ts owner a tender of the civilities of the club. All
vessels are considered foreign not belonging to the interstate squadron,
or to a club not included in the association of yachts to which your
vessel and you belong.

Of course I have only skimmed through the sailing and saluting
regulations. You are supposed to have a book of your club, which will
give them to you, and you are bound to follow the rules laid down
therein.

As a rule, the commodore of a yacht club wears on his cap an anchor one
inch and a half in diameter, placed horizontally, embroidered in gold,
with a silver star of half an inch diameter at each end of and above the
anchor. A vice commodore wears only a single star; captains two crossed
foul anchors. The dress uniform of most yacht clubs is a plain blue or
black dress coat, a white dress waistcoat, each with the club button in
gilt; blue or white trousers with cravat black or white. The undress
consists of a double-breasted sack coat of blue cloth, serge, or
flannel, blue or white waistcoat, each with the black club button;
trousers of same material, or of white drill. The commodore has five
black silk stripes on his cuff, the vice commodore four, the rear
commodore three, the captain and other officers two, and the members
one.

Your crew should wear shirts of blue flannel or white linen with wide
blue cuffs and collars, stitched with blue or white thread.
Handkerchiefs should be of black silk, caps of blue cloth without visor;
straw hats with black ribbon can be used for summer. The name of the
yacht must be worked on the breast of the shirt, or printed upon the
band of the cap or the ribbon of the hat. The trousers should be of
blue flannel or white linen duck. No braces are worn.

GOLF.

The etiquette of golf is incorporated, more or less, with the
technicalities of the rules governing the game. I do not intend to go
into these, but to give a few hints to the novice, to prevent him, if
possible, committing solecisms.

Golf has a vocabulary of its own. The "grounds" on which the game is
played is a stretch of rather rough country, abounding in hills,
hillocks, and sandy downs, and is known by no other name but the
"links."

The game is usually played by two persons, but it can be by more. It
consists in driving a ball, small and black, or painted red for the
winter snows, along a route laid out by a series of holes to a goal,
with a selection of clubs with metal ends. A small boy carri