1957-03-08 — Page 4

Page

THE

CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1957.

NOW!

the wonder "AYLON filter

IN

THE EXCLUSIVE

ALBANY

Cigarette...

FILTER TIPPED:

PLAIN ¡$2.23 for 60 90 |CRITE FOR X20

FILTER ONLY

The

Cigarette

gives you much more flavour,

4

much more pleasure

Prized for good taste, enjoyed for its flavour-Albany! A famous cigarette

made from rich, mature virginia tobaccos-now with the wonder Aylon filter... for you to enjoy for the sheer love of luxury.

AYLON... ahli, the greatest advance in Miter-tip material, is composed of thousands of pure tulee silky fibret which form a myriad tjny Alters, You draw the amake so epsily, is contentedly.

smoke "ALBANY- for the joy of it!

T. L. Smith Lid. ● Burlington Gardens Old Bond St. London Wi

FOR

TOWB/HK.

"ZORIC DRYCLEANING"

Call

CARPET SHAMPOOING

59195

THE STEAM

"This

for collection

T

The Queen and The Man She Loves”.

HE relationship between a queen and her consort is subtle enough, but that between a consort and his eldest son is inevitably much more subtle, Why? Because the consort is a man who, though married to a reigning queen, can never be king, Whereas his son suffers from no such disadvan- tage.

He is, in fact, all the things his father can never be: heir to the throne, first citizen of his country, the auto- matically accepted sym- bol of royal power and authority.

He assumes, without question, the position of for respect and influence which his own father has had to spend years of thought. planning, and scheining.

In such circumstances, u father may well be forgiven for thinking that honour and glory are coming too casily to his offspring—and, with Albert and his eldest Bon, Edward, Prince of Wales, afterwards Edward VII, this is exactly what happened.

I PRAY...

WHEN Edward was born,

21

Victorin wrote to friend: "I hope and pray like his

thut he may be LAUNDRY CO.

Headache

Do not wait patiently for your suffering to end Take for2 tablets of CAFASPIN' dissolved in half a glass of

water, and headache will (ER)

is

soon vonish

GFASPIN

The busti bezle? with the big slut

Hong Kong”

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE Picture Record

OF HONG KONG EVER PUBLISHED

Depicting Waterfront Scenes, City Scenes, Urban Scenes, Harbour Scenes, Architecture, Churches. University Buildings, Markets, Features, Chinese Ceremonies, Shipbuilding, 'Factories, People, at Work, People at Play, Arts and Crafts, Sporting Activities, Character Studies, Child Welfare, Chinese New Year Scenes, The Colony by Night, Pageantry, Hong Kong

■ Hundred Years Ago, in all, over

300 Photographs

Finely Reproduced on Art Paper

Finely

· POPULAR' PRICE

$8.50

Published by

SOUTH CHINA. MORNING POST. · LTD.

dearest Papa."

+

by LEONARD MOSLEY

THE TRICKIEST JOB ANY FATHER CAN HAVE

In 1850,

him the Order

of the world's most powerful empire. Ho When he was was only too well aware that he could never 17, be King of England himself, but he Was Albert and determined that his son, who inherited the Victoria sent position by right of birth and blood, should be propared for his heritage by a rigorous programme of education designed to remind him of the responsibility of his future.

When Bertie was just eight years old (the age Prince Charles is today) Albert drew up portentous scheme for the benefit of his new tutor, who went under the appropriate name of Birch.

of the Garter, with a massive memorandum

on how to be- have. IL was the moment in Bertie Was smelling the In- toxicating scent or spring In the air. But the memor-

his life when

tho

The scheme included, each day: "Re- andum swiftly ligion: half an hour. English: one hour. drove oft Writing: half an hour. French: one hour. perfume of Music: half an hour. Calculating: half an youth,

hour. German: one hour. Drawing: half an hour. Geography: half an hour."

It was distressingly evident, from the moment that the heir to the throne could walk and speak, that this was not going to be so..

Albert surveyed his son, and concluded from his bouncing nature and his effervescent spirits that he showed signs of emulating the awful example of the Queen's disreputable uncles or even the frivolous ways of his own brother, Ernest.

He decided that Edward (or "Bertie," 48 he was known in the family) would have to learn the hard way what it was liko to be heir to the throne

And then Albert added: "It will be well to let mental and more mechanical exer- tion alternate in order not to strain the intellect or wear out the patience of the child."

Albert decided But soon that this regime was by no means stringent enough. of He suspected his son taking life too flippantly,

Birch and dismissed

in

"A gentle- man," it coldly reminded him, "does not in- dulge in care- tes, self- indulging ways

such as lolling in armchairs or

011

sofas. He does not place feth who himself in unbecoming attitudes throne.

