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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1931.

THE BEST MEAL

THE DAY

OF

Breakfast: Lunch:: Or Dinner?

LUNCH LUNCH! LUNCH!'.

Dinner-Time Is the Stiff Time, Says Thomas Burke.

dozen But at the end of the

THE CHINA

MAIL.

MERCHANT TAYLORS' EUROPEAN LED INTO PIGEONS WITH A

SCHOOL.

Vacates 400-Year-Old Historic Site.

·GOES INTO COUNTRY.

TRAP.

Attacked and Stabbed.

DRUG CRAVING.

Flapped Their Wings for Morphia.

Animals and birds, as well as men and women, havo fallen victims to the craving for druge.

So statos Harr. Louis Lewin, a Gorman authority on drugs, in his new book, "Phantastica" (Kogan Paul, 158.). He writes!

For some months past there has] been trouble between the canvassers After nearly 400 years of

of two steamship companies in academic study in historic buildings Rangoon and there have been fro amidst the roar and bustle of the quent affrays between them, in heart of London, the boys of Mer-more than one of which Mr. J. W. chant Taylors' School are to move to O'Rolly, Head of the Canvassers of The demoniac power of morphle can even be established among the peaceful surroundings of grean the B.I.S.N. Company has been animals. I administered the drug to fields and cool spreading trees at among the injured. On the night some pigeons every day at a certain Richmansworth, Hertfordshire. of September 7, he was led into a time. The effect of the Infections One of England's most famous trap by a Chittagonian and stabbed abated within a few hours and the 'the point of the birds remained in their cages in a The main distinction of lunch was a famous American novelist: schools, Merchant Taylora' has be- but fortunately

knife struck a rib which deflected it state of depression; but as soon as and dinner is that one is a social not-since it was a silent lunch come cramped in its rather grimy and only a flesh wound resulted I approached them with the syringe gathering and the other a function. the winner of the Nobel Prize, but quarters of 3% acres in Charter- His story to the Port Police moda they cama out, flapping their Wherefore I like lunching and fly still a very good novelist. from diuing, says Thomas Burke in

It was a short affair; I don't house Squaro. It will soon be able this morning is to the effect that wings." the News Chronicle.

Herr Lewin's experiments with think we sat more than two and a to stretch itself over 250 acres of while he was at his office in Lanma- Dinner belongs to the evening, half houra; and in that space we untouched land and through the daw at about 7.30 p.m. an unknown morphin on a cat lel to the animal which is supposed to be the time of exchanged scarcely half a

Chittagonian came up to him and dying from tidigestion! relaxation; but actually it is the sentences.

spacious corridors, studles and class- told him that the B.H.S.N. Canvas- Ravages of Cocaine.

He notes that the duration of opposite. It is the stiff time. lunch we knew each other, and rooms of the most modern concep-sers were holding secre meeting at People dress up for the evening have been frienda- ever since. tlon of what a school building Keighley Street foreshore and that taking heroin until decrepitude sets in stiff clothes and restrained man-

if he went there he could see it. The in is from aix to seven years if the The lunch-table was our medium should be like. ners and little conventions.

man then left promising to meet dones administered are large, and of communion, and a very effective) dinner they are never fully them-

The foundation stone of the new him at the junction of Keighley of chlorodyne takers he says tat ono. We need no words. He selves; they are self-consciously was sailing for home that evening.į

Merchant Taylors' was laid at Rick-Street and Strand Road, Complain-they are akin to morphinista. aware that they are attending a

and we parted outside the restau- mansworth, June 11, by the Duke of ant states he left his place in a few women sell their husbands' proper rolite entertainment.

They are rant. He made no formal farewell York. A model of the school, as it minutes and rode in a rickshaw to ty and steal in order to obtain the being social.

but, leaning from his taxi, he broke will appear on completion in the the junction of Strand Road and drug, and spend large sums on their a silence of fifty minutes with: Spring of 1933, shows a maximum Merton Street where he dismissed morbid craving,"

Here is Herr Lewin's picture of "The Bortsch was good."

of lateral extension with no section his rickshaw and started on foot for *I recall another talk lunch. highe rthan two storeys. The play-Keighley Street, carrying a whip in the fate of the cocaine taker:

"Will-power diminishes, and in-

taken in any old clothes and indl-lunch, but it

of duty, Keighley Street who told him the decision, lack of a sense was exciting, the extensive. vidually, People really aro re- most exciting lunch I have ever Founded in 1561 "for the better meeting was on and was being held capricious temper, obstinacy, for- laxed at lunch, really social, really had. None of the talking was done education and bringing up of chil- behind some godowns which he getfulness, diffuseness in writing by me; it was all done by my host, dren. in good manners and litera pointed out. Mr. O'Relly went to and speech, physical and intellectual a celebrated American actor, and ture,”

the godowns, and just, as he turned inatability set in. Conscientious- Merchant Taylors' was

is replaced by negligence, the corner to go behind them two ness him and one struck him with a knife the lover of society seeks solitudo." unknown Chittagonians sprang at truthful people become liars, and

The Horse In the Cellar. · the left chest and fled. The other

Lunch an Interlude.

At

But lunch is free of all formality and inhibition, It is an Interlude

in the day's business, and it is was not perhaps a pleasant ing fields will be correspondingly his hand. He met the Informer at

themselves.

That is why I prefer to take and give my entertainment with luach it was all directed at the waiters, originally housed in the Manor of parties, and why I welcomed the the head waiter, and the manager: Rose in the parish of St. Lawrence, idea of Mr. Christopher Morley's

I have fold the full story in one Poulteney, the exact site being Three Hours-for-Lunch Club. In-uf my books. In brief, the lunch Suffolk Lane. The school was not

The turned on and struck across the The author investigated the in- of more than 250 deed I informally founded a Lon- was accompanied by a running for- to consist

take to don branch of it at my flat, and with tissimo monologue from him on the scholars, a very large number, face leaving a heavy weal. This clination of animals to

Mr. also used.

O'Reily strong drink, and this is what hap- so much enthusiasm that I over- incompetence of British restau-judged by the standards of that

staggered to П tea shop on pened to a horse: ran its rules, I found that I was rants: a monologue of objurga time. One hundred were to bal

the foreshore and from there "The horse of a wine merchant sunducting a Four-Hours-for-Lunch tions, curses and insults-all of educated free of all charge, 50 ware

was taken to the General was discovered lying in the cellar Club.

them deserved, but none of them to pay 28. 6d. a quarter, and the Hospital where his injury was amid a heap of broken bottles, strik- Frequently, when working, I for- ever uttered by the long-suffering remaining hundred, 58, a quarter.

dressed. It was found at hosing with its hoofs against the wine get dinner, and am not aware until Briton.

The statutes of the school, which, i

barrels. Upon being lifted up it midnight that I have forgotten it.

For about an hour and a half incidentally,

been pital he had had a very have never But I never allow lunch to pass me, that West End grill-room was a formally repealed, laid down that: escape as the knife had been deflect-fell down again. It was completely and never allow it to be a hurried bear pig with my host as the bear! "There shall be taught fa the saided from his heart by a rib causing drunk. real. The morning and evening 1 and scared walters as the victims, school children of all nations and only a flesh wound. give to work; the afternoon is my play-time.

I think to slide into lunch around half-past twelve, and slide out of it at other people's ten-hour.

food and all sorts of company.

norrow

THE SHIP''S BELL

The ship's bell is usually of

"For some time its maater had noticed that the horse had attacks of vertigo, and fell frequently. The animal had been fed to strengthen it after overwork with oats soaked in wine. A lazy servant, Instead of mixing the oats with wine had administered the wine from the battle.

