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THE HONGKONG-TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1987.
M® A N S
First thing that
PAGE
a
woman sees
1S
your tie
LES are not abso-
TE
lutely necessary. Julius Caesar never
wore one,
nor
Charle-
magne. And if Sir Walter Raleigh did you wouldn't have noticed his ruff was so big.
In the Mile End Rd a spotted hand- kerchief does just as well, and French waiters are contented with a folded blue thing called a plastron and made of celluloid.
Whistler used to use a bootlace. In a nudist colony a tie would be superfluous except to keep up the connection with the Old School.
Tieless Clergymen
is notorious that clergymen require no neckties; which
is why the ladies of the parish have
by
JAMES
LAVER,
Author of "Nymph Errant”
Or if it wasn't in his time it was the height of your tie. Ah! You very soon afterwards, for the French shrink visibly, and hastily begin to offlers at the battle of Steinkirk fumble with the knot. went into action in such a hurry that they had no time to tie their cravats, They just looped them loosely to gether, and not only won a victory but started a new fashion.
Yes! T she raises her eyes with, trusting gaze to look into your face, or droops them modestly to your i doubt perfectly respectable boots, your tle is the thing she sees. But you couldn't do much with a You ought to be glad. After all, eraval made of lace and it wasn't that little spuce between your Adam's until the time of the Regent that the apple and the top button of your tie neck-cloth, neckerchief, or cravat waistcoat is the only place on your whole person where you can express really came into its own.
.
one?
HOT SHOTS
first of a new series for
billiards players
THERE
are one or two shots which in their execuilon are of equal valus in both snooker and billiards. Here' is one of them..
Playing from hand you play so as to pot the red in the middle pocket and go on to get position for the colour in the top pocket. This stroke calls. for a plain ball shot.
At the spot end the diagram shows a shot which is played in order to pot the red and leave position for the in-off again.
Both these shots are useful to the snooker and the blikards player.
There are occasions when the ability to pot a ball stands Que billiards player in a com“. manding position.
The snooker player depends a great deal for his success on getting accurate position in order to build up his breaks.
silk. Let women exercise their own good taste, but remember when they are buying for a man that the limits are narrow- cr
And Prinnie's great friend, Beau your personality, or tell the world but do they always chicose the right silk, preferably British to fall back on embroidered slippers. Brummell, was the great tie-expert you're feeling happy.
Cannibals and Communists fre- of all time. He invented a dozen or It a woman feels blue she gow quently dispense with them also. so himself, and he took so much out and buys herself a hat, and the It Needs Subtlety
Somehow But if you are neither a Com trouble in tying them that some world looks rosy again. munist nor a cannibal, a clergyman limes he ruined Bfty before he got there isn't the same thrill in even the
most
expensive dowier or a costermonger, if you have never one 8xed to his king. been a nudist and do not
Women know beard, you need a tie.
wear
It is n lille word, but it means a fol. There are all kinds of ties, most of them repulsive.
"These are our failures!" said Beau
Brummell's valet, pointing to the heap
of discarded cravats on the floor.
Mest men could point to as many ties on the little brose rail of their Don't be misled into thinking any wardrobe and make a similar remark, ties will do. There are sports ties Just look at them. and dress ties;, there are bow ties
and sportsman's imots; the school- There's the one with purple spots master's drab and the Aintree butter- that Aunt Jemima gave
me. I've
fly. And the publican's pet, loosely never quite taken to it, somehow. held together by a rolled gold ring And the one with zigzag stripes that with a bit of glass in it. And the makes me dizzy to look at, and the lemon-coloured the that one dron of hand-painted satin tie of the pre-war soup has ruined for ever, and khusk,
the church bazaar. arty-and-crafty knitted one from the
And then there is the made-up te at only to repose on the mid-Victor- inn dickey. And home ties and cup ties, but they hardly come into the picture.
Charles II's Idea?
I suppose I'll have to wear the blue gain this morning. What does it matter, anyway?
Disconcerting
WHO started all this, anyhowt TF matters a lot. Most people
WHO
Charles II probably; he was
always starting things, from
sce only what is on a level Oak with their own eyes. Do you realise,
Apple Day to Sweet Nell of Old you well-set-up, young man, that the
Drury-
_average_woman's eye-level is exactly.
Lloyd George insulted Haig
-says Lady Haig
in a new book
1
how
LAS! no. They forget that Within those limits there is plenty A
mon, even the bravest of of room for initiative. You must Important them, are shy and timid creatures help him to express his own per- clothes are, and that is why, when who do not wish to stand out from sonality that he often hardly knows they want to relieve the drabness of their fellows, at least by the colour he possesses, him a tie. They know that if a man's the chosen male, they invariably buy of their ties.
-Buy him some les. They need not- be expensive. When a woman wears
the is right the rest of his hitire hard. So women who choose tles must a tie it is usually of fox" and costs ly matters. A good tie can take the be subtle. There are plenty of twenty gulneas.. Men's ties are shine out of last year's suli.
charming shades to choose from, not much more reasonable. Buy him Women love to choose men's iles, forgetting black. But it must be of the.
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STEAMER
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who
became
bridge he was seventh wrangler and, became, a fellow of Trinity Hall.
He decided to get into. Parliament. Not being a rich man he hoped to do this by means of a successful career at the Bar, and began to read law on coming down from Cambridge.
Everything_promised well. Then one day Fawcett went shooting with his father. He was hit in the eyes by some stray pellets from his
EOPLE who survive handicaps are father's gun. He was blinded for life. always worth reading about.
