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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27TH, 1923.
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Beg to Notify Customers that Assorted Hampers suitable for the Festive Season may be obtained from them at the following Beduced Ratos :-
No. 1
HAMPER—$35.
1 Qt. Moet & Chandon Dry Imp.
Champagne.
1 Qt. Blackberry Brandy-d 1 Pt. D.O.M.
Whisky.
1 Qt. Martell'. XXX Brandy. 2. Qts. King Geo. IV or Parfection
No. 2 HAMFER-$30
1.Qt. Guillemart Champagne.
1 Ft. D.O.M
LQt Burgoyne's Burgundy.
1 Qt. Martell's XXX Brandy.
2 Qta. King Geo: IV or Perfection
1 Qt. Superb Tawny Port.
2 Qts. St. Julian Claret.
1 Qt. Old Brown Sherry B.3.
1 Qt. D.C.L. Old Tom or Dry Gin.
1 Qt. Burgoyne's Australian Burgundy.
1 phial Pomeranzın Bittara.
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No. 3 HAMPER--$25.
1 Qt. Burgoyne's "Burgundy.
1 Pt. G. F. Pippermint.
1 'Pt. D.O.M.
2-Qts up. RO.-Port-
2 ts. King Goo, IV or Perfection
Whisky.
Whisky.
2.Qt. Tawny Day Port
1 Qt. Engrand's XXX Brandy.
2 Qts. St. Julian Claret.
1 qt. D.C.L. Old Tom or Dry Gin.
1 Qt. Vino de Pasto Sherry.
1phial Pomerangan Bitters,
1 Qt. Amontillado Sherry W.S. 2 Qts. Medoc Claret.
1 Qt. U.C.. Old Tom or Dry Gid. 1 phial Pomeranzan Bitters,
Hampers of all Descriptions made up to suit Customers Requirements.
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THE THATCHED HOUSE CLUB Flashes-
The Thatchet House Club (London) numbers among its residents many men from the Far East who are living at home in retirement, and many who are still resident in Hongkong and the Far East will be greatly, interested in the following history of the Club contributed to the China Expresă num
The Thatched House Club, formerly knowu as the Civil Service Cluby-was built. The site it occupies. in the early sixties.
and the same it bears, however, havo au aucient history dating back to Restoration i
of the Past
That is Just What Good Pictures are; They bring the Past back to Life.
"Tako Pictures To-day: To-
morraw and Everyday,
days, when a remote thatchesi houso in A. TACK & Co., St. James's Fieldla was licensed, or at all f
St. establish, ag ն tavern.
events
James's Street was then known as the Long Street, and ran, as it does to this day, from the Palace of St. James's up to the rund against Albemark Buildings, where Monk, we may suppose, entertained the Merry Monarch.
For nearly two centuris the "Thatchid Hone Tavern lane a rendezvous"of the literary and political world of London. and from the stream of anecdote and re- rainiscence which the memory of the famous tavers evokes, one may select choice mor-
ls at will.
Let me begin with two extracts Brean Swift letters to Stella. On Deceather 20th. 1711, he writes:- 1 Riard, you know, with our wciety, and that odious secretary (Lord Bolinbroke) would make ne president next week; so I must enter tain them this day night at the Thatched House, Tavern, where we diard today: it will cost me five or six pounds, yet the secretary says he will give me wine," Again,
a week later: I entertained our ciety at the Thatched House Tavera to-day at dinner hut brother Anthurst sent for win alluded to by Swift cou the bouse affording" The society sisted of a club comprising the most aud eminent men in rank, literature politics at the beginning of the eighteenth century. It afterwards transferr! its patronage to the "Star and Garber," in
Mall, on account of the expense of the Thatched House.
Beneath the tavern front was a Träge of low-built shops, including that of
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The Tavern was among the many haunted by Dick Steele. Through it ran n passage to the Thatched House Court, where for many years lived Mrs. Delany. Johnson's famous club, later the Literary Club, in 1799, fifteen years after the death of the Sage, removed from Parsloe's Coffee-house to the Thatched House. It was the headquarters of the celebrated chess club of which Philidor was a mem ber, and their he performed the, at that
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The Dilettaati Society, founded by Sir Joshan Reynolds in 1731, met at the Taveru, until the house was pulled down. There, as late as 1817, was kept the Society's famous collection of portraits, which has recently, after vicissitudes, found a home in the St. James's Club in Piccadilly.
In the early nineteenth century, that stuffiest period in the history of English Letters, from Chaucer to Hergesheimer, the Tavern lost vogne. The anonymous author of Clubs of London," publishing in 1829, tells how he habitually eschewed Literary Societies, but was lured by a friend to the Thatched House in St. James's Street under the promise of an intellectual treat. He says his dinner was the warmed-up remains of bygone entertainments and the wine of inferior quality. A severe debate followed on the currency considered under many bend- ings, after some hours of which he es caped home, yowing never again to desert: his modest mutton and port for any bạn. quet, literary or otherwise.
In the Tavern is said to have been hatched the scheme for a memorial to i Nelson, which culminated in a public subscription and Trafalgar Square.
The Tavern was partly taken down in 1814, and finally deinolished in 1889. On its site were erected the Conservative Chub and the present building.
The architect of the Thatched House Club was James Knowles, and the decora tive carving of foliage and, birds was by Daymond In excavating the foundations. thirty feet below the level of the street," thy came upon fossils of a lion's jaw and a variety of bones of the mammoth. The club house was in its day higher than any surrounding building, and from its upper rooms there was a fine panoramic view of the surrounding town and coun- try, The hydraulic lift was regarded as a feature of ultramodernity of the newest and safest construction."
From the bay window, that typical embellishment of clubland, one may look out through the mists of four hundred) years upon the time-worn towers of Henry VIII's palace; one may muse on the wits and beaux of society in the Augustan Age; one may spend a thought on manners and morals under the Four Georges: and then heigh-ho for the Bridge Room, and the terror of cutting with PALAEO,
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