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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
MAPS and GALLEONS
*ALLS without pictures are often a good background for modern furniture and carpets, ! but if you like the friendliness of dark Jacobean oak with colourful ruga and linen curtains, you will find that some kind of pletures are neces- sary to relieve the severity of the walls. They complete the friendly and cosy atmosphere which to my mind is always associated with oak.
Be I was interested to see that there is a fashion for using old County maps as wall decorations. They are exactly right with furni- ture of the Jacobean perlod, and they have such a wealth of quaint and fanciful detail that they are as decorative and often more interest- ing than many pictures.
I am sure you have seen them: dolphins disporting themselves among the waves and akipa saliing the sens in those maps which iclude some coastline. Towns and villages indi- cated by drawings of...churches and houses, and very often tile pictures of the people of the period going about their daily tasks.
Coloured Reproductions
Sometimes the genuine oli maps can bo bought at bookshups, and collecting them makes an interesting holidny hobby; but if you are thinking of get- ting a set for the dining room or lounge, you will be interested to know that the British Museum publishes thirty-five reproductions in colour of the County maps by Richard Baxton, who drew them all by hand towards the end of the 10th century. The origl unla are in the Museum.
One interesting fact abou! these maps is that they were the first zelen- tile maps to be inade in England, and they were actually the beginning of regular mag-making and publishing in this country.
Another is that you will most prob- nbly recognise landmarks and your awn town or vilinge in the map of your own county, in epile of the quaint Elizabethan spelling
Average size of the reproductions," by the way, is 20 by 10 inches, bui they are all printed on sheets measur-
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An oak farnished dining room with old county maps for · wall deco-alton, and a model galleon for a table centre.
ing 20 by 25 inches, so that they are uniform, and this is a very good size
of pleture for the usual dining room, Each map costa 58., with an extra 3d. for postage, with the exception of a large map of England and Wales, which is printed on a double sheet and Coals 10s.
This, if you are thinking of maps in connection with the dining room, would make ʼn good decoration for the conspicuous pusition above the fre- place with four or five county maps on the other three.walls.
them exceptionally well, and for the centre of the dining-table or sideboard I would choose a model of an Eliza- bethan galleon.
Models of most of the famous Eliza- ‚bethan · ships are obtairiable (tho "Banta Maria " and the "Golden Hind " are two of the prettiest), and prices range from 15s. up to about £4 10. the latter being benulf- fully made models.correct in every detail.
quite flat against the wall; they look more decorative this way. and are easier to read than they would be if tiled forward. Hang them at roughly eye-level for the same
reason.
If you have plain walls without a pleture-rall, keep the cord short, so that I will not show above the top edge of the frame; and hang the maps from an "X" hook,
This book has a long, slender pin which goes into the wall at an angle. It does not daminge the plaster and leaves scarcely a mark on the surface
Homemaker's Diary
If a double sheet map is too big, the map of your own county could occupy the post- tion of honour above the re- place.
I And it best
not to group the
maps too closely
on the wall; they
by
Janet Jay-
contain so much detail that plenty of 'spote should be left around then so that they can be studied without other distractions. Three maps on the Bre- place wall, and two on each of the others make a very good scheme of decoration.
Framing is simple. Each map has n good wide whille' border, which will Luke the place of a separate mount, and they look very well framed in passe partout. If you decide on a wooden frame, choose a narrow plain moulding in black, or in oak stained approximately the same colour as the furniture. The maps should hang
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of the wall when removed. It also holds as firmly 45 A rock and carries A #t31 weight.
When the maps ure hong from a picture- rall, I have found that two separate cards or wires Lo mch picture, hung from two ple- ture hooks, have a neater effect than one continuous length of cord icoped up to the hook in the centre. Fix the rings for the cords near the top corners at the back of the frame, thread a length of cord through each) (this should be twice the length from thị picture to the pleture-rall, with un extra inch or no for the knot) und then hang the loops from the two hooks. Keep the other decorative details in the room in harmony with the maps Brass and copper, especially old lamps and candlesticka, go with
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I and it best to stand the galleon on a linen runner to show up the lines of. the hull.
Old county maps are also an excel- lent decoration for the older children's bedroom, and a pleasant way of teach- Ing them geography." Decorative & Instructive
In the children's room it is not nlways necessary to go to the expensO of framing, for the maps can be pasted straight on to the yellow, cream or
green distempered background, and are then varnished over to make them permanent and sporigeable. The varnish, by the way, gives the paper a slightly antique tone which has à pleasant
ปร effect agairtat coloured sali, Pasted down in this way, you can also use the maps as the decoration for a wooden draught screen. Stain or paint the whole screen first, then pasto one map cach of the four panels, pincing it towards the top, and afterwards var- 11h DCT.
If you are lucky enough to come neros any of the smaller maps in a recond-hand bookshop, it is worth re membaring that these make good decorations for parchment lampshades.
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FEBRUARY 20, 1937.
