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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 1971. 19762

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KNIGHTS BACHELOR. THE KING PRESCRIBES NEW INSIGNIA,

TO INDICATE RANE.

The King's decision that in future, Knights Bachelor may wear a special badge indicative of their rank and the design oficially approved for that decora- tion combine to revive pleasing medieval

memories.

IF MR. "PUSSYFOOT

SUCCEEDS.

WHAT A DRY" ENGLAND' WOULD MEAN.

A. A TRANSFORMATION, What will happen to all the browars- and publicans if Mr. Fussyfoot" Jehnson ever has his way and England follows America on to the **wator- wagon The question has often been asked ainco prohibition first became à topic of discussion, but few people ure Aaro how great is the number of peopla who would find their employment goue in a "dry," England.

Nearly 300,000 brewers, publicans, wine merchants and their employees would be

employed, and following the example of the trade" in America, would have to look for other means of earning a living.

In New York to-day, the former "wets" are doing all sorts of strange jobs. One large brewer, when the Prohibition Law was passcil, turned his brewery into a motor car factory, and with the aid of experts, taught his employees to mako cara instead of beer,

Another man opened a largo hotel, and numbers of his workers joined the city

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The Roman Knight was content with a ring to donote his status, but his medioval auccessor who so notably renewed the warlike associations of the rank wore belt, sword, and spurs to proclaim it, and took care that his spurs should be golden to distinguish him from humbler mortals who had to be content with less illustrious matal for the purpose. The wearing of a kaightly belt as such can hardly have survived the use of a fairly complete panoply of armour, as it is shown, on monumental elligies, as being usually well below the waist; consequently its display in ordinary warfare became inconvenient when the wearing of armour below. the hreast plate began to be discontinuod The golden spurs, however, lingered rather lunger, and a story is told that a gallant knight in the late war habitually wore them, as he was justly entitled to do, but, as being a modest man and un-police forca. willing to be accused of vanity or mis- But for the strangest examples it is taken for a profiteer, took the precaution necessary to go to the smaller American of having the gold electro-plated. Be this towns. There you find that many of the as it may, he, and his brother Knights incu whose businesses were "closed down" Bachelor, will now rejoice in that a griev-are now sheriffs and "booze inspectors ance of long standing has been removed and those who are wayward enough to by the King's gracious act. For, until hoard secret stocks of liquor are liable to-day, the modern Knight Bachelor has to be arrested by the very man who had no badge or symbol to mark him out formerly sorved them, or at whose hotel from loss exalted fellows on those occa.they used to spend their evenings. Ho sions when decorations are worn

Some time ago, an ex-publican applied look rank before the Companions and for a licence to trado as a baker. When Commanders of the Orders of Chivalry, asked whether he could bake bread, he' but had nothing to show for it, except replied that he could make excellent cock-! that some careful herald-painter may have tails, and there was therefore no reason andowed him with a holmet appropriate why he could not make bread. for a Knight instead of that of an Esquire In some cases, what seemed to be the over his shield of arms on a book-plate ruination of their fortunes turned out And even that was only in virtue of a to their advantage in the end. Thus one Inte ruling introduced years after helmets man who had struggled for two years to of the kind depicted had ceased to be build up a wine merchant's business ob- worn by men of any rank in war.

tained a position as a traveller when American went "dry," and did so well! So marked indeed was the association at his new work that in six months he of a decoration to be worn on the per- was better off than he has been for years. For some curious reason that is hard

P. & 0, Bank son with membership of an Order of Chivalry that in common speech the word to explain, numbers of barmen took to East Asia Bank

Order" is wrongly used to describe the cinematograph work, and after learning Caston Insuranes...... jowal of gold and enamel itself; "He was to "shoot" a film, became camera men Chins Underwriters wearing his Order" is often heard, and in film studios. Others, of course, ob- North China Insurance ...... the Knight Bachelor who did not belong tained positions as waiters in the large Union Insurance ...

Yangtze Insurance .............. to any Order, or association of knight hotels.

buy. If prohibition did away with some Uhins Fire Lusurance........3185 and other members, had in consequence nu jewel to wear. All he could do was businesses entirely, it also created at Hongkong Fire Losurance ...538 buy.

