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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY AUGUST 20 1010

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WHY PEOPLE ARE SUPER- "STI POUS,

ESQUIRES"; WHO AND WHA

QUAINT ORIGINS OF FEARS AND SHUDDERE.

Few there are of us who have not thrilled: "The true origin of superstition is to be with, pride on the traipt of our Arne latter found in sarly man's effort to explain mature addressed to us as William Smith, Esq. or and bis own existence, in the desire to propias the case may be. Again, many men regard giate fate and invite forlove; in the wish to a letter addressed to them as a more ♥ Mr.” në avold, evils he could not understand; and in nothing short of a personel afhout. Yet How the unavoidable.atter pt to pry late the future." many of these have ever asked them wel v

Thus, in ons senience, Mr. T. Sharper what might be the grounds of their insistance Knowlson expiates the whole theory of the on being included amongst” those who should subject he has chosen for his latest book, be termed "Esquire, or even the sigulácance "The Origin of Popular. Superstitions." He of the term? (ta goes on in the most readable and Interesting, way in the world to trace back all our old superstitions costoms, and our ideas about divinations and omen of all sorts to their

source.

Why do we give and wear engagemont ringe-hose of us who couit, and are courted? Because rings bava figured in pra- marriage rites from remote antiqully, though the old custom was for engaged people to ex change rings. As to why or when men refered to wear engagement rings, there is no informa tion; possibly the reason is man's natural aversion to signs of bondage, and kis equally natural desire to hold women lo bondage.

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It should be premised that no estatu how. ever large confar this rank upon its owner. There is no notion more prevalent than the possession of a certain amount of property la

the one and only qualification needed in order to be au esquire, nor lu any idea more are romeous.

French word dcuyer (s shield "bearer), and The thile "alquire” is derived from the

originated in the old days of chivalry, whes, 43 is well known, each keight appointed one or more parsons of goutle birth to carry kls' ablald' and perform other honourable services. Thosa persons ware known ne squires, or more ac- Man has forlishly grown shy of another good curately, enquires, and ware -of such birth as old custom-be kissing of the bride. The case would permit of their being, in their turn, creat tom goes back to the Roman'; it was com-

|ad knights,' when they, should heva merited

the distinction by deeds of valour or otherwise," seems a thonssod plitas li should now be ́dy. In the reign of Richard 11, the status of an lng. The wedding-ring also has a beathan esquire was granted for the first time, by Istiere Tenders will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be "origin, ap on this account it came very near to patent, as a title of ibonoor marely, no daties guaranteed.

belog abolished in the days of stern o'd Crom- being attached. »Thịs'm sthod of created is now wall, Tobal-Cain, the story goes, made the obsolete, but it marks an advanced stage in the The curf

4 of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with tha! | first wedding-ring, and the idea in his mind is decay of chivalry, which decay resulted in the đị of any port in the world,

thus expressed in an old treatise ¡a" The form | titles "knight" and "osquire" becoming of the ring being circular, that is round and | wholly honorary,

Steam Launcher of Himal or Wood, Lighters, Steel Buildings and Roots, Bridge monly observed lu the Middle Ages, and it Work, nad all kinds of Machinery are made on the premises, :-

A large mooring basin is avaliable alongside our own works for mooring vansels whilst that their mutual love and hearty affection At the present day we can see some trace of

under repairs.

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should roundly flow from the one to the other the origin of the title in that avery newly-creat« as in a circle, and that castlesally and fored Knight Commander of the Bath (K.0.B.) ever,"

A SHOE FOR LUCK.

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has the right to nominate three esquitas on hia" Installation. Again, younger sons of peers Why do we throw a shoe at the departing and barónsts and eldest sons of knights and bride and bridegroom? Possibly because the their heire in perpetuity aro osquiren by birth, Jews of old confirmada sala by the giving of aor hereditary esquires. This is due to the fact shoe or sandal: "This was a testimony to that such was the class of parsons from whom [araol." In Anglo-Saxon marriages the bride's enquires were selected in the old days of father delivered her shon to the bridegroom, chivalry. It may be added that the sldest and who touched her bead with it—not too gaverely, other sons of peers, though commonly as s | let us bope-in token of his authority.

matter of courtesy, addressed in terms of pear- age, are nevertheless but aequires in thu gyen»- of the law. Thus the eldest son of the Marquis of Lansdowne is usually referred to as the Earl of Kerry; yet be in névarthafose described in | the certificate of his election to the House of

Commosa a au esquire,

MINOR ORDERS OF PRECEDENCE,

Since the decay of chivalry, there exist other means of becoming an esqaire than that of heredi ary right. Bariletars-at-law are always termed erquires. Again, all persons holding

Some of us believe that we can trace destiny in the figures of personal history—at leash this superstition is popular as a social diversion. It goes back to Fyth,goras, and certainly the system is inte esting. Take Nipoleon 111, He was born in 1868, assumed the Empire is 1851, and lost the Empire in ifóg. · Adá ± +8 +0 +8 to 1852, and the fatefull date, 1800, results The Empress Eugenie was born in 1826, and. married to the Emperor ja 1853-the numerals added together in each ciss, and then added respectively to 1857, yield again the fateful dote, 1960. Corresponding dates and events in

an office of trust ander the Grown, and describ- the life of Louis Philippe give as curioused in their commissions of appointment an propbatical results...

esquires, attain to the dignity of an esquire" When they break mirrors, superstitions folk Examples of such persons are Justices of the budder-It is an ill-starred omen. Biore the Peace, Recorders of Boroughs, Mayon, mem- reason. In simple-looking glasses have always bers of Parliament, ad civil servants of the been used in divinations, and to break one is more important grades. We may conclude our to break the means of knowing the will of the last by adding foreign noblemen for the law | gods. When Napoleon broke the glass of Jose of England does not recoguise any foreign tive,

phine's portrait ba naver rested until a courier, but ranks its boater an au esquirs. whom he despatched at hot haste, assured him her death on his mind: of bar safely, so strong was the impression of

SPILT SALT.