TOLD OUT OF SCHOOL
THERE is a popular belief that the school jokes and howlers which the are constantly appearing in papers are the product, not of the school, but of some-shall we call It factory? similar to the home of the Aberdeen" Joke. This, however, is not the case. Much B3 teaching methods may change, and children themselves change, schoolroom hum- our shows little variation. The old howlers crop up with unfailing re- gularity,
From the essays of senior pupils the fullowing gems are culled:-
"The home of the swallow is the P & O-BRITISH, INDIA-APCAR AND
stomach,"
"Quinine is the bark of a tree, can- ine the bark of a dog."
After a geography lesson on the East, the children were naked to write a short account of what they had learned. This brought forth the following:"Certain areas of Egypt are cultivated by irritation," and "An oasis is a futile spot in a desert." Confused ideas often give rise to howlers, for example, "Christianity is
the
followal of Norway." Perhaps the
may have been due to de- fective hearing:"Barbarians
are
things put into bicycles' wheels to make them run smoothly" Another which I personally failed to see as funny but which evoked mirth was, "Long ago the Kings had vassals, This system was known s Vase- line,"
Catherine S. Macdonald,
“TELEGRAPH'S" NEW SERIAL
SINCLAIR LEWIS'·
'DODSWORTH"
with
A Picturisation of which will be released in Hong- kong shortly by United Artists
e
my ago to Just getting to where take a sorlous interest in BeriAnd I just can't be put on a shelf by my daughter when I can still dance better and longer than abs can. I've got brains, and thank heaven I've still got looks. No one ever takes me for more than thirty-two-or thirty. even! I'm begging for life, Sam! No. I'm not! I'm deionnding it!"
Samuel Dodswarth loved his wife. There could be no other explanation for his sale of the Dodsworth Plant to United Motora, generons as were the terms. He tried to convince bim self and his friends that he had tokes the step of his own free will. Twenty- Hix years in harpras was long oyên for a mule, to exid. Time for battu to begin a new life, to learn to enjoy elsare, to see the world. He meant to travel. It was good to altake off all créa and responsibilition. Ile felt like a boy ggnin
But he deprived no ont, least of And no Sam Dodsworth and Fran all himself. It was with a heavy embarked on their new career-Fran heart that he bade farewell to his old prepared to circle the globe, if neces associates and employes, snid good-Bary, to keep pace with her departing bye to the huge plant that had made youth, and Dadsworth doggedly de the town of Zenith one of the busiest termed to keep the pace with her,
Dodsworth took her in his arms. "If that's the way you feel," he salt fondly. "I'n injoy life if iz klis me. And It probably will!"
"Americans like you and me can's quil work,” said Tubby. "We're meant to keep on until toe die in the harness."
centers of American industry, and 1 Bam's old friend, Tubby Pénznost, himself its most prominent citizen. It made ous last effort to dlannade hin was with a sadness be could not con- Fortifled with a couple of drinks, he ceal that he prepared for his journey spoke more frankly to Ham then he abroad-his second honeymoon,
kad over spoken in all the long years "Twenty-six years ago in an old they had known each other. Zenith barn,” la muned, and there ran through his head a kaleidoscopic plc Lure of those tumultuous years yeain of constant struggle, enlivened However with algnificant triumphs;; constructivo years, happy years.
Even Fran abowed concern when But Tubby persisted with a fusi Dodsworth enmo hosan from his last warning.
"I can't stand to see my oldest and closest friend turned into na expatri ate parlor spake because Zenith isn't good enough for his wife.
"Easy now, Tubby," Dodsworlk WRTDEL.
day at the plant. He had aged por- |*******
"Americans like you and me can't ceptibly since learing the house that quit work, We're ineant to keep on morning.
"How do you feel?" she asked all we die in harness.
The warning was still ringing la anxiously.
Dodsworth's earn when they met on Fran amothered the faint leker of from New York on the "Queen Mary," remorac. he began to justify herself inrgest and most luxurious of Juxury all over again. Be was-they were Uners. Open out on the open sen, entitled to life and freedom. They however, and all of his uneasiacas and had brought up their daughter, Elly, bensiness of spirit seemed to drop am soon her safely married. They from him like a mantle. The sea ex And and their shares of anxieties and cites lm, who had spent all his life responsibilties, and now they were in the Mid-west. Ita vastbesa exhila privileged to cater a fuller, happier | rated him; he led big things, large.
ife, to begin life anew, like a couple distances, immeasurabio values, of children.
Illa cagnerness noite Fran happy." "I want a new life all over from "I was right, wasn't I?" she said the beginning. A perfectly glorious, free, adventurous life. It's cemning to us, Bam! We're done our job! We've made our money.. We needn't be tied any more to this deadly, half-baked Bio Western town!"
"Now, Fran." Dodsworth protested feebly. "don't po knocking Zenith again"
But Fran was not to be stopped. "I want the lovely things I've got a right to. in Europe a woman of
excitedly,"
Sam nodded ble head. "Happiest day of my life, next to the day I mar rled you."
He looked at her fondly, an ale stood on the calf next to hini, staring at the ocean, her face flushed ko a young girl's.
"Did I remember to tell you today that I adore you?" be eotd.
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