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THE CHINA MAIL,
Home and Hospitality~
Sometimes one finds a happy as-
By Marjorie Howe Dixon
At the same time the French details, outside and in, a most fassic, the clipper ship and the baro- sociation of ideas, that bring pic-rural home is receiving meriled at-cinating study. Is there not an meter all at once.
tention, the English country home entire literature devoted to If you desire a truly wide oppor tures of delight to one's mind. with its endearing qualities of fit Colonial hardware.-locks and tunity to express your own taste Lines, spring with all its' fairness, ting into the landscape, and invit latches, hinges and hasps? Be-and imagination you' may plan a Normandy, white clouds shimmering the lonely wayfarer to stop a sides there are all the extra things modern art room. It will afford ing over a clear blue sky, and ap- while, has won our love and affec-like lanterns and andirons and you much chance for study, for tion. The finished settled charac- candle moulds and Betty lamps to though simplicity is the keynote ple trees in bloom. Against all teristic would take a while to de- read about. What is ti Betty the arrangement is not at all sim- this sel a quaint old home of white- velop, but it could be done in time. lamp? Your great-grandmother' ple. washed brick and stone, built Flagged walks, old poplars, creep-used to hang on the back of her ers over the brick-and-half-timber chair to bring the light close for about a fat round tower, with
construction, these are not all ac- her reading or sewing. quired in a year's time.
· peaked cap on it like the little caps they ased for snuffing candles.. Does this not appeal to your ima- Could thin not very gination? well be the "home of your dreams" that the enthusiastic real estate salesman is so fond of talking about?
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Once having built home, and having shared it with one's friends, one could surely watch and work to "age" it, as the seasons roll by.
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A Colonial living-room in its fur- nishings might very well carry a distinct sea tang. Why not? Many skipper returned to New Eng- land to build himself a fine home, overlooking the ocean if possible, and to it he quite naturally brought the accumulated treasures or his travels,:
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A Charming Interior, The Interior would need affec-1 Perhaps among the homes of the Lionate study and exercise of tuate
Your living-room might not French chateau type you will find to mellow it and to round out the meet with his entire approval, if your desire. So often they suc-charm one dreams of. A dining for instance you used a pair ceed in combining a genuine homi- room in such home might be ships lanterns on your walls. He ness of feeling with that
other handsomely panelled in eak. Fail would 'grow.
enthused, we erowning Krace, hospitality. ng that, patterned paper of dull
think, over a skilful copy of a Doubtless it is their informality | orange that makes you think of
elipper ship or a copy of his favour- that aids in completing this ex-batik could be used above the chair ite burkentine. Now that you can pression.
rail. A carved dining set would fit buy a roistering galleon for a few in. On the high buffet with its dollars, they say the fad for ship Harmony in Architecture und
doors carved in linen fold panelling models is dying out. Possibly you would want to place your col lection of pewter plates. Copper, of a real clipper ship will ever be true. None the less a good copy. too might be used here effectively a joy to the owner. Any other To set the table embroidered nautical treasures would fit in, too, linen mats could be placed under ships belts a compass and sex serving plates of burnt orange
ontant, and a barometer, of course, the bare table.. Goblets of amber glass or pewter mugs would add to the ensemble. The colour of the serving plates would repeat that
Furnishings,
The furnishings of a room to fit that type of house in Gascony, let
us say, or Lorraine or Provence pleasant combination of rural simplicity of treatment and
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the French love of ornament. bedroom, for instance, would rive at a halfway point between the austerity of the Spanish and the elaborate sophistication of the periods of the Louis,
Blue and white are the upright ly little patterns that climb up and down the short drapes at the deep set windows. A low hedstead with no footboard wears a whith woven
spreat of linen, the squares of
which are of alternate open, weave and closed. Sweeping down from a point high on the wall to the floor, either side the bed is a long graceful drape, also white.
blue and
Various small pieces of furni fure, not one of which is large and of beechwood,
overbearing. Are
of the curtains,
Suppose you start with one of these new cupboards, with odd size open shelves on one side of the room and a dressing case on the other. Then one of the new diváns can stand across the way from a low coffee table, with cushion alongside, in lieu chair. So far, this is not so diff cult, is it?
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AN EMPIRE BUILDER.
BIRTH OF MACKINNON MACKENZIE & CO.
THE LATE SIR WILLIAM.
Although it has a history ancient and chequered, and although Vasco da Gama irod upon its streets, Mombasa is possessed "of only one solitary statue. It stands in the public garden, on the Kilindin! Road, just as the road dips in its approach to the old town harbour. The figure is an unpretentious one, as befits the character of the man It commemorates; and yet his achievemente as an Empire builder, when they eventually obtain their due recognition, will be found to Btd at level with those of Cecil Rh, les.. His name was Sir WI- Ham MacKinnon.
Mackinnon's career had woven into its more substantial fabric all the elements of advoniare and romance which the mind habitually associates with the intrepid ploneers whose foresight and daring have added vast tracta to the British Empire. Born in 1823 in modest at Campbeltown, circumstances
Argyllshire, his start in life was as From his grocery apprentice.
