802 TABLE ARRANGEMENT 



him, to say the least of it, an unsavoury reputation. 

 But, as I have so frequently stated and written, 

 no pains should be spared to provide in the camp 

 as attractive and well-laid a table as one would 

 sit down to at home, with clean glass, snowy- 

 white linen, and well-cleaned, glittering silver. 

 All that is required at first is a little system and 

 supervision ; by dint of these, and servants of 

 average intelligence, the " butler's department " 

 should soon run by itself. 



There is probably nothing more nausea- 

 provoking than certain stages of low fever and 

 what is called sun-headache, the latter being 

 possibly a more successful robber of appetite 

 than anything of the kind with which I am ac- 

 quainted. But it is precisely in succumbing to 

 disinclination to eat that the demon of fever is 

 usually invoked. Yet whilst in this state — one, 

 be it remembered, in which practically everybody 

 visiting the country sooner or later finds himself — 

 can you not imagine the difference awakened in 

 your feelings by the contemplation of a disgusting 

 metal plate of greasy soup, with a drowned cock- 

 roach and several feathers floating in it, reposing 

 upon the dirty bottom of an upturned provision 

 case on the one hand, and on the other a neatly 

 laid table with its well-washed cloth, clean 

 tumblers and nicely polished china ? To ensure 

 these advantages all days and every day is a 

 matter of the greatest ease, and one which should 

 be the aim of every traveller who values his health 

 and his hopes of success. 



A case should be provided called the " service 



