midday
Bismarck asked his barber , when he came in one day with his moustache twirled upward in the new fashion of the race tracks . `` A moustache trimmed and twisted like that to me looks as if it were terribly annoyed and for no reason . '' The international gong had not been introduced on the _ Roland _ . The trumpeter of the band sent two blasts across the promenade deck and through the corridors of the first cabin as a signal for the midday meal . The first blast entered with the howling of the wind into the close , noisy , crowded smoking saloon . The attendant of the man without arms came to conduct his master across the deck again . Frederick watched the armless man with great interest .