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WHAT SHOULD WE LEARN?
Professional educators, a notori- ously argumentative tribe, have this to their credit at least, that they recognize the vast différence between a vocational education and
by
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liberal one. They are indeed far from complete agreement as to the elements that enter into a liberal believe that in order to achieve Three has chosen a
There are those who
HE liberal culture, a certain knowledge
sapphire ring. of vocational life is desirable, and Millions of lips have repeated moreover that real culture consists those words. For to-day, And the handsome, distinctive very largely in a sympathetic in despite our seeming sophis | streamlined appearance of the sight into the lives of our fellow-tication, the ring is still the new 1935 Studebaker truck me, whatever their vocation or beautiful symbol of a sealed occupation may be. There are
romance. · And in this instance makes it stand out from the others who think that the essence the betrothal is assuredly the crowd. With its sleek, busi- of liberal culture is in literary forerunner of such happiness as ness-like lines and powerful learning, historical lore, a philoso-will warm the hearts and kindle scholarship, artistic taste, selentific dependable engine, it is a truck phic
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Lady Alice
To-morrow, the Duke of Gloucester, third son of Their Majesties the King án&Queen, will be married in Westmins- ter Abbey to Lady Alice Montague-Douglas-Scott, third daughter of the late Duke and the Duchess of Buccleuch.
their origin are vivid with found in remarkable sizes. In You see, the very countries of Sapphires are sometimes
romance. In Australia, for in- Ceylan the gem has reached stance, sapphires are sometimes nearly 14 ounces in its natural but little valve part from moral IT is interesting to recall that found in dry creek beds. A toss state and one superb specimen Princess Marina revealed her of a coin, a probing pick, and of 201 carats was exhibited in without a moral code is a con- preference for this same stone, someone is unexpectedly the Vienna and Paris towards the tradiction in terms. Educator and a gem which in its very name richer by many gems found deep end of last century. It belonged layman, however, agree that in spells romance, general
down in the stony sediment of a to a Count Branicki and was in education serve the glamour of the jewels, disused waterway. vocational 1
the possession of the family un- ought to help a man to earn his sapphire, emerald, amethyst, own living, while a liberal educa- turquoise, aquamarine, pearl,
til the Great War, Lion should help him to understand moonstone, ruby-what a page- THE Dake in giving Lady other people live and what ant of colour and magnificence, Allçe an oval sapphire with a their lives really consist of in thewhat a superb collection of baguette diamond set in plati world at large, By this they do not wish to suggest that a liberal
on each side, has un- education means merely a study of ecunomics, but they do hald that to be liberally educated is to be furnished with such an intellectual | and moral background as will en- able one to enter understandingly and sympathetically into the lives,
how
words whose very syllables ex- num cite the mind and fill the eye doubtedly maintained this stone with lovely visions! And, allied in the forefront of fashion, a with love, are they not the cry prominence it has enjoyed since. stallisation of romance?
it figured in Princess Marina's engagement ring last year,
Sapphires themselves can be other than blue; sage green ones are found in Australia, white
Hongkong Telegraph.hopes, fears, desires, and aspira sapphires have been discovered
TUESDAY, Nov. 5, 1936.
CHINA CURRENCY
REFORM
Financial and business circles almost everywhere join in com- No. DB-946 mending the action taken by
Voi cho Sapoto (Nozze di Figaro)
RICHARD CROOKS—I Love Theo (Grieg) No. DA.1394
Partod (Tosti)
MICHEL FLETA-Ay, Ay, Ay, Ún Spanish) No. DB-1483
Dolores-Madrigale (Breton)
DALMONTE TOTI-Splendon Lo Sacre Faci-Lucia di Lammermoor No. DB-1015, „Spargi d'amoro pianto-Lucia di Lammermoor
JOSEPH HISLOP—For Love Alone No. C-2729
The English Rose
secure
of one's fellow-men.
The baguette shape is a long oblong with square-cut edges.
In 1918 the then owner, Count Xavier, decided that the safest
place for such a world treasure at the time of the German pos- session of Warsaw was his own hip pocket..
Alas, the riskiest place was not then the safest.
The price- less jewel was stolen.
For three years the police of several nations searched. Noth-
류
of course, raises the much-debated on Vancouver Island. But the The Duke of York gave Lady ing was heard of it until, in 1921, the efforts of the Paris question as to the branches of loveliest blues, ranging from Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon a magni- knowledge that are best fitted to pale tints to deepest indigo and ficent Kashmir sapphire flanked police were rewarded.
the results mentioned. finding perhaps their perfect by two, diamonds, while the Some say that the records of the form in glorious cornflower hues, Princess Royal's ring was human race toll the story and are mind largely in Ceylon, in large Colombian emerald with THE sapphire, in many frag- hence history is the great liberaliz-Burma, and in Kashmir. ing discipline. Others declare fellow-men is by means of langu- that the way to understand our
age; and therefore we had better
literatures of Greece and Rome. Others again are of opinion that what a man must have at an early stage of manhood is a good theory about life, and as soon as possible a settled philosophy of life. There fore let them read and consider the
begin with the languages and
works of great philosophers and
four diamonds on each side.
