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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,

14, 1960

Know Your Dog ARE WE FAIR TO OUR YOUNG PRINCES?

By HLM. HOWELL

SCOTTISH TERRIER

BREED which strangely, has fallen rapidly from favour. In 30 rot place in-3.K. and save is 18the Que

of its great advocates, Betty Penn-Bull did however write one of the best books yet written on “Dogs es “companions; as prize- winners; as m'career".

To quote the Bread Society's requirements for "general appearance"; a Scottish Terrier is a sturdy thick-set dog, piaced on short legs, alert in carriage, and suggestive of great power and activity in small compass. The head gives the impression of "being long for 'a'dog of its size. With Ita keen intelligent eyes and sharp prick ears, the dog looks willing to go anywhere and do anything. In spite of its short legs, the construction In such that it is a very aglin and active dog. The movement of the dog is smooth, easy, and straight forward, with free action at shoulder,

slife and hock.

INDIVIDUALITY

The skull is nearly fat and the cheak-bones do not protrude. There is a slight, but distinct stop between skull and foreface just In front of the eye.

CUPPOSE you saw Prince Willam of Gloucester,

his younger brother Prince, Richard, and Prince Michael of Kent on your television screen as they went to Princess Margaret's wedding last Friday. Would you have recognised them? The odds are about 100-1 that you would have not.

There is no reason why you Let us see what it means to should know their faces.

Ի a full-time member of the None of them is permanently Royal Family, in the public eye. All three

** Take, for example, a few of have only the most Blender chance of ever reaching the the little publicised activities of the Duke of Gloucester during Throne.

Yet the signs are that for all the past eight or nine months, their adult lives, they will. He has visited the 10th Roya be treated as if they were at Hussers and the 2nd Battalion," any minute able to be made the Scots Guards." He has dis- disabilities of royalty with none Humane Society and prizes at King. All three will have the tributed medals at the Royal of its advantages. They will be Wellington College. a private sacrifice on the altar of protocol.

His destiny

He has travelled by helicopter to the Bedfordshire Agricultural Show and had lunch with the Mayor of Brighton. He has presided at a meeting of the British Empire Cancer Cam- paign and attended the Smith- fald Show at Earls Court.

About a year ago it was re- They have a good deal of individuality, are not noisy, and are ported that the 18-year-old very friendly. The public st!!! persists in exiling them "Aber-Prince William of Gloucester deena," which is a name not recognised by authority.

wanted to be an engineer. In The undocked tail, about seven inches long, la carried with a October he is going up to slight bend. Colour, steel or Iren grey, black-brindle, brown-Magdalene College, Cambridge, really interested in all these brindle, grey-brindle, black, sandy, or wheaten.

Coat,The dog has two coats, the undercoat short, dense, and soft; the outer coat harsh, dense, and wiry; the two making a weather-resisting covering to the dog.

Weight and Size. The Ideally-made dog in hard show con. dition should weigh from 19 tbs. to 23 lbs Height, 10 to 11 inches

man

No man could possibly be

to read engineering.

No going on.

could Fine But Prince William's posibly attend all these func- career after be leaves Cambridge tons other than from a sense of is already settled. It is not duty..

engineering. No, he is destined

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Ridiculous

His cousin. Is this the kind of life that Prince Michael Prince William

and Prince

of Kent, was in- Michael have in front of them? tended for the Ahead it stretches. Acres of Royal Naval Col- agricultural shows. Wardrobes lege, Dartmouth. full of hot, uncomfortable mill- He was turned tary uniforms. Cohorts of pro- down because of vincial mayors. his eyesight. Then he was smartly entered for Sandhurst.

Above all, the ridiculous

Royal Marriages Act hanga

over their heads. Under this

Act-which WRE forced

through in 1772 by King

George I to pite

"IT'S GOING TÉR BE MORE THAN £25,000 BY THE TIME OLD BUTTERFINGERS GETS

THROUGH WIV THE GROWN. JEWELS.

by ALAN WATKINS

his the rogal relatives were still Then there are visits abroad.,

important, They could still do Think, people say, of the great brothers the Queen's consent something useful.

success Princess Alexandra had when, she visited Australia last must be given if they want to

year. get married.

Misery and poverty provided an opportunity. The Queen's relatives could interest them selves in boys clubs, in guilds Now is all this fair? And is it for the redemption of fallen necessary?

women. They could develop a social conscience.

about what most people feel

They feel alightly disappoint.

Löndun Express Service.

freedom to lead them they wish

It is not too much to sale, ed because the visit has not "It is something that is given to every other young man in the been made by the Queen of country.

Prince

Princess

Margaret.

Philip

or

Now why should this be? Why should there be this dreary inevitabi- lity with, which the Queen's re- latives even though they have 110 real chance of suc- ceeding to the Throne - do a short stint in the Ardly OF Navy, and then In the past, no doubt, the settle down to Sovereign's relativen were very But today in the Welfare important. The high death-rate State, "social work has a and the risk of assassination slightly bedraggled look about gave them much more chance it. What remains to be done of succeeding to the Throne, in this field. is, a matter for

experts, Not for titled Indies Finally, there are all those devotion which they give to the bearing bowls of cheap and mmor vistis in Britain itself. The Queen and her family.

soup.

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For in Britain the Royal half dozen people as where it Family means the Queen, her concerns half a million,

London, Kxpress-Surblés). Of course, Princess Aleandra mother, her husband, her sister, did wonderfully. But would her and her children. No one else success have been so great if she counts, had been a middle-aged duke. instead of an attractive young -girl-making her first-official-trip

abroad??

visits

Disappointed

to the hospitals, 10

Class apart

The British people respect the Queen's more distant relatives. They do not give them the

the new university buildings, to So Is there any justification They wielded considerable "So what is left? Stripped of the regimental depots, to the for forcing the royal relatives political influence. On visita any vestiges of political in-

to be a class · aport? .There is abroad, they

Yootball matches. What good do could make or fluence, bereft of the oppor-

Lone at all. tunity to do social work. what these visits do? *;. can the royal relatives do?

break alliances.

In many ways, they performed. the functions that Government;- Ministers perform today. The | Sovereign and the Government were perfectly right to have an interest in the way they spent their lives.

Even when the reign of Queen

| Victoria brought more stability,

After he leaves Cambridge Certainly the Duke

Prince William should be allow Well, it is said, they can Gloucester works hard at themed to do exactly what he wants become Governors-General in in his unobtrusive way. But no to do. Prince Michael ought the Commonwealth, Bat do one could say that he adds any not to be forced into a job just the Commonwealth countries lustre to the British Crown.

want them? All the signs are. "that they do not. Rightly, "they" "mach", prefer men whe have lived all their lives in the country concerned."

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