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

Gold plate, jewels, deeds, 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 parcel a banker asits na A sealed packet to hira is n question about ita contents. sented pucket and nothing more. That is all that he will acknowledge having received. He will not give a receipt for, any, a diamond necklace.

As a further safeguard every parcel must be sealed in a distinguishable manner by the person depositing it,

Owners don't forget

There is a widespread Iden that banks have come into streal fortunes by lakini pozession of the treasures, thre have been deposited with then for safe keeping, and then forgotten by their owners.

Boxen lle in banks for many years without being claimed, but their whereabouts are nearly always known to their owners. It is no uncommon thing for a box to be cinimed after a lapse of 60 or 70 years,

Articles of value left at the bank by mon during hila Bfetime will in all probability be claimed by the execu torn after the depositor's death.

I lang been suggested that banke should advertise when boxes have been unclaimed for a number of years, but it in generally felt that this would be inadvisable and would constitute a breach of confidence,

The public to-day have the greatest faith in the absolute Reеrecy which the banks maintain, and they know that their banking transactions will never be re- vegled,

It happens occasionally that action has to be takes. Some time ago box deposited with a bankt began to emit objectionable fumes, All efforts to get in touch with the owner fulled, and the box was therefore broken open. It was found to contain a mass of chemicals,

Later il transpired that the owner was in prison, but

the secret of the chemicals was never known.

A few years ago it was revealed

during the police court proceedings ....

that a drug trafficker lind discover-

ed a secure hiding place for tits

He made it up into neat

deposited them

Road.

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Handle Valuables

"I think I'll wake him up for you. He gets mud and says the cutest things."

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WEDNESDAY,

NOVEMBER 18,

1936.

PAGE

AUTOGRAPH CHAMPIONS

To

WO 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. wat has been travelling 10,000 miles during the past 20 years making his collection, Mr. Bray has sat in his Forest Hill home writing 24,000 letters. This enormous collection has been made entirely through the post.

Special Postage Rate

Ile sends so many letters that the postal authorities receive his letters at a special halfpenny rate. During the whole 37 years he has been making the collection, and stationery have cost him only pustage, printing, about £139. He has never bought a signature.

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

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

Mr. Hunt obtained Mr. de Valera's autograph by a sumewhat similar ruse. After having had a number of applications refused he wrote from an accommodation address, signing himself "Patrick O'Finnagan," a' good the Executive eld Irish name which the President of Council of the Irish Free State, was unable to withstond.

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

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

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be practised before proficiency is renched, havé, subsidiary blessings, the giving of grate to the arms and hands.

Royal Signatures

are

The first autograph in Mr. Hunt's collection was that of Vesta Tilley. This is far the famous stage star. fron being the oldest. Among his selection of historical names those of Queen Anne and Queen Elizabeth, and he has n remarkable tetter written by Charles II when in exlie in which the King tries to borrow 100 from Parlament.

A single sheet of paper signed by 155 V. C.'s collected at πddinner given by the King to the V. C's at the House of Lords. is one of his

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

and

of Mr. Bray has the signatures Try them on your plano, If you have one, every Prime Minister since Lord Isten to your progress, If you haven't a plane, get Salisbury and every past President of but used with one-pianos and piano playing at home are coming the United States.

back into fashion, Did you know that Chopin's lovely ing line, from rippling cludes were all writion to serve as five-finger

ulder.

exercises?

Failing a plano, do the hand and wrist exercises Alle on a table, on a window pane, anywhere in un moment, and the arms-and-elbow one only when alone, or the bystanders will ask, "Is she crazy?" though few Incidentally, as well as gaining in grace, your hinds, t ways of circulation will improve. No py_ploying chilblains and unhappy tendency to rheumaties. These exercises, if done properly, without straining, have been hich must known to help even advanced conditions of arthritis.

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"Allacking from the wrist": Hold the wrist Arm, pull the hand back, letting it fall again sharply, to loosen the many tight muscles round the wrist bones.

"Walking

the dug": Hold

the

of Banking and Exchange wrist firm against a flat surface, such

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as the edge of the keyboard,

each finger separately, trying to move

next finger if reach the top of the possible. This is an annoying exer- cise unless you are

expert, an especially when you use the third and fourth fingers. Try it and see

"Using the wrist na a pivo!': 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 complete circle, using the wrist as a pivot. Marvellous for Theumatic wrists.

Swing the arm in circles

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away":

"Throwing your Arm 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 down the arm to elbow and

shoulder do

down off into space at the end

to wrist, letting the motion

of

What would

you do?

THREE intimate friends, who

for many years have been on the best of terms both with each other and with you, have spent house, the afternoon at your playing bridge. When tidying up after they have left you find on the floor under the bridge table a £1 Bank note. which you are certain does not belong to you.

Assuming that one of rour friends dropped it when "setting up" at the end of the game you sit down and write a note to cach one of them, asking if 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

10 ber.

What should you do? Two of your friends are dis- honest and one is innocent, but deter- you have no means of

mining which is the rightful owner of the note. If you tell them what has happened the chances are that they will never speak to each other, or la you. agala, and the friendship which link endured for so many years will collapse.

On the other hand. R you de elde, for the sake of perpetuating the friendship, to say nothing. you must send a Bank note to all ww at Yourself will be

the poorer by 22.

-In her event you will be haunted by a doubt.

In olden daies

the fingers, ending with the hand if you got into trouble with the

furned upwards,

authorities-it was not dimeult- Some

of these

may seem a far cry Ludgate Prison was the place to go if from plano exercises and finger-tip you could wangle it. grace but do them for a while and

If you were guilty of a minor crime. see how much more strength you can (debt, for instance, was included in get into a Wagnerian prelude, and minor crimes in 1420) you might be how much more charm into pouring lucky enough to be sent to Ludgate, of There was always the off-chance squaring the Joiler and buying in decent food. You had to pay rather

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