THE ART OF "BOTTLING"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 273, 7 August 1918, Page 6

THE ART OF "BOTTLING"

TWEX-TY THOITS.VND COLLECTED l'OPv TO-MOUKOW'S SALE. A vbit to the gymnasium of the / Sydney Street Soldiers' Club yesterday afternoon brought home the important ■jMirt the bottle plays in everyday life. When a Dominion reporter went into the •• club, a girl washing bottles was wliistliitjj'. The tune was familiar to us. She whistled and washed. It was clear that the obbligator to the great bottle-wash was the old ''Bottles" chorus from "Miss Hook of Holland— . .

"We get tiied of fotchintr bottles, Blooming bottles, all day long." And a very appropriate air it was, for there were lwttles of all shapes, ages, sizes, and colours, spread all round in ordered disarray. An energetic laxly who was superintending the lay-out of tho bottles ventured lo suggest that (here were about 31,000 bottles in the room. If anyone has a h&zy idea that I here is nothing much in arranging n sale of bottles (hey should take a peep into Ihe Sydney Street Club "gym." 11. is n'.ally worth while. Tluv-e licstfhig ladies will al'onto''.explain thai "all along Ihat row are medicines" pointing to a row of bulginj sp.'-ks, r.-ich of which has a ticket attai.-hpd iiny t.h-j nuinhcr of Iwttles thcri.-in and their >\y.v. Then l here are h;ic/:-.) ai'd -wXa of iiroprietiiry bottles, bf.iWnj; . I In; ji;i;»P;j of the p.'wlticißg /in;/'. Tb<fc .ir;, ;is a rule, (•old i<) Ojij firm* who originally owned ib':in. Th<;;i thw; are Leaps of patent m"4'n:'wv xM proj/riatary articles. "Brier*" :i«<i "ti/mU" flare impudently out. <rf the iim'ilhn ni &<wmm m mrpulent racks of wore or Joss groggy Mpwit. They look as i)Hb''. v di'l wt w> wliat v.'n< Koing in Ij:jj.'P p -'). Hvei'.ttn of tall, slim vinegar?) ]wh'A very ".stuck uri" in a foi-nw-. '\'b'>. "■'■hh./Mfi" Iwleul a nice clean, orderly Jot, aji'J vert evidently infltiftnc'.'d in their wuduct by t)j<"; rctent healed ivf':rt<iK<H to the uownvr in wliinh their- families Jisvn iuvrvdwl duriiiK the past year. On« that was ('ratifying to ace was Ihe hlale of ny.pvvaM cleanliness all the l/OUl<! fawilif"; wre in. It was evidently liath 'Jay, s/j'l On; bright shiny glanceH thrown off wuro a tribute to tlie really hind work |»«t in by the ladies who desire m iinxioimly mid whole-henrledly to awiet 111') funds of the Xavy League.

'('lie bottle sale will commence at 2.30 p.m'. to-morrow.