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HERMES
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1951.
By CHARLES REID EX DG FOR EX609007 42058
ENGLAND'S FIRST FAT CHRISTMAS
N
A
OT fat for everybody, agreed. The Christ- mas Eve newspapers within one reported that week
Camden Town abourer's wife, aged thirty nine, and eight babies else- where in London had died from exhaustion for want In of proper nourishment. ulainer English they had starved to death.
Such cases were. however, an nomous
from the hangover
Hungry Forties
ons this rans
Bering enough
For most Bri
1851 WAF com
the Even
push paper was given some-
Ing Tak would, Cobbelt's Good phrase stick to his b
untaxed whea
that vests plu
target & had brough, bread down
whe SIXIRTICO
four pound
leaf. lowest mice of the century. This may stom
on today's vewpoint, but for as they The labouring classes were hoftily ralled in every- body who wore the white shirt ort sovepipe ha. mi je jer za bility, be our was s all the staph article of thet a Gundred year?
ago
case
offerted assuBgement
grea The
CHRISTMAS TRAIN arriving in the Eastern counties, laden with hampers.
with garlands
was
bullion The survey which The Times comes and steel-mounted fire- So much
and transit that occasionat hunks used to print winually under places the rubric. "Christmas Day in cherubic heads in cast-iron. went astray. Before rising for
showed that the Workhouse", eighty or ninety thousand pau-
Christmas Vacation, the Such was the typical decor of the law 1851-sign of a new and prane Court of Exchequer found the
The fact was South Western Railway
on Britain
tu
Falling mes ang are jobs followed prescally 1- again
in the London poor wage..
widentally pers 11:
pochi istries dined on half-a-pound ing prosperity.
of bonefree beef cach, followed beginning to dawn ex rener
other that she was the workshop and blame for losing a box of gold plum pudding and
of the her Isis, he had kuwn what by
world. dust belonging to the Rothschilds whole washed trading counter crus.s, lea delicacies, the
roads which had and sea 7512
In Her harbours down by a pint of porter. antumatory
workhouses,
read, were crowded with sall bound away any
"rectors, ladies and gentlemen" and from the ends of the earth. ko
16 their dreams.
The upstart steamship was only attended to see the paupers en- Mariondes
the horizon. But Victorian smudge on atenty wa- at hand
themselves. and political reform no longe; loving
the smudge was growing por- Charity did not excel in tact.
• E1191 1& seemed so
tentously. levalu son was adjounen,
Was
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perches. 3210
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ungen.
There were many wretched families who proudly preferred a wide to give the workhouse a
berth Victorian spetology classifed these as the deserving poor.
Ten thousand deserving ON
10
come all the way from the Panama isthmus.
the
By the end of Christmas week Bank of the governors
sitting on reckoned they were gold coin and bullion to the tune of nearly seventeen million sterling-"a larger amount” ob- served one commentator. "than Christmas Eve ä new could have been dreamed of a Cunarder, the Arabia. was few years ago."
Greenock for the
LL the more reason for eat
drinking and making poor, young and old, were in- Ing.
Jee by the Leicester Square launched at
Most Englishmen service. ereak Liverpool-New York 10: V. At a shop off the Strand
had in Christmas Soup kitchen managers to
engines rating preoccupied with their private which specialise
ampars you euid buy a bottle ing tables in a bunting bedecked She
were 100
ach of Sc ch, gin rum. Fiencia enclosure where, to the wonder thousand horse power, paddle affairs and seasonal pleasures to
river at sevenpence he duzen
reporter.
