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'N a turreted sixteenth-. century Flemish castle, reflected in a tranquil lake and guarded by friendly trees, a handsome young aristocrat of sombre mien awaits the call he confi- dently expects to occupy a throne in Vienna.

Otto Habsburg, pretender to the throng of Austria, is 25 Since he was a years old. small child his mother has boun intriguing to get him

this. throng

without succoss.

30 far

Archduke Otto's eventual re- atoration to the kingship of | Austrin is believed to be So diligent was the studious the heart's desire of the lad that he now speaks German, present rulor, Chancellor Schus Hungarian, English, French, chnigg. He views a restored Italian and Spanish. He has monarchy as the strongest bul- taken his degree wark against Nazi domination of Austria.

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was

Threatening violent opposi- Sociological Sci- tion to Otto's enthronement are ences. It the Little Entente neighbours the reward of a (Yugo-Stavia, Czecho-Slovakia 368-page thesis

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independence may be jeopardised "The Agricul by an attempt to re-establish the tural Laws in the Danubian Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Regions."

What manner of man is this youngster of 25, whose ambition For this Toyat scion the path to rule may plunge Europe to the to high destiny is the strait and very edge of war?

narrow way. Is it possible for Habsburg to renounce An earnest, dignified, likeable a young man of almost austere romance? Certainly no senti- habits and a not very noticeable mental entanglement has been sense of humour.

allowed to prejudice the career

PRISON REFORM

Trained from his tenderest of the Archduke Otto. The report of the Committee years as one destined to reign, It is related that one radiantly which has been investigating he has solemnly adopted the re- sunny spring morning a lovely storation of the dynasty as his young Hungarian princess walk- the overcrowding of Hongkong high mission in life and set him- cu in the Steenockerzeel Castle prisons, and other matters vital self to the one task of preparing grounds with the would-be king. in the satisfactory administra-to fulfil the kingly role. When, There was magic, intoxication in after many wanderings and tri- the air. The young pair stroll- tion of these institutions, was bulations in exile, he presented ed side by side in a golden Bil- laid before the Legislative himself at the Catholic Univer- ence.

Council

ants

yesterday afternoon.sity of Louvain, young Otto ex- Suddenly the prince broke the The first reaction resulting from plained that he wished to study spell. "Do you know how ex- its perusul, even among those languages, philosophy, social traordinarily industrious

and political science and national are?" he asked. who may have had a suspicion economy.

"I am afraid not." So he of what was to come, must have "All at once?" asked a sur- launched into a detailed descrip- tion of the habits of the insect been amazement. Incredulity prised professor.

the earnest world. was only banished by the closer answer. "I face such great re- No light amusements for this study of a truly remarkable sponsibilities that I can never young man. He all but abstaina document; remarkable for two learn too much." reasons, primarily: ita exposure

"Yes," WNB

from smoking and drinking, rarely attends the theatre, and if he sees films, prefers the educational type. His daily

atmosphere of a royal court pre-- vails and the strict etiquette of the days of the Emperor Franz Joseph is preserved. Otto, who. receives visitors in a grand salon, is addressed as "Your Majcsty" and even his four brothers and three sisters speak of him as "The Emperor."

The widowed Empress Zita. sees to that. Hers is the ruling spirit of this austere household. Single-minded, strong-willed and devout, she has a vivid sense of the Habsburgs' place in history. and never for one moment allows her children to forget it.

When, if ever, Otto ascends. the throne of Austria, he will owe his crown to the driving force of this determined little · woman.

With modest means she has. raised Otto and his brothers and sisters in a strict, almost puritanical atmosphere,

of a condition of affairs which plained. Further, many of the can only be described as as prisoners are skilled in no trade reading embraces the European Otto Habsburg and the Castle Steenockerzeel, where he tounding, and its concise re-and are unwilling to learn any tory and biography. No worth-

newspapers and volumes of his of

now lives in exile commendations for the remedy-For these and others who re- while book on Napoleon escapes a tiny bedroom. His cabins he hard-up at one time that the boy

fuse to do the simple tasks al- his study.. lotted to them stone-breaking

Remember that this Prince. has spent most of his youth in exile, on a limited income. It is said that the family were no

calls them, because of their Otto had to remain at home for limited size and unpretentious a couple of days while his only and wood-cutting is suggested. On the whole Otto's life has equipment. A simple-iron bed, pair of shoes-was-at-the-cob-- That might have the effect of been sheltered and secluded. a table, washstand, wardrobe bler's. making prison life less desira- His present personal domain and radio set comprise the fur- ble.

consists of two rooms in one of niture of his bedroom.

Over the castle as a whole the

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ing of obvious evils.

