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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1937.
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MAPS and GALLEONS OUT OF
ALLS without pictures aro often a good background for modern furniture and carpets, but if you like the friendliness of dark Jacobean oak with colourful ruge and lineri curtains, you will find that some kind of pictures are, neces- sary to rollevo 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 furzif- ture of the Jacobean period, and they have such a wealth of quaint and fanciful detail that they are as decorative and often more Interest- ing than many pictures.
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I am sure you have seen them: delphins disporting themselves among the waves and ships sailing the sona In those mass which include some Towns and villages indi- coastline. cated by drawings of churches and houses, aut very often little pictures of the people of the perlod going about. their daily taska
Coloured Reproductions
Bometimes the genuine old maps enn be bought at bookshops, and collecting them intakes an interesting holiday 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 Saxton. who drew there all by hand towards the end of the 10th century. The origi hals are in the Museum.
Ono interesting fact about these maps is that they were the first selen- tile maps to be made in England, and they were actually the beginning of regular inap-making and publishing in this country.
Another is that you will most prob- ably recognise landmarks and your own town or village in the map of → your own county, in spite of the quaint
Elizabellian spelling?
Averago size of the reproductions, by the way. is 20 by 16 inches, but they are all printed on sheets measur
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An oak furnished dining room with old county maps for wall decoration, and a model palicon for a table centre.
ing 20 by 25 inches, so that they are uniform, and this is a very good size of picture for the usunt dining root. Each map costs 65. 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 cesta 108.
This, if you are thinking of maps In' with the dining room, connection would make a good decoration for the conspicuous position above the fre pace with four or five county maps on the other, three walls.
If a double sheet map is too big, the ninp of your own county could
occupy the posi tion of honour above the fre place.
I find it best
not to group the
them exceptionally well, and for the centre of the dining-table or sideboard I would ohɑose a model of an Eliza, bethan galleon.
Models of most of the famous Eliza- bothan ships aro obtainable (the "Santa Maria " and the "Golden Hind "
quite flut against the walk they look more decorative this way, and are easier to read than they would be if tilted forward. Hang thein JADIO at roughly eye-level for the
reason
If you have plain walls without n picture-rall, keep the cord short, so that it will not show above the top edge of the frame, and bang the maps from an "X" hook.
This hook has a long, slender pin which gars into the wall at an angle. It does not damage the plaster and leaves scarcely a mark on the surface
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maps too closely on the wall; they contain so much delall that plenty of space should be left around them so that they can be studied without other distractions. Three maps on the fire- place wall, and two on each of the others make a very good scheme of decoration.
Framing is simple. Each map has a
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take the place of a separate mount. And they look very well trained in passe partout. If you decide on a wooden frame, choose a narrow plain moulding is 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' 63 6 rock and carries A good weight.
When
the maps are hung from a picture- rali. I have found that two separate cords or wires to ench picture. hung from two tic- ture hooks, have a neater effect than one continuous length of cord looped up to the book in the centre, Pix the rings for the corda near the top corners at the back of the frame, thread a length of cord through each (this should be twice the length from the picture to the picture-rail, willi an extra inch or so for the knot) and then hang the loops from the two hooks. Keep the other decorative detalls in the room in harmony with the maps. Brass and copper, especially old lamps and candlesticks, go with
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are two of the prettiest), and prices range from 168, up to about £4105, the latter being beautl- fully made models correct in every detail.
I and it best to stand the galleon on alinen runner to show up the lines of the hull.
Old county mapi are also an excel- lent decoration for the older children's bedroom, and a plenannt way of teach- ing them geography.
Decorative & Instructive
In the children's room it is not always necessary to go to the expense of framing, for the maps can be pasted straight on to the yellow, cream or
green distempered background. and are then varnished over to mnko them permanent and npongeable. The varnish, by the way, gives the paper a slightly antique tono which hús à picasant effect against tho coloured wall, Pnated down in this way, you can also use the maps as the decomtion for a wooden draught screen. Stain or paint the whole screen first, then paste one map on each of the four panels, placing It towards the top, and afterwards var- nish over,
If you are lucky enough to come nerosa any of the smaller maps in a second-hand bookshop, It is worth re- membering that these make good -decorations for parchment lampshades.