„$24) now. to take a secret pride in the fact that no least one. That is the cellarman-a new Douglases ......... man other than a Knight Bachelor can be discovery in Amerien. It is this man's HK, V. & M. Nimboats...$20 Day.

.33) nom. $20 дог. admitted into the Order of the Garter, work carefully to look after the large Hongkong Tags.......

Do (Dot.), aven if the King has to dub lim Knight private stocks of wines and spirits which Lado-Chine (Pre) immediately before his investiture with many wealthy Americans bought up at! Transporta all the panoply and ornaments, of that the eleventh hour, and see that no bottle Shell illustrious confraternity

is opened until it is fully matured. Bo Star Forras.........

Waterboats....... fore the dry," won, few Americans China Bugars troubled about more than a week's supply Malalon Sagars at a time, but now there are probably more private stocks between New York, and Frisco than in the whole of Europe Langkis (combined). The. 23 el

and mare collarmen,

Do. (single)

Tls. 124 bay.. Shanghai Explorations.......Tls, of nom.

Tia. 7 kom Shanghai Loans

$5 no Razie...

85/- nom. Urai Caspians Trench Mus

H.K&K Wharfs... H.K. & W. Docks, Hongkow New Enginearings.. Shanghai Docks.... B.K. Hotels.

WEARS ORDER.

When the matter of asking for the grant of some distinguishing badge for the Knights Bachelor was first put for Ward, suggestions were made that the wearing of a golden collar of SS would be appropriate. There is, however, some reason to believe that that collar was not at the time of its institution, considered

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So, even if the day dawns when a "double Scotch gives place to "dry gingers only, there will still be hope for those who have to put their shutters up by order."

NORMAL AND ·ABNORMAL. MEN WITH A "KINK".

[BY DR. FREDERICK QILAVES.]

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"Everybody has a kink," said famous alienist, giving evidence in mental csee recently, and a celebrated French authority has said we are all

inore or less insane.

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DLOSING QUOTATIONS.

Jusz 18, 1926. Hongkong Bank........$1,195 buy, 1,121/20 15. Do., London....£131 nom.

£20) nom. Marcantile Bank, A. & B...............£30j nom. Chartered Bank..............

DO

0......£13 m.

83 nom. $830 buy. $1.90 nom. Tls. 145 mom

Beng

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Hongkong Lands Bergkong Resitys

H.K. Territorials ....... K. Developments... Catatea... Humphreys Frito's Buildings..

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VI OSEL

197

bay.

.816 nom.

12/- 20m.

„$682 buy., 66§ m».

316 nom.

8:34

.......$11 buy.

1 bay.

„„Bf- nom.

..$129 nom.

$52) bay, de sa.

Tis. 47u buy. 180 sel-

'file. Bh buy, 6 se

Tis. lukuy

„„$10.80 Luy."

.865 bay.

352 KDM.

35 nom.

25 ots.com.

$14 buy.

$93 nom. ..87 nov. Kursi Landa

Th9jbuy & safleol. Ewa Cotions..... Orientals in

Tle 2.80 nom. Shanghai Cottons (olu)...1..53 nom. Do. (now)......Tis. 23 nom. 118. 101 boy, China Buses Hongkong. Tramwaye...$25 buy., 25..0/1⁄2 ta Peak Trams (old)..... .......$10 bay.

Do. (now).... $7 20 bay.

****** $5 O Singapore Tractions Amasomente ata Canton Icos Cementa (combined)

Do. (old) Do. (New) hire Lights (combined),

Da..

$4 sol.

to be indicative of the wearer's knightly status. Indeed the theory is gaining ground that it was worn as a livery to coration by gentlemen of the houso hold of John of Gaunt, the famous Duke of Lancaster. Strong ovidence of this con- nection between the collar of 8 S and the House of Lancastor may be found la the wording of the Act 24, Henry Vill, cap. 13, which has been relied upon by some as indicating that monarch's inten- tion to consticato the collar as a mark of knighthood from the fact that the colours of the ribbon upon which the. S S wore to be displayed were ordered to bo blue and white, the livery colours of John of Gaunt, and not the green and white of Probably they really mean that few of Many great the Tudors. It has, moreover, been us are perfectly normal. argued that the Act did not mean that people have their "kinks"; and th knights only should wear the collar in border line between genius and madness question, but that only men of the rank is sometimes perilously thin. The highly of knight and above were to be allowed wrought brain is often overstrung and to wear it in gold. If this be so, the liable to yield or sag a little in some may show it- sumptuary regulations of an age which direction. The "kink expected a man to dress in accordance self in a fad, such as kleptomania, with his rank and resented any tendency avarice, or peculiarities of diet or cloth Ta to rise above or sink below it and would ing

