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TS LAZINESS A DISEASE!

AN EABY METHOD OF OVERCOMING LASSITUDE.

Sir Joseph Fayrer, in bis book, "The Preservation of Life in India," points out that the "exposure to the direct solar heat or to a high tempemfare in the shade may induce heat exhaustion, ardent fever, and other evils of a moro insidious character, by injuring the zer vous system, increasing irritability, depressing vital energy, and affecting the internal organs, especially the livor."

Lazy" is the spithet which those who are highly endowed with vitality invariably apply to those who exhibit the symptoms of the envi and overmastering disinclination to exertion.

Lazy is, however, the one thing they are not. How far their condition is one to a draining

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRFS8, TUESD`Y JUNE 2770, 1911,

THE CORONATION CROWNS.

There are many crowns in the regalia of England, each with its individual history and guidando. Chief of them all is the Imperial Crown, symbol and tokon of the King's estate and of the power of England. It is this which was placed upon King George's brow in the solemn sorvies of the Coronation. This is the visible, material realisation of Wordsworth's vision of the Crown by trouton shaped to gird an English Sovereign's brow."

The name of the Imperial Crown can be

jadrantage. Mostra Garrard were called in to advise, and it was entrusted to them for reunting. The work was dono a: their premises, and the great Duke of Wellington out the first cut. The lask "coupled thirty-eight days of isolve hours, and the weight of the stone was reduced from 181 1-16 to 106 1. 0 onrate."

About the Mountain of Tight," as about many other famous jewels, legends have gathered thick. Ono doslares that, though it many have brought ill-fortune to men, no woman bes Brer it worn it and suffered. So, with auspicious owens, will shine above the brow of Queen Mary. This is a sedond tradition, which makes it peon- liliarly apt that it should be borno in har crown. She is the first Queen of England who known the peoples of India in their own homes. She will be the first Queen of England to wear the Koh-i-Nur at her Coronation. And the legend doclsres that "who holds the Kohi-i-Nar When Queen Mary visited India sho said that she came to see as much as possible of my India sisters, for I believe that the more I see of the reality of your lives, the more I shall admire and esteem the high quali- ties for which the Indian woman is recowned. It is that spirit in those who wield the Empire of England which gives power to the charm of the Koh-i-Nur. She who holds the "Mountain of Light" will hold the hearts of the people of Indik.

holda India.'

Leaving out of consideration the serious conditions which are sufficient to prevent the sufferer attending to his duties, we are, never.tracod for away into the gathering darkness over trodden the soil of India, and theless, brought sharply up when we consider of the past. The Imperial Crown which King the importance of depressed vital energy whist George now wears is not yet a hundred years old, manifests itself in a feeling of Jangour and reluctance to undertake anything involving Its present form, indeed, which the Crown either mental or physical activity.

jewellers, Messrs. Gurrand, 'reccatly ozhibited, says a London paper, hes not boon barns upon the head of any previous King. In its front is sot a magnificent jewel, which was not in King Edward's crown, the Callinan diamond, the Star of Aftios." This takes the place of the great broad spread" sapphire, which is now placed at the bek The Crown has also been altered to the se necesary for King Geoge. In all else its the same as that with which

Edward was invested, anchanged the Imperial Crown wrested, a man in fron for Queen Victoria a glorions galaxy of emerald, roge sapphire and ruby and

table diamonds and bril- diamonds and

Rat is Maltake liants and great pearls, crosses sad fleurs de lis, and arches of oak leaves and acorns, roses and thistles, and shamrocks. It boasts some 3,000 diamonds and 300 pearls.

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of the phosphorus which, as Imfessor Tunnicliffe, of King's College, London, has pointed ont, it is almost certain has a esse tial importance for the life of the call and for the bio-chemical processes going on within it has ind. That there is reason for supposing that it is dno to this cause is proved by the fact that people who are languid and incapable of much exertion derive benefit from taking raits of phosphorus, in the same way as do sufferers from conditions in which these phosphorus salts are nearly always deficient in the body.

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For lack of energy, which involves physical

The ancient regalia of England suffered and dobility, "the best and most readily similable food is a combination of cascia with glycero-huroc in the days of the Commonwealth. A new phospates," as Dr. D. B. Jones has written in a Crown was made for Charles II, which that papor, an abstract of which was published in the amazing Irish swashbuckler, who afterwards Indian Medical Gazette" some little time age. turned Quaker, Colonel Thomas Blond, ciod to steal. The arches of the present Imperial For some years past he has obtained this com THIS WONDERFUL, SYPHON bilion in Sanatogen, which, as most people Crown are those which Sir Robert Vizor made now know, is a chemical combination of the pars for Charles II, and which Captain Beekman. cazain or body-building element of milk with wrenched from beneath Bicod's cloak on the

wharf. "It was a gailent attempt, however an of sodium. The phosphorus glycero-phosphate in this wonderfully invigorating and revitalising successful. It was for u Crown, quoth the proporation is in exactly the same farm us that villain of the picoe. in which it is found in the general condition. Moreover, as that distinguished physican, Sir William Gowers, has pointed out, phosphorus notably increases the proportion of the red cells in the blood.

