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CORONATION
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KING GEORGE VI
QUEEN ELIZABETH
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THE RIGNIFICANCE or THE CORONATION
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should be content to ask with the immortal Sir Toby Belch, “be- cause thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”. It is a question which would confound the moralists and glad- true
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Illustrations of the regalia which are being published occa-
to sionally in another page interest in all that concerns the Coronation may recall the anecdotage associated with some of them: There is the Sword of State, for instance. When Par- liament was to be opened in 1911 Lord Carrington asked · John Morley to carry the Sword as Lord President. Morley refused.
Hong Kong, Saturday, April 3, 1937-When he was next a guest at
OF BEER
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Windsor Queen Mary spoke to- him about this and said that she thought it was a pity that he had not seen his way to comply One with custom. "Madam,” was the Cricket without beer!
́a sword is not at all în might as easily think of sole reply, without lemon, of "Hamlet" my * line; a shepherd's crook without the Prince, of the Club would be more suitable.” without its Pearce, of Paris might have added that it would without its cafes, or of any other "go" with the woolsack.
But there was an entirely op- of those associations that give to ife its peculiar enjoyment. And posite point of view to Morley's. yet the inconceivable has come When Queen Victoria opened to pass. For the cricket author-Parliament in 1877 we are told ities
in Brisbane have banned that all eyes were turned upon the supply of beer to players "a familiar face but a strangely during the progress of a match. disguised figure at her Majesty's as he sat upon the No longer will great tankards, left hand frothing generously at the top, throne." "It was the new Earl of be carried out to perspiring Beaconsfield, making his first ap- fielders or to harassed batsmen. pearance in the Lords, “in scar- No longer will dressing-room let and ermine, bearing aloft the gossip be punctuated by those Sword of State, standing mute long, cool silences which portend and motionless, with all the the height of human felicity. dignity of pose and lack of facial distinguished Instead, players will be condemn- expression that
ed to endure the rigours of the him on great occasions." He had Queensland sun with nothing to been ill, and the Queen had offer- comfort them but the taunting ed to relieve him from the duty cumbersome promise of some "soft drink.” O of carrying the shades of W. G. Grace, of Mr. burden," but that did not suit Pickwick and other immortal him at all. "He quite counts, cricketers! And there are ter- he wrote to her, "on the honour rors more formidable than the of carrying the Sword of State
next to heat of a summer's day. What and standing batsman, leaving the sweet Majesty. He would not like to security of the pavilion to face a miss so great an incident. It is Larwood's bowling, would not a chapter in life. feel stouter of heart if he had enjoyed the solace of John Barleycorn? Gone, at least,
would be the mien of a martyr Good Morning! on his way to the stake. He would accomplish the short walk
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Your
The practice of shaking hands, to the wicket with some appear-which has been forbidden to ance of confidence, even though Italian Fascists on the ground
it he knew at the bottom of his that
is “unworthy of heart that it would be only a Fascism, has been attacked in matter of seconds before he be- Europe before this. Not long gan the return journey. And ago an Anti-Handshaking Club what bowler would not come re was formed in Yugoslavia. Its freshed and hopeful topregnable much to handshaking in general
hostility was directed not
European
ed onslaught on wicket of a Bradman?
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as to the peculiarly. But what are the wider im- custom of handshaking in offices. plications, as the lawyer would There must be thousands of say, of such a ban? Is it merely European offices in which custom that cricket is becoming some requires everybody to shake thing of a ritual too serious hands with everybody else on for such profanities as beer? It arriving for work in the morning might seem so, when one realises and again upon going out to that in these days of a strenuous lunch at noon. It was this that nationalism the honour of an roused the stalwarts of Ljubl entire country is staked upon the jana. They had no objection outcome of a test match. Oria to handshaking on occasions it that the Queensland board of important enough to justify it-- control are the prophets of a new for example, between the bride Puritanism which is destined to and bridegroom on the occasion sweep the world and deliver us of their marriage. over to the rule of the “unco: The Chinese prefer to shake guid"? Certainly, dictatorship their own hands, although their is the modern disease. The sense of politeness is so highly civilised virtues of tolerance and developed that, out of deference understanding are on the decline to Western custom, they fre in nearly every sphere of human quently shake hands with for- activity. Why then should sport eigners. Westerners who live be immune from the universal long in China frequently absorb rule? "Dost thou think,” we the Chinese view