THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER
1934.
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ANCIENT CRAFTS OF ENGLAND'S CAPITAL
(BY A CORRESPONDENT)
There are craftsmen is London who can make by hand a "self- bow" in Spanish yow as deftly as the bowyers of olden days. This fact I learned while secklug out among the 20,000 occupations of London's eight millions those an- *cleut crafts that persist as legacies of the times when all men wrought by hand. And just a you may buy from the modern bowyer a true hand-made how, so you may turn to the London fletcher who has Inherited the art of goose-feather- ing an arrow with all the skill and cunning of the medieval worker.
jother public buildings,
If you require a hand-made lock that is, hand-made throughout it is still possible to find the master craftsman who can make you one. Machinery has all but xtinguished this ancient craft. In the London workshop of n muster locksmith you may see still In
use tools and equipment that have been in use since the elghteenth century. Here, scorn- fal af machines, locksmiths, em ployed by a firm that can boast that its founder made the rst great keys of Newgate, înske locks by hand. No machine, they will left you, can make a lock to com-
Before the Invention of the steel pen by Bryan Donkin the craft of quill-making gave employ-pure with the hand-made article.
ment to thousands. There remain in London still a handful of quill- : makers who find a market for their
wares among the legal folk and that small minority of writers that prefers the goose-quilt to the most mariern of fountain-pena. The craft has come down the
GLASS HOUSES.
The wanderer about London's byway's may wonder at the fre quency with which he will come on Glass-yards. Glassfells, and Glas-streets. These names de- rived from the vicinity of old
of these houses survives, though the eighteenth century could show
centuries unchanged, the quill-London's-plashes. Only one
Irenser of modern London handles the undressed quill, bakps it, and pointe it as did the quillmakers of the eighteenth century.
In ancient Grever there were craftsmen who could produce gold leaf one hundred-thousandth of an inch in thickness. Gald-bentera In the Middle Ages performed that miracle, too. In modern London you may see the master craftsman who can surpass all those who went before him, for, using the old traditional methods, the
glass house for every so-named thoroughfare, In those old glass houses tumblers, decanters, and similar ginasware entirely by hand, and the craft till exists, being carried on quite
near St. Paul's,
were made
But for the uniform of the Bar ino craft would by now have anished entirely. If the wig- raaker still flourishes, he ower his xistence to the lawyers, He
In Patic a race was recently arranged for sporting toys and our picture shows some of the participants driving at full speed on l'Esplanade des
Invalides.
modern master-man makes gold- lear 290,000th of an inch in thick- 111*#R;
STICKS TO METHOD.
Ak with most ancieni crafts
maker is required to stand up to long years of service. In the small window of a legal-wigmaker Fanw just how well his wares last, for there, good as the day the learned judge first donned it.
works by hand, and the horse-hair product of his craft remains un- changed. Between this craft and the making of theatrical wigs there is a wide difference. Thes- that have descended from genern-trient wigs are not made to last; tion to generation, the gold-beater but the product of the legal wig may improve in handicraft, but he eschews changes of method. There are four master gold-beaters in London, and it is their boast that theirs is the most ancient of all crafts. They point. In evid enee, to the gold-leaf that adorns the many ease of Au-Autef, în the British Museums, a sperimen of their craft that goes back 2,600 B.C. There is no machinery That can do this work, and that is why you may still see in Londan the gold-beater and hear his 3-1. hammer as it descends upon the marble bench.
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It is from the workshops of London's gold-beaters that will
the gold-leaf for the decoration of the Albert, Memorial which is now in progress; it Is gold-leaf from these workshops that gilds St. Paul's Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament, and many
Ml... Constance Bennett looks at Paris modes before choosing her winter ensembles.
The mysterious giant passenger`vansol "No. 534," an' which the marged Cunard and White Star lines of England devoted more than three years' work, finally splashed into the River Clyde, nent Glasgow, Scotland, when Queen Mary christened the ship with hur own name. Although the most powerful ship aflost, the Queen Mary will be second in size, tb, France's new super-liner, the Norman die, Ixunched two years ago.
ZEPPELIN'S VOYAGE
OF DISCONVERY
Rio De Janeiro, Oct. 28.
Ruins of lost cities, legendary monuments like those of Easter Island, and strange Indian tribes will be sought from the air next year when a new Zeppelin makes three scientific flights over the Amazon and its tributaries.
Special machinery enabling the dirigible to remain suspended just above the ground while a Gondola is lowered to land scientists for detailed research will be installed.
