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PEERS'

THE

THE HONGKONG

BIG BILLS FOR CORONATION

ROBE COSTS

HUNDREDS

By JANE GORDON

The Coronation is going to cost the peerage a pretty penny according to in- formation gained at Norfolk House, where two wax figures, one dressed in the robes of a peer and the other in the robes of a peeress, are being shown for two weeks.

Many fortunate peers and peeresses have retained their robes from previous Coronations and will be able to wear them unless they are in rags and tatters. Since the last Coronation, how- ever, no fower than 200 peers have been created.

These gentlemen, with their wives, will, of course, be those who are the most out of pocket.

Maurice Dufour, the amazing vir tuoso of the piano-

nike his

Hong

Tnquiries at the Earl Marshal's accorticon. Will office invariably start with the all-Important question: "How much will it cost?"

The answer is, it depends entirely on your rank and the quality of the velvet, miniver and sliks used for the robes.

SIX. GUINEAS A YARD

Hand-loomed velvet costs six guineas a yard and by made by one firm only, and even if every peer and perress were prepared to buy this, there would not be sufletent to go

round.

kong debut at the Grippa on Satur- day night,

ACCORDEON MAESTRO

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FRIDAY,

THEY MAY PREFER BLONDES

BUT NOT ON THEIR STAFFS

Business men in Australia are showing a marked preference for brunettes in their offices, In Brisbane, some employers now refuse to have a blonde on the premises.

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DECEMBER 18, 1986.

Stork Eustace

Followed The

Sun Too Late

By ULYSS ROGERS

Two misguided storka came down HATS ON! Eustace the Prussian, at Eton. The others went off to the Isle of Wight, settled happily at most popular stork who ever

•lived in Britain, is dead-in Nor-Bembridge Vicarage-then grew rest-↑ mandy.

less again, flapped away.

But Eustace remained. People fell He came with 22 companions from Prussia In June. Four went on to in love with his ortless, tomely Scotland, 19 settled in Kent, where ways; he was petted and fondled,✦ Cartwheels were put across chimney joined the ducks and geese in the lops for them to build nests, They farmyard, perched on the hotel roof liked Kent.

at Ryde, hobnobbed with the family of an Army officer. He was becom ing an institution.

With autumn came the call of the south, They Bew off, each one's leg with an identity ring. One with a damaged leg went a day late, was found in a field and put out of his misery. Then there were 18. were frightened off by

Three or four went to South Devon, threw car too hard at them. Eight a girl who

went to the Channel Islands and came back. They had missed their was their first migration) which was railing to them-experts say it is South Africa via Suez,

The Principals of some of the business colleges explained it Anatral News Brunettes, sald one, were more adapted to routine officeway to the unknown spot (for this work. He had known enses of a quick change of staff after a blonde had heen entrusted with a monotonous job,

Therefore, a good quality stif velvet at about a tines a yard will clored another who cited a well known employer's habit of saying of a Brunettes are believed to have greater powers of concentration, de- girl who had been suggested for a Job: "well, she is a Hitle bit on the fair side, isn't she?"

be used.

Each peer wears the same shaped robe, like a voluminous trape, rench- ing to the ground, of crimson velvet,

It is unanimously agreed in Australia that emplayers du not want the

with a shoulder cape of white minivecretty-pretty girl with doll-like behaviour and appearance unless her fur made with a Peter Pan collar, tied efficiency makes up for it.

In front with n white silk bow and inished off at the back with a crimson velvet wig bag, the whole cape being Hned throughout with silk.

Ils corunet differs according to rank. A baron's robe will cost him from EGO to £70; his coronet from

And The Child Said "Fie"

Queen Victoria once invited a

£5 to £50, and his uniform from woman friend and her daughter i

60 to 200 gulneas.

to lunch.

Wres

EXPENSIVE TRAINS The cost of a perrèss" robe depends targely upon her rank. If she is baroness her train is only 3tt. long, with a 215. band of fur; a viscountess, 3ft. in.; a countess, 4ft. Gin, with t The Queen said: "My dear, you 3in. band of fur; a marchioness, bftare quite right, only 1 wasn't as well 3in, with a 4in. band of fur, and brought up as you have evidently duchess, sft, with a 5ln. band of fur.

The child

silent and well- behaved till she saw the Queen take f a chicken bone between finger and thumb and thaw I am suck 11. "Fle," said the child, and her mother blushed.

If she is paying six guineas a yard for her velvet the price of her Itain alone is doubled.

been.

This story was told by Dr. Claude Lillingstone at the Health Education Conference in London recently,

THOUGHT

SLEEPING

WIFE WAS DEAD

Husband Kills

Himself

London, Dec. 10. Mr. Leonard George Croft, aged 53, of Fern Villas, Quickleyłane, Chorley Wood,

ENTRANCING Hertfordshire, was unable to

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Then one morning the word went round Ryde, Bembridge, St. Helen's, Seaview Where's Eustace?"

