HENRY VIII'S KITCHEN.
DEAD KING'S MEMORY AN ASSET TO THE TREASURY.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH
ST. FILLAN'S CHURCH.
ON MANY OCEANS.
A TWELFTH-CENTURY SCOTTISH LIFE ROMANCE OF MR. HAVELOCK
CHAPEL
Lord
WILSON
Stories of the crimps" who used to rob sailors, of voyages all over the world, and of the early exciting history of the sailors''national trade union which he founded, are told, by Mr. J. Havelock Wilson in the first volume of his autobio (Co-operative Printing Society), graphy, "My Stormy Voyage Through Lute states the Daily Express,
Mr. Havelock Wilson, for some years the sailors', P.,, and famous the world over as president of the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union, began by selling newspapers barefooted in the streets of Sunderland, his native town, when he was
RUNAWAY
seven
For many years they deplorable condi- leather part of the Tudor Palace at Hampton Court was opened to the publiction of the ancient Church of St. Fillan, While the state rooms of which stands under the shadow of the old recently, William the Third and of Anne, with their castle of the Earls of Morton, on the pictures, have long been shown to visitors, northern shore of the Firth of Forth, and it is a curions fact that the Palace has immediately opposite Edinburgh, has been become a much popular show place since a reproach to the cousity of Fife and the the Haunted Taler inliery and Cardinal whole district. The reproach, however, is Wolsey's apartments were made acces to be removed very soon, the parish sible Doubtless the inngination of the minister having received a gift of à sua average sightseer is more deeply stirred sufficient to defray the cost öl restoration by the chambers and galleries, in which Plans have been prepared, and have Been the tragic drama of the Cardinal and his approved by the Presbytery of Dunfern master and his master's-luckless queens, line and all others concerned. Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour,, was Merton, who is a warm supporter of the actually played than by the austere ele-cheme, has given his consent to the six years of age.
He bad shoes, but being of an enterpris- of Wren's seemingly unendingmoval of the family vault, a post-Refor
mation structase, which would interfering frame of mind, he thought that he would make more money by going bare- The Great Kitchen, to which visitors seriously. with the renovation.
The Castle of Aberdeur was destroyed footed. He also proferred bare feet. So may now penetrate will help them to realise the magnificence of the Court within are, accidentally in 1743; while it was he took off his little shoes and stock- which leary surrounded hhaself. Cardinal occupied by Royal troops during the ings after leaving home, and ran, though Welley, who built the Palace and gave it Jacobite rising. Bus the condition of the the streets barefooted. Sometimes people to his sovereign lord, was noted for the church is due to continuous and culpable gave him as much as sixpence or a shilling splendour of his household. Mr. Ernest neglect, Part of it was built in the 19th for a paper. Then he washed his feet at La tells us in his attractive brochure century. It is mentioned in a Papal Buila tap or horse-trough, and went home or the Great Kitchen that the Cardinal's of 1179 in euancetion with the monastery to his mother, a widow with eulinary stat comprised at least eighty on the island of Incheolm, to which it children. person, and that he ouer entertained and other churches belonged, but it is be the French Ambassador and his suite lieved to have been in existence before, of 50 at so soraptuous "a baliquet that and to have been erected on the site of a the Frenchunen, as it seemed, were rapt much older chapel of Culdee foundation. into a heurenty paradise." But what was There was a Holy well-bere which was, Rood enough for the Cardinal did not for centuries, a place of pilgrimage, and suffice for the King, who palted down the pilgrims worshipped in the church, Wolsey's kitchen and built his own-In 1474 James, Erst Harl of Merton, built wighly structure à inndred feet long and a hospital hard by for pilgrims and poor forty feet broast, which is now divided into persons, which was converted later inte three parts, but otherwise has suffered a convent and placed under the Charge little in the four centuries of its existence. of Poor Cinires. The toasent disappear
The kitchen at Christ Church, Oxford,ed at the Telormation, but the church which was built about the same time, been the parish church under the and perhaps by the same architect, at the Presbyterian polity, and the congregation King's expense, astonishes the visiter by worshipped in the chancel, a screen being sire, buz it is far smaller than the erected to shut off this part from the rest King's own kitchen. He needed a great of the lilding, The chaneel was repair fore she put to sex however, young Have stablishment because he maintained, ed from time to time, but latterly, like and, inderd, developed, the tradition that, all in attendance at Court Should dine to "Ordinances ot xether in hall; his Eltham reinked those "noblemen, gen 'tlemen, and others who do much delight and use to drae in corners and secret places, like sonte Oxted undergraduates of today, instead of eating their dinner at King's hospitable board. The treat Kitchen gives us some idea of what Henry's weekly bills must have been. The Invish expenditure no doubt had a definite political aiza. leury,"at Hampton Court, waghted the power and glory of the Anarchy just as Louis XIV. was to do later at Versailles, and kept his nobles round him lest they should get into mis- chief risewhere.
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He next earned 28. ud. a week sweep- an ironmonger's shop and minding the baby, then he became a "printer's devil". on a weekly newspaper, next he was ap- prenticed to a lithographer, but after sonic months he and a companion Tan way to sea Generations of Mr. Wilson's ancestors had been sea captains. Fle an swered the call of the blood."