The expedition will seck detailed (thickly populated districts and the Information of the world-famous richest coffee plantations of the country of orchids in the valley of world, passing over the great water. the River Madeira. Attempts will falls of Iguassu and Sete Quedas, be made to locate the ruins of biggest in the world. ancient titles, once reported exist-
"FATHER OF THE DESERT"
In a lecture to the Royal Central Aslan Society. Major C. S. Jarvis, who has been Governor of Sinai
for twelve years, dealt with the Arab and his characteristics, such
his hedlessness of the value of
Lime and punctuality. "Time to him is not a dimension-it.Is mere.
ly a state of mind." The lecturer held the view that the Arab in vasion of the seventh century put the clock back in the Middle East pointed to the past prosperity of for thirteen hundred years, and
the deserts of Trans-Jordan, Southern Palestine, and Libya, comparing it with their present ent but tong since barred from will also fall across the cave city was a misnomer to allude to the The shadow of the great dirigible deserted and neglected state. It man view:
wear Carityba and passing south- Arab as the "Son of the Desert," Into the vast territories between ward into the interior the expedi- for he was, to be exact, the father the Amazon and Bahia the Zeppelin tion will seek the ruins of an old the desert, having very largely scientists will cruise hoping toldendt city believed to exist in the (establish important historie facts|torest of the liver Urugunggrented it himself by his neglect
yoncerning the noge and origin of United Press,
and carelessness, ie.. failure to these "lost cities,” such as the well-
known Sincora.
The mission may even incorpors | ale resete with gelenee, says ita prospectus, for a descent is planned in the districts of Matto Grosso, In central Brazil, a land of gold and the mythical Martyrios antongst whom the British explorer, Colonel P. H. Fawcett, was reported to have disappeared,
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FAWCETT'S TALE.
It was Fawcett who claimed the existence in these regions of cities and settlements and an attempt will be made to locate an old tribe and their monuments of stone le- lieved to be similar to those found
on Easter Island, --Efforts will also be made to trace the German explorer Schmidt, who, ke Dr. Ritter and the Galapagos Matto Grosso, and according to Islands, deserted civilisation for
gerent tribe and at the age of 60 reports became chief of a belli-
married his second Indian wife recently,
It is planned on the flight over- Central Brazil to bring about a meeting of all accessible tribes of Judians, to have them witness the stands the wig of Sir Henrytion, in the world through a unique most modern means of transporta- Hawkins, later Baron Bramwell.
WHITE MAGIC,
Among London's old shops one can still come upon those quaint, ill-31 back premises where men still work by hand.
reception in the middle of the virgin forest where the Zeppelin will land.
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HUNTING WHITE INDIANS. ' The expedition will search for For example.tribes of Indians about whom little
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, the American Minister in Denmark, is isen above entertaining some Eskimo children during her recent visit in Greenland.
GERMAN DOCUMENTS
repair dams, water channels, springs. etc., and allowing his camels and goats to destroy trees a minute's walk from Regent is known. A visit will be made to September
"Friends of Europe," in their and vegetation. The goat, Major street there is a little shop where the region occupied by the "white" publications, have reproduced imtures-alluded to as "a leader in survey of German Jarvis-quoting from the Scrip one of the queerest traditional de Indians and in the districts be-portant representative documents cupations ## still carried on: tween Xingui and Tapajoz rivers from the German Press in relation mighty wickedness," and to a very There, in a with precious and semi-precious Pygmies. The location of these Hiller as tender of the Third responsible for the incursions of workshop, littered they will attempt to trace the to the recent General Election of large extent held this animal stones, with Jacinth, Jade, crystal.settlements are known but and amber, a craftsman caters for never been visited by white men. of a new book, "Blood and Hon-sand dunes that have covered so
have Reich. A lengthy survey appears The Zeppelin will make a final our." by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, the much useful land in the Middle
Southern Brazil, over well-known Nazi leader
those who still hold that in the magie amulet les power to protrip over pitiate the powers of evil,
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craftsman turns out jewelled talismans, each one in accordance with astrological maps and prepared for the customer whose horoscope nets as guide to the mysteries of fate and faturity. Strange as It may seem, these costly ornaments go out from London to every part of world; for not even machines can extinguish credulity.
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Which is London's oldest shop? Most people will say, off-hand. that it stands in the Haymarket. adding that one can still buy there the snuffs beloved of the bucks of Regency days. It is quite true you can buy in that ancient, house precisely that snuff used by King George III.
But if you would find the oldest shop in London you will have to wander East. Bell-founding is an ancient craft, and in Whitechapel. road there stands the oldest bell- founders in London. That firm can show a record of trading that goes back in unbroken succession to 1570, though the present, pre mises are a mere two centuries. old.
More speed and greater efficiency which eliminates the cumbersome! of the odd craft is shown in a
East.
the airula prediated by designers of the "pterodanty?" piane, ŝtail;and rudder of the conventional type:of aircraft. (Ona satilį England,” It Is named for the most primitiva flylag “known to scienos.
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Dress Collars are stocked in quarter sizes in five different. shapes, each is correct according to the Latest Vogue.
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from $6.75 .70
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