may ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1918
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 848 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Bystander in Paris: LES JOURS MAIGRES

... thought how I did not like to be a vegetarian, and yet before ces jours maigres it was not much that I occupied myself with the menu except to wish to entertain our guests. I was contented to eat my bread ration and cafe an lait for the petit dejeuner, but ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1918
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1016 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

Shrapnel Pars

... diners must wait for moonlight nights, and then be content with the off chance of getting a bombe a I'allemande added to the menu. A BOLO-BIRD HATCHING A PLOT ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1918
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 845 | Page: 18 | Tags: Illustrations 

ON THE WORLD WAR-AND ON THOSE WHO WAGE IT WISELY AND OTHERWISELY

... and not to enjoy themselves in a round of banquets and entertainments. As one of them said the other day, It is men and not menus that will win the war. So they are not intending to accept many invitations. Perhaps the contrast with pre-war banquets would ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1918
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1219 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations