PEERS' THE
BIG
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1986.
FOR
BILLS CORONATION
ROBE COSTS HUNDREDS
By JANE GORDÓN-
The Coronation is going to cost the peerage a pretty penny according to in- formation gained at Norfolk House, where two wax figures, one dressed in the roles of a peer and the other in the robes of a peèress, are being shown for two weeks.
Many fortunate, peers and peeresses have retained their robes from previous Coronations and will be able to wear them unless they are in rags and tatters. Since the last Coronation, how- over, no fower than 200 peers have been created.
These gentlemen, with their wives, will, of course, be those who are the most out of pocket. Taquiries at the Earl Marshal's office invariably start with the all-Important question: "How much will it cost?"
The answer is, it depends entirely; on your rank and the quality of the velvet, miniver and silks used for the robca.
SIX CUINEAS A YARD Hand-loomed, velvet
costs six
guineas a yard and is made by one firm only, and even if every peer and pceress were prepared to buy this, there would not be sufficient to go
round,
Therefore, n good quality stif velvet at about a guinea a yard will
be used.
Each peer wears the same shaped robe, like a voluminous cape, reach- ing to the ground, of crimson velvet, with a shoulder cape of white miniver fur mude with a Peter Pan collar, tied
In front with a white. silk bow and flushed off at the back with a crimson velvet wig bag, the whole cape being lined throughout with silk.
Ils coronet differs according to rank. A baron's robe will cost him from 200 to £70: his coronet from £5 to £59, and his uniform from 60 to 200 gulneas.
EXPENSIVE TRAINS
The cast of a preresa' robe depends] largely upon her rank. If she is a baroness her train is only 3ft. long, with a 2in, band of fur; a viscountess, 3ft. Din; a countess, 4ft 6in., with a
Maurice Dufour, the amazing vir- tuose of the plano- accordcom, will
make his Hong- kong debut at the
Gripps on Satur- day night.
ACCORDEON MAESTRO
THEY MAY PREFER BLONDES BUT NOT ÒN THEIR STAFFS
Business men in Australia are showing a marked preference for brunettes in their offices. In Brisbane, some employers now refuse to have a blonde on the premises.
The Principals of some of the business colleges explained it to Austral Newa, Brunettes, said one, were more adapted to routine office work. He had known cases of a quick change of staff after a blonde had been entrusted with a monotonous job.
Brunettes are believed to have greater powers of concentration, de- clared another who cited a well known employer's habit of saying of a girl who had been suggested for a job: "well, ale is a. Hitle bit on the fair side, isn't she?"
It is unanimously agreed in Australia that employers do not want the pretty-pretty" girl with doll-like behaviour and appearance unless her efficiency makes up for it,
And The Child Said "Fie"
Queen Victoria once invited u woman friend and her daughter to lunch..
The child was slient and well- behaved till she saw the Queen taka a chicken bone between finger and thumb and gnaw it and suck it. "Fie," said the child, and her mother blushed.
The Queen sald; "My dear, you
THOUGHT
SLEEPING
WIFE WAS DEAD
3in. band of für; a marchioness, 5ft are quite sight, only I wasn': as Husband Kills
3in, with a 4in. band of fur, and a duchess, oft, with a Sin. band of fur.
If she is paying six quincas a yard
brought up as you have evidently been."
This story was told by Dr. Claude
for her velvel the price of her trajo | Lillingstone at the Health Education alone is doubled,
Conference in London recently.
ENTRANCING
Kayser*Mir-O-Kloor* stock- ings cling with suave per- fection to ankles. Hold them to the light-they look like tinted transparencies. Slip them on-they give the flattering slimness you like. Sheer service weights in the season's newest shades.
or
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Himself
London, Dec. 10. Mr. Leonard George Croft, aged 53, of Fern Villas, Quickleylane, Chorley Wood, Hertfordshire, was unable to wake his wife yesterday morning.
He thought she was dead, as she had taken four doses of a steeping draught the night be fore because she could not sleep. Mr. Croft wrote a note explain- ing this and leaving all his pro- party to his mother.
Mrs. Croft, however, was sleep- ping heavily owing to the draught.
Sho awakened to find her hus band dead with his head in a gas- отсп.
The Watford coroner, Mr. R. A. Godman, recorded a verdict of Suicide while of unsound mind at the inquest last night.
RUSSIAN BALLET
DANCER'S DEATH A RARE DISEASE
Adelaide, Dec. 12. Mira Dimina, a well-known dancer of the Monte Carlo Russian ballet, died here to-day at the age of 22 from the rare disease of leucocy.
theemla.
She was taken ill only a month ago, when she left the stage in tears after dancing in Les Sylphides, Her mother was summoned from Ameri- ca, and was due to arrive
here un December 21.
Mira,
whose real name Madaleine Parker, was 'n lending member of Colonel de Basil's origin-
who
al Russian Ballet Company..
