They have this advantage over the women in the other services, that their duties are at fixed bases only, almost every port. As stewards they are working barracks, at some ports doing all the duties in the officers' mess—waiting at table, cleaning silver, setting tables.
Some of the younger ones are doing duty as messengers, others as orderlies But whatever their job the women of the Navy are fulfilling it with the same keenness and thoroughness as the women in the other services, The Happiest Lessons Of All Now that the Christmas and New Year festivities are over the children are once more returning to school and other lessons, Classes are already in full swing in the Bateman-King School of Dancing's new and more spacious studio at 22 Route Cardinal Mercier, and with the arrival of Carol Bateman from Hongkong the School expects to get busy on its annual recital which will take place as usual during the Easter holidays,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.