was
two-storey reflect that the country was in funnels as com- brandy, por
and sherry, all u ment of the entre neighbour wheels as high as
a whole
ox had been house, twin
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evalu- dress pared #ith the usual single the throes of economic he very best, for less than a hood,
roaring roasted by gas under the
masts which had tion. At Sadler's Weils Theatre ound
muddy, In he mos ta hionable tion of a versatile gar company funnel and
put im for form Cheapside
rather on Boxing Night "The Lady of "The Arabia's ine than for function. of fare Included shuanger in town was selling superintendent. The aggregate been
Lyons," a curtain raiser, oysters four hous af er their bill
acted in dumb show amid being taken from the Burhan thousand pounds of beet and almost sofe dependence," wrote
Cake
couple of hundred ments,
awed shipping
sereaming. concerted of shouting, hare pies, sixty will be on beef pies, fifty
the immensity pics,
stamping, orange peel throwing fifty pork and her steam power." Food was avalanching in a rabbit
mutton
pics weighing len to Lendon from all poin's of the
The new iron hulls, like the and free fights. Most audiences
in London were behaving compass,
jamming docks, a sixty pounds each, twenty roast
Never Reese, fods of porter, a mout old ones of teak, were needed
the es the same time in exactly 23 well vays and marke alleys.
bunan plum pudding, cakes, for
Mild rioting was a before had so many geese and taun of
chestnuts, oranges....
emmodity cargoes. Emigration. same way. for nikeys come in from France.
sorrowful cherished Boxing Night a some years 'olland Belgium Nor did the
Hecessity among the impoverish- veution in the theatre, part of; Q1
ed Irish, had become big bus- the Londoner's licensed fun. hristmas Eve railways in the
less among knowing English- overloaded Andon area were
SPECIAL X'MAS REDUCTION English coun'ies lag behind.
See it at
Spalingers
Office Equipment Dept.
3A Wyndham St. (next to S.C.M. Post) Tel. 32785
Please Reserve Your Table
FOR
X'MAS EVE DINNER
AND
NEW YEAR EVE DINNER
Both Nights Open Up to 2.00 a.m. Dance Music All Night
Notice:
No reservation accepted by Telephone
The Cock & Pullet Restaurant
7/9, Duddell Street, off Queen's Road C.
There's
Telephone 28252
a
MORE PLEASANT
MORE EFFICACIOUS
WAY OFSENDING
Coughs!
Campbell's Cherry Cough Byrup, the, long-proven formula, enda congha pleasantly. Taken at kid.
gestion, breaks up the fightdes For doughs, Boice and bromeliai produ
CAMPBELL'S CHERRY, COUGH SYRUP
ÁT AL CHEMATA RAUM STOREE.
urkey for
15 la le
05
Yeomen
the
SO,
There
heir
which
were
Con-
T the Tussaud waxworks the
th poultry from Shropshire, THE Leicester Square arrange- men.
ments quite eclipsed Yorkshire, Lancashire, Norfolk.
tables Even
the After looking at the machine- royal
not to be made lace curtains and the gold cheer was "No! only." wrote an ab- Queen's
bracelets in
A most popular figure, after railway despised. In the rebuilt kitchen mounted memento all the crver, "were
human
the Castle two Master
Kossuth, the Hungarian revolu- rucks requisitioned o meet the at Windsor
two Yeomen of the great Christmas novelty gifts of
tionary, was a female wearing mergency but on some lines all Cooks,
of the the year, the shopper was in- Mouth. two second and third class carriage.
baggy trousers, invention of the two Larderers,
five vited to make his choice be-
American dress reformer, were crammed with geese, tur-
the tween alternative lines in patent Amelia Jenks Bloomer, favourite keys and hampers containing three Mon of
Green Office (who cleaned the folding emigrants' tents, com jest of the season, to whom Mr resents from coun ry friends."
slung cots, tables vegetables) and one Steam Man plete with
Punch devoted what was, in (who
cooked them) luiled
Three effect, a special number. The Leadenhall and Newgate
centenarians and a humired markets, where you could buy a among gas flares and turnspits and camp stools.
were patent folding two men and women over eighty Ove at the bidding of M. Moret, the
as well, safe,
doddered into the Royal uptions had seen no bine like Queen's chet, under nez-Guthit emigran's boats
rafters which looked as if they strong, cheap, roomy, handsome,
Office near Whitehall it before and, having hoped for had been designed for easy to row and easy to re-sell monry better prices, didn'! particularly
evangelical mission hall.
60 it was claimed. No and were cach given two half- are if they saw nothing like it
emigrant," urged the makers, crowns, newly struck by the Royal Mint, 25 the Queen's again.
