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MAN
THE HONGKONG
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First thing that
a
woman
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1937.
PAGE
sees
is your tie
TO
wore
IES are not abso- lutely necessary. Julius Caesar never Charle- one, nor magne. And if Sir Walter Raleigh did you wouldn't have noticed his ruff' was so big.
by
JAMES
ᏞᎪᏙ Ꭼ Ꭱ .
Author of "Nymph Errant
Or if it wasn't in his time it was the height of In the Mile End Rd a spotted hand-
your tie. Ah! You kerchief docs just as well, and very soon afterwards, for the French shrink visibly, and hastily begin to French waiters are contented with a officers at the battle of Steinkirk fumble with the knot folded blue thing called a plastron went into.netion in such a hurry that Yes! Till she raises her eyes with and made of celluloid.
they had no time to tie their gravats, trusting gaze to look into your face, Whistler used to use a bootlace. They Just looped them loosely
10- or troops them modestly to your no In a nudlat colony a tle would be gether, and not only won victory doubt perfectly respectable boots, superfluous except to keep up the but started a new fashion. connection with the Old School,
Tieless Clergymen
is notorious that clergymen require no neckties; which
or a costermonger, If you have never been a nudist and do not wear beard, you need a tie,
But you couldn't do much with a cravat made of lace and it wasn't until the time of the Regent that the really came into its own. tie neck-cloth, neckerchief, or cravat
your tie is the thing she sees.
feeling
one?
1
even
HOT SHOTS
first of a new series for
billiards players.
HERE are one or two shots which in their execution are of equal value 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 poslilon 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 billiards player,
There are occasions when the ability to pot a ball stands the 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 hils breaks.
women exercise their own good taste, but remember when they are buying for u man that the Emits are narrow- cr.
own per-
You ought to be glad. After all, that little space between your Adam's apple and the top buttons of your waistcoat is the only place on your whole person where you can express And Prinnie's great friend. Beau your personally, or tell the world but do they always choose the right silk, preferably British silk. Let is why the ladies of the parish have
happy. to fall back an embroidered slippers. Brummell, was the great tie-expert you're
Cannibals and Communists fre- of all time. He Invented a dozen or If a woman feels blue she goes
so much out and buys herself a hat, and the It Needs Subtlety quently dispense with them also, so himself, and he took
Somehow But if you are neither Com- trouble in tying them that some world looks rosy again.
n munist nor a cannibal, a clergyman times he ruined fifty before he got there isn't the same thrill in even the
ALAS!- no. They forget that Within those limits there is plenty ****most expensive bowler.. one fixed to his liking.
the bravest of of room for Initiative. You must know Women "These are our fallures!" said Beau clothes ure, and that is why, when who do not wish to stand out from sonality that he often hardly knows
how important them, are shy and timid creatures help him to express his Brummell's valet, pointing to the heap they want to relieve the drabness of their fellows, at least by the colour posto It is a little word, but it means of discarded eravats on the floor. a lot. There are all kinds of ties,
Most men could point to as many the chosen male, they invariably buy of their ties.
Buy him some ties. They need noi most of them repulsive.
ties on the little brass rail of their ma tle. They know that if a man's
be expensive. When a woman wears Don't be misled into thinking any wardrobe and multe a similar remark, the is right the rest of his attire hard- So women who choose ties must a tie it is usually of fox and costs ties will do. There are sports ties Just look at them.
ly matters. A good tie can take the be subtle. There are plenty of twenty guineas. Men's ties and dress ties; there are bow ties
charming shades to choose from, not much more reasonable. Buy him L and sportsman's knots, the
Bchool-
There's the one with purple spots shine out of last year's suit.
Women love to choose men's ties, forgetting black. But it must be of ile. master's drab and the Aintree butler that Aunt Jemima gave me. I've ly. 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 ginas in And the makes me dizzy to look at, and the hand-painted satin tle of the pre-war soup has ruined for ever, and the lemon-coloured tle that one drop of "knut"
And then there is the made-up lie, arty-and-crafty knitted one from the
church buzaar. At only to repose on the mid-Victor-
I
lan dickey. And home lies and cup I suppose I'll have to wear the blue ties, but they hardly come into the again this morning. What does 11 picture.
Charles II's Idea?
matter, anyway?
Disconcerting
WHO started all this, anyhow? IF matters a lot.