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SIL GILBERT PARKER'S ADVICE.

This restoration of energy by means of Sanat ogen ben barn attested by many thousands of people, both in the troples and in England. This striking statement on the subject is made by Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P.: "I have used Sanatogen at interrals since lost autumn with extraordinary benelit. It is, to my mind, a true food tonis, feading the nerves, increasing the energy, and giring fresh vigour to the over- worked body and mind."

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In 1838 the nrobes, with jeweis taken from other old crowns and more "furnished by mand of her Majesty Queen Victoria, were used to make the crown of the modern Empire. The sapphire in the ardes at the summit was borns by Edward the Coufessor in his ring, The huge unout "spinel" raby in the front, in the centre of a Maltese cross of diamonds, beare of Edward the Black Princo. Ta the the name fourteenth century it lay in the treasury of the King of Granada. Thither it came, doubtless with the Moore, and what a history lies behind it in the immemorial East, we can only Pedro the Crno! murdared the King of Granada for his jewels. When he was in trouble with the rivalry of his illegiti. mate brother, Henry, he called the Black Prince to his aid, anul after the English archers had wo won for him the battle of Najera, have the ruby to the English Prince. From hi A passed to the Crown jewels of England, and ry V wore it in his helmet at the great fight of ruby is piercet and the apper part of the After the fashion of the Fest, the Agincourt.

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LONDON THE CENTRE.

THE COMMERCIAL LODESTONE OF THE METROPOLIS.

pra-omisones of London as the commercial metropolis of the world is emphosised in a highly interesting ortiele by Mr. James II, Collins in the Philadelphia Saturday Epening Port, a paper which enjoys the record circula tion of two millions.

Mr. Calling, one of the foremost of America's Co ecial expert, and a keen observer of the dioderu development of commerce in all its phases, recently completed an extended study tour through Europe, and his conclu- eious are embodied in a varies of articles which havo an appealing interest to all classes of English bueines mon, without distinction. If an American houso solla a lot of moned goods to Timbuctoo, says Mr. Collins, the money is morally artain to come through London. If it bays in from the Malay States payment is male through Louden. When any country in the world on joys good times it sonds la London to daauce its enterprises. When times out: aro.bad it calls londly on Landon to help it Products of farm, ranges and mines are no toon- er ready for market than they begin moving to ward London as though there were some enor- nous magnet there ander the soft-coal vapour- as there is. Investigate any fundaoutal de- vice of modern commerce and it will invariably be found with its roots in London.

Brokerage, insurance, shipping, the post-office and the railway, the metern corporation, with its stocks and bonds, and the stock exchange tint handles tacm-all ran directly to London. Most of them can be traced back beyond the dawn of history in their rudimentary forma; but it was London that made them practical, working institutions.

of coloured paper, the bukebeque, for example, That familiar, uuregarded, and wonderful slip had ite counterpart in bills of exchange amung the ancient Greeks, but it remained for Londra to develop cheques into the clearing-house Bye- tem. Every nation that has come into compe- tition with London in the past contury has copied and adapted her commercial maskinery; and wherever a nation reveals shortcomings as do Frases, with its lack of clieque facilities

The broad-spread sapphire, now at the back of the crown, has also its romantic history. It His accurate definition of Baastogen's was bequeathed by the last of the ill-fated power to increase the energy and give Stuart line, Houry, Cardinal York, to the fresh vigour 10 the overworked body Prince Regent, afterwards George IV, by that and mind onDnot fail to make a notable last dignified act, worthy of the best quality of appeal to all residents in China who are the Stuart tempor, which acknowledged the so prone to suffer from these conditions Hanoverian dynasty as the lawful heirs of the which Aro begotten by the nervating majesty of England. It had been among the the defect on commonly be laid to the fact plimate. By revitalising the blood and impregalia of the last Stuart kings, and when that London has not been copied faithfully ing its quality, as well as by increasing the tone James II. fied in took it, with others of the crown songk. and strength of the whole nervous system and jewels, to France. Through all the de-perate the general bodily functions, Sanatogen will efforts, through all the miserable ponury also incranes their stock of health, and make their exile, the Stuart princes held those jewels them better than they have ever fell in their sacred. They could not be sold for any life, for that is the camion experience of those dividual's aid. They were the inheritance of who take the preparation.

the King of England. So, when it was plain Sanalogon bas the unqusliked written that no Sturrt world ever again reign in endorsement of more than 13,000 doctors, among England, back to the English regalia they were whom are the physicians to ten crowned leads sent. The Stuarts might be work and selish of Europe, including Dr. Ott, who was for and fantastic and bliad, but at their wordt they many years his into Majesty's physicist at were royal.

