LIFE IN SINGAPORE
The white quarter in Singapore is a place of delightfully spacious openair bungalows, foliaged in green, with as many as 30 pots of maindenhair decorating the verandahs. Each bungalow has its own tennis court and upwards of an acre of ground, bright with tropical flowers and travellers' ferns that grow into gigantic semicircles, all tended by M'alayan gardeners. As a rule the chauffeur, also, is a Malay, and he is known as a "sais." ' C'hinese servants f orm the house staff, which comprises the cook, a boy and a water-carrier, with Chinese amahs or Indian ayahs to attend to the heavy tasks and care for the children. Meal times happen thus: Chota may be expected-at 6.30 a.m., breakfast at 8.30, tiffin at one o'clock, afternoon tea between four and five, and dinner at eight. The time between 6.30 and 8 p.m. is usually given over to club life or "pahit" parties in one's own home, where varied drinks and "makan ketchil" (hors d'oeuvres) are served. The housewife has no- responsibility apart from that of supervision, and all the marketing is done by the Chinese cook, who renders his account daily to the memsahib.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 691, 17 November 1933, Page 2
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