1937-02-15 — Page 6

'THE HONGKONG Telegraph, Monday, FebRUARY 15, 1987,

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friends before breakfast and were already regretting it.

Prosaic Postmen

I wouldn't be so bad if the Messenger of Love looked the part. The standard postman, even in his modern · hat, has little chance to look the real Romantic.

It may be asked how it was that Valentines bad their big- gest boom in the Victorian era, when postmon's hats were oven more slapstick.

The answer, of course, in that. the glories of Victorian whisker- culture completely distracted the attention from any hat, and doubtless the mall-trundiora of those days waved their Dund- rearies specially for St. Valen-. tine's Day. If the Valentine is to be restored to its former popularity, the G.P.O... must- It is difficult to say when make a special effort on the Valentine cards first came in. fatal day. Postmon should be It is alleged that Charles Duke equipped with wreaths in lieu of Orleans, who was impounded of hats, and although we can by the enemy at Agincourt, was hardly suggest lace edging to an ace Valentine producer. And their trousers to harmonise with the Bard of Avon is believed to the Valentines, we unhesitating- have been among the seeded ex- ly recommend that they should ponents of the sport.

In those days, of course, transport and delivery of the MS. was far less certain than in this depressingly efflelent age.

For that reason, Imagine the contemporary "love- ly" getting a real kick out of some embroided verso like:

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"I want, dear maid, a sweet partner

for lije."

discard their boots in favour of" anndals with little gauzy wings.

Admittedly it would be tough -on those who don't get a Valon- tino to have the usual bunch of forget-me-nots from creditors delivered by a Harbinger of Romance.

But think how many girlish (and, since it is Leap Year, So tell the in carnest if thou'll be boyish) hearts would boat. the

my wife,"

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1937.

BRITISH TRADE RECOVERY

MID the brusque re- February 14 is that it is the day on which the birdies make minders of your com- their matrimonial selections. mercial relationships which

In an attempt to verify this when delivered by some travel- faster for such a colourful con- idea from the roof of my flat, stained courier, with an ugly cession. littered the breakfast-table the only fowls of the air I ever puncture in his sword-arm. Then, indeed, the seeds of But when the same impassion- postal courtship would fall on a this morning it is possible observed-two pigeons and a

few sparrows regarded one an- ed entrenty arrives between the soil already prepared by the that you found a document other with the dyspeptle fri gas bill and a complaint from Arcadian guise of the mossen-

lounge.

It requires a highly impression- And if the latter did demand. It is possible, of course, that able subject for it to ring the a larger Xmas box, surely it

would be worth it. It was probably printed they had signed up their girl bell. in silver, almost certainly embroidered with lace, and implored not the favour of your cheque but just Lurve.

timents.

If you are to hand with same it will already have re- minded you that to-day is St. Valentine's Day. If not, you will pardon my bringing it up,

The Tie-up

TOBACCO SNOBBERY

AMONGST the many things that

nre changing in our post-war

world I think we must include the theatrical profession. London's West End stage, once a citadel of brilliant Bohemianism, and also incidentally of competent acting and sound elocu- tion, seems to be going all old- THE origin of the Valen-school-tie. It is becoming, or rather

tine tradition is largely has already become,

rofeigned." obscured by local mist or fog. Perhaps this may be goe result of

have developed of recruiting their

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By "AN OLD STAGER"

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fectly reasonable attitude for him to take up. But he goes on to assure us quito genially that he is as fond as anybody of a cigar or a elgarette after a meal, but emphatically pro- tests that we ought to draw the line at pipes."ukit to draw.

And, in view of the cutroge he mien who describes, by those two smoked their pipes at the next table, he asks what modern manners, are coming to in this country. To which, feel very sure, some of the old stage Bohemians of other days would have exclaimed, maybe rather rudoly,

What Mr. Ronald Squire does, in "Holty-tolly!"

QUEER NOTICES

the

and illogical superstition. Inherited

to a

a time when only grooms smoked pipes, and the only pipe tobacco they consumed was common shag.

Even in King Edward the Seventh's

homes of England, and was' and with even a fercer social ostracism by the alertly mimelic middle classes,

For better or for worse, we have changed all that. Not only gentle- men, but. Indica as well, smoke incessantly and everywhere.