Bome of us shiver when wo spifl salt Salt was an element in the old sciláciat zity of the Greeks

and Komina-and 159 door, and salt ware offered to propitiale tbo wrath of infernal gods; hence po doubt arose the idea that to spill the peace offering meant bad luck. Then, again, pali was the symbol of friendìbip, and if you upset the suit you broke friendship's bonds, The oid idea was that by throwing spilt salt over, the left shoulder, one appeased the devil. In da Vinci's picture of the Last Supper, Judas is | shown overturning the silt, and this may have

given new life to the superstition.

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The Scperforms will also be most grateful OF ANT FAPER, 21 old ENTELOTEE to be unade. Fate Looks for iko Calidren of the Poor Schools, who sta daught by the flaternj

More than one Hagering superstition is re ferred to lo these Shakespearian lives:-

The owl sbrick'd at sby birth, an evil'iga The night crow cry'd, aboding luckless

times

Dogs howl'd, and hideous tempa is shook

down track.

It may now be querlad, *what algnificance attaches to the distinction of being an esquire' at the present day?" "Such advantage as amista lies in the fact that at public functions esquires lake precedence of persons who do not attala

to that rank,

Such precedence will be more readily under stood by the enumeration, le order, of the ranks more Immediately precoding and following the. esquire.

Buch ranks arei

Barogels' younger sons, kolghts' youngar sras, colonels, King's counsel, doctors of the three larued professions, esquires, gentleman, yeomen, tradesmen, artisans, labourers.

Again, esquires are described as such in offi. clal documents or proceedings, and no one le usually so described unless he had a primă frcle right to such a description. One'whose status is doubtful is mually described as a gentleman, hence the latter class can hardly ba said to bear much legal significance. How ever, the distinction is at the present time small. For the number of esquires is vast The owl was reckoned a most abominable and perpetually increases and it is often and unlucky bird. One was seen once is the a matter of great difficulty for the hare Capital at Rome, and the whole city underwent ditary aequire to prove his title, Again, a lustration or hum'flation to avert the threath democratic character of the age which tepad evil. The bowling of dogs without tanda to mialmiss the, Importance of arms Apparent cause meant ill-fuck for those newly the higher grade of nobility, is likely to pay born or death for the aged. An old writer ban scant heed to the claims of this lower gråda; it: "Old and unaccountable as it may seem, that the term “arquira” comes to be applied thors agimals scent death, even before it faizes, as a matter of courtesy to all but there in the. a person." Horses have often been reported to humb'est spheres of the 'community. It' to-in tremble when near dead bumen bodies, though | the rural districia alono, where the tradiționa the bodies were invisible. We have season to of Mewis England are something more than a think that dogs and horses have a sensitivanEsa mere memory; that those who take the leading —as for coming storms-unknown to man, part is the government of the shiren arò com. This was noticed of old, hence the idea that the mnly referred to as “* "quire." These men are distressful kowling of dogs prasaged death, In the main the descend∙nts of the old knights and enquire of the days of chivalry, and it is Black cale are for lock. Prince Ranjitsinghi,|| largely due to their efforts in the past that tha as we used to call him, claims that twice is greatness of England has been bulls aparth succession the timely appearance of a black In the large manufacturing centres, bhowever, cat won a county cricket match' for Sussex. | the straggle for existance amid the scream of The Idea goer bick to Egypta sacred cats, the shuttle and the roar of machinery can find The brain of a black cat was an important no place in dolly Ults for what is after all but a itam la the concoctions brewed by witches and relic of a bygons age. For those who bear the hagy,

additlan " esquite on account of public office,

BLACK CATS.

Bees foretell many fates. When the bass in ¦ ench ́`s Jostice of the Pasca or the Mayor, 'a farmer's bivas die, saperstition says he will | are respected on the ground alone that they soon be obliged to move from the farm. The ore men who have proved themselves worthy origin of this, Idan may have arisen from the to occupy poiltions of trout in the community, fact that a hive of beat rarely dias aolase the and not as members of a grade of society the season is so bad as to be disastrous to farming, significance of which has almost died out. | and after a bad season yourly tenants common, || LANCELor, Trutawney, in Pall Mall Gavette,

ly sick fortunes in fresh farma.lan

The most labumas superstition is that bad lack will come to any one who attempts to sive a. drowning you. The Ides ligare till among St Kilda iviarders, the boatmen of the Decube, sud in other places. It ardia from the thought that when a mania drowning gode bays jotended him to drown, and no wisa man would chers the gods of star. Will, S

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