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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18,

1936.

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How

SPARE

Banks

Your

MOMENT

Handle Valuables

ANY bank customers make use of their bank's strong rooms to safe- guard valuables.

Gold plate, jewels, deads, bonds, and family heirlooms remain in the vaults for years. The banks must hold valuables worth hundreds of millions of pounds.

In taking charge of a box or partel a banker aska no question about its contents. A seated packet to him is n sealed packet and nothing more. That all that he will acknowledge having received. He will not give a receipt for, say, a diamond necklace,

As a further safeguard every páreel must be sealed in a distinguishable manner by the person depositing I

Owners don't forget

There is a widespread idea that banks have come into treat fortunes by taking possession of the treasures that have been deposited with them for safe keeping, and then forgotten by their owners.

foxes lle in banks for many years without being claimed, but their whereabouts are nearly alwayn known to their owners, it is no uncommon thing for a box to

be claimed after a lapse of 60 or 70 years.

Articles of value left at the bank by a rain during his lifetime will in all probability he claimed by the execu» tors after the depositor's death.

has been suggested that banks should údvertine when boxes have been unclntined for a number of years, but it is generally felt that this would be indivisable and would constitute a breach of confidence.

The public to-day have the greatest faith in the absolute

secrecy which the banks muintain, and they know that their banking transactions will never be re- vealed.

It happens occasionally that netian bas to be taken, Some time ago a box deposited with a bank began to emit objectionable fumes, All efforts to get in touch with the owner falled, and the box was therefore broken open. It was found to contain a mass of chemicals.

Later it transpired flint the owner was in prison, but

the averet of the chemicals was never known,

A few years ago it was revealed

during the poller court proceedings

that a draft trafficker had discover-

ed a secure hiding place for his cocaine. He made it up into neat ittle packets and deposited them with his bank in Edgware Road.

Sentimental value

Many of the unclaimed boxes contain papers of sent!- doubilean mental interest only, such as personal letters. Others, no doubi, ure empty, į and have been left at the bank owing] to the owner's Intention of redeposit- ing articles in them.

“I think I'll wake him up bor you. He gets mad and as the cutest Things”

Piano makes hands

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Do you know, what 'makes a graceful hand?

Flexibility.

Your hands may be large, hunt-fingered, and wide, but if they have flexibility The banks, of course, would be: only too glad to get rid of all these they can be graceful.

They must not be waved about, but used with old bazes. They occupy valuable precision and ease in one smoothly flowing line, from space, and as no charge in made for the wrist, from the elbow, or from the shoulder. their custody they are a financial loss

to the banker holding them,

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Exercises must

be practised

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AUTOGRAPH CHAMPIONS

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IWO claimants to the title of "King of Autograph-hunters" have be- tween them spent nearly 60 years obtaining the signatures of the world's most famous men.

They are the two Reginalds, Mr. Reginald Hunt, Yorkshire squire of 3,000 acres, and Mr. Reginald Bray, London business man.

While Mr. Hunt has been travelling 10,000 miles during the past 20 years making his collecilon, Mr. Bruy has sat in his Forest 10 home writing 23,000 letters. His enormous collection has been made entirely through the pust.

Special Postage Rate

He sends to many letters that the postal authorities receive his letters at a sperini halfperny rate. During the whole 37 years he has been making the collection, postage, printing, and stationery have cost him only about £130. He has never bought a signature.

Bath men have a store of clever ruses by which to obtain the signatures of the autograph-shy-that is. practically everybody whose signature is worth getting.

Mr. Dray tried many times to get the signature of Pope Plus X, but was unsuccessful until he hit on the idea of writing in Latin, when the siganture was im- mediately forthcoming.

Mr. Hunt obtained Mr. de Valera's nutograph by a somewhat unilor ritse. After having bad a number of applications refused he wrote from an accommodation address, signing himself "Patrick O'Flanagan," a good old Irish name which the President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, was unable to withstand,.