Leucocythaemia-is n disenso of the blad, in which the white corpuscles develop to an excessive amount.
The causes of the disease are unknown.~ -- Reuter.
Stork Eustace
Followed The
Sun Too Late
By ULYSS ROGERS.
less again, age-then grow rest
away.
Two misguided slorks came down LATS off! Eustace the Prussian, at Eton. The others went off to tha most popular stork who ever Isle of Wight, settled happily at lived in Britain, is dead-in, Nor-Bembridge mandy.
But Eustace remained. People feil. He came with 22 companions from Prussia in June. Four went on to love with his artless, homely Scotland, 10 settled in Kent, where ways; he was petted and fondled, Cartwheels were put across chimney joined the ducks and geese in the lops cent
on the hotel roof, farmyard, for them to build neats. They nt Ryde, hobnobbed with the family
perched of an Army officer. He was becom Ing an institution.
With autumn came the call of the Couth. They flew off, each one's leg with an identity ring. One with a damaged leg went a day late, was found in a field and put out of his
Then there were 18. misery.
Three or four went to South Devon,
Then one morning the word went round Ryde, Bembridge, St. Helen's, Seaview "Where's Eustace?"
The call of Suez and the Cape had♣ at inst become irresistible.
**
*
were frightened off by a girl who threw com too hard at them. Eight What storms we have had. - What? Rwent_to_the_Channel Islands and bitter cold. What fog. I can picture came back. They had missed their Eustace battling on across the straits, way to the unknown spot (for this down the French const, ever drawn was their first migration) which was by the great magnet, the Sun. calling to them-experts say it is And now, a tear for Eustace. The South Africa via Suez.
Normans have found him--dead.
Bernard
Shaw
Found
Cure For
Seasickness
THIS is how George Bernard Shaw discovered a cure
for sea-sickness.
He was crossing to France on board a destroyer in rough
weather during the war.
In the presence of a party of authors and journalists, in- cluding the late H. W. Massingham, famous Liberal editor, he walked up and down the deck |
throughout the voyage with his Mr. H. G. Wells's body relaxed and his knees sagging.
A Boulogne Shaw exulted: "It worked! I'm all right?"
sick!"
HOW THEY SAY IT
"World Brain" Plan
BOOKSHELF OF POWER
"No, you're not seasick," retorted
Mr. H. G. Wells, describing his Massingham, "but, by heavens, you've made all the rest of us sca-scheme for a new World Encyclo- pædia, at the Royal Institution recently, said that such a work would play the role of an "undogmatte The method would thus appear to Bible to a world culture,"
and would have it drawbacks, comments-hold-the-world together mentally. Southampton doctor, telling the story He was, he said, thinking of
this month's British Medical super-university, a world brain: Journal.
nothing less. The educated cluizen row of volumes in Another medical man complains of would have the grandiose medical terminology of which he would, without any great
in seasickness.
toll of
or difficulty, and clear, under-
In
In scientific language "one cannot standable
the ruling concepts of our flix one's sea legs by lying in bed date, the language, and kept up to
order, the out swells into:
outlines and main in all fields of "The fundamental requirement for
knowledge,
general history of the
ulars in
And
this adaptation Is the simultaneous an exact and reasonable picture of
our universe, a action of the conditioned stimulus and our
world, the unconditioned stimulus adready
a trustworthy and com- established as the activator of the plete system of desired reflex,"
It should be a
sources of kroto primary.
of
background OPIUM PILLS
man in the world. Here are the suggestions of threa of every intelligent
He thought that his suggestion doctors for a cure:
Fresh air, recumbent position; pro-might ultimately release a new form power In the world, recalling the tection from cold.
Take oplum pilla (because he be-power and influence of the churches lieves sickness to be dite to "disturb and religions of the past, but with a ance of the semi-circular canals of progressive, adaptable and recupera-
which
Live the car,"
of those quality that none a narcotic will prevent).
Try a hammock (with its use "the movements of the ship are scarcely perceptible.")
posa Encyclopædia might prove in
The
the long run to be a boiler invest- ment for the time and energy of in- Ship surgeons and naval men telligent men and women than any should have something to say, it is definite revolutionary movement or added.
any of the current "ams."
Air Ring of Steel
By McSCOTCH (Famous War-time Pliot)
O-DAY I am able to reveal the detalls of the plats. for curtains of sicel
to defend Britain's cities from air attacks.
These curtains of wire, three-quarters of a mile deep, will be suspended by a line of gigantic balloons 44 miles high. They will form Britain's innermost line of defence against air invasion.
The balloons will have a capacity of about 100,000 feet, and they will be spaced out at intervals of 20-30 yards. The height of the curtains will be determined by reports from observation posts.
WATSON'S
They can reach the height of laden bombers, and by means of winchies can be lowered to trap machines attempilng to dive below the curtain.
Recently orders were placed with wire manufacturers for millions of miles of wire.
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