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With the sapphires and the raby it is the romance of far-off tights and dim glory and forgotten loyalty. To the Star of Africa" which shines in the forefront of the Imperial Crown belongs the romance of the New World,

in Chira, will be sent, free, on application, the modem Empire of free Dominions all round mentioning the "HONGKONG DAILY PREES." the world united by "one flag, one fleet, one throne." The Callinso diamond is the rigible

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Mich of London's machinery, indeed, is etrango, to Londoners themselves. London has beel trading. trans-shipping, broking, and clearing proposition from the year one:

10 Messrs. A. 3. WATSOx & Co., Hongkong of the loyality sprung from the strickens, peers and Parliament loom large; but

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fields of South Africa. When last the Imperial Crown was placed upon the head of an English king it bore no Star of Africa" The flames of-war had but just faded out upon the velit. Now the general of the Boer armies is in Eng land as the Prime Minister of the new Britain Beyond the Seas; a free, naited South Africa, one in loyalty to the Empire, and the King will wear in his Imperial Crown South Africa's splendid gift.

THE QUEEN'S CROWN.

To the reader of English history, kings and political London is really the merest upstart beside commercial London. It enne long after bread was established; and has always been kept ontside commercial London proper, in Wast mirater.

If the American tourist happens to walk along Fleet-Street on a fortunate day he may witness the time-honoured ceremony of the Lord Mayor mesting the King at the old site of Temple Bor and escorting his Majesty from the compara tively new political Loadou into that very old commercial London which is known as "the City."

THE SQUARE MILE. .'

The City might be compared to the Wall Street district in New York. It contains the banks, exchanges, and commercial machinery of the British Metropolis. The orginal esttlement of traders was made upon its site, and for long it was a walled town. To-day, though bat

For two centurias and a half, at every Care nation since Charles II came Imck to his throne, a new crown has been made for the Queen. This procedent has been followed for Queen Mary. The Queen's Crown, which Messrs. Garrard bave designed and made, is to g the Imperial Crows what a spring day is to summer, or down to the full splendoure of noon, It has no jewels bet diamonds, and the dia a square milo in area, it is a county to itself, monds cluster together as if they had no sup: retains its own government of merchants, and port but their own light. It is all delicacy and has its ancient charters and privileges, granted grace. The splendeur of it is dazzling, but by a long succession of kings in return for loaus there is nothing of solidity, no heaviness of mone in its brilliance. The diamond arches rise from the circlet of diamonds tapering daintily to the point at which they anite beneath the diamond crb and

Altogether, with the cap of violet velvet and its ermine edge, the weight is 1968 than 19oz.. which ja about one-third of the corn and go by railroad, exceeds twenty bil- weight of the Imperial Crown.

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Above the circles are roses and crosses of diamonds and then another band. Then again, as heraldry ordains, are crosses and fleurs de lie from which spring eight prehtes to support Nearly half the imports and exports of the the orb and cross. In the centre, stove the British Isles pass through London. A vast brow, is set the famous Koh-i-Nur. No proportion of the goods made in England's busy jewel in the world has such a history as this. Northern counties go down to London to be The authentic history of it goes six centuries sold and shipped and financed. From all over back, and tradition stretches for beyond. In the world come raw materials and manufactares 1304 it was won by Ali-ed-din from the Rajah to be passed through the enormous, staatio, of Malwa, in whose family it had been for silent sorting and adjusting machine that is generations. Two centuries later it was in the London.

hands of the Mogals. Aurangzebe used it as Last come John Bull's foreign investments; one of the eyes of the peacock adorning his for, in addition to his purchases of geods each famous throne. By conquest and trick and he sends abroad hundreds of millions of tragedy it passed from prines to prince till it dollars to develop railroads, wines, plantations, lay in the treasury of the great Sikh, Ranjit and fastories, and to francs foroign Govern- Singh. When the Punich was aurexed, it ments and cities. He has been sending tens of Lord Dalhousie sent it to Queen Victoris. came into the banda of Jobu Lawrence, and millions of dollars abroad each year for two

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