Two days before Christmas a
"should proceed to any part of baron of beef cut from a
Christmas Bounty. a spank- The same abundance prevailed at Covent Garden. Boys sciam- ing Devon os was hung to roast the globe without taking one or The more of these boats with him.” at eleven in the morning. sled
Around he unreproved
till cleven
at at rtasting went on
scale market stalls for spillings of night. Turning the
at holly and mistletoe. Christmas near four hundredweight, the packed along the baron was placed cold on a side- cobbles in groves of unprece board for the royal banquet on HAT beckoned the 1861 emi- lieved she was that the reck- dented length. This won't de Christmas Day.
addition WH
trees were
an
Al-
The Queen herself, having all her Christmas packed off presents, wrote her uncle the King of the Belgians a letter full of italics saying how re-
incorrigible Palmerston grant above all else was less,
been ousted from the at all grieved the marke'men, there were sixty roast turkeys, "there's too much of everything.”
boar's head and a pic which gold. The recently opened Aus had
tralian and Californian fields Foreign Secretaryship. the newspaper evasively, had occasioned a rush walch
THE butchers were
in
frame of mind. Ten days carlier, af
In
described as "immeasurable. The papers added that most
They need not have
on the
Through the logs of Christ- of Christmas festivities were power-
be wearing two black spots the fare would be eaten by the less to halt. On Christmas Day mas Day the sun was seen to the steamer Medway, newly out joined by a bar. The super- like Household and royal servants.
of Southampton, was heading stitious thought this a sinister Not only was Christmas 1861 down-Channel on the first leg portent Smi hfeld's annual the first fat Chris.mas. It ranks of her voyage to San Francisco jittered. England was show of Christmas catle. the 140 09
te het distinctively with a party of assayers, artisans brink of new greatnes critics had been mainly con- Victorian"
one.
Hitherto and miners on board who were corned not wi'h the weight of England had been living in the under orders to exploit the hd beasts but with their eyle Georgian afterglow, its manners Californian hodgs of a mush- and symmetry. Breeders and and pleasures, its homes and is room firm known as the Nou- deaters discussed outstanding habits conditioned as much by teau Monde Gold Mining Com- Herefords much 26 the the 18th as by the 19th century. cognoscenti had discussed It was the Great Exhibition Pany. "We are daily gaining the vital idence in the richness of the satuary at the Great Exhibition which
Californian veing and In their permanence," disclosed
the Nouveau Monde blurb writers.
Нороз In the Australian
in Hyde Park a tow months change.
hnd worked
exhibits
carller, Qunmity wee a. bere, something you took for granted. Christmas Week saw the last London's cattle imports from of the Crystal Palace Aberdeen alone had increased sold by auction. You could pick flexis ran equally high. Many a hundred-and-af fold in thirty up Flant Sevres vases wor h five city men, while taking his years.
Ca'tle breeding was now hundred pounds at two hundred Christmas port, read the phon
of aesthetics. The the path, eight-day clocks pectus of the British-Australian Prince
Consort won twenty the form of trees with methani Gal Mining Company
and, guineas of prize money with u enl birds for twenty guiness or through the genial hase of cigar pair of oxen which were coll- 502
Abranch
aldered to be intimpeallably modelled,
By Christmas Eve mild, humid
weather had forced a most glut
With welds storake as yet un- BUT Exhibition Hylos tud be
in
smoke, and visions of Ingols
pling profitably at Summer 10 Creek and along the Hunter River
Already gold was streaming
developed, bullets looked a home long before the Ex 34k öz plant Mos of
gun to porcolate into English back to the color of the dismay at their inménes, Klooks
and knowing the
kahes kung wena bifiphis treasure is, qua, chime in un payment for Bestald's and Crivia exports,, But« not keep, reludimiyly
The Christian unloaded.
Even to the City which was still of the up-to-date were held in len, was minion pleatful de In fact. Every crack clip- də for Gential qualiter for bike, pretours where patent
ere, morehunts end their law. with frosted ging Fob TV
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yer the sirloin watainakin on sirgulse mahogany
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