It ran on for page after page, prating, chiding, warning and rebuking. The young Prince of Wales burst into tears.

LBERT

DUTY?

had n

stern Ger. favour of first one and then A munie distika of English other tutors who could be public schools, and was deter- that bla sun should relied on to keep the smile mined off his lips and the twinkle nevar attend one, out of his eye.

POOR BERTIE

HE was determined that Bertie should appreciate the good fortune he had achieved by being born the

of eldest son a reigning queen.

Poor Bertie! No wonder that after his father's death, he unloosened his belt and began to relax.

father

So long as his was alive, he was never allowed to forget how easily to his heritage had come him, and how earnestly he must prepare for it.

SS06EDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSSSSSES.

TWO VISCOUNT AIRLINERS ARE BORN A

180

ARE FLYING

TVERY three days this year a new Viscount turbo-prop airliner will be ready for its first flight. That is the planned production rate for Britain's best-selling airliner.

Viscounts are rolling off the assembly lines at Weybridge (where the works are In the middle of the old Brooklands car race track), and at Hurn, near Bourne- mouth.

have

been

WEEK

pletion of the £23,900,- lands workshops, the fac- 000 order

the tory is tooling up for bulid- from

Ing the bigger turbo-prop American airline has Vanguard, already ordered just been achieved six by British European · Air- Trans-Conada weeks ahead of schedule. ways and

Airlines, both confirmed Vickers are now work-

Viscount users. ing on a repeat order.

James Stuart

Among

Already 180 Viscounts built and are now flying in all parts of the world. them are 60 ordered by Capital Airlines, of Washington, U.S.A., for its United States "domestic" services. Com-

PREPARING FOR THEIR LINES OF DUTY

Yet not long ago foreign critics of the, British aircraft

industry were saying we had no production capacity to

back our "nice designs."

The Viscount story shows how wrong they were.

And while Viscounts the Brook-

emerge

from

cilen in the now scorting biops

The Viscount was the world's first propeller-jet airliner. BEA have been

flying them for nearly three years; and still the only other in-service airliner of its is the British Britannia.

Viscounts now coming off

the assembly lines are the new 800's, slightly bigger and more powerful, than the carlier models. Later Vis- counts will be even more powerful and will fly at 400 m.p.h.

was

helr 10 the

It is hinted in royal blogra- phtes that one of the contribu- tory reasons For Albert's death was his acute distress over Bertle's conduct,

Bertie was now back at the university (nd word reached the royal parents of an escapade in which the zon was involved with

a woman.

"It broke my angel's heart,” wrote Victoria. Although unweil at the time, and threatened with a severe chill, Albert journeyed to see his son and lectured hlm. He returned to Windsor next

He did, however, expect him to embrace some form of univerally education, ind sent him, in bewildering succession. to Edinburgh, Cambridge, and day, obviously worse, Oxford.

He was never allowed to re- main long enough at any of them to make lasting friends. He had to Hve privately,

"About Commen balls," Albert wrote to his son on one occasion, "I trust you to under- stand that the balls you visit are not visited by you for your amusement but to give others pleasure by your presence,"

All in all, Albert midle Д mess of his son's early life, Did he do it out of a mistaken sense of duty? Or was there a deep, subconscious resentment against the

boy

· WILS because he easily resuming the rank father could never attain?

BLIND SPOT

CERTAINLY

S0

his

Withla two wecks he was dead from typhoid,

HUMANITY?

VICTORIAS griet was over-

whelming. Her eldest son was by no means so distressed..

Nor, it must be admitted, were the British people.

They had come to admire and respect the consort of their great Queen, but it would, bo untruthful to say that he ever gained their enthusiasm.

He had Ideas and a dedicated sense of duty towards the country of his adoption, but he lucked the humanly, the com- mon touch, the weaknesses and fallings which might have en- deared him to the nation.

Albëri never relaxed his pressure on his No matter how hard he tried. son. Wise and forbearing as he he never did succeed in becom→ was in so many things, his ing anything more then bilnd spot was this child of his husband, of their Queen,

HAS THE

PALACE LEARNED?

WHEN Prince Albert died Queen Victoria com- missioned a blography. Its publication dismayed the Royal Family by the revelation of intimate detalls. But the Queen was unperturbed, and to 'a daughter who presumed to protest she wrote: "Then you must also remember that endless falso and untrue things have been written and said about us, public and private, and that in these days people will write and will know: therefore the only way to counteract this is to let the real, full truth.be known, and as much as can be told with prudence'and dis- cretion; and then no harm, but good will be done"

"Cornflakes taste

so much better with brown sugar on, Mummy"

It makes all the difference

TAIKOO

TAIKOO SUGAR

SOFT BROWNE

the

KOWLOON