Nothing pained him so much as letters of Mary MacCarthy, in her book condolence exhorting him to resignation. He
did not give up. Soon he was studying at Cam "Handicaps" (Longmans, 6s.), picks six bridge, and in addition skating, swimming, fish- handicap fighters, shows how they won ing, and riding. through.
At the age of 30 he was elected Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge. At 82 There was Charles Lamb, famous essayist. (although his election had not been accomplished All his life he looked after a sister to whom he without difficulty) he was Liberal member for was devoted, but whose reason periodically gave Brighton. way.
Poet Henley was a tubercular cripple when he started to earn his living. Ludwig Van Beeth- oven composed his greatest music became deaf.
University Honours
Started Parcel Post
Crowning success of Fawcett's public life after he was his appointment as Postmaster-General in
1882. The appointment was a great success.
Fawcett had under him a staff of 90,000 persona. He established the issue of postal In the first year
COUNTESS HAIG throws fuel co had consistently expressed this
I the fire of the Llyod George-Haig opinion at all war Cabinet merilngs. Most remarkable of the six tales is the one orders and the parcel post. controversy in her book about her "But now that the war had been of a less-known character, Henry Fawcett, a blind 15,000,000 parcels were carried. husband, The Man 1 Knew," de won by the armies in France, he man who became Postmaster-General. scribed as "the intimate life-story of utterly refused to take part in
In 1884 Fawcett's Post Office work happened Douging Haig," published by the purely political stunt by riding in Fawcett was born in 1833, the son of a mayor to be more than usually hard and he was not able Moray Press, 18s.
a triumphal procession through the of Salisbury. It is surely difficult," she says, streets of London merely to add to
to take a holiday. One October day he went for As a boy he led a happy country life at his a ride, but returned feeling ill with a cold. re- Lloyd George's importance. ferring to Mr. Lloyd George's sug- Douglas was very glad he had father's farmhouse. He was healthy, sociable, Pleurisy set in. Within a week he was dead. gestion to Haig, in November 1918, adopted this attitude becauso after- good at games. Intellectual, too. At Cam- But he had beaten his handicap. Just after the armistice, that he words he had a message from Lord:
to imagine à greater Insult!"
should come to London and
in the fifth carriage behind
to
drive Stamfordham [King George's secret- Foch try】 asking him not to come
Em- England for Lloyd George's proces-
In a procession to the French bussy, which Halg was not invited to sion, as he was quite sure the King enter.
would be much displeased. If any re- Haig, she says, "received a tele- ception were held during his absence phone message from the Prime from London. Minister (Lloyd George) asking him
เ
"It was later discovered that the
to come to London on the following proposed triumphal procession was to day, a Sunday, to take part in a go to the French Embassy for a re- ceremonial drive through the streets, ception to which Douglas was not in- "Marshal Foch, M. Clemenceau, and vited. There was, however, to be a a number of other statesmen and car in readiness to take him from soldiers from the Allied countries Albert. Gate (the French Embassy] were to take part."
to wherever he wanted to go.
"This was Lloyd George's view of what was Atting for the welcome "When Douglas learned that he manding a victorious army in the of a general on his return from com- was to ride with General Sir Henry Held," Wilson in the fifth carriage, he was astounded, and considered that this outburat.
Then comes Lady Haig's "insult": was a greater insult than he could
Back Seat
sland, even from the Prime Minister. not think Loyd George
"Douglas had effaced himself for trusted.
Lady Halg adds that Halg did could be
the past three years. He had
remained silent when Lloyd George Fifth Army Retreat complished by his foresight in' op-
talked of what he (L. 0.) had ne-
to
With regard to Sir Hubert Gough pointing Foch as commander-in-chief and the Fifth Army's Oghting re- of tho Allied forces, although it was treat, Lady Halg states Haig's view Douglas's suggestion, made at the that it was not Gough's generalship
Doullena] conference. in March 1918, but the war Cabinet's failura that Foch should be put in supreme supply enough men to keep the command.
divisions up to strength that caused "Lloyd George had sent armies to the trouble. Egypt, Palestine. Mesopotamia, and. Halg, was astonished at the Salonika, Dougins: belloved that It gratitude to himself expressed. by would have been greatly to our ad- people who wrote to him at the vantage, and would have shortened armistice. He said that he had only
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1 Winning pulverised?
120
Hardly.
but catching up all the same (two words, 7, 0),
7 Gird rope (anag). ·
-8. A short month for the King in Franco proves to be rather
Lax...
a
11 The bear that's lost his head comes to no good. Ank a slock- jobber..
12 Made a stand inside just as well. 13 These are grown in India
but one letter more would annoy Jul
16 A this is agog."
17 Clear up out of the pinin. 19 Hair in this form takes a good
deal of stress.
21 The Box of meat that lang ground. On second thoughts, I may be wrong.
...
23 Peg this and then get busy. 24 A striking feature of St. Paul's. 25. Give me one note; only that. 20 Sitting in front of a bus he
winds up in the river.
29 Staying power.
30 It seems you must
break
off
here, because you must go for
a wandering expedition, an
DOWN
2 Clever how Henri drives, Isn't
3 When It's put in the post if
generally stops there.
4 Almost a dead heat for a kiddle'
* going to bed.
5 Spanish team at one time in
England. 16 Hardy character?
-
7 Domestic (two words, 7, 4).
Not truly in from that time to depend upon.
10 Do note: this.
14 Say about a hundred and fifty,
with no appearance of joy:
15 Charm, letter by letter. 18 "Name it an" anagram. 20 Related, but not to a bell.. 21 The party that takes aetion. 22 It really is material, that the doctor should go round Ireland. 20 This to fore is formerly.
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