So be packed his belongings in one of his mother's bolster cases and off went he and his mate. They spent the day go- ing along the docks, getting soaked to the skin with rain, black with goal dust, and ravenously hungry, but they got a jol together in an old sailing barque. Be lock was hauled back to Sunderland a "rest of the church, has been allowed a runaway apprentice and lectured by n to go to ruin. The biking has long magistrate. A fortnight Inter he ran been roofess, hat parts, of it are still away again and shipped as an engineer's fairly well preserved.
the"
boy.
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CRIMPS.".
When he first safied to San Francisco- one of the finest experiences in any man's life he found that the hoarding. houses crimps" climbed on board from bonts, which clutched hold of the ship with hooks as she went along. They swarmed up the rigging with bottles of whisky, with which they plied the sailors. They seized the sailors baggage, and took it astore, and the sailors had to follow.
The church was originally Norman, but alterations and additions have made the architecture composite. It consisted org- ginally of a mave with two aisies, & chancel, and a porch. Between the nave and the chancel is a fiue Norman archway in good condition. The chanel is light ed by Lour small, narrow, round-headed windows, What was the north aisle has been cut off, having been enclosed in 100 by a family named Phin and converted
Of the south aisle the The boarding-houses robbed the men to into a vault,
cent. The crimps * < greater part remains, but it has suffer their Inst
ed a good deal. It is divided from the insanagers of the houses, used to receive
This aspect of Tudor rule is, according by three fine arches of wide money for supplying new crews, and Mr.
The Wilson tells the story of Jinny the Drummer, who, Ending that a crew he was supplying was one man short, obtain- ed a dead body froni the mortuary, had
pan supported on pinin pillars. handsome porch At the south-west corner, which appears to have been the original entrance to the church, is almost
entire,
it carried aboard as that of a drunken.
Way
The Morton vault, to the removal of which an, and put "him" in a hunk with a
pipe in his mouth. The "crimp Lord Murton has consented, was construct-paid 200 dollars for every man he suppli ed in the 18th century when Williams eighth ed. The carpse counted as one, until next Earl, took up residence at the Castic morning. It rises several feet above the level of the floor. There are eight coffins in it, interred between 1739, and 1923. They are to be removed and buried. Bufit into the north wall of the church is the | tombstone of the Rev. Robert. Blair, a chaplain to Charles I. Although Blair
SUN WRINKLES.
HOW TO BANISH THEM.
to My Law, to be further exemplified next year by the opening of Henry's Newe Wyne Cellar, sixty feet long by thirty feet wide, together with part of the Old Drinking House," the bar or canteen of the Tuslar Palace, where on festal nights the Court players, and per Has Shakespeare himself, mingled with gentlemen-ushers and musicians to queuch their thirst. When the rest of Henry's fireat Hall is completely restored, the selle of the cellarage and the buttery Beneath it are to be thrown open, and eople will then be able to view a still farther part of the great King's doniestic rrangements, The privileges thus ac- orded to the publie will cost the country quarrelled with the King he distrusted of old Father Time. nothing. Mr. Law states that a million Cromwell, whom, in contempt for what youthful faces are little lines caused by persons have visted the Haunted Cham-he regarded as dissimulation and hypothe sun and, by" tricks of facial expres her in seven years, and that a quarter of crisy, he enlled a grertin' deevil," sion. A habit of constantly lifting the a milion have viewed the Cardinal's Blair became a stout Covenanter and was rooms since they were opened two years hounded by Archbishop Sharp out of St. 20. The small admission fee has thus Andrews, where he was minister of the yielded a substantial revenue," which Town Church. He died near Aberdoor enables the work of restoration to proceed in 1666. in other parts of the old Palace. The Tudor monarch may have cost his count dear wale he lived, but his memory is
substantial asset to the Treasury.
A QUEEN'S FOLLY.
MARIE ANTOINETTE'S FLIGHTY,
ACTS.
*All wrinkles are not the finger marks Often on quite
eyebrows will make lines appear on the forehead in a very short time. Frown- ing, too, produces lines, particularly be tween the eyebrows. And besides these. there are the "sun" wrinkles which are The estate of Aberdour, on part of often seen on the faces of girls still in These are due to screwing which the old, church stands, belonged their teens.
to the Viponts and then to the Mortiup the eyes in the glare of the sun, and niers, but about 135 it came into the are always more poticeable during the possession of those Douglasses who a summer months than at any other time, century later became Earls of Morton but especially so after a holiday at the and Harons Aberdour. The oldest part sea, for the sun on the sea is very trying of the castle is a massive, roughly built to the sight.
tower or keep the modern parts, dating For these little sun wrinkles which from 1832, are Italian in style and highly form around the eyes a very special anished Steps fed from the southern treatment is required. Ordinary mase terrace to the churchyard; in which age would do far more harm than good. stands the old chapel which is to be res for the skin here is very fine and delicate: VERSAILLES. ITS LIFE AND HISTORY.-Jytored.. Since the fire in 1745 nothing has and very easily stretched. It is best to been done to preserve the castle; indeed, ase" oil instead of creain when treating Cecilia Hill. (Methuen, 84. Ed.) large quantities of stones have beep" car them, and this should be applied with The author writes a little dithyrambi-ried off and used for buildings in the the tip of the middle finger. cally, bus all who are visiting Versailles district, will find that her book is a really ser- viceable guide and adds greatly to their pleasure.