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native town he soon migrated to Glasgow, where. Inter, he entered
A Modern Art Treatment. Now try to arrange a few art treasures on your cupboard shelves. The answer is, try it, and find out how very few things will fit. Some of the new Austrian grotesques, a Chinese elephant or two-a bronze figure in severely rhythmic lines, a modern clock, a brass bawi perhaps, one or two the office of a merchant engaged in pieces of coloured glass, these may do.
The coffee table will not be quite so difficult, for a smart coffee ser-
vice, an ash tray and a cigarette ense will take care of it. The dressing case
will take more thought. Perchance there will be They drapes over the mirror. must express the stern folds of the bronze figures you will use elsewhere., By special effort you may find a dresser set in the mo dern style,-very beautiful mirror
Over the mantelpiece a vigorous marine would seem appropriate. Your candlesticks might be a pair seen recently in the shops, each with a little sea horse-ram- arch over it at one end of the room
A fireplace with
for a fine Tudor pant, bearing the bowl the would share the hospitable wel-
candle on his head.
backs and brushes have been de- A Colonial living-room that signed, by the craftsmen,
comes to The general effect of come extended to the guest or offers unusual charm
your homecomer, and here. ** copper mind. One entire wall is covered modern art room should be a coal scuttle must needs reside, to with open bookshelves. A win-colourful combination of masses of dow, breaks these with a cozy sent geometric shapes, imposed one up Abonenth it. Curtains are of chintz. on another, and with intervals of wide winged chuir would await a blue pattern on a cream ground. rhythm and odd accents in your ob- him surely. From this comfort he A Charming and Hospitable Room.jees of art. Through it all should could look about at the portraits of
Ivory woodwork and turquoise be felt a strong consciousness his distinguished ancestors. It
blue walls, form a background to of fine crafts-the finished work of has always been a secret wonder the wide comfortable overstuffed the woodworker, the artistry of the with us why they should be called chairs. A convenient coffee table silversmith and glassmaker. distinguished at all, and what the with a fat lamp made from an old
to paint them.
replenish the fire so that he may
be warmed at the little grate.
the eastern trade. Evidently, however, he quickly began to find: Each bill of lading a romance
To make him "dream of eastern
sens,
Of towns with strangely sounding
names,
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Of shining harbours, aun-bathed
*quays, Of dusky grave-faced merchantmen In dim bazaars as consignees, for, in his 24th year, he decided to leave the smoky city on the Clyde and seek a place in the Indian sun.
SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1928.
MLLE. LENGLEN'S REPORTED ENGAGEMENT TO. MILLIONAIRE. The engagement of Mile, Suzanne Lenglen, the tennis player, may be announced in the near future, it is rumoured at Nice. An American millionaire is mentioned as her future husband. Mile. Lenglen's parents refuse either to confirm or deny the rumour. The millionaire referred to some time ago dented that there was any thought of marriage. He has been a friend of the Lenglen family for several years. (Sport and General).
scene, eagerly opened arms for the proffered gift and, with the veiled pressure of their Government be- hind them, were able to obtain from the Sultan the territory afterwards known as German East Africa, It was only then that the English Foreign Office woke up to a sense of the position and enlisted Mac- Kinnon's influence tn.obtain as much of his mainland territory as was umpropriated by the Germans, In this he was successful, and in 1888 the Imperial British East Africa Company was formed to administer it and, with MacKinnon as Chair- man, received a royal charter far the purpose. The Company from the outset was beset with enormous Starved of political difficulties. support and sympathy, it had in- cessantly to fight · the unscrupulous- aggressions of foreign Interesta heavily subsidized by their re- spective Governments. Disputes concerning alleged treaties and spheres of interest in the interior and Uganda were of constant occur- rence, and native risings taxed the resources of the Company to quell.
order Gradually, however, evolved, and the territory now known as Kenya and Uganda set- fled down under the British flag.
For payment of rent and admini- stration expenses the Company the customs mainly depended on
In 1892, however, the revenue.
the British Government declared territory to be within its Free Trade zone and so swept away with- out compensation the fiscal mainstay
was
Probably his choice was determin- ed by the circumstance that a school fellow, Robert Mackenzie, with whom he had been maintaining an intermittent correspondence, was already out there. Mackenize, was carrying on a coasting trade of sorts in the Bay bf Bengal. He invited the newcomer, on his airival, to join him, and the well-known firm of Mackeníze & Co. was founded. From this beginning they were able, in about nine years' time, to build It may be that your particular up and consolidate & Hound com- expression of home and hospital-mercial position for themselves. grand plano seems very Appro-ity may include not one of the Witha fleet consisting of one
discussed.. 'priate in this living-room. Should ideas herein not any room offer you the delight shouldn't disturb is, should it? founded the Calcutta and Burmah of muafe and books? The only Just so it is home, in the apring- Steam Navigation Company, their unable to carry on. complaint one might offer is that time, and just so you share it with "fleet" plying between Burmah and side was also meeting with reverses. a dress of such unusual lines and Rangoon, Later on the name was Eventually there was nothing left fabric that it may successfully it would be a bit difficult to en- some one, sameiend, then we
changed to the British India Steam for it but to surrender its charter joy the fireside, the books, the mu- agree pretty well, do we not?
