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GOODBYE TO THE OLD ADELPHI

FAMOUS BUILDING OF

ADAM BROTHERS

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SITE HAUNTED BY ILLUSTRIOUS SHADES OF PAST

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(By C. B. Mortlock)

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of Queen Elizabeth and Mary. been, progressively strengthened. When, after the passing of Anne Swiss eyes are turned anxiously Boleyn, the latter two were de- towards the north and north-east. | › clared illegitimate, the. Countess From the Austrian

N March 25 the last-of the and Italian

At the beginning of the 17th advanced to the position of high-aides she has comparatively little evicted tenants of the century the extensive stabling est rank in England. 25 the to fear. The Alps form a natural Adelphi departed, for on that of Durham House had fallen heiress to the throne. She died defence of very great strength day the central portion of the into ruin, and Robert, Lord in abject poverty, and was buried) The passes are all mined, and famous estate, lying between Salisbury, conceived the notion at royal cost. Later, her brother could be closed by the pressing of the Strand and the Thames, of a market styled "Britain's James, after ascending the throne a button. The St Gotthard for passed into the possession of Burse" The Lord Mayor pro- of England, had her interred at instance, is mined at intervals of its new owners,

tested without avail against the Westminster Abbey. where 3 100 yards.

For a week it remained deso-invasion of the rights of the recounts her royal The German-Swiss frontier is late pending the sale by auction Royal Exchange, but he was another matter. It is 94 miles of the fireplaces and other ignored. It was, in fact, never long. A sudden attack on the open interior fittings in the design of a rival, since the new Exchange, "Basle corner” Or SerDes the which the Adam brothers set a furnished with shops and stalls bridges of the Rhine, before the fashion that has never been mainly for milliners and dress- Swiss army could mobilise, would completely outmoded. Then makers, was pre-eminently a turn the flank of the French the housebreakers entered and fashionable resort. frontier defences, the famous Londen saw no more a survival

"The Country Wife". of the 18th century Town to Maginot linė.

It was at the height of its gay which clings the memory of and free-and-easy fame during many great names in art and the Restoration, and there are literature.

few comedies of the period The scene will present a sorry which do not allude to it.

the next few Wycherley, laid some spectacle in

of the months, especially to those re-scenes of The Country Wife" sidents who still retain an un-in the New Exchange, and certain occupation in the houses Pepys seems to have relished which enclose the island middle mixing with the gallants who

No invitations are being CHINESE MERCHANT

issued but all friends will be welcome at the Reception to bej held at the Hong Kong Hotel at 4.30 p

PASSES

Mr. Shiu Yat-hin

IMPRESSED THE KAISER

Hong Kong, Saturday. May 16, 1936. WELL-KNOWN CURIO DEALER

On the other hand, the Swiss OF QUEEN'S ROAD

remain, as they have always been first-class soldiers. The position The funeral of Mr. Shin Yat-of a German army in the hin, managing proprietor of the ridor" between the Alps and the Lock Hing curio store. Queen's Jura might be precarious.

Teaching The Young

Idea

The remains of the

"cor-

Road Central, who passed away The Swiss tell a story that, of the hollow square But it lounged about its stalls. What is euphemistically call- on Monday at the age of 79. took shortly before the war, the Kaiser when the four Scots brothers which lay nearer the river. had cannot look worse than it did Meanwhile the house itself, jed "juvenile delinquency" is

place yesterday.

visited the Swiss ariy manœuvres very much agitating the official |

deceased "to see whether Switzerland need-from Edinburgh embarked on again become the residence of dovecots in England at the pre- will be sent back to his native ed military assistance from Ger- their ambitious town-planning the Bishops of Durham; indeed, sent time. A prominent Lon- don newspaper ran columns of village in Kwangtung for inter-many." ment

It was because of the deep in- correspondence on the subject a

The big funeral procession pression made on him, the Swiss

were

divisions,

Your Daily Smile!

Industrious: The taxidermist who la always doing his stuff.

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"Lantern Lecture on Sid-ing." |reads an announcements. Hijnstrated thy numerous slides?

scheme in 1768.

(Continued on Page 11)

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L. Ripley

Morton is said to have been Fame Of Durham House.

consecrated in the chapel of the All that then stood of the house in 1632. He was the couple of months ago, in which

the yesterday was attended by bun- believe, that Swing neutrality was splendour of Durham House last to live there. But the con- was faithfully reflected

the London residence of the nection with the See is not en- serious view taken by thought-dreds of relatives and friends, in-respected.

The Swiss army now consists of prince-bishops of the county tirely broken to-day, for the ful minds of the reported including all members of the Lock

three palatine of its gardens and Adelphi Estate is still charged crease in young

offenders. Hing staff, and was followed by six infantry

brigades of cavalry, four moun-orchards running down to the with a farm-fee rent of £200 à The rise in numbers was traced a long string of motor cars.

but Thames, was "a number of year, payable to the bishopric. to many different causes, among Among those noticed at the re-tain brigades, and a small

small, low-lying houses, coal-By the middle of the century them being the decay of Bibli-ligious service held at the Yat Pit efficient air force

sheds and lay-stalls, washed by Durham House-yard seems to cal teaching, lack of supervi-Ting in Kennedy Town

the muddy deposits of the have become fashionable sion, or that old bugbear, the Messrs. Tam woon-tong, Ya Tao-

| Thames."

quarter, and Godfrey Kneller influence of the cinema. (Per-sang, Wong Kum-pul, Lai Tai-kal,

The site had had its aristo-had his lodging here. haps not exactly "old," how-Tsoi Po-tin, Yu Chung-keung.)

cratic inhabitants after Bishop The most illustrious name ever, but merely a variation of Leung Lin-chuen, Dr. Li Ping-sum

Cuthbert Tunstall's departure connected with the "Adelphi is an old belief; in other days it and many others.