The ona omission which we have noticed. that of any reference to the ghost stories which were current about Ver- sailles a few years ago Possibly the spooks have tired themselves out and ara no longer active, but the tales deserved
mention.
It is from association with the great life of the past that such a place is sa deeply interesting.
There were other indiscretions:
1925
AKA
"Three Sandy Macs, please'
There were three of them.
The Raw Young man was determined, at great personal inconvenience, to do The Right Thing. He bellowed "Double Scotch."
And tried to enjoy it.
The Florid One was there for a whisky. Any old whisky. He called for a "Scotch and Soda." He had done so these many years.
And he enjoyed it. Came the Third Man. Who had Seen Life. Knocked about a Bit. He called quietly for a "Sandy Mac." And he revelled in it-drinking slowly, critically. Admiration, tinged with awe, overspread the faces of the other two. !
Heard later "Sandy Mac, please” "Sandy Mac, please" Sandy Mac, please.”
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THE IRISH' DOCTORS.
"Take a piece of medicated cotton woul and dip it into hot water. Squeeza lightly, then dab the skin around the eyes and pass it lightly over the closed lids. This softens and warma the skin, Marie Antoinette went to Trianon making it more receptive to the appli for three weeks into banishment, havation of the ofl. Dab the skin dry, and ing measles, and to relieve the mono with the tip of the middle finger smear FREE STATE TO HAVE ITS OWN reciprocal arrangements are concluded, the number of Irishmen likely to with tony allowed four young men to keep a few drops of pure ail of sweet almonds - guard in her room by night and day. over the skin. With the ball af, the It was with the King's consent." Lfinger tap the oil into the pores, starting
MEDICAL REGISTER.
The Free State, indeed, is seeking to tise medicine in Southern Ireland; but take up in this matter, the position of the number of Englishman cherishing the Dominions. Its medical men, if this ambition is very much smaller than will rank on the British Register as to practise here or to enter the medica
Colonial practitioners" At the pre- departments of the fighting Services If Bent moment, on the other hand, Irish Free State Irishmen consider that the edical men chjoy the full freedom of additional trouble and expenswhich British medicine, and this privilege has their separation from the British Be undoubtedly contributed to the success gister mast impose on them are worth of the Irish medical schools, some of while, it is not for Englishmen to ques which hold a very high place in the tion their decision. The anxieties which estera of the profession. These schools the teaching centres in the Free Stato may or may not find themselves penalized appear to be experiencing are none the
was innocently done. But the worst at the outer corner of the eye, working The Government of the Irish Free was believed.
towards the nose. When the oil has been State has decided to set up a Medical Some curious misfortune seemed to thoroughly absorbed wipe over lightly Register of its own and to dissociate it Versailles is closely bound up with the dog her as it did the last Empress of with a fresh piece of cotton wool and self from the General Medical Council
the last
leave for the night. ⠀⠀
of Great Britain. Whatever may be memory of Marie Antoinette and with Russia ber: fighty acta. The theatre which she She seemed to have a genius for To remove the wrinkles between the thought of the wisdom of this project doing the wrong thing: cancelled eyes, which are caused by frowning, there can be no doubt that it is entirely had built for herself caused in Paris
ball and gave the French offence, who the the skin in the same way as for constitutional, says the Times. There is by the proposed change. The chances are easily comprehensible. These bodies dismay and scandal.
took it as mourning for an Austrian those around the eyes, and then dab no legal reason by a separate Free defeat; gave a ball when the King the spaen between the eye brows with a State Medical Register should not be was in grave conflict with his Parlia little oil of sweet almonds. Then dip initiated, nor is the step likely to exer ment and it should have been postpon- the tip of the middle finger in a good cise any important effect, provided that ed. Dressed na shepherdes, she de-feeding cream, and, working in a circular arrangements are made whereby transfer franded trade, Wearing jewels and direction, massage the cream well into ance can be effected easily from the Irish high feathers, she was wasting public the pores. This treatment needs to be to the British Register and from the
repeated every night for some weeks British to the Irish
The French draw an excessively sharp line between virtuous and light women, For the virtuous their claims are strict They are prudes. And no Queen of France had acted or sung in comedies before,
funds.
that they will not escape loss, because perceive a threat to the foundations of parents will prefer to send their sons their prosperity and, to that world-wide to places of study, easily dressible, respect and bonour in which many of them affording immediate entrance to the are held. Their great reputation seem British Register. Thaty however, is a to be menacet immediately by the dan- question for Free Stato Irishmen gers of parochialism. That, again, is
It may be annoying to an Englishman | question for Free State Irishnen. to have to re-register before he can prac