BLUE BLOOD OF
ment, was discovered in a shop in the Rue Lafayette.
The jeweller had bought the magnificent specimen Tor, Fes. 185,000 (then £3,425) from 'a Lithuanian merchant.
A bargain, perhaps, but one that would be hard to negotiate. So, as he explained it, the jewel was cut into nine, large and smaller pieces-a sad ending to an irreplaceable, gem. was At the British Empire Ex-
The wedding of the Duke of Gloucester to Lady Alice Chris- tabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott, third daughter of the late Duke from James II, Monmouth
SCOTLAND
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IT is certain that the sapphire
the Chinese Government with a view to placing its currency on u stable basis. By the measure of reform now announced, it is hoped to be able to keep the exchange value of the yuan-at its present level, and there ap pears to be general agreement divines. Also there are those who of Buccleuch, provides yet an executed in 1685, and his hon-hibition at Wembley in 1924 of the Government's ability so remind us that the proper study other link between lo do. The steps now taken, of mankind is man, and that in the House and the Peerage of Scot-, wife were not placed under at- plums, and one valued at £16,- the Royal ours were forfeited, those of his there were sapphires as large as coming at a moment when the Kreat production of literature China exchange market was in
every phase of man's nature has land, as the King's second son tainder, and on her death she 000. a state of the utmost confusion,
been investigated and described for also chose his bride from north was succeeded by her grandson But such gems are meaning- or enlightenment, will be welcomed as providing
of the Tweed. Both Lady Alice Francis, who thus became the less, except in terms of money, the promise of an end-to-lengt
2nd Duke of Buccleuch.
without the charm of love and and her sister-in-law to be, the instability which has recently THINKS THEM FOOLS
Duchess of York, came of large Later, in 1742, two of the Eng-
giving. MILIZA KORJUS-Invitation to the Waltz (Weber) No. C-2721 had the most disastrous con-
The Little Ring (Chopin)
sequences. Moreover, China's While this discussion goes for families, and both are the third lish Peerages of his grandfather, abandonment of silver as the ward, if it is heard by a truly hard-daughters, the Duchess of York the Barony of Scott of Tynedale basis of her currency will once
boiled, sharp-sighted but
unfor- being the older of the two by a and the Earldom of Doncaster, tunately short-sighted, practical little more than a year, as Lady were restored to the 2nd Duke, | and for all dispose of any harm-business-like- Gradgrind of indus Alice will not celebrate-her-34th-but-the-Dukedom-of-Monmouth his future bride has become.
ful effects which the United
was withheld, possibly owing to the fact that in the meantime of mixed bewilderment and con- The Buccleuch title ranks an Earldom of Monmouth had tempt. He does not in fact quite second in seniority amongst the been created. The 2nd Duke know what they are talking about, Scottish Dukes, the premier was twice married, his first wife and as he believes himself to be being the Dukedom of Hamilton being a daughter of the 2nd who knows what's what, he sun-in-1643, twenty years before he had a son Francis, who mar- a particularly wideawake person and Brandon, which was created Duke of Queensberry. By her peels that they are talking non- seuse or else putting on airs. We that of Buccleuch. The House ried the eldest daughter of the can be tolerably
of Buccleuch is one of great his- 2nd Duke of Arygil, but as he suna, however, that in a world which promises its toric interest, as the first Duke died before his father the title working population, or threate was a natural son of King Char- passed to his son Henry, who them with, an increasing amount les II by Lucy Walter, and it through his grandmother sub- of luisure, the question of liberaliz-bears the Royal Arms of "the sequently succeeded
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under 2 ing studies is more important, if Merrie Monarch" both Lady special remainder to the Duke- possible, than ever before. During Alice and the Duke of Glouces-dom of Queensberry, the active period of life while our
a title capacity exertion and physical en- cestry in Charles I.
ter, therefore, have common an- which had been created in 1683.
This Duke occupied—savoral- positions of importance, having oldest title held by the been a Governor of the Royal is that of Bank of Scotland, and President Baron Scott of Buccleuch, a of the Royal Society of Edin
present Duke peerage conferred in 1606 upon burgh, to which honour he was Sir Walter Scott, who served elected in 1783, the year in with distinction in the Nether which it received its Charter of
lands
King's
under the Prince of Incorporation. He was also Orange. This Baron Scott was Captain General of the Royal a descendant of John Scott, who Company of Archers, is said to have risked his life Bodyguard for Scotland, an of when a buck, which was being fice which had been held by all hunted by one of the Scottish the subsequent Dukes, and was Kings, fell into a steep ravine or nominated a Knight of the Gar- "eleuch," by retrieving it and ter in 1794. bringing it back to the King.
which the Duke of Glouces-
ter has placed upon the finger immediately to them a priceless Jewel and to the countless hosts of their wellwishers another symbol of the unspoken bond that joins the King's family and his people.
