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also Bose who scnt tribute.
The
floral
Phipps
A MID
wants to improve
St. Valentine's
Day
friends before breakfast and were already regretting it.
Prosaic Postman
I wouldn't be so bad if the Messonger of Love looked the part. The standard postman, even in his modern hat, has little chance to look the real Romantic.
It may be asked how it was
great boom in the Victorian cra, when postmen's hats were even more slapstick.
The answer, of course, is that the glories of Victorian whisker- culture completely distracted the attention from any hat, and doubtless the mail-trundlers of those days waved their Dund- rearies specially for St. Valen- tine's Day. If the Valentino is to be restored to its former popularity, the G.P.O. must make a special effort on the fatal day. Pestment should be equipped with wreaths in lieu of hats, and although we can
It is difficult to say when Valentine cards first came in. It is alleged that Charles Duke of Orleans, who was impounded by the enemy at Agincourt, was hardly suggest lice edging to an ace Valentine producer. And their trousers to harmonise with the Bard of Avon is believed to the Valentines, we unhesitating- have been among the seeded ex- ly recommend that they should ponents of the sport.
In those days, of course, transport and delivery of the MS. was far less certain than in this depressingly efficient age.
For that reason, one can imagine the contemporary "love ly" getting a real kick out of some embroided verse like:
"I want, dear mald, a sweet partner
for life."
discard their boots, in favour of sandals with litt.e gauzy wings.
Admittedly it would be tough on those who don't get a Valen- tine to have the usual bunch of forget-me-nots from creditors delivered by a Ilarbinger of Rominoe.
But think how many girllah (and. since it is Leap Year, So tell me in earnest if thou'll be boylsh) hearts would beat the
my talfe,"
MID the brusque re- February 14 is that it is the day on which the birdies make minders of your com- their matrimonial selections.
In an attempt to verify this when delivered by some trave- faster for such a colourful con- mercial relationships which littered the breakfast-table the only fowls of the air I ever puncture in his sword-arm.
idea from the roof of my flat. stained courier, with an ugly cession.
Then, indeed, the seeds of But when the same impassicn- postal courtship would fall on a this morning it is possible observed--two pigeons and a
few sparrows-regarded one an- ed entreaty arrives between the soil already prepared by the that you found a document other with the dyspeptic, fri- gas bill and a complaint from Arcadian guise of the messen-
Hongkong Telegraph. of distinctly tenderer sen- gidity of visitors in an hotel the neighbours about the radio, ger.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1937.
BRITISH TRADE RECOVERY
timents.
lounge.
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it requires a highly impression- And if the latter did demand It is possible, of course, that able subject for it to ring the a larger Xmas box, surely it
would be worth it. . It was probably printed they had signed up their girl bell. in silver, almost certainly embroidered with lace, and implored not the favour of your cheque but just Lurve.
If you are to hand with same it will already have re- min ter you that to-day is St. Valentine's Day. If not, you will pardon my bringing it up.
The Tic-up
TOBACCO SNOBBERY
Perhaps this may be one result of
Counterblast to the Gasper
By "AN OLD STAGER"
fectly reasonable attitude for him to take up. But he goes on to araure us quite genially that he is as fond as anybody of i elgar or a clgorcite after a meal, but emphatically pro- tests that we ought to draw the line at pipes."
art
in view of the outrage he *** by those two men who smoked their pipes nt the next table, he aries what modern manners corning to in this country. To which, I feel very sure, some of the old stage Bohemians of other days would have exclaimed, maybe rather rudely, "Hoity-toity!""
It is really curlous how this
A survey of the position of! British finance and commerce during 1936 shows as rapid an advance as in any of the three
AMONGST the many things that post-war are changing in our world 1 think we must include the What is even preceding yours.
theatrical profession. London's West more encouraging is the fact
End stage, once a citadel of brilliant Bohemianism, and alro incidentally that the year now opened re-
of competent acting and sound clocu- veals an almost uninterrupted
tion, seems to be going all old- THE origin of the Valen-school-tle. It is becoming, or rather progress in the continuing pro-
tine tradition is largely has already became, "mast refeigned." cess of recovery. Once again, obscured by local mist or fog the habit that theatrical producers ARE PIPES VULGAR? the home market provides the It is difficult to see the tie-up have developed of
Their recruiting between the immensely pukka beauty choruses, male and female, main stimulus, but during the Saint whom the Romans treated from the exclusive ranks of Debrett. his letter, is to invoke editorial in- What Mr. Ronald Squire does, in past twelve months there has worse than a football referee Though occasionally une's critical fluence to stop the smoking of pipes obsolete notion that pipes are vulgar faculty is assailed by horrid double also been further expansion in and this customary interchange whether, either in respect of sheer when he was dining out recently, on in certain quarters.
