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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THE PROTECTION. OF VINTAGES.

NEW LAW OPERATING IN FRANCE.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1927.

LOVE AND ENOUGH.

FLIRTS AND MEN WITH AFAST."

The Abbe Violet, a well-known" parish priest in Paris, and a social reformer, has just issued with ecclesiastical authority, a handbook on love and marriage which has caused a big stir (saya a Paris correspondent of the Daily News.)

WHISTLING WINE BOTTLE.

LONDON'S JOLLIEST OF MUSEUMS.

SOILS AND QUALITIES. ·

TEMPERANCE FLASK. It la not venerally realised how

A wine bottle that whistles for comparatively recent is the taste

more when empty is preserved in for vintage wines, and, with the

London's Jolliest museum, the taste, the study of the subtle The Abbe's outspoken language collection of wine-containers causes which make the wine is the more welcomed by people showing the evolution of the pre- grown from the grapse in one interested in social reform be- sent-day wine bottle, at the Wine plot of ground infinitely better cause the subjects he handles are Trade Club, Lloyd's-avenue, E.C. than that which comes from an-usually looked upon as unsuited It is the most interesting of all other plot only a few yards away, to public discussion in France. the bottles,"some huge and grim writes the Paris correspondent of Many disadvantages, it is felt, looking, others plump and jovial, น London paper. The accom- result from that silence.

many made in comical caricatures panying study of the proper condi- The Abbe declares bluntly that of well-known people, which tions for keeping and maturing love is not enough to ensure the are to be found in the col- wines is alan not so old as many success of matrimony. Marriage Jection.

When B press To

people suppose. Our grand-he asserts, is likely to be a failure porter looked round the other fathers Interested themselves in unless the contracting parties day he found the whistling bottle these things, but it must not be possoss the moral qualities which in a mood to whistle. It consiste suppose that if the debased habit guide their hearts and Intelll- of two porcelain bottles-round- ef cocktails is ruining the palates gences towards the same commoned vory much like a Chianti bottle of our sona for the subleties of ideal.

-connected at the base by a por- the taste of wine- as for those of Qualitles needed to make a celain tube. When the Peruvians, food, this finer appreciation as happy union, he states, are the who once used it, blew into one far, at least, as wine is concerned fruit of a long effort and of a neck, the other neck whistled a goes very far back. No doubt great patience, a view which leads shrill, piercing note if the con- cur great-grandfathers knew port him to reject the theory of love nexion tube was empty of wine. from claret and could tell good at first sight.

The plain, non-freakish bottles wine from bad; but quantity to them was more than quality.

To people who complain that show how our knowledge of how marriage frequently degenerates to handle wines has grown. When

It was hardly until our grand-into slavery, he replies that the in-the value of the laying down of fathers' time that vintage years stitution itself is not at fault, but wine became appreciated, con- began to be distinguished one that lack of preparation on thetainers became less squat and From another, and even our grandpart of most married couples is more elongated until the present fathers were only just beginning the cause.

to know the different vineyards

Beware of Flirts.

bottle WAB evolved, ideal for laying down and yet handy to and their names. It was not be- He denounces the theory that stand on the table when wanted. fore 1855 that the first official young men who have been notori- Like a Woman's Handbag. classification of the "bons crus" ous "sowers of wild 'oals" often

There is a Roman wine jug, of the Bordelais was made. As for turn out the best husbands: Here, found in Southwards, and an old the carefully chosen succession too, experience, he says, reveals leather bottle, not at all unlike of white and red wines, of Vouv-the reverse to be true. He warns a woman's handbag, used in the rays, Bordeaux, and Bourgognea, women against men with a "past." 16th century. to each of which a modern French The Abbe urges young people to It was so important to keep up host will fit its appropriate and as marry within the same social appearances in the old days that carefully chosen dish of cookery, sphere, not from snobbish rea-one realises why what is ostensi that is an art which belongs alsons, but because differences in bly little handbook on temper- most to our time alone. Brillat-education and manners often marance is a disguised form of a Savarin condemned the acccm-happiness.

woman's brandy flask.

paniment of good. cooking by Young men, he further says, Even the present age produces medicere wine, but he regarded.) should beware of marrying firts. interesting wine containers. wine as no more thah an acces-"They are eternally occupied with There is one huge bottle showA sory of good food, and his book the powder puff and the lipstick." which a City man filled with port tells us little or nothing of vint-He urges young women, on the when his daughter was born and ages and vintage years.

other hand, to have inquiries made which was "cracked" on her 21st The Famous Vineyards. by discreet third parties into the birthday a few years ago.

who pro- Other interesting objects of the wine trado are shown. There are

On the vexed question of birth things that look like goblets of control the Abbe's wisdom does silver, but actually they are used not desert him. He accepts the so that experts can tell the true normal Catholic view on this ques colour of the wine against the tion, but is ready to admit the highly polished bottom. enormous difficulties which invest the problem. He agrees, more over, that many people limit families from high motives.

It is on the sunny slopes be-past of the young men tween the rocky hill-tops and the pose to them. valley that the vineyards which have become" world-famous are to be found, and so small are they that they recall the story that Correggio is known to have paint- ed thirty-seven pictures in all, of which forty-nine are in America. It seems incredible that all the wine to which restaurants give such-and-such a name. on their lists can have come from such a tiny place. And yet, a very little further away, the quality is no longer the same. There is something in the flinty and stony soil which gives the wine a taste impossible to find in the product of richer land lower down.

There are little, glass pipes filled wth air and hermetically sealed. Each bears a number. They were used for testing the number of degrees under proof. They were their dropped in one by one,

and Soussags; while, of course, power to just float being looked nothing can be called Chateau for. The chosen pipette bore the Margaux unless it comes from the number that was the proof figure, vineyard belonging to the chateau sought for:

in the village of that name.

The New Law,

The law of 1919 left a loophole. future a list will be established In recent years the French Go- however. As all the wine made in each area of the vineyards Ivernment has been taking steps from grapes grown in a certain which, according to "des usages to prevent the unwarrantable use

鼈 certain locaux

loyaux et constants."

of the names of the famous vine area could be given

yards. In 1919 it passed a law name, land within that area, but should be allowed to use the title; which gave geographical limits to quite unsuitable to the produce and all others will be dis- the areas whose, wines were en-tion of grapes was planted by qualified.

titled to

use

certain names. unscrupulous person, and, once However, I doubt whether it will Thus, nothing may truly be called more, inferior wine has been given be possible to give a guarantee Margaux unless it comes fron & famous label. To fill that loop- of the origin. of the bottle of Mar- one of the five communes of Mar-hole a new law has just been gaux which you will buy in a

in force. In public-house in England. gaux, Assac, Cantenac, Labarde, passed, and is now

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