Hamburg Steak. Onion Gravy. Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Tea. THURSDAY. _Breakfast._ Fried Pork Chops. Onion Gravy. Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Coffee. _Dinner._ Roast Beef. Brown Gravy. Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Coffee. _Supper._ Cold Corned Beef. Fried Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Tea. FRIDAY. _Breakfast._ Oatmeal and Milk. Fried Bacon. Bread and Butter. Coffee. _Dinner._ Pot Roast Beef. Brown Gravy. Macaroni and Tomatoes. Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Coffee. _Supper._ Tinned Salmon. Potato Salad. Bread and Butter. Tea. SATURDAY. _Breakfast._ Beef Stew. Bread and Butter. Coffee. _Dinner._ Bean Soup. Boiled Pork. Pickles. Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Coffee. _Supper._ Bologna Sausage. Rice Pudding. Jelly. Bread and Butter. Tea. The menus of every ship have to be forwarded to the flagship every week so that the Admiral may observe whether the men have had the proper kind of food. No, Jack no longer kicks seriously about his food on a warship. No workingman in the world gets better. Take the libraries nowadays. There are two of them on every ship, the ship's library and the crew's library. The officers use the ship's library. It is scattered about the officers' quarters in various cases, some in the wardroom, some in the Captain's or Admiral's quarters, some in the steerage. There are about thirty classifications, dealing with technical subjects, with history, travel, adventure, poetry, a limited amount of fiction and so on. The crew's library is three times larger. There is a great deal of history and travel and adventure and some science in it, but the larger part is made up of as good fiction as the English language provides. The classic authors are represented, but a large amount of the newer fiction is also represented. You find Kipling, Anthony Hope, E. W. Hornung, W. W. Jacobs, Jack London, Weir Mitchell, Booth Tarkington, S. J. Weyman, along with Bret Harte, Mark Twain, R. L. Stevenson, Scott, Thackeray, Charles Reade, Washington Irving, Bulwer-Lytton and so on. And the men read these books! Far into the night you will come across some youngsters whose hammock is near a light and who cannot sleep straining his eyes in reading some book. At any time when the smoking lamp is lit and the men have knocked off work if you walk through the ship you will probably find 150 men reading books. Their association with the best fiction and best history is constant. They discuss these books and they get a fund of information that no other grade of men in a factory receive. And how was it in the old days? Melville tells about it in his "White Jacket," the book that relates to the old frigate United States in 1843. He says: