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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1934

P. 20.-British India MUFFIN MEN AND

Apcar and

Eastern & Australian

Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

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FLOWER GIRLS

A Changing London Driving Them Away

PICTURESQUE TRADES DYING

There is little room in the London- of these days, so it seems, for the |"Dickensian" muffin men and flower! {"girls" and some of the other pic-1 turesque street traders.characteris- tic of the metropolis of the past.

The muffin men in particular are; having a pretty thin time of it just now, largely as a result of the cam- paign now being carried on for a less niosy London. They have dia- covered that if they ring their small handbells in the streets of this city they are more than likely to incur the displeasure of the law.

In fact, one muffin man was;

Court recently with "using a noisy instrument-to, wit, a handbelt.** It transpired later that the Jaw un- der which the charge was made: dated back to 1839.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY charged in Westminister Police

DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS.

(Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

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BANGALORE

CHITRAL CARTHAGE

From

Tom Hong Kon

About

1935.

15,000 28th Dec 5th Jan, 0,000

17,000 12th Jan. 10.000 26th Jan.

7,000

2nd Feb.

17,000 9th Feb. 17,000 23rd Feb. 6,000 2nd Mar.

15,000 9th Mar. 15,000 23rd Mar.

Destination.

Bombay, Marseilles & London.

'bay, Mara, Havre, London H'burg

Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

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Mara, Havre, London Hamburg

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BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

The magistrate had no option but to warn the offending muffin man that,, technically at least, he was breaking the law, and advised him not to ring his bell again when น policeman was in the vicinity,

Muffin Men Disappearing There are probably not more than twenty or thirty muffin men left in London now, although their small |

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Several persons were injured in a renewal of political hos- titles in various parts of France as the nation sought to show its military strength in the face of new fears of a re-arming Germany on Armistice Day. This photograph shows a view of Lille, scene of the most severe fighting, where Nationalists battled with Com munists and Socialists.

Lady Harpton's Garden Party

OLD WINDMILLS OF BRITAIN

(Continued from Page 10)

No hitch anywhere. Not even the feared difficulty of sending off the netting without the knowledge of Robin the old gardener, the tyrant.

tiny bells are still a familiar sound Appeal For Funds To For Robin had cut his leg, scything,

in the residential backstreets of the capital, particularly on cold Sunday afternoons in winter,

Save Them

MOST ANCIENT SPECIMEN

A national appeal has been laun.]

had been laid up for weeks. The new one was a little inexperienced, a little stupid. "Just about stupid] enough," Kenneth had said judicial- ly. "Won't remember too well: in cass. But, of course, there's no danger!"

The men who still carry on their. head-trays of muthina covered with green cloth are most of them follow- ing a family trade, handled. down ched by the Society for the Protec from their grandfathers and great- tion of Ancient Buildings for fundzi grandfathers. The bells they use to save the windmills of Britain. to-day-when the police are not lis Since 1931 the society has repair-danger. It was the rock she'd tening-have in most cases been ed on an average three mills each clung to all these last weeke. heard by three generations of Lon-year. doners.

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Yes, that's what he'd said. No NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD

Why had that woman dared to con- tradlet him? Naturally Kenneth knew best!

tea,

Some of the mills still grind corn Only a decade or so ago the muffin or cattle feed, and many more men did the baking and distributing could be put into working order for

How confused one's thoughts: of their own muffins. Today, the a small aum or money.

were becoming. No sequence. No five large muffin bakeries of London

control. It was just half-past four. supply their muffins direct to retall The oldest known windmill in the Henry would be having those straw- Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- shops while the old-fashioned muffin British Isles is a tower mill in Sark, berries quite soon, now. She had mantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the men have to work on a free-lance Channel Islands, The date of its told the new man to pick some to- Khadivial Mail Steamship Co.

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building, 1571, is carved in stone day; master would like them for Incidentally, the multin men he over the doorway. long to one of the few old street

The Dame de Sark, who is the Henry never went to garden- trades without atreet-cry owner, has in her possession re-parties. How tiresome of him. of their own. Their char-ceipts, covering some 200 years, for He said he hadn't a decent suit; he acteristic bells take the place of repairs carried out to the mill by said he couldn't stand poodle- ja cry. What the muffin men are her predecessors,

faking. Well, this would be a lesson vondering now is what is going to

So he was having tea! Among those which have been to him! happen to them if they are deprived repaired in the past twelve months alone. Kenneth had said it would of their bells.

by the society, or through their ad-be better if she wasn't there. And, Another rapidly dwindling class vice and help, are Burton Dassett of course, it had turned out of street traders are London's flower mill in Warwickshire, from which miraculously, Maud's party the first "girls." They have always been the approach of the Armada was day after the rain.... Perhaps

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1934.