In restaurants. He tells us how, and unpleasant things still ingers rounded the value of overseas trade. The jof emotional invitations.
anatomical perfection or two men at the next table offended extent_of_the_internal_improve-What certain is that may not be paying too high a price until the miscreants-had-departed,
bouncing Joie de vivre, the stage
in this manner. Mr. Squire waited EVERYBODY'S DOING IT
It is in fact an entirely baseless ment is not so easy to gauge as February 14 has always been a for its ultra-respectability.
which may or may not have been o These psy rather lune 10 prudent procedure on his part, and and Illogical superstition inherlied that of overseas trade, but the sort of Opening Day of the Love
fections arise, with nice incon- then "protested violently" to the from Victorian days. It dates back to a time when only grooms smoked production figures for certain Season.
sequentiality, from the perusal of a maitre d'hotel.
pipes, and the only pipe tobacco they trades and the statistics of busi- In ancient Rome it was de- letter from Mr. Ronald Spire in the That worthy was quite of Mr. consumed was common shag.
venerable squire's way of thinking. Doubliess ness issued by the joint-stock |dicated to the Lupercalis, the columns of a staid and Mr.
daily journal. Now
Even In King Edward the Seventh's Squire, banks illuminating. The feast of Pan and June, when though it is my misfortune not to be with an eye to the profits on his own
are
the younger days the stables were con- toddlers of both sexes drew lots able to remember ever having seen scandal, and, what was more, pro- which to smoke a cigar at a week-
nexpensive cigars, he
sidered the appropriate place in heavy industries haye of course,
for one another.
him, is a well-known actor, and been stimulated by re-armament
wide gulf is sel between his theatrical mised that any future culprits who
dared to light pipes in his place was not tolerated in many
lace and
countryhouse party, Tobacco orders from the Government, but
Whether the toddlers were eminence and the unimportance of by far the larger part of their also compelled to bombard one stage small-fry in the chorus. Yet should be courteously invited to re-stlitely homes of England, and was regarded with even a fiercer social ostracism another with elegiac couplets his letter to the newspaper distinctly move themselves to the bar or
alertly mimetle expansion has been due to trade through the post is not known, famous green-room personalities of
by Now if Mr. Squire was a fanatical middle classes. recovery, Production of steel in nor did that talented old play-the not unillustrious stage past.
anti-tobacconist this might be a per-{ For better or for worse, we have changed all that. Not only gentle- the United Kingdom was more boy Ovid recommend any Valen-
but ladies as well, smoke than 18 per cent. higher in 1936 tine formule that I know of.
incessantly and everywhere. than in 1935. As, at the same But the frivolities of the time, despite high tariffs, im- lottery (held on the eve of St. ports of iron and steel increased Valentine's Day) were kept up during the year, it is estimated in England until the folk gave that domestic consumption of up Merric-making for the Dain-
ty Tea racket. steel last year was no less than 27 per cent. higher than in 1935,
This is an astonishing advance
clashes with
my recollections
ci
vestibule.
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QUEER NOTICES
The
have
admitted
the
men.
the
of the
in so short a period as twelve quite reputable poets about picturesequeness and originality is the best drink-if taken in the constantly does. Nor has the melinar
months. But other trades show
cles.
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the jab of painting the sign,
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be
out of account the
And Mr. Ronald Squire must be very unobservant person, or have a qucer sort of nose, if he does not realise that the pipe, smoked as it usually now is with really good LTHOUGH city and country alike Another and, unfortunately, some- tobacco, is by for the cleanest and A provide many notices that are at times necessary notice reminds the certainly by far the least permeating once strange and amusing, I think it customers that "Gentlemen address of all forms of smoking. Actunily a The oddest hunch of all-is chiefly in the cities that one must the barmaids as they would have the pipe-smoker creates nothing like the cloud of smoke that a cigarette for barmaids address them." the country
cigar habitue entertained in the past by some look for wit, in
Yet another tells us that "Water stoker, or even a original
sign
aroma of a pipe anything like the waз attached to the right spirit." front gate of a farm in Devon,
heavy lingering qualities of stule It
I In Glasgow, a few years ago,
cigar smoke or the horribly acrid and canvassero saw a notice that obviously was not like advances. For example, a total in 1936 of new capital is read: "Hawkers
smell of a Virginia
One cigarette... beware. We shoot every sixth one. Intended to speak the truth as plainly According to statistics and the fifth has just called." As I
casper-Inhaling flapper will do report has just been issued by sues.
