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Whisky has been so expensive for the last 19 years that it was beyond the poc ket of the average youth, and young men who served in the Army and Navy acquir ed a taste for drinking French white wines The recognition in the New Year and part. The result is that the bloom Honours of Lord Dundedin, who is made has gone off the whisky broking business. a Viscount, is in respect of long service. The home market has fallen steadily dur,

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in judicial and legislative apheres then and so rapidly were stocks of Intter, however, far removed from party malt whiskies accumulating that Highland for not since he was Secretary for Scot, and Lowland distillers came to an ar land has be taken any part in the ordi- rangement for a very substantial reduc- nary disputes of politicians." It is #

tion of output. Even this restriction has tribute to his professional standing that proved effectual, and bonded ware- his judgments when he was Lord Justice-

houses conain large stocks The Dia- General are, as much quoted in the Strand

tillers Company, Ltd., which is the Courts as they are in the House of Lords. largest whisky concert in the world, The Baronetcy conferred upon Sir James

closed down two of their Lowland malt Craik is well-deserved for monumenta!

distilleries and converted them into work in widening and deepening thers, and grain distillers are also re- foundations of Scottish education. He is

stricting their production. The retail the oldest member of the House, but fu

price of whisky will not be affected by activity and keenness he is unsurpassed duty parable precludes any reduction to

the presence of large stocks, as the high: by its most junior member. Sir Patrick the consumer. The cause of the present Ford, one of the new Knights, has been glac in whisky is, in the first place, the for many years closely connected with the over-production of the Highland Distil Scottish Unionist organisation, of which feries, especially the Spep-side distilleries, he is one of the honorary secretaries. He during the last four years, combined witä presented the fresco of St. Patrick which the cumulative fall in home trade over adorns the House of Commons. The new the same period. Export trade still re- Knights also include Professor Hadeon mains good, but the cause of the fall in Beare, Professor of Engineering in Edin home trade is ascribed to the younger burgh University; Mr. G. Washington generation not acquiring the whisky habit Browne, Architect, President of the Royal in the same way as their ancestors. Scottish Academy; Lord Provost font SUNDAY GOLF IN OLDEN TIMES. gomery of Glasgow, and ex-Lord Provost Meft of Aberdeen. Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King-of-Arms becomes a Knight Commander of the Royal Vic. torian Order.

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Edinburgh Burgess Golf Club came into existence in 1785, but there is in 1456, charters showing that evidence that golf was played in the city

the

Golfers Tavern " stood at Brunts- field, the original home of the Burgess Socity, in that year. Other evidence, not quite of such a reliable character, of course, golf was a recognised sport, puts the date earlier still-in 1300. But, and actively played, 500 years ago, about around Edinburgh were being cleared. the time when the great forests in and

There is reference to golf in a proclama- the effect that, the Sabbath. Day being tion by the Town Council in 1592, to the Lord's Day, it became every Chris tian to dedicate himself. to the service of God, and therefore golf was pro hibited on that day. Because of this City Council prohibits Sunday golf an relice of a bygone nge, the Edinburgh the courses under its immediate control. To-day Edinburgh golfers, who are num- bered in their thousands, make exodus from the city every Sunday. morning to those places where there is no prohibition. And the courses and links where Sunday play is permitted is growing every year. One of these in burgh Burgess Society at Cramond Brig, Barnton, the new home of the Edin- where from the high ground can be seen the wide expanses of the Firth of Forth.: The chief sufferers from this ancient edict are the artisans, who are thus debarred on their one free day of the game of the Scottish people. The re yeak from" participating in the national hedy is in their hands, though it must rooted and the barriers very formidable. be confessed that the prejudices are deep- OUR BROAD TOE BOOTS.

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The remains of a Dowager Duchess of Argyll have, according to her desire, been interred in sacred Iona, that lonely but famous iste on the West Coast of Scot land. A té steamer crept slowly out of Oban last week; and on the upper deck the dead Duchess lay, with the coffe made fast to the rail. It felt very cerie, says Dr. Norman Maclean, the Celtic blood in him stirred to its depths; and beside mé a soft voice whispered. This is Ving's funeral come again We were back again in the dim ages when the buried in Iona was the dream and the hope of the faithfal," It was a rough passage through the wintry seas. Only one of the company of mourners dared to remain on deck. It was Lady Frances Balfour, representing H.R.H. Princess Louisa, Duchess of Argyll, and she was lashed to the rail beside the coffin. Off the slip where passengers land in Iona the steamer cast anchor. The surf came rolling through the Sound, and the dif- ficulty of landing was great. A large ferry-boat with four ears, each with three rowers, came out. The wind and the tide carried it leeway, but at last the boat was made fast to the side of the rolling ship. With reverent care the body of the Duchess was lowered. At the landing all the inhabitants of the isle were waiting Chivalry and loyalty still beat warm among the Isles. A slowly winding pro- cession to the Cathedral Church the wail of the pipes rose in the air, the little com-boot toe almost square" became fashion- pany went the way of the dead, the way by which kings and chiefs were carried for hundreds of years. The islanders reverently carried the coin by relays till at last it was laid on the trestles in front of the communion table. How many kings and princes had taken their last rest just there! And there she was, the last of them, come honies There are per sons who bewail that romance is dying out from the midst of a world that has be come-commercialised. But this story of

The statisticians of the boot trade in England, I notice, have discovered, as tween the feet of men in England and they think, an essential difference be Scotland respectively. Englishmen, they toes than Scotsmen, and boot manu- conclude, have less breadth across the Thetarers have to take this into account

turning out boot patterns. There is, apparently, however, no such distinction in the case of women's shoes. I should Bay, myself, that the difference is not in the shape of feet but in masculine taste. It is years since the Scottish grouse shooting and laird class began to use broad-toed foot gear for comfort. A

able, even among City men in conse quence. An Englishman, A Frenchman, or an American, is always itruck by the squareness of Scottish toes. But it is all in the boot itself; there is no re- HEB AMBITION. BioGal difference in British toes.

The December number of The Mask, the organs of the students of the Royal Technical College, contains this bio. graphy in brief.

Of Glasgow there was an MA who neer was content for a day,

Said she,

Degrees higher

I must really equire";

So now she's a¤ MAMA.

the Duchess's last journey to the Isle of Scots Is A FAR COUNTRY. the Baiata is the proof that romance can

not die. To understand why she had a A lady residing in Los Angelos sends passion of love for, the Isles we must the following Boots stories Choral remember, the blood that was in her veins. societies still exist out here, and in a She was a MacNeill of Colonsay, one of town not far from Los Angelos there is a family that out of a rocky isle gave a prosperous one. This winter The Generals, and Judges, and Ambassadors, Elijah is being studied, and the other and soldiers who gained the greatest night, during one of the rest times, a honours to the nation and to the Empire, young, man-needless to explain, not But behind Colousay lies Barra, and there long out from Scotland-asked his at Castle Suren, the MacNeilla reigned neighbour D'ye think it's baitter on for hundreds of year, just the whole to sing it Whir-rr-ir-rrl- MARRIAGE

At 23 Victoria Place, Stirling, on 29th December, by the Rev. E. R. Jones, B.D. St Ninians Paris, Henry Robert Batters, MA (Hongkong Civil Service) only son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Butters, Riddrie, Glasgow, to Jean Whytlaw Jeffray Ban MA elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs Walter Bain, 5 Bellfield Road, Stirling..

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On 20th December Robert Hay Berry Mitchell, of Hongkong, third son of Charles Dundas Mitchell, licitor, Dun dee Interred at Newbury, Berkshire

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