The call of Suez and the Cape had✦ nt last become Irresistible.

**

*

What storms we have had. What bitter cold. What fog. I can picture Eustace battling on across the straits, down the French coast, ever drawn by the great magnet, the Sun.

And now, a tear for Eustace. The Normans have found him--dead.

Shaw Cure For

Seasickness

THIS is how George Bernard Shaw discovered a cure

for sea-sickness.

He was crossing to France on board a destroyer in rough weather during the war.

In the presence of a party of authors and journalists, in- cluding the late H. W. Massingham, famous Liberal editor, he walked up and down the deck

throughout the voyage with his Mr. H. G. Wells's body relaxed and his knees sagging.

A Boulogne Shaw exulled: "It worked! I'm all rip!"

"No, you're not seasick," retorted Massingham, "but, by heavens, pou'ne made all the rest of us sea sick!"

HOW THEY SAY IT

"World Brain” Plan BOOKSHELF OF POWER

brain:

Mr. H. G. Wells, describing his scheme for a new World Encyclo- pardía, at the Royal Institution recently, said that such a work would play the role of an "undogmatie- The method would thus appear to Bible to a world callure,” and would wake his wife yesterday Southampton doctor, telling the story

have its drawbacks, comments ahold the world together mentally.

He was, he said, thinking' of a morning.

in this month's British Medical super-university, #1 world Journal.

nothing less, The educated citizen Another medical man complains of would have a row of volumes in the grandiose medical terminology of which he would, without any great seasickness,

toil or diffleulty, and in clear, under- In scientific language "one cannot standable language, and kept up to find one's seu legs by lying in bed" da the ruling concepts of our swells into:

the outlines and main metal order. fundamental requirement for particulars in all fields of knowledge, this adaptation is the simultaneous an exact and reasonable picture of action of the conditioned stimulus and our universe, a general history of the

He thought she was dead, as she had taken four doses of a sleeping draught the night be- fore because she could not sleep. Mr. Craft wrote a note explain- ing this and leaving all his pro- perty to his mother.

Mrs. Croft, however, was sleep-. ping heavily owing to the draught. She awakened to find her hus- band dead with his head in a gas- oven,

The Watford coroner, Mr. R. A. Godman, recorded a verdict of Suicide while of unsound mind at the inquest last night.

RUSSIAN BALLET

DANCER'S DEATH A RARE DISEASE

Adelaide, Dec. 12. Mire Dimina, a well-known dancer of the Monte Carlo Russian ballet, died hore to-day at the age of 22 from the rare disease of leucocy- thasmin.

She was taken only a month ago, when she left the stage in tears after dancing in Les Sylphides. Her mother was summoned from Ameri- ca, and was due to arrive here on December 21.

пате

WAG

Mira, whose real Madaleine

Parker, was a Icading member of Colonel de Basil's origin- nt Russian Ballet Company.

Leucocythaemia is a disease of the bio e, in which the white corpuscles develop to an excessive amount. Thic causes of the disease nro unknown.-- Reyter.

the unconditioned stimulus already world, and a refery and com-

established as the activator of the desired reflex."

OPIUM PILLS Here are the suggestions of three doctors for a curet

Fresh alt; recumbent position: pro- tection from cold.

Take oplum plis (because he be lieves sickness to be due to "disturb ance of the semi-circular cannis of the car,' which A narcotic will

prevent).

Try a hammock (with its use "the movements of the ship are scarcely perceptible.")

erence to primary

plete system of sources of knowledge.

It

should be a mental background

of every Intelligent man in the world. He thought that his suggestion might ultimately release a new form of power in the world, recalling the power and influence of the churches and religions of the past, but with a progressive, adaptable and recupera- tive quality that none of those

possessed.

The Encyclopedia might prove in the long run to be a better invest- ment for the time and energy of in- Ship surgeons and naval men telligent men and women than any should have something to say, it is deinite revolutionary movement or

any of the.current "igms."

added.

Air Ring of Steel

By McSCOTCH (Famous War-time Pilot) -

O-DAY I am able to reveal the details of the plan for curtains of steel

to defend Dritain's cities from air attacks.

These curtains of wire, three-quarter of a mile deep, will be suspended by a line of gigantic bulloona 41⁄4 miles high. They will form Britain's innermost line of defence against or invasion,

The balloons will have a capacity of about 100,000 feet, and, they will be spaced out at intervals of 20-30 yards, The height of the curtains will be determined by reports from observation posts.

They can reach the height of laden bombers, and by means of winchies can be lowered to trap machines attempting to dive below the curtain.

Recently orders were placed with wire manufacturers for millions of miles of wire.

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