He was a big man, and once when countryes indifferently... The chil he rose to bawl down the head dren shall come to the schoole in the wafter, and flung out his arms, he mornyng at seaven of the clock both | looked so much like a bear that I winter & somer, & tarry there thought he was going to hug the until cleaven, & return againo at All my recollections of full and man to his chest and crack his ribs. one of the clock, and depart at five; tiresome meata, are concorned with

The Lunch was Free. and thrice in the day, kneeling on dinner. All my recollections "f The lunch that we got after he their knees, they shall say the pray-

"One night the intelligent animal pleasant meats are concerned with had begun his verbal assaults was ers appointed with due tract and bronze, like other bells, and is plac-

ed on the upper deck at the break had got loose, opened the latch of funch. They cover all sorts of a fairly good lunch, dressed with pawaing...."

some very good wine; and we got it! A book recently published on the of the forecastle, so that its notes the cellar with its teeth, ravaged They cover lunch on the lawn in for nothing, my host refused to history of Merchant Taylors' School may be heard from one end of the amongst the wine and devastated

ship to the other.

the cellar." Summer sunshine, and lunch in pay, and the manager bowed, or reveals that in its early days the ex-

The tongue is hung so that it; warn dining-rooms, beginning in should say cowered, to his refusal. aminers not only examined the can swing at an angle of about 45 HIGHLIGHTS OF LABOUR'S TWO daylight and, ending in firelit dusk. I have so many hundreds of lunch scholars to discover whether they Lunch of fine food and wine, and memories that selection is difficult, had acquired any knowledge, but degrees to the ship's keel, for if it at right angles lunch

of plain food and beer. They come in crowds. There was also the headmaster and his assist-swung parallel or Lunch in clubs, homes, good re- the lunch, an excellent lunch, which ants to determine whether they to it. the bell would ring at every

pitch or roll of the ship... staurants, bad restaurants, in had in a Good Pull-Up for Car-were capable of imparting any.

The ship's bell gives the time to men, in Old Kent Road, with Of the teaching of the first head- capitals, townlets and hamlets.

She master, Richard Mulcaster of Oxford the officers and crow every half American Society Beauty.

hour during both day and night. an American wasn't

Society University, it was observed: "In a Beauty. She was a very nice girl morning he would exactly and plain-The ship'a day commences at 12 who had been made into an Ameri- ly construc and parce the lessons to noon and is divided into watches, as can Society Beauty by the Washing- his scholars; which done 'he slept in Press, because, I understood his hour (custom made him critical her father wanted her to be American Society Beauty.

A Long Lunch,

The longest lunch I can remem ber was one that I had with the captain on a liner in the Albert

Dock, it broke up at about six,

It was a delightful lunch in its company, and, its dishes were such an advertisement for the line that

1 was tempted to book a passage there and then, One of them I have often asked for in restaurants, but have never been able to get curried fruit-unlad.

The stories told were as good as

the dishes, and, though I have not

·

an

follows:

YEARS IN OFFICE.

June 9, 1929, MacDonald Labour Government took office. Party had no clear majority; having 287 members, to Conservatives' 200 and Liberals' 59.

August, 1929, partook in Young Plan conference at The Hague, where Philip Snowden made spectacular plea for British claims, Conference followed by evacuation of German territory by allied forces. November. 1929, Mr. MacDonald visited the United States to discuss

Afternoon watch, noon to 4 p.m.; an to proportion it), in his desk in the first dog watch, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.; school; but woe be to the scholar second dog watch, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; to midnight; She didn't like being an Ameri-that slept the while. Awaking he first watch, 8 p.m. can Society Beauty, but she did heard them accurately; and Atropos middle watch, midnight to 4 a.m.: like the Old Kent Road, and she might be persuaded to pity as soon morning watch, 4 a.m. to 8 a.m., and disarmament with President Hoover. did like the boiled mutton and caper, as he to pardon where he found just forenoon watch, 8 a.m. to noon. sauce and turnips, and the cur-fault. The prayers of cockering

Suffolk Lane

January, 1990, naval conference

You will notice that, all the in London brought some réduction

rant dimplings. She had asked mothers prevailed with him, as watches are of equal length (four in naval strength and prestige to for this kind of lunch, and I had much as the requests of Indulgent hours except the two dog watches, party.