A survey of the position of British finance, and commerce during 1936 shows as rapid an advance as in any of the three preceding years. What is even more.encouraging is the fact that the year now oponed re- venals an almost uninterrupted progress in the continuing pro-| cess of recovery. Once again, the home market provides the main stimulus, but during the Saint whom the Romans treated from the exclusive ranks critical fluence to stop the smoking of pipes obsolete nation that pipes are vulgar

of Debrett.

OFSK:] his letter, is to invoke editorial. In- | It is real

really curious how this past twelve months there has worse than a football referee

hough occasionally also been further expansion in and this customary interchange whether, either in respect of sheer when he was dining out recently, on in certain quarters.

is assailed by horrid doubts in restaurants. He tells us how, and unpleasant things still-lingere- the value of overseas trade. The of emotional invitations.

rounded anatomical perfection or extent of the internal improve-

certain What is

bouncing Jole de vivre, the stage two men at the next table offended Is that

may not be paying too high a price in this manner. Mr. Squire walted EVERYBODY'S DOING IT

until the miscreants had departed, which may or may not have been It is in fact an entirely 'baseless These possibly rather jejune 1e-prudent procedure on his part, and from Victorian days. It dates back that of overseas trade, but the sort of Opening Day of the Love

Season.

flections arise, with nice incon- then "protested violently" to the production figures for certain

sequentiality, from the perusal of a maître d'hotel. trades and the statistica' of busi-

In ancient Rome it was de-letter from Mr. Ronald Squire in the

That worthy was quite of Mr. ness issued by the joint-stock dicated to the Lupercalis, the columns of a staid and venerable dally Journal. Now Mr. Squire,

re Squire's way of thinking. Doubtless banke are illuminating. The toddlers of both sexes drew lots able to remember ever having seen scandal, and, what was more, pro- which to smoke a cigar at a week- feast of Pan and Juno, when though it is my misfortune not to be with an eye to the pronta on how younger days the stables were con- expensive cigara, he admitted themidered the appropriate place in heavy industries have of course, for one another.

him, is a well-known actor, and 11 been stimulated by re-armament

wide gulf is set between his theatrical mised that any future culprits wholed countryhouse party, Tobpicco Whether the toddlers were in orders from the Government, but

"Yat should be courteously, invited to re- also compelled to bombard one stage small-fry in the chorus. by far the larger part of their another with elegiac couplots his letter to the newspaper distinctly move themselves to the bar or

clashes with my recollections of vestibule. expansion has been due to trade through the post is not known, famous green-room

personalities of ·Now if Mr. Squire was a fanatical recovery. Production of steel in nor did that talented old_play-the not unillustrious stage past.. anti-tobacconist this might be a per- the United Kingdom was more boy Ovid recommend any Valen- than 18 per cent, higher in 1936 tine formule that I know of. than in 1936. As, at the same But the frivolities of the

And Mr. Ronald Squire must be a very unobservant person, or have time, despite high tariffs, im-lottery (held on the eve of St.

a queer sort of nose, if he does not realise that the pipe, smoked as J ports of iron and steel increased Valentine's Day) were kept up

usually now is with really good during the year, it is estimated in England until the folk gave

LTHOUGH clty and country alike! Another and, unfortunately, some tobacco, is by far the cleanest and that domestic consumption of up Merrie-making for the Dain-

ty Tea racket.

provide many notices that are at times necessary notice reminds the certainly by far the least permeating steel last year was no less than

once strange and amusing, I think it customers, that "Gentlemen address of all forms of smoking. Actually a The oddest hunch of all-is chiefly in the cities that one must the barmaids as they would have the pipe-smoker creates nothing like the 27 per cent. higher than in 1986. entertained in the past by some look for wit, in the country for barmaida address them."

cloud of smoke that a cigarette This is an astonishing advance

Yet another tells us that "Water smoker, or even a cigar habitue most original sign

bove is the best drink-if taken in the constantly does. Nor has the mellow in so short a period as twelve quite reputable pocts-about plcturesequeness and originality. The attached to the

right spirit."

