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AMERICA'S · NEW
PRESIDENT.
ROMANTIC CAREER OF MR. HOOVER. (By W. J. FitzGerald.)
world-roamer, once host of that jolly salon in Kensington, is the choice of 120,000,000 people as their supreme Chief.
world!"
Before that, Hoover had wash
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MARCH 2nd, 1929.
PLAYING CARDS.
CELEBRATING THE TERCENTENARY.
that they originated to the East. Queen Elizabeth liked cards, and wore royally when she had å bad hand.. Perhaps she would have boon more at oase if she had thought of the unique appointment The 800th birthday of the char-made by her successor viz,, ber of the Worshipful Company of King's Card holder, who hold the Playing Card Makers will be celo-cards to save James, I. the exertion. brated shortly and the torcenten-Or was the iden to prompt him? ary is to be celebrated by a banquet.. But the most romantic figure in The Company (writes Laurence the history of cards, was a humble Mason in the Evening News) is person, Mrs. Elizabeth Edmonds, one of the amallest and least of Chester. In the reign of Queen wealthy and least ancient of the Mary, Dr. Cole was dispatched to commission to City companies, but what other Ireland with a company makes things so univer-"Irish the heretics" as he express- sally used There will be a few ed it to the Mayor of Chester, at ghosts, surely, at that banquet-whose house he stayed a night on hosts of those who have been his way to Dublin. Now, Mrs. held in the grip of fascination by Edmonds had a brother in Dublin the pip of a card, who have who was a Protestunt, and ahe gambled fortunes on the chances overheard Dr. Cole's anticipatory of the deal, like, for instance, the relish of a persecution. She went Tate Mr. Maurice Jenks, who for to a small dispatch box which the half a century piled up a fortune doctor carried with him, abstract- out of baccarat and then, in his led the commission and, for love.of last game at Paris, just before mischief, pat in its place a pack the War, found that his mind had of cards with the knave of clubs Arriving in Dublin loat its cunning, or that luck had uppermost. turned sour, and lost la a night on Oct. 7th "1558, Dr. Cole made ja very windy speech to the Privy nearly all he had made,
Council on the objects of his mis- sion, and then handed the box to Lord Deputy Fitzwallers for the
Famous Judges.
But if ghosts are to be admitted to that banget what a multitude
A Happy Ending.
To the great surprlae of all pre- sent, and the doctor's confusion, there was nothing found but a pack of cards with the knave of clubs uppermost. The doctor as-
there will be! One will he that secretary to read the commission. wily old judge, Mr. Justice Jervis, who knew the crooked as well as the straight side of cards, so that a hardened card sharper who fail ed to surrender to his bail at Lewis afterwards explained to Henry Hawkins: "Sir, I would sured the deputy that he had the rather abandon my profession than commission, and said he could not think where it had gone. "Then," he tried by such a judge. The add the Deputy, "Methinks we will old bloke knows every trick on the
have another commission. Mean- board."
while we will shuffle the cards." Charles Russell (afterwards
Cole hastened back to England Lord Chief Justice) would
fir another commission, but hefure this reckoning surely be there he could return, the Queen was Never was there such an dead. When Queen Elizabeth thusiast for the game. He would heard the story she was so de- play with almost anybody, show-lighted that he sent for Mrs. ing what democrats curda, make of Edmonds and gave her a pension us all. But he always expected of £40 a year for life for saving people to remember the great man her Protestant subjects in Ireland he was, and he, the finest speaker from persecution. and the most vigorous personality
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PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.
HONGKONG MEMORIALS.
Modelled on the pattern of the famous Cenotaph in White-" hall, Hongkong's principal War Memorial stands facing the Harbour, in front of the Courts of Justled and the Hongkong Club. Here a Service of Remembrance is held ovory Armis-
Lice Day..
gine lo
be
Broken Lenses
their qualifica-
"doesn't sunburn easily" which, might be n qualification of a kind; anolber says she is an experienced horsewoman and can swim yurg well I be afraid these fromptly DUPLICATED, for in most parts of the South accomplishments are of little use, Accurately
Seus horses are almost unknown, while swimming by whites la done only for sport.
Instead of ideas of and adventure, what a woman needs to take to the wiltis - severe practicality.
the remark of a young partner he WIVES IN THE WILDS. tions. One girl tells me she had scolded for had play. "Now then," drawled the youth scorn-
[By Jack McLaren.] ' fully, "remember you are not in
Every now and again' one your silly old police court now,"
other of my lonely trader or plan- Sheridan could make a witty
ter friends in the South Seas writes speech on cards. He. it was, me suggesting that I keep my corrigible gamester, who was once asked what he would do if he sawyes open" for a suitable wife for
him.