September, 1930, Imperial con- since seen any of the company, the given it with some hesitation; but fathers; rather increasing than each of which is two hours long. words, "curried fruit" bring each at the end of the lunch I saw that mitigating his severity on their The dog watches are made by ference In London falled to settle

dividing the hours between 4 p.m. tariff problem. one and his curried stories clear I had brought her where she really offending children.""

belonged. ly to mind.

was right in the and 8 p.m. into two watches, thus November, 1980, Indian round Silent Lunch.

Many people who have puzzled centre of the bustle of the City.making the total number of watches table conference, assured India of

measure of autonomy. That was a talk lunch. Another me at dinner have revealed them Beltig a day school and no regular edd.

July, 1931, Joined seven-power that remains with me was a silent selves to me at lunch, the one lunch being terved, the Soys used Having an odd number of watches lunch. It took place at my favourite comfortable and relaxed meal of to be turned loose into the crowded enables the crew to keep them al-conference London restaurant, where lunch is the day I could dine with them ten streets. The majority used to buy ternately, the watch coming on plan to restore German financial

times, and never discover as much baked potatoes and go exploring the duty at noon one day having the structure.. about them as I discover in one city, with, the result that the over-afternoon the next day, and the four-hour lunch.

age Merchant Taylors' knowledge of men who have only four hours of London was like Sam Weller's, ceat one night have eight hours the

next. "extensive and peculiar."

a religious secular service, more soothing to the nerves than any massage or organ music. My guest

MILLIONTH POINT AT BRIDGE.

Superior (Wisconsin), Sept. 12, One million points has been reached by one player, in a bridge

DE LA RUE'S LOSS.

The only place for recreation at The ship's bell is struck every Suffolk Lane was the "Cloister, half hour throughout the 24, and small and practically useless for the number of times it is struck Shareholders of Thomas De La energetic exercise. But there was indicates the time. Thus, 12.30 Rue and Co. are given both bad and played in it the school's special p. is indicated by striking the garte. This was called "Walling."bell" once, and the ship's time is good news simultaneously in the Two aldes stood at opposite ends of known as One Bell of the Afternoon four here who has been playing for directors report for the year to the epace and then rushed at each Watch; 1 pm. is Two Bells, and 10 years and 8 months to reach this March 28 last. The bad news other and a scrimmage ensued, each so until we find that 4 p.m. is indi- objective.

which comes first, is that, after side trying to rub one of the oppos- sated by Eight Bells. One of the original players, Mr. charging Debenture Interest and de-ing alde against the white-washed The number of times the ship's Bernard Leo, has died since the prociation, the company suffered a walls. game started, and his brother, net loss of £36,268 during the year. George, who first substituted for him, le now in China,

Bince the

w game

compared with a net profit for the

bell is struck to indicate time never oxceeds eight, so they start over with one bell again at the begin

previous twelve months of 218,241 portant security printing orders ning of each four-hour period. The result is that a debt balance of wero held back. Since the closing Thus each watch (with the ex- €11,803 is carried forward, against of the accounts, however, the results ception of the two Dog Watches) a credit balance of £23,460, brought have been substantially better than is divided into eight parts, or Into the accounts,

working on Hoover

ALWAYS COMFORTABLYCOOL

Categ

In the corresponding period of 1980, The Dog Watches, being only half

started the daughter of one of the players has become old enough to take a hand.

Mrs. F. O. Lindquist is the first

The loss in attributed to a heavy and there is a fair prospect that as long as the other five watches, to reach the million mark, with her shrinkage of turnover, due in part the improvement will be maintain have four time signals in each, the husband 5,000 points behind and to scial conditions. A large stamp ed. Work on the Chinese postago First Dog Watch being one to four Mrs. Bernard Lee 2,000 points to printing contract for the Chinese stamps is in progress, and deliveries bells and the Second Dog Watch

Government was postponed, and Ims are being effected.

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