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B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for known as "girls," though few, can signalled, Moreton mill in Easex, Henry was biting one now, and 1st and 2nd class passengers.

be less than 65 years old. Their and Outwood mill in Surrey, The blinking. How she loathed the very most famous pitch used to be on the windmill at Chailey, in Sussex, is thought of him, of his weak smile,

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, steps of Sir Alfred Gilbert's statue used as a dwalling house in con- of being tied to him

1934.

NELLORE

7,000 int Feb,

of Eros in the middle of Piccadilly nection with the Cripples' Home. A sort of faintness flowed over circus, in the heart of the West End.

Bembridge mill, in the Isle of her. "You are in grave, grave. shopping and theatre district. To wight, which is the only remaining danger!" Why had she gone to bianila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & day there are only two, or occasion-windmill in the island. The only that idiotiic palmist? Nobody be-

Melbourne, and Hobart

ally three, of them there.

five-sailed mill in Yorkshire, at Sea-lieved these things it was only About seven years ago Eros was ton Ross, is still in working condi-because she had felt so exiled for some time while Piccadilly tion, but funds are needed for re-strung-up 30 nervous. Felt she Circus subway station was being re-

must know. Yet all she had learnt pairs. built. During that period the flower

WAS girls had to move elsewhere. When

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1935,

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VICTORY IN DEATH

Cat Dies After Killing

Six-foot Snake

queer, so

"Water!” cried Mrs. Hammond

aload, to her own aurprise. She felt

la burning sensation from head to foot. No one heard her in her re- treat. "Now his breath will be go- ing," she said to herself. Her heart began to pound unbearably. She A large cat bailed up a six-foot was going, too, at the same time black snake on a farm at Leeton, felt almost as if her own breath Four Famous Figures

N.S.W. and, after circling warily "Hell!" said the lovely lady. "I Another traditional pitch of the darted in with slashing claws must control myself! Kenneth said flower girls was the statue of Sir Robert Peel, in Cheapside, not far Several times it sprang away from Be natural, be ordinary, there is from the Bank of England. The the reptile's lunges, but the snake,

no danger." Feel statue is to be, banished in eventually fastened its farge in the She gave a little sigh, the beauti- December to help speed up traffic in cat's throat and whipped its collsful Mrs. Hammond, her hands flut- tered to her heart; the colour the City of London and the fower around its body.

The pair rolled in the grass, while drained slowly from her face; quite giris have had to move to the porch the cat howled, spat clawed and bit gently she collapsed aldaways on the of St. Paul's Cathedral. There are After a terrific fight the snake re-seat under the trees. Like a flower four of them there now, ranging from Norah, who is nearly 78, to laxed its pressure, dead. The cat she lay there; a handful of peach- Old Nell, who is only 58. Two of staggered away a few yards, fell, blossom, fallen to the ground. them inherited the Peel statue pitch and died in a few minutes. from their grandmothers. Old Nell

has sold flowers there since she was TORTOISE IN A WILL eloven years old. -

Flower selling in the City is not Left With Dogs And Cats the brisk trade it used to be, accord-

To Housekeeper.⠀⠀⠀

ing to these veterans of the profes- alon. In the old days every City clerk used to buy a buttonhole "on

Shouts,, Commotion. Doctors. But it was poor Patsy O'Flan- nigan one pitied most. God help me!" she walled, over and over, for weeks, and would not be comforted.

"I'll ` niver tell fortunes again! Niver! Whatever could have. pos- sessed me, heaven forgive me, to Among the bequests to his house be saying a thing like that? the way to his office. In these times keeper in the will of a London doc- Wasn't It enough to startle a poor of "ekyscraper" office buildings and tor who died, aged 71, in Septem- lady out of her wife? And it is so coloured traffic lights in the City, all ber, there are "livestock, including hot, and she, as the doctors say now, that has gone by the board. The three doga, two cats, a tortoise, and with a little one comin'? Who- romantic.days of bunches of violets chickene."..

over could have guessed she had a and chrysanthemums disappeared The will le that of Dr. J Cweak heart, the sweet, pretty,

Worthington, of Sutherland-road, innocent crachure!" with hansom-cabs, they say.

West Ealing He left £91,309, with Yes, it was the beautiful Mrs. not personalty £29,506.

Hammond who died of heart failure After other bequests Dr. Worth at Lady Harpton's garden-party. lagton left the residue of his pro You see, by mistake, the stupid perty to the children of his daugh- now gardener had put the straw- ter, "whom failing to the Royal berry netting over, the Hungarian Society for the Prevention of Cruel- lettuces. ty to Animals

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