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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1935.

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WHAT SHOULD WE LEARN?

-Professional educators, a notori- ously argumentative tribe, have this to their credit at least, that they recognize the vast difference

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THE SAPPHIRE for

by

Cecil Hunt

supphire ring. 66/THE · Duke has chosen

声

Millions of lips have repeated

words. For those

lo-day, despite our seeming sophis tication, the ring is still the beautiful symbol of a sealed -romance. And in this instance

Lady Alice

To-morrow, the Duke of Gloucester, third son of Their Majesties the King and Queen, will be married in Westmins- ter Abbey to Lady Alice Montague-Douglas-Scott, third daughter of the late Duke and the Duchess of Buccleuch.

little more than the lowest from complete agreement as to the alibers! one. They are indeed far priced units on the market, but elements that enter into a liberal There are those who they give you far better perform-education.

that in order to achieve bellove ance, far more stamina, much liberal culture, a certain knowledge "Tower operating costs.

of vocational life is desirable, and moreover that real culture consists And the handsome, distinctive very largely in a sympathetic in- streamlined appearance of the sight into the lives of our fellow- mien, whatever their vocation or now 1935 Studebaker truck

occupation may be. There are makes it stand out from the others who think that the essence crowd. With its sleek, busi of liberal culture is in literary the betrothal is assuredly the ness-like lines

scholarship, artistic taste, scientific forerunner of such happiness is and powerful,

learning, historical lore, a philoso will warm the hearts and kindle

You see, the very countries of Sapphires are sometimes dependable engine, It is a truck | phic outlook. Moreover, Bonie the memories of lovers of every their origin are vivid with found in remarkable sizes. In you will be proud to own, a truck thing is to be said for the opinion age.

romance. In Australia, for in- Ceylon the gom has reached which inspires a feeling of pres-elements in general culture are of that mere scholarship and taste an

stance, sapphires are sometimes nearly 14 ounces in its 'natural TT is interesting to recall that found in dry creek beds. A.toss state and one superb specimen tigo that suggests a price much but little valus apart from moral

Princess Marina revealed her of a coin, a probing pick, and of 291 carats was exhibited in higher than its actual cost. character, that n liberal education

without n'moral code is a con

preference for this same stone, someone is unexpectedly the Vienna and Paris towards the tradiction in terms. Educator and a gem which in its very name richer by many gems found deep end of last century. It belonged Inyman, however, agree that in spells romance.

down in the stony sediment of a to a Count Branicki and was in general vocational education serve the glamour of the jewels, disused waterway.

the possession of the family un- · ought to help a man to earn his sapphire, emerald, amethyst,

til the Great War. own living, while a liberal educn- turquoise, aquamarine, pearl, tion should help him to understand moonstone, ruby-what a page- THE Duke in giving Lady how other people live and what ant of colour and magnificence, Alice an oval sapphire with u their lives really consist of in the

what a superb collection of baguette diamond set in plati- world at large. By this they do not wish to suggest that a liberal words whose very syllables ex- num on cach side, has un- at the time of the German pos- education means merely a study of cite the mind and fill the oye doubtedly maintained this stone session of Warsaw was his own

hip pocket. economica, but they do hold that with lovely visions! And, allied in the forefront of fashion, a to be liberally educated in to be with love, are they not the cry prominence it has enjoyed since furnished with such un intellectual stailisation of romance?

it figured in Princess Marina's and moral background as will en- Sapphires themselves can be engagement ring last year. able one to enter understandingly | other than blue; sage green ones and sympathetically Into the lives, are found in Australia,

The baguette shape is a long white oblong with square-cut edges. hopes, feara, desires, and aspira-sapphires have been discovered

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TUESDAY, NOV. 5, 1935.

CHINA CURRENCY REFORM Financial and business circles almost everywhere join in com- No. DB-946 mending the action taken by

No. DB-1538.

RICHARD CROOKS-I Love Theo (Griog) No. DA.1394

Parted (Tosti)

MICHEL FLETA—Ay, Ay, Ay, (In Spanish) No. DD-1483

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the Chinese Government with a view to placing its currency on a stable basis. By the measure of reform now announced, it is hoped to be able to keep the exchange value of the yuan at

its present level, and there ap peurs to be general agreement of the Government's ability 80 | DALMONTE TOTI-Splendon Le Sacre Faci-Lucia di Lammermoor to do. The steps now taken, No. DB-1015.coming at a moment when the China exchange market was in a state of the utmost confusion, will be welcomed as providing the promise of an end to the instability which has recently

Moreover, China's

Spargi d'amoro pianto-Lucia di Lammermoor

JOSEPH HISLOP-For Love Alone No. C-2729

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tions of one's fellow-men,

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BLUE BLOOD OF

The wedding of the Duke of

♫

Gloucester to Lady Alice Chris- SCOTLAND

In 1918 the then owner, Count Xavier, decided that the safest place for such a world treasure

Alas, the risklest place was not then the safest. The price- less jewel was stolen.

ments, was discovered in a shop in the Rue Lafayette.