They say all an Arab needs for his turned Durham House into people know that he and Robert at the Dissolution. Henry VIIL that of David Garrick. Most was the influence of the "penny Mr. Shiu is survived by two food is a few good dates. So does dreadful" that was blamed for sons, Mr. Shiu Sung-kai and Mr-the modern girl.

kind of guest-house, and accord-Adam were the first to occupy all the peccadilloes of children). Shin Sung-pok, and a number of

ing to Stow it was the scene houses 02 Adelphi-terrace. To neutralise the moral de-daughters. Mr. Ship Sung-kai Nips in the Bud: A scientist baxlin 1540 of an international That was in 1772, but as early terioration which the corres married the daughter of the discovered that alcohol can be obtain-tournament on a grand scale, as 1728, before ever he had pondents castigated, also, many wealthy local merchant, Mr. Tamed from fowers.

competitors in the jousts com-thought of becoming an actor, varying methods were suggest Woon-tong.

ing from most of the countries Garrick had set up, with his ed. Some pinned their faith to

of Europe.

brother, as a wine merchant in the proverbial methods; they]

From Durham House, 13 Durham House-yard. *Red would not spare the rod. presumably, that while in ex-

years later, went. Lady Jane Port" at 18s. a dozen was his Others were in favour of the treme cases there was a slight Wife: "Mother is coming to stay Grey, in great pomp, to the specialty, and it is said that his more recently heralded silent possibility of a certain amount with us for a few days.” Husband: Tower of London, there to be touting for orders among the but persuasive methods of of harm being done, in hun-"Oh, lord, another mouth to heed" proclaimed Queen. psychology-what might be dreds of thousands of others] called the rod-and-line treat-the only results were purely ment. Some cast blame upon temporary and inconsequential the parents, others upon, the annoyance and a certain not schools. But the one unfail- altogether unwholesome сед- ing basis of all argument and sciousness of superiority of theory was that the care and tenure. In short, that both discipline of its children is a aspects of the case helped to- precious charge upon the wis-wards that building of charac- dum of a civilised people. ter which is the prime per- When doctors disagree who quisite of the nublic-school sys- shall prescribe? We are cer-item as a whole. tainly not in favour of the As with so many other social} brutal methods of other days, problems that face the when, without the slightest munity as a whole, a compro- attempt to currelate elementary mise somewhere about midway psychology to the individual between the two extremes is case, frequent and thorough the only possible solution. In beatings to mock the stuffing individual cases neither the out of them" formed the "beat the lot" nor the "let him standard way of dealing with have his own way" method will delinquent children, whether at suffice. To abnormally sensi- school or at home, Neither tive children corporal punish- are we by any means in com-iment can be a severe mental plete agreement with the trial as well as a physical pain modern swing to the other to be endured; to abow certain extreme, where corporal self-willed, selfish and punishment of the mildest sort principled children to follow. is looked upon as something their own bent. at whatever altogether too hideous for words cost, is to encourage them in and dark things are said about an utterly false relation to life sadism, the effect on sublimal later on in adulthood. A cer- egos and other such quasi-tain amount of restraint is psychological mumbo-jumbo obviously necessary at certain trotted out. There was pub-times. If that restraint can be lished a diatribe against the exercised by the rod-and-line public-school system some years treatment so much the better; ago, in which a tremendous but if it cannot, then an occa- amount of pretentious cant was sional resort to more drastic talked about the "degradation" methods is undoubtedly called of the "fag" system-how sen- for. "Spare the rod and spoil sitive souls reacted with the the child" would appear to be jutmost horror and grave as true an aphorism to-day as damage to their immortal souls when King Solomon first, utter- to being required to make tea, ed it a couple of thousand years brown toast and clean shoes ago.

for sixth form boys. Accord- ling to the writer the whole system was equally bad for the "fagger" as for the "fagged.” In one it inculcated a tremen- Įdous inferiority complex; in the

BULL KILLS A MAN

Com-

Ur

Hyman Johnson, aged 50, died

other something approaching a in hospital after being gored by dangerous megalomania. The bull in a field at Rothley, Lei- writer did not stop to think,jcestershire, last month.

LADY

MARGARET DOUGLAS

Countess of LENNOX

HEIRESS TO THE ENGLISH THRONE

HER GREAT-GRANDFATHER WAS A KING HER GRANDFATHER WAS A KING HER- UNCLE WAS A KING

HER COUSIN WAS A KING HER BROTHER WAS A KING ·

HER SON WAS A KING HER GRANDSON WAS A KING

But-IN SPITE OF ALL THIS ROYALTY

SHE DIED IN OBSCURITY AND POVERTY!/ -AND WAS BURIED AT THE COST OF THE STATE:

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