Jacob Epstein, famous sculptor, is another celebrity whose signature caused Mr. Hunt much trouble. After repeated requests he met Epstein and had the sculptor. on the point of signing.

He made the mistake, however, of mentioning that his collection of autographs totailed 2,000. Epstein would not be the 2,001st, he declared, and would not sigh. But Mr. Hunt got his signature in the end.

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be practised before proficiency is reached, have, as subsidiary blessings, the giving of grace to the arms and hands.

Royal Signatures

The first autograph in Mr. Hunt'a collection was that of Vesta Tilley, This is far the famous, stage star. from being the oldest.

Among his election of historical names are. those of Queen Anne and Queen Elizabeth, and he has a remarkable letter written by Charles II when in exile in which the King tries to borrow £100 from Parliament.

A single sheet of paper signed by kiinner 155 V. Cits collected at given by the King to the V. C.'s al the House of Lords, 15 one of his most treasured possessions.

of

Look at any beauty chart especially designed for the care of hands and you find the old five-finger exer- cises, the equally ancient and honourable wrist move- ments.

Mr. Bray has the signatures Try them on your piano, If you have one, and every Prime Minister since Lord to your progress. If you haven't a plano, get Salisbury and every past President of

are coming the United States. bne-pianos and piano playing at home back into fashion, Did you know that Chopin's lovely rippling etudes were all written to serve as five-finger

listen

exercises?

Falling a piano, do the hand and wrist exercises an idle on a table, on a window pane, anywhere in moment, and the arms-and-elbow one only when alone, or the bystanders will ask, "Is she crazy?" THIS

PHIS grace can be a natural one, though few Incidentally, as well as gaining in grace, your women are born with it, The best ways of circulation will improve. No more cold red hands, acquiring it are by rhythrafe dancing and by playing chilblains and unhappy tendency to rheumatics. These exercises, if done properly, withou; straining, have been In both arts the techulen! exercises, which must known to help, even advanced conditions of arthritis.

the piano.

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stretch your little finger as far as it For flexibility of the fingers can go. and centre spread of the hand.

"Attacking from the wrist": Hold the wrist firm, pull the hand back, letting it fall again shoply, to loosen the many tight muscles round the wrist bones.

the dog": Hold the "Walking wrist firm against a flat surface, such as the edge of the keyboard, and move each finger separately, trying to next finger it reach the top of the possible. This is an annoying exer- Cise unless you ure an expert, especially when you use the third: and fourth fingers Try it and see.

"Using the wrist as a pivot": This has to be done away from the keyboard. It is Just what its name Implies. Rest your elbow table and turn the hand round in n complete circle, using the wrist as a pivot. Marvelloun

for rheumatic wrists.

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Swing the arm in circles "Throwing your

away": This is fun, but needs room. Start by swinging the arm in a complete circle from the shoulder: gradually and smoothly transfer the pivot from shoulder down the arm to elbow and down to wrist, letting the motion continue off into space at the end of

? What would

Tm

you do?

THREE intimate friends, who for many years have been on the best of terms bath with cach other and with you, have spent the afternoon at your house, playing bridge. When tidying up after they have left you find on the floor under the bridge table a 21 Bank note, which you are certain does not belong to you.

Assuming that one of your friends dropped it when "settling up" at the end of the gaine you sit down and write a note to each one of thein, asking it it is hers. By return of post you receive letters from all three. each one claiming the note as her property. and asking you to send it back to her.

What should you do? Two of your friends are dis- honest and one is innocent, hul

deter you have no means of

rightful mining

which is the

If you tell owner of the note. then what has happened the chances are that they will never speak to each other, or to you, again, and the friendship which has endured for so many years will collapse,

On the other hand, if you de elife, for de sake of perpetuating the friendship, to say nothing. you must send a Bank note to all Thana, dve vau yourself will be the poorer by £2.

In

either event you will be haunted by a doubt.

In olden daies

·

the fingers, ending with the hand.If you got into trouble with the

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