As it happens, many of my a man cheating yet did not likel to expose him. Back him," he said, articles bring from all parts of
The Origin of Cards?
Great Britain letters from young The memory of dead kings might women asking if I can put them be toasted at that banquet touch with men In just these especially that of His Majesty circumstances,
Herbert Hoover, the big, burly, Address has even now much force catastrophe that cost £60,000,000.
This is no "machine-made” Pre- among a vast mixed population
years 10 he whose politien) education is stillsident. Eight incomplete, as all Presidents have couldn't tell you what Party he be noted, even to Calvin Coolidge of longed to! A man of powerful mind and rugged "frame, rich in The penniless orphan walf of day. an Iowa village is lifted into what
11oover tells his people' boldly: the knowledge of men and national Hoover will President Coolidge calls: The "We cannot isolate ourselves problems, Herbert
strong lead, and most important position in the from the world!" in the recent give America a
... One night after diane campaign of "whispering," his not wait to be swayed by every political opponents urged that this breeze of un uninstructed de this heavy-weight engineer was man had "the European mind." moerney whose political vision has telling us of his "slavedaya" down "That "he had applied for British been dimmed by geographical in New Mexien. He was out of a citizenship." That "he had voted jaloofness and and material pros
even beenerity. job, and now had to drop far un-in England"-and derground, there to lug laden ore-offered the Ministry of Munitions It is to a "new" America that wagons through the dark, dump in London during the Great War, Herbert Hoover comes as Master Kalleries.
with K.CM.G. in prospect and and stoeraman, uniquely equipped the same Herbert ("the British") for a vaster Imperial day. Young Hoover were "guss" or girdle around his waist tensed in the lurid horizon of that
Hoover's rival, the nimble. that our boys wear in the Somer-Frightful timel
witted At Smith, used as his sloga net mines of to-day, when they
His. War-time Choice, that exuberant song, "The Side-Edward I., who is said to have Unfortunately, however, nearly crawl in harness hauling the coal
Whether all this be true or walks of Noo York!" But America
brought them to England in 1278 all these young women reveal com- on finger-tipes and tus-orçéven
world-ex-has drawn her new Tsar from a
though in truth nobody knows pletely wrong ideas of what life on all-fours, worse off than any false, the practical
erience at the back of such "ac-graver and nobler sphere of proven .iit-pony!
antions" will soon be known as achievement in the world at large, when carda first came to England, in the wilds means for a woman. and all that can be ascertained in thrill to think of being always ed dishes in Stanford University priceless asset to the new Pre-both in war and peace.
nothing, and would tackle any near a lazy blue sea and among in order to pay his way for asideid's own people, as well as to Mrs Louian Hoover, as "First Lady of the Land" and White
man, though a sergeant near me gently rustling palma," is an ex- course in metallurgy and practical us and to Europe at large..
In 1914 Hoover was, already a House hostess, was once a fellow-
was shot at through the bars of tract from one letter I received mining.
tately. "I would adore the soft, the van and killed." Now this same blue-eyed giant-man of large fortune, with a busi-student at Standford with Herbert,
Mr. Skinner, in his tall hat and scented nights" is an extract from taciturn as ever, shy as a girl, ness of international scope as an and became a schoolteacher in
bob-tailed coat, did duty on the another. loathing petty politics and bless-organiser and consultant in mines Monterey)
hisjof all grades, from gold and silver "Kidnapped" and wedded at a
day the rifle rance on Wimbledon They would soon find that what ing the radio that saves
few hours notice, this Californian in afto copper and lead,
Common was opened by Queen really mattered in the South Sens, blushes af Bounderin
If, Instead of feeding stricken girl suddenly found herself hurled
Victoria,
just as anywhere else, were the public speech-sits in the seat, of Washington and Lincoln, in, an Belgiumi and repatriating hordes of into the awful Boxer slege of Tient-
"Another officer and myself very ordinary things of life, such America
greater his own triste stranded by the sin, with the streets ablaze and
were in charge of the gun with as daily routine and running the Incomparably than that of either the Founder erthunderstorms of war, Boover had swept with rifle and machine gun
which the Queen scored a bull's-home. the Emancipanter. Who shall elected to "feed" his own private Aro, while her husband superin- any that Romance is drac, with interests-he would now be ended the digging of trenches and such a career as this a fact like multi-milionaire. For in his ef- the defensive barricades-mainly a fallen serd forcing up a paving-eient hands in 1914 was a vast sarks of rice and sugar and grain. This lady also is a citizen of the stone to aunt the flower and "corner in much-needed metals fruit of its Destiny and Strength? that were soon in, panic-demand Burger world. She knows our Lon- jon. Her Kensington home was a Hoover is "something new" injat any price.