Most people sce only what is on a level Oak with their own eyes. Do you realise,
Charles II probably; he was
always starting things, from
Apple Day to Sweet Nell of Old you well-set-up, young man, that the
Drury.
average womon's eye-level is exactly
Lloyd George insulted Haig
-says Lady Haig
in a new book
HOUNTESS HAIG throws fuel on had consistently expressed this the fire of the Llyod George-Halg opinion at all war Cabinet meetings.
Blind Man Postmaster- General
P
who
arc
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 did not give up. Soon he was studying at Cam- condolence exhorting him to resignation.. He "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 32 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-
1
Started Parcel - Post
Crowning success of Fawcett's public life oven composed his greatest music after he was his appointment as Postmaster-General in: became deaf.
University Honours
1882. The appointment was a great success.
Fawcett had under him a staff of 90,000 persons. He established the issue of postal 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.
In the first year 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 4
In 1884 Fawcett's Post Office work happened Douglas Halg," 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, 185.
a triumphal procession through the of Salisbury. "It is surely diMcult," she says, streets of London merely to add to
to take a holiday. One October day he went for "to imagine a greater insult re- Lloyd George's importance.
As a boy he led a happy country life at his a ride, but returned feeling ill with a cold. ferring to Mr. Lloyd George's sug-
Within a week he was dead.
gestion to Haig, in November 1918, adouglas was very glad he had father's farmhouse. He was healthy, sociable, Pleurisy set in
this attitude because after-good at games. Intellectual, too. At Cam- But he had beaten his handicap.
Just after the armlalice, that he wards he had a message from Lord should come to London and drive Stamfordham (King George's secret- In the fifth carriage behind Foch ary) asking him not to come to in a procession to the French Em- England for Lloyd George's proces- bassy, 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 "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 vlied. There was, however, to ba Ditmber of other statesmen and car in readiness to take him i soldiers from the Allied countries Albert Gale (the French Embassy] were to take part,
to wherever he wanted to go.
Back Seat
"This was Lloyd George's vlow. of what was hiting for the welcome of a general on his return fram com- he manding a victorious army in the
"When Dougins learned that was to ride with General Sir Henry deld." Wilson in the fifth carriage, he was astounded, and considered that this outburst,
Then comes, Lady Haig's "lnauli”
was a greater insult than he could Lady Halg adds that Haig, did stand, even from the Prime Minister. not think Loyd George could be
Douglas had effaced himself for trusted.
the past three years...
Ile had
remained silent when Lloyd George Fifth Army Retreat talked of what he (L. G.) had sc- complished by his foresight in up-
the
pointing Foch as commander-in-chief and the Fifth Army's fighting re- With regard to Sir Hubert Gough of the 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 Doullens] conference in March 1910, but the war Cabinet's failure to that Foch should be put in supreme supply enough, men to keep command.
divisions up to strength that caused "Lloyd George had sent armies to the trouble. Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Haig was astonished Salonika. Dougins belleved that it gratitude to himself expressed by ni.. the would have been greatly to our nd people who wrote to him at tho vantage, and would have shortened armistice. He sold that he had only the war, had our forces been centrated on the western front, and intentions.
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1 Winning pulverised?
Hardly,
but catching up all the same
(two words, 7, 6), • '-
7 Gird rope (sang.).
8 A short month for the King in
France proves to be rather tax.
a
11 The bear that's lost his head comes to no good. Arc a stock- Jobber.
12 Made a stand inside just as well. 13 These are grown in India.
but one letter more would annoy you!
A this is agog.
10 A
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17 Clear up out of the plain, 19 Hair In this form takes a good
deal of stress. *
21 The sort of meal that isn't ground. On second thoughts, I may be wrong. ·
23 Peg this and then get busy. 24 A striking feature of St. Paul's. 23 Give me one note: only that. 28 Sitting in front of a 'bus ho
winds up in the river,
23 Staying power.
30 It seems you must break' off here, because you must go for
a wandering expedition.
DOWN
2 Clever 'how Henri, drives, Isn't
It?
3 When it's put in the post It
Renerally stops there
4 Almost a dead heat for a kiddie ?
going to bed.
5 Spanish team at one time in
England.
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 action. 22 It really is material that the doctor should go round Ireland. 20 This to fore is formerly.
27 In actuality, the deed stands.
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