The Jeweller had bought the magnificent specimen for Fes. 185,000 (then £3,425) from a Lithuanian merchant.

For three years the police of several nations searched. Noth- The Duke of York gave Lady ing was heard of it until, in of course, raises the much-debated on Vancouver Island. But the question as to the branches of loveliest blues, ranging from Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon a magni- 1921, the efforts of the Paris knowledge that are best fitted to pale tints to deepest indigo and ficent Kashmir sapphire flanked police were rewarded. secure the. results mentioned. finding perhaps their perfect by two diamonds, while the Some say that the records of the form in glorious cornflower hues, Princess Royal's ring was human race tell the story and are mind largely in Ceylon, in large Colombian emerald with THE sapphire, in many frag- hence history In the great liberaliz-Burma, and in Kashmir. ing discipline. Others declare way to understand our that the fellow-men is by means of langu- age, and therefore we had better begin with the languages and literatures of Greece and Rome: Others again are of opinion that

A bargain, perhaps, but one what a man must have at an early

that would be hard to negotiate. stage of manhood is a good theory

So, as he explained it, the jewel about life, and as soon as possible

was cut into nine largo and a settled philosophy of life. There- fore let them rend and consider the tabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott,

several smaller pieces-a sad works of great philosophers and third daughter of the late Duke from James II; Monmouth

ending to an irreplaceable gem. divines. Also there are those who of Buccleuch, provides yet an executed in 1685, and his hon-hibition at Wembley in 1924 At the British Empire Ex- remind us that the proper study other link between of mankind is man, and that In the

the Royal ours were forfeited, those of his there were sapphires as large as production of literature House and the Peerage of Scot- wife were not placed under at- plums, and one valued at £16,- grent every phase of man's nature has land, as the King's second son tainder, and on her death she 000.

een investigated and described for also chose his bride from north was succeeded by her grandson. our enlightenment.

of the Tweed. Both Lady Alice Francis, who thus became the

2nd Duke of Buccleuch. and her sister-in-law to be, tho THINKS THEM FOOLS

Duchess of York, came of large Later, in 1742, two of the Eng- While this discussion goes for families, and both are the third lish Peerages of his grandfather, ward, if it is heard by a truly hard-daughters, the Duchess of York the Barony of Scott of Tynedale

unately boiled, sharp-sighted but unfor- being the older of the two by a and the Earldom of Doncaster, short-sighted, practical little more than a year, as Lady were restored to the 2nd Duke, business-like Gradgrind of indus: Alice will not, celebrate her 34th but the Dukedom of Monmouth try or commerce, he is apt to re-birthday until Christmas Day. was withheld, possibly owing to

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mais silent, listening with an air

tempt.

was

But such gems are meaning- less, except in terms of money. without the charm of love and giving.

*

IT is certain that the sapphire which the Duke of Glouces- ter has placed upon the finger of his future bride has become immediately to them a priceless Jewel and to the countless hosts of their wellwishers another symbol of the unspoken bond that joins the King's family and his people.

As Shakespeare said:

She is mine own; And as rich in having such

a jewel

As twenty seas, if all their

sands were pearl, The water neoter, and the

rocks pure gold."

constructed at a cost of over £500,000.

of mixed bewilderment and con- The Buccleuch title ranks the fact that in the meantime an Earldom of Monmouth had He does not in fact quite second in seniority amongst the been created. The 2nd Duke know what they are talking about, Scottish Dukes, the premier was twice married, his first wife and as he believes himself to be being the Dukedom of Hamilton being a daughter of the 2nd who knows what's what, he sus-in 1643, twenty years before he had a son Francis, who-mar- particularly wide-awake person and Brandon, which was created Duke of Queensberry. By her pects that they are talking non-that of Buccleuch. The House ried the eldest daughter of the sense or else putting on airs. We can be tolerably

of Buccleuch is one of great his- 2nd Duke of Arygll, but as he sure, however, that in a world, which promises its toric interest, as the first Duke died before his father the title working population; or threatens was a natural son of King Char passed to his son Henry, who les II by Lucy Walter, and it through his grandmother sub- them with, an increasing amount of leisure, the question of liberaliz- bears the Royal Arms of "the

sequently succeeded under Д possible, than ever before. During Alice and the Duke of Glouces- dom of Queensberry, ing studies is more important,, if Merrie Monarch": both Lady special remainder to the Duke- the active period of life while our ter, therefore, have common an-

a title capacity exertion and physical ancestry in Charles I.

which had been created in 1683. This Duke occupied several positions of importance, having

Baron Scott of Buccleuch, a of the Royal Society of Edin ved to the age of 77, at the present Duke is that of Bank of Scotland, and President the Society of Antiquaries, and peerage conferred in 1606 upon burgh, to which honour he was Sir Walter Scott, who served elected in 1783, the year in time of his death being Senior with distinction in the Nether- which it received its Charter of Knight of the Garter, and the only one not made by the reign- the Prince of Incorporation, He was also Orange. This Baron Scott was Captain General of the Royal ing Sovereign. He had married is said to have risked his life Bodyguard for Scotland, an of, she was. Mistress of the Robes a descendant of John Scott, who Company of Archers, King's in 1820 Charlotte, third daught

er of the 2nd Marquess of Bath; when a buck, which was being fice which had been held by all

to Queen Victoria, hunted by one of the Scottish the subsequent Dukes, and was Kings, fell into a steep ravine or nominated a Knight of the Gar- "cleuch," by retrieving it and ter in 1794. bringing it back to the King.