SCHOOL
¡HERE is a popular, belief that the
school jokes and howlers which are constantly appearing in ho papers are the product, not of the school, but of some-shall we call it factory?almitor to the home of the "Aberdeen" joke. This, however, is not the case. Much
ns 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 following gems are culled:-
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"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 asked to write a short necount 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
ve rise to "Christianity is
howlers, for exam Perhaps m
N
the capital of following may have been due
been due to de- fective bearing:Barbarians DFC 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 as Vosc- linc."
Catherine S. Macdonald:
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daughter when I can still dance better and longer than ako can, I've got braids, and thank heaven I've stili got looks. No ond over takes me for more than thirty-two-or thirty. event I'm begging for life, Sami No, I'm not I'm demanding it!”
Samuri Dodsworth Joved his wife, try ago to Just getting to where men There could be no other explanation take a serious Interest in her?.........And for bin sale of the Dodeworth Plant I just can't be put on a shelf by my to United Motors, generous as wern the terms. He tried to convince him well and kin friends that he had taken the atep of his own free will. Twenty six years in koruens was tong even for a mule, he mid. Time for him to begin a new lie, to learn to enjoy Julstre, to see the world. He meant to travel, it was good to shake off all card and responsibilitiée. Le felt like a boy again.
Dodsworth took her in bin arms. || "If that's the way you feel," tio sald fondly, "I'll enjoy life it it kills me. | And it probably will!”
But ho deceived no one, Ioast of And so Sam Dodsworth and Fran n himself. It was with a heavy embarkeit on their new career—Fran heart that he bado farewell to his old prepared to circle the globe, if neces
ssociates and empleyes, anid, good-nary, to keep pace with her departing bye to the huge phint that had made youth, and Dodsworth doggedly do the town of Zenith one of the busiest Ftermined to keep the pace with her.
"Americans like you and me ean's quit work" 2013 Tabby. "We're meant to keep on until we die in the harness"
centers of American Industry, andĮ lisasif its most prominent citizen. It was with a sadness he could not con- ceal that be prepared for ble journey abroad his second honeymoon,
"Twenty-six years ago in an old Zenith barn," he missed, and there ran through his head a kafeldoscopic pic ture of those tumultuoGE year years of constant struggle, enlivened however with significant "triumphs: constructiro yener, happy years.
Sam's old friend, Tubby Pearson, made one last effort to dissendo him. Fortified with a couple of drinks, he spoke more frankly to Sam than ho had over spoken in all the long peura they had known each other,
"I can't stand to sep my.eldent and closest friend turned into an expatri ate parler enska because Zenith isn't good atough for his wife..."
"Easy now, Tubby," Dodsworth warned.
Eren Fran showed concern when But Tubby persisted with a final Dodsworth came home from his last | warning. day at the plant. Alo kad aged per~
"Americans like you and me can't ceptibly since leaving the house that quit work. We're
tuorning.
until we dla in harness to keep on
"How do you feel?" she asked
The warning was still ringing in anxiously,
Dodsworth's ears when they set sal Fran mothered the faint flicker of from New York on the "Queen Mary," romorse, who began to justify herself | largest and most luxurions of luxury all over again, She was they wereiners. Once out on the open sea, -entitled to life and freedom." They however, and all of his unesainaga nad had brought up their daughter, Emily, heaviness of spirit seeined to drop und soen her safely married. They from him like a ranntle. The sex e had had their shares of anxieties and elted him, who had spent all his life responsibilities, and now, they were in the Mid-west; Its vastness exliíla. privileged to enter a fuller, happier | rated blin; he liked big things, large life, to begin life anew, like a couple distances, imineasurable valons. of children.
Ilis eagnerness winds Pran, happy,
"I want a new life all over from "I was right, wasn't 17" she said the beginning. A perfectly glorious, excitedly. free, adventurous fol. It's coming to Sam nodded his head. "Happiest 18, Bam! We're sono our job! We're day of my life, next to the day I mar mude our money, Wo needn't be tied |ried you."'" any more to this dendly, half-baked Middle Western town!"
"Naw, Fran," Dodsworth protested feebly. "don't ́go knocking Zealtà Again!".
Dut Fran was not to be stopped "I want the lovely things Ira gut a lgbt to. In Europe a woman of
He looked at her fondly, an alie stood on the rail next to him, atering at the ocean, her face flushed like a young glei’a.
"Did I remember to tell you today that I adore, you?" he said
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