As Shakespeare said:
"She is mine own; And I as rich in having such
a jewel
As twenty seas, if all their
sands were pearl, The water nectar, and the
rocks pure gold.”
constructed at a cost of over £500,000.
He was High Stoward öf the Society of Antiquaries, and Westminster and President of lived to the age of 77, at the time of his death being Senior Knight of the Garter, and the only one not made by the reign- ing Sovereign. He had married in 1820 Charlotte, third daught- er of the 2nd Marquess of Bath; she was Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria..
had on
her export business. Much will, of course, depend on the administration of the new decrees, and the possibility of enforcing them throughout the country. Actually, for some |considerable time past the Chinese Government has been operating a managed currency, with a surprising measure of success in view of the abnormal conditions prevailing. Much quiet work, in preparation for the reform, has obviously been going on behind the scenes, in which connection the presence of Sir Frederick Leith-Ross In Nanking-is-undoubtedly-of-some-i significance. There is no indi- now been removed, if it be con-T cation at the moment that the ceded that the Nanking Govern British expert has boon definite-ment will be able to enforce it ly associated with the stepdecree throughout the country. taken, but it may be assumed Doubts arise on this point, und, that he was well aware of the of particular interest to Hong- Government's intentions and kong, is the attitude which the most likely approved of the men Canton Government will take on sures decided upon. It is, in fact, the question. There is also the rumoured that a sterling credit matter of incertainty of the for the purposes of working the world situation in the "present scheme has been unofficially crisis, which may make it un-
The next Duke, who was. assured. Be that as it may, desirable for Hongkong to take
grand-father of the present hold- China tan certainly count on the any immediate action. A policy
er of the title, was for many goodwill of all her friends in the of caution therefore appears For. this he was rewarded with The 4th Duke sat in the House years M.P. for Midlothian, and long overdue measure of reform wise in the circumstances pre- the right to add "Buck's cleuch" of Commons for some years, and married Louisa, third daughter now put into operation. Of vailing, But, if the Nanking to his name.
Inter was summoned to the of the 1st Duke of Abercon, and more immediate interest and experiment proves workable, the
House of Lords in his father's she also was Mistress of the importance to Hongkong is the desirability of Hongkong stabi- His son Walter, married Mary, Barency as Lord Tynedale. He Robes to Queen Victoria. effects which the reform willising its currency will be un- daughter of the 9th Earl of married his cousin Harriet. The eldest son of this mur- have on the Colony's currency. deniable, always assuming that Errol, hereditary Lord High youngest daughter of the first riage having died unmarried in It is to be presumed that, in other conditions are favourable. Constable of Scotland, and was Viscount. Sydney, who
Was 1886, the second son, John Chat- accordance with the recommen-There will, however, be a natural created Earl of Buccleuch in Colonial Secretary when the les, succeeded to the title in dations made by, the Currency reluctance on the part of the 1619. On his death he was suc- colonisation of New South Wales 1014. He served in both the
son Francis, a was first undertaken. Mission some years ago, ma- Government to take any preci- ceeded by his
Army and Navy, and was Vice- chinery is in readiness for the pitate action, lest a false step be supporter of King Charles.
He died in Lisbon in 1819, and Lieutenant for-Selkirkshire, and taking of such appropriate taken at this critical juncture. He married Margaret, sister was succeeded by his son, who also Lord Clerk Register of action as the circumstances may The whole community would of the first and only Duke of was a Knight of the Garter and Scotland. He married in 1893 necessitate. This much can, at welcome stabilisation when the Rothes, and not leaving any a Privy Councillor, and held of Lady Margaret Bridgeman. any rate be said, that both by time is ripe therefor, if only to male issue was succeeded by his fice in Peel's Ministry as Lord daughter of the 4th Earl of reason of China's action and by put an end to unrestrained ex-daughter Anne. She married Privy Seal, and afterwards as Bradford, and their eldest son, the sterling level to which the change speculation, allowing on April 20, 1663, the Duke of Lord President of the Council. the present Duke who is M.P.. local dollar has fallen, the task money to be diverted to more Monmouth, who also held the As Captain General of the Royal for Roxburghshire and, Selkirk- of stabilisation is simplified. beneficial purposes, and to en- titles of Earl of Doncaster and Company of Archers ho carried shire, married' Vreda, daughter One of the principal argumentsable the business man to know Baron Scott of Tynedale, and on the gold stick at the Coronation of the late Major William Las against stabilisation in the past where he really stands. At the the same day she and her hus of Queen Victoria in 1888, Gran celles. As Lady Allco's mother has been that Hongkong could moment, howover, the wise band wore jointly created Duke ton, the seaport near Edinburgh, is a cousin of the Earl of Hare- do nothing until China had an-policy.for the Government would and Duchess of Buccleuch owes much to him, as it was wood, when she becomes Duchcea dertaken reform of her currency, appear to be one of "Wait and When, owing to the failure of owing to his munificence that of Gloucester she will be trebly This reason for inaction has, See,
his attempt to seize the Throne, the pier and breakwater were related to that family.
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