Many think that a person deranged is have been horrified to hear of Dakes con- tont to be the shabbiest members of their incapable of dealing effectively with any

§3 дош. cluba, would havo limited the wearing of thing,

521 buy, 52 sa. the collar of 8 8 in gold to knights and

(old)$15 buy. peora, but would have allowed esquires

(40W).........$11h buy. and other gentlemen to wear it in silver.in some directions-music, or invention.

I knew an asylum patient who played th

..$6 bay. Constructions......2.xom. collo as few of the concert virtuosi ean.

Some, lunatics have, moreover, strange Dury Fat... $19 1.

**$7 al. powers of learning and wonderful mc- Der A Winge .......... Hongkong Electrics....

..$69 sel, mories. They had a manise in Paris who

$35 buy, 40 cal. could aaswer any question put from an Macao Electrics

Do. encyclopaedia and correctly give the HK. Ropes (combined). (ald) Fot

$10 zol 10. (DOW) dates of practically every event in bis tory. There have been maay mathe- matical and other prodigies outside the Lane Omwfords......... asylums, and most of them have had their Mackintoshs..... "kinks." They were not normal, and Buceros... sometimes a long way from it-an in the United Asbestos........ case of the boy who could do staggering Watsona (old)................................. feats in calculation, yet could never wash Wm. Powells......

buybuyers; sel-sellara sa-sjog nom-nominal. or dress himself.

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.

THE NEW BADGE:

There was, therefore, according to this argument nothing definitely knightly about the Collar, and it finds no place in the design on the new badge. This shows the three unquestionably knightly sym bols, the sword, the belt, and spura ap- propriately grouped upon an oval of vormilion enamel, which is to be worn on the breast on the analogy that as it is the star worn upon the breast in addition to the badge round his neck which dis- tinguishes a member of the knightly classes of an Order of Chivalry from other members of lower degree, so it is upon the breast that the decoration of a knight who is not the member of any specific confraternity should be displayed.

It may be so with the idiot, but many a lunatic has shown astonishing abilities|

Chins Providents

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nom.

$iit bag.

..$13 nom.

$5 sol..

811 nom.

$20 nom. ..8133 nom.

From June 19th to 25th, 1920, HION WATER,

And yet there is a difference between eccentricity and insanity--though they It is orious that the rank of Kaight run each other pretty close sometime Bachelor which has now for some ten- as in the case of the learned American turios only been awarded in recognition university professor who (it is asid) of morit should so long have had no dis- rarely washed, lived on boiled ontops, tinguishing mark for display in public, could never make up his mind unaided Beoing that the golden spurs were still in on any matter, and had a distressing Vogue until comparatively few years be-habit of discarding all his garments on fore the Degree consed to be intimately hot days! William Blake, brilliant connected with the tenure of a prescribed though his achievement was in poetry amount of laud, the holder of which could and art, was never quite saDO, " be, and often was, compelled willy nilly Why is it that so often the brilliant by the King to take up his knighthood academic scholar fails in life? and pay suitable fees to the Royal Ex-psychologist will tell you that the mere Batur.

20 choquer. In other words, when knight accretion of book-learning and the deve hood could legally be thrust upon an un-lopment of the faculty, of memory counts o willing esquire he still had something for little, for memory is one of the lowest Mon. 21 to show for it besides the half of an Ex- of the cerebral functions. chequor tally, but when he was only able The test contes when the brain has to Tuos to achieve Knighthood, and the rank make its own decisions, without the sup became the reward of merit and was no port of rule or experience. Then comes Wed longer an incident of land-tenure, the the crucial tent.

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poor man could don no special oriment But, after all, it would be a dull world Thur. 247.25 indicative thereof and had to be contant it we were all turned out of one mould..

Fri 25 0 8 5 with the rescue of his Christian name from. oblivion, a privilege shared in common with the least distinguished among the

(Contintied at foot of next: Column.) hereditary baronets.

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