more the Imperial Economic Commit-compiled by the Midland Bank, was in a hurry at the time I didn't a care-conducted by the window. of to fug a railway carriage than half
by a foreigner and
pipe-smokers. the read: Three Course Meals, 1/ dozen
This leaves quite out cee on the trade in motor-vchi-the total amount of new capital discover whether the owner of
sign was serious.
It was not a scribbled notice eliher, deplorable and disgusting Utter of In 1935, the output of issued in the United Kingdom
but one written by tradesman. In the East End of London there it can only be explained, I imagine, fng-ends and tobacco ash that blaze motor-vehicle units was 417,000, last year was over £217 millions, was a tallor named Cohen. This did by assuming that the signwriter had
the trail of both the cigar and the cigarette end. If a pipe-smoker nearly double the 1929 figure, against over £182 millions in not matter until another Cohen he had a meal in the cafe before he got knocks out his ash, be invariably
ed a similar business door. But last year, 1936, the output of 1935. Not only is this the high-newcomer displayed the name
does so in an ash-tray, and the private and commercial vehicles est total recorded in any year but the original Cohen, not to
"Cohen" prominently on his premises,
embers are extinct. The clear and I was over 450,000, constituting a since 1930, but it also marks the outdone, displayed just as prominent on gates and doors is one I saw in scatters his or her largesno of dirty In contrast to the many warnings especally the cigarette smoke usually high record. The financial re-fifth successive annual increase. ly a sign reading "Main Entrance" Perthshire which must surely be the ash around on the tablecloth or even
answer to a hawker's prayer. This on the carpet, sults of this increased production In view of what has been writ-
A tobacconist named A. Kow dis was on the gate of a house owned by | FOÏNDED ON IGNORANCE are shown in the bank returns, ten about the activity of the charged a relative whom he had em- man who told me he had
spent The outstanding fenture here is home market, it will occasion no ployed in his shop. Shortly after-many years hawking various kinds I should like to hear sorno Society
wards the relativo opened a similar of goods from door to door. He knew
hostesses, who have had their Ane- the rise in the turnover of surprise to find that appro-business n the same street. The how hard it was to gain admittance carpets irretrievably ruined by sign to many homes, and he knew what it cigarette ends, express their frank money. For the fourth succes-ximately 88 per cent. of the original A. Kow then had
painted which read:"A Kow, was to have doors slammed in his views about Mr. Ronald Squire's sivo ycar the turnover of amount issued should represent Tobacconist. No connection with the face and dogs put on his heels. He genteel preference for cigars and
had won a nice prize and settled cigarettes. cheques, bills, etc., dealt with by the share of the United King-Kow across the street.”
-down-in-Be-country, and in pince-of-
the usual "No Hawkers or the London Clearing Bankersdom. A larger part was taken
Can A pipe can offend only if it be- Public-houses, of course, enjoy a vassers" he erected a sign which comes foul, and the modern pipe- phows an increase. Last year last year by India and the Bri-
hygiene is keeping pace with this was 8.1 per cent. more than tish Dominions, namely, £23 mil-reputation as displayers of notices read:
both purposeful and amusing. One, "All Hawkers Welcome. You'll bathroom uplift. The majority of amokers give their pipes a thorough the 1935 figures, which in turn llons, against £18 millions in whch never falla to raise a smile on got a civil word and a patient hear-clean at least once or twice a week. showed an advance of 5.8 per 1935. Foreign borrowers ne- being seen for the first time, runs ing here."
much as follows:-"We have arranged Strangely enough, he said 'that he and do not perform the ritual in cent, on the 1934 figures. Part counted for the relatively in-with the Bank not lo casti any was not bothered by many, hawkers, public.
is despite the fact that his home franted: The truth is that the anti-pipe: of the Increased turnover of significant sum of just over 3 cheques here. The banks for
part, has promised us not to sell any a main road. Fosalbly many thought prejudice is just a mobbish tradition money was duo to the larger millions.**
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