(Continued on Page 5.)

He was High Steward of

abandonment of silver as the basis of her currency will once and for all dispose of any harm ful effects which the United States silver policy may have had on her export business, Much will, of course, depend on the administration of the new decrees, and the possibility of enforcing them throughout the country. Actually, for some considerable time past the Chinese Government has been operating a managed currency, with a surprising measure of success in view of the abnormal conditions prevailing. Much quiet work, in preparation for the reform, has obviously been going on behind the scenes, in which connection the presence of Sir Frederick Leith-Ross in Nanking is undoubtedly of some significance. There is no indi- now been removed, if it be con-HE oldest title held by the been a Governor of the Royal Westminster and President of cation at the moment that the ceded that the Nanking Govern British expert has been definitement will-be-able-to-enforce-its ly associated with the step decree throughout the country. taken, but it may be assumed Doubts arise on this point, and, that he was well aware of the of particular interest to Honglands under Government's Intentions and kong, is the attitude which the most likely approved of the mea-Canton Government will take on sures decided upon. It is, in fact, the question. There is also the rumoured that a sterling credit matter of uncertainty of the for the purposes of working the world situation in the present scheme has been unofficially crisis, which may make it un-

The next Duke, who was assured. Be that as it may, desirable for Hongkong to take

grand-father of the present hold- China can certainly count on the any immediate action.

er of the title, was for many A policy goodwill of all her friends in the of caution therefore appears For this he was rewarded with The 4th Duke sat in the House years M.P, for Midlothian, and long overdue measure of reform wise in the circumstances pre- the right to add "Buck's cleuch" of Commons for some years, and married Louisa, third daughter

of vailing. Bul, "If the Nanking to his name.

later was now put into, operation.

summoned to the of the 1st Duke of Abercon, and House of Lords in his father's she also was Mistress of the more immediate interest and experiment proves workable, the

His son Walter, married Mary, Baroncy as Lord Tynedale. He Robes to Queen Victoria. importalice to Hongkong is the desirability of Hongkong stabi

daughter of the 9th Earl of married his cousin Harriet, The eldest son of this mar- effects, which the reform will lising its currency will be un- have on the Colony's currency. déniable, always assuming. that Errol, hereditary Lord High youngest daughter of the first riage having died unmarried in was 1886, the second son, John Char- It is to be presumed that, in other conditions are favourable. Constable of Scotland, and was Viscount Sydney, who

les, succeeded to the title in accordance with the recommen-There will, however, be a natural created Earl of Buccleuch in Colonial Secretary when dations made by the Currency reluctance on the part of the 1619. On his death-he was suc- colonisation of New South Wales 1914. He served in both the

son Francis, was first undertaken.

Army and Navy, and was Vice- Mission some years ago, ma-Government to take any preci-ceeded by his chinery is in readiness for the pitate action, lest a false step to supporter of King Charles.

He died in Lisbon in 1819, and Lieutenant for Selkirkshire, and taking of

such appropriate taken at this critical juncture. He married Margaret, sister was succeeded by his son, who also Lord Clerk Register of action as the circumstances may The whole community would of the first and only Duke of was a Knight of the Garter and Scotland. He married in 1893 Margaret Bridgeman, not leaving any a Privy Councillor, and held of Lady necessitate. This much can, at welcome stabilisation when the Rothes, and any rate be said, that both bytime is ripe therefor, if only to male issue was succeeded by his fice in Peel's Ministry as-Lord daughter of the 4th Earl of reason of China's action and by put an end to unrestrained ex- daughter Anne. She married Privy Seal, and afterwards as Bradford, and their eldest son, the sterling level to which the change speculation, allowing on April 20, 1668, the Duke of Lord President of the Council, the present Duke who is M.P. local dollar has fallen, the task money to be diverted to more Monmouth, who also held the As Captain General of the Royal for Roxburghshire and, Selkirk- of stabilisation is simplified. beneficial purposes, and to on- titles of Earl of Doncaster and Company of Archers he carried shire, married Vreda, daughter One of the principal arguments able the business man to know Baron Scott of Tynedale, and on the gold stick at the Coronation of the late Major William Las- against stabilisation in the past where he really stands. At the the same day she and her hus- of Queen Victoria in 1838. Gran- celles. As Lady Allco's mother has been that Hongkong could moment, however, the wise band were jointly created Duke ton, the senport near Edinburgh, is a cousin of the Earl of Hare.. nothing China un-policy for Government and Duchess of Buccleuch, owes much to him, as it was wood, when she becomes Duchess LANE CRAWFORD, LTD.dertaken reform of her hud un-pppear to the Gover wait and when, wwing to the failure of owing to his munificence that of Gloucester she will be trebly

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