Navigation Company, and under the and permit the Government to take serve several purposta.
In Paris where styles first see the direction of MacKinnon it became, over its assets and interests on the
latter's own terms. In the ultimate light of day the vogue of chiffon for and is to-day, one of the great ship-reault it was able to emerge, solvent dinner gowns and all their close ping companies of the world, &
Thin wood is most interesting to artist thought about when he had bottle, stunds near one chair.
examine. It takes a dull glossy
A Home of Colonial Inspiration. polish, and in colour is like walnut yet lighter, and at that, is not the If it should happen that your par- red tan of maple, Carved drawer ticular "dream home" that will pulls are worthy of notice. What best express your ideal of a hos- a restful guestroom this would pitable house should be Colonial make.
or even Georgian, you will find the
The Cartoonists and the Stars
Famed Caricaturist Sketches the Players
AMONG the recent visitors to Hollywood 443 vas Bert Levy, a custoonist of the greatest prestige on the North American Costinest......... While gordiping with Cinema'
late moods. Fils impresions of Ramon NOSAITO (1), Eeaper: Boardman. `{3}," Marion Davies (3), and George K. Archer
arciau be employed his sketching 'pad 'and() all Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer player,
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Old Fort is now Museum
1. Fort Anne, showing how the grounds have been made lato a folf course.
12. The first powder magazine of Fort Anas; buiti in frækpat was in the year 1804 that the Annapollo Batin became known as "Port Royal-the royal harbour-named by Samuel de Champlain who was second in command to Timoth& Plorre du Guast, Blear:ds Monts, when he entered with a small battalion the sheet of water now known as the Annapolis Basin. The name finally attached itself to the surrounding settlement and was known as auch until the British con- quest in 1710, when the place. was renamed in honor of Queen' Anne," Annapolla Royal, em congue war fatasha
With spring fashiona definitely
scheme of taxation proposed by the for semi-formal occasions is being of the Company, A substitutional established, the frock that is worn
latter was also disallowed.
That ateamer only they ambitiously The Company, thus torpedoed, was exhibited with an air of importance.
After a period of years the country, was restored to France and D'Aunay erected the first fort on the present die, about the year 1685. || The foundation of one bastion of D'Aunay's fort is still to be seeni,jonal The fort, after being burned and ro-bulit on several occasions was finally left for all time, and not appearing to have any particular name during the French occupations, the articles of capitulation simply refer vi to it as the "Fort of Port Royal" Nor was any distinctive name given
to it by Nicholson, but later it esme to be known as Fort Aune, Today- the fort houses a uplandid, museum, an object, wondrous moving to the beholder beautiful in its natural netting redolent of history and re- Amance and alive with memorable names and dreda, idete me
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Ita trading For there has come upon the scene
-C, MACKINNON. Porto Amelia, B.E.A.
branch of Its service at present indeed, but with four-fifths of its relations, was firmly placed in first forming the main link of com- capital lost; while the judgment, rank of favouritlem. The new gowns munication between South Africa foresight and patriotism of its are simple enough for dinner, and founder had added another smart enough to appear later in the and India. At first its activities were confined to the comts of India, He died in 1893.
domizion to the British Empire. 'evening at supper cluba. Panels, į draperies, pleatings and tiers all are Burmah and the Persian Gulf,
seen to vary the silhouette. Colours where it created and developed a
vary a good deal in these gowns. vast trade; but in time It also con- nested up with 'Great Britain; the | Dutch East Indies and Australia.
It was in 1973 that the Company'a |attention first turned to thej East African... Kittoral. In that year they started a modest service be- tween Aden and Zánzlbar. Mac- Kinnon gave his personal sarvell- lance to this new section of the enterprise and soon, Defablished him- self high in the favour of Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar, Four years. later the Bultan offered him a 70- years' lease of the sovereign rights of the whole malaland'dominions of Zanzibar. These extended from Tongue, at the extremity of Port agueso East Africa, along the coast for 1150 miles to Warshelk, now in Italian Somaliland, and Inland as fer na the eastern frontier othe Congo Free State. This ter ritory, which included Lakes Nyasa, Tanganyika and Victoria Nyanza, comprised an area of 690,000 square miles (Rhodesia, north and south, embraces only: 1440,000) 2 Mac Kinnon turned with the proposed concession to the Foreign Office. The latter declined to ratify it, and |((may --it "not: bé ̈kaid), so' "flung wantonly away an empire which has cost Infinite blood and treasure" to retrieve since then OOUS LIN The German Bast Africa Coi, at that time lately come tipon the
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