aroma of a pipe anything like months. But other. trades show

front gate of a farm in Devon. It

heavy lingering qualities of stale In Glasgow, a few years ago, I and canvassera saw. a notice that obviously was not smell of a Virginia cigarette. Cor cigar smoke or the horribly · serid like advances. For example, a total in 1986 of new capital is-read:"Hawkers

beware. We shoot every sixth one, intended to speak the truth as plainly gasper-inhaling dapper will do more report has just been issued by sues. According to statistics and the arth has just called." As I as it did. It was in the window of to fug a rallway carriage than half the Imperial Economic Commit- compiled by the Midland Bank, was in a hurry at the time I didn't a cafe conducted by a foreigner and

the read:-"Three Coarse Meals, 1/2 dozen pipe-smokers.

This leaves quite out of account the tee on the trade in motor-vchi-the total amount of new capital discover whether the owner of

sign was serious.

It was not a scribbled notice either, deplorable and disgusting litter of eles. In 1935, the output of issued in the United Kingdom

In the East End of London there but one written by motor-vehicle units was 417,000, last year was over £217 millions, was a tallar named Cohen. This did by assuming that the signwriter and the trail of both the clatur and the can only be explained, I imagine, fag-ends and tobacco ash that-blaze nearly double the 1929 figure, against over £182 millions, in not matter until another Coben open-had a meal in the cafe before he got cigarette flend. If a pipe-smoker

ed a similar business next door. The the job of painting the sign..

knocks out his nah, ho Invariably displayed the But last year, 1986, the output of 1935. Not only is this the high-newcomer

does so in an

and ash-tray,

the "Cohen" prominently on his premises,

embers are extinct. The cigar and private and commercial vehicles est total recorded in any year but the original Cohen, not to be In contrast to the many warnings especally the cigarette smoke usually was over 450,000, constituting a since 1980, but it also marks the outdone, displayed just as prominent on gates and doors is one I saw in scatters his or her largeme of dirty high record. The financial re-fifth successive annual increase.ly a sign reading "Main Entrance Perthshire which must surely be the ash around on the tablecloth or even

answer to a hawker's prayer. This on the carpet. sults of this increased production In view of what has been writ-over his door.

A tobacconist named A. Kow dis- was on the gate of a house owned by FOUNDED ON IGNORANCE are shown in the bank returns.ten about the activity of the charged a relative whom he had em- a man who told me he had

spent

I should like to hear some Society The outstanding feature here is home market, it will occasion no played in his shop. Shortly after many years hawking various kinds the rise in the turnover of surprise to find that appro-wards the relative opened a similar at goods from door to door. He know hostesses, who have had their ine business the same strect. The how hard it was to gain admittance carpets irretrievably ruined by: to many homes, and he knew what it was to have doors slammed in his views about Mr. Ronald Squire's cigarette ende, express their frank money.

For the fourth succes-ximately 88 per cent. of the original A. Kow then had

painted which read;" Kow, sive

the turnover of amount issued should represent Tobacconist. No connection with the face and dogs put on his heels. He genteel preference for cigars and

had won a nice prize and settled cigarettes. cheques, bills, etc., dealt with by the share of the United King-Row across the street,"

down in the country, and in place of the usual "No

A pipe can offend only the London Clearing Bankers dom. A larger part was taken

Hawkers or Can comes faul, and the modern pipe- Public-houses, of course, enjoy a vassers" be erected a sign which hygiene is keeping pace with our shows an increase. Last year last year by India and the Bri-

bathroom this was 8.1 per cont, more than tish Dominions, namely, £23 mil reputation as displayers of notices read:

uplift. The majority of Hawkers Welcome. You'll both purposeful and amusing. One,

amokers give their pipes a thorough the 1935 figures, which in turn lions, against £18 millions in whch never fails to raise a smile on get a

much as follows:-"We have arranged Strangely enough, he said that he and do not perform the ritual in cont. on the 1984 figures. Part counted for the relatively In- with the Bank not to rush any was not bothered by many hawkers, pubiles of the Increased turnover of significant sum of just over £3 he has promised us not to sell any a main road Possibly many thought prejudice is just a snobbish tradition.

cheques

here. The bank, for Its despite the fact that his home fronted The truth is that the anti-pipe money was due to the larger milliona

Intoxienting • liquors,”

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