In due American Presidents.
But Ambassador Page appealed much sought salon of repose and supreme to him- and Big Business disap-charm, and these they both "open- 4peared. As Food Controller in out to friends (even the silent of Washington, the "whisperers" vow Herbert!) in strange tales of ad- that Hoover forced down the prices venture from China 19 Peru, which of American farmers' grain for the would fill a boy's book with thrills
and laughter. benefit of the Allied families.
season.
cames
power at the White House face International problema enormous complexity and sizo
Thirty of America's Presidents have been slay-at-homes, with a very limited horizon. As the With $100,000,000 voted by Con- Borbert Hoover, and his wife Thirty-First Herbert Clark Hoover gress, he fed starving Russia, too. are emaily the fittest and blest has enjoyed an intimate acquain- And when the enormous Mississippi | couple whom America has ever call- tance with all lands and all broke its banks and turned half aed to supreme power, since General peoples-white, black and brown-nation into Noah's Flood, it was Washington and his rich Martha was were offered golden crowns by a from London to Peking; from the again Herbert Hoover who Irawaddy and, the Nile to the called to survey that weird and jarring, and divided democracy! Scheldt and the Thames.
awesome scene, with his planes Their British admirers are full of Tradition is still strong over overhead, and his feels on the face joy at the election to the White there; the "Keep-out-of-Europe" of the raging waters, carrying help House of a wise, well-tried and
comfort throughout #powerful friend! of George Washington's Farewell fand
TUNE THAT PLEASED No one can fail to be interested THE OLDEST “PEELER.”
QUEEN.
TO WINDSOR.
in the account of his rise from the Jobscurity of public-house concert! rooms, "busking" days and poorly.
COMEDIAN'S STORY OF VISIT paid provincial engagements to
West-end triumphs.
Resource,
VETERAN POLICEMEN'S.
REMINISCENCES.
Thrilling tales of crime and erime detection in the 'sixtles
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To have been a popular come- He tells a good story of an actor were told to a Daily Express re- dlan for half a century is in who was escaping from a prison presentative by Mr. William Henry To have and who should have been shot by Skinner, who claims to be the itself an achievement.
however, oldest living "Peeler." - been the creator of those twaa sentry. The gun,
would not go off. Grasping the Mr. Skinner, who is ninety-three music-hall classics, Two Lovely altuation and his throat at the years of age, lives at Wandsworth, Black Eyes" and "The Man who same time he gasped: "Heavens! but during his days of service he Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" la What Juve I done? I have swal accupied the only house in Wim- almust: fame!
lowed the file. And thereupon hejbledon Woods, where he cultivated They have been bummed and fell lifeless to the ground! lun extensive garden. whistled and sung in every part of There is a good story, too, ofi Things were not so smooth for the globe; the Salvation Army has Queen Victoria. A military band the driver of a "Black Maria" in used the air of one for a hymn was performning on the terrace of those days. The van, which car- organist in Australia Windsor Castle, and one of the led the gold letters V.R.." and tune; an adapted the other as a church tunes so pleased her that she sent was called the "vagabond re- a Lady-in-Waiting to request its mover," was horse-drawn, with voluntary!
repetition. She then sent to ascar-steel wheels, and jogged and clat- Now their creator, Mr. Charlain the name of the melody. tered over the cobble stones of the Coborn, at the age of 75, looks "When the Lady-in-Waiting re- London streets in a fearsome man. upon his long association with the turned she appeared to be reluc ner variety profession, and in his tant to give the information. "We had regular cutlass drill book, "The Man Who Broke the However, she was pressed to at the time of the Feniana," said Bank," (Hutchinson, 18s.) gives answer, and accordingly announe- Mr. Skinner, and I was given us what amounts to an abridged ed that the song was entitled two men to sit on either side of history of the modern musichall. "Come where the booze is cheap- me on the driver's seat, in case I
His real name is Collh Whitton cr." Her Majesty, it was anid, was shot.
McCullum-he took the stage "seemed troubled and perplexed." "I was never afraid. I was name of Cybern from Coborn-road, l'And I do not wonder.”
one of the sort who feared
en-
eye that day," he said, "and be. Some are taken with the idea of fore she arrived we took it out wild adventures, of Aniling little- of its case and tried it. The known consts in schooners, rife shooting was done away with countering aavage tribes, and no because it became dangerous. Forth. As the writer of one letter Mr. Skinner boasts of his put it: "I am tired of the hum- large family of ninety-one grand-dram lite of civilization; I want children and greatgrandchildren to live dangerously." scattered throughout the world. Some state what they ima-
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