The Committee discloses that for years the system of supply- ing prisoners with food has existed only in name. In point of fact it was no system at all,; The report deals, too, with the castle turrets-a study and in the true sense of the word. hawkers who find their way in-

the enormous number of

The cost of feeding the thou- to the prison. In July last there

who sands of persons

passi were

2,600 persons serving terms and 1,400 of them were

and

CHARACTER IN EARS

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and

He who would regain the throne of the Habsburgs needs must be educated in the science: of killing. Otto's instruction in the arts of war has been the task of a German, Count De- genfeld, formerly professor in the Austro-Hungarian Military through the institutions An- hawkers. The committee holds

Academy. The Count relates nually is twice that entailed in that the methods of dealing

that one day he was describing providing food for ordinary with them aro "cumbersome, coolie labour.,

inefficient." A STUDY of the human ear, as an literary man, the poet, and the artist. to Otto the campaign of the The prisoners, inadequate

index to character und disposi- If it is fleshy as well as long, its Archduke Karl against Napo- When it is considered that these tion, will reveal much" that is in- owner will probably be something |Jeon. it is learned cost more to feed hawkers as a rule serve no more teresting and surprising.

of a dreamer, but kindly, and even- The Prince sat with flushed than do the policemen who ar-than seven and never more than chronle indecision as to whether they

Women seem to live in a state of tempered. A long

loose lobe at the base of cheeks and sparkling eyea, his rest them. On this tople it is ten days, the number of them should show or hide their cars, and the car is very frequently the mork boyish imagination stirred by of as to whether they should or should of great literary ability. In the case the tale of battles of long ago- felt the Committee has not gone passing through the hands

the over-worked. magistrates

not adorn them. But the unprotect of business men, of a social disposi far enough. There is room for will be realised. The Committee the trained eye of the physiognemist this lobe is often completely absent. lain strode into the room

of man offers all the time to tion, alert, active, and home-loving, when suddenly Zita's chamber- a wider investigation of the pri- proposes that a form of intern- a handy index by which he can ob- It is also absent in the typical detec-protested: "The Empress does camp be organised here serve and sum-up more or less ac- tive car, that has at the top a blob not like the young Prince to be son catering of the past. The ment

of flesh believed to be a surviving

excited." for the reception of hawkers, and curately its possessor's virtues, vices, remedy suggested is for separ- it is felt that it would be wise to Inclinations, habits, and capabilities, relic of the sharp-pointed ears of Some zludents of physiognomy some of our amimal ancestors that ate tender for foodstuffs by send the Colony's mendicants to declare that there are indeed sclenti- were clever hunters.

This carefully-tended stripling weight. It is also put forward such a place. They might be no reasons for believing the cars to

has now attained manhood and that prisoners might very well taught some useful work there, be quite reliable guides to character. Suspletaus Natures

and if nothing else they could They say that just as the leaf is

Many noted detectives are cald to as he stretches out his hands to- something like the same usually of cultivate their own vegetables, be encouraged to earn their shape as the parent tree, so the car

have had this kind of ear, and forward the iron crown of St. providing the land is made livings with a shovel and hoe. in shape and form is often very like this reason have found effective dis-

guise extremely dimcult. Men with Stephen, what aims has he nur- available. It is done in other Perhaps an internment camp of to the head itself.

the sort could provide some of

The best type of head being mod pointed cars may be taken to have tured in his breast? "I will not crately large, well-shapped, and a bent towards search and Inquiry, be an absolute monarch," he has parts of the world. Why not

the food for which the Hong rather long than broad, this is also and have often a suspicious and dis-said. He dreams of a corporate In Hongkong?

kong Government has been pay the most desirable type of ear, and trustful pature. The fact is that there is no ing so dearly when catering for Indicates a character conscientious,

trustworthy, kindly, and moral. the prison population. such thing as "hard labour" in It has long been contended Square Strenpih Hongkong's prisons, The pri-that a little harsher treatment

It will be found that much more thin cars" his almost become a pro-the "genius" of Mussolini. of prisoners in this Colony soner's working day is

can be learned from the shape of the verb; but no one likes to have a would tend to decrease to

car than from the size. A curlously- hours onl 30

come by it.

(would banish it from his king- minutes, in-great extent the total of prison-shaped car is indicative of an unusun very thick ear," no matter how he party would have no pince. Otto The position of the cars in impor dom, for he regards all Socialists Beggara And hawkers personality, or may point to come cluding periods for exercise era.

tant. If the external opening is The

the eye, the in- as dangerous advocates of class ears man whose

are very situated far below and congee. In three days a most people will pity and it la sort of eccentricity.

not argued that they merit round-like a half-circle-is restless, dividual will be a thinker, a writer, warfare. head-strong, impulsive, prisoner-cobbler turns out one punishment for a condition they impatient,

a preacher, one whose brain and

Without their aid he would occupied. patr of Chinese slippers are largely powerless to correct. affectionate, and warm-hearted. Anmental powers are much

at the centre Men of the sporting world, active, seck to achieve peace and unity.

Though not impulsive, the often

selfishness and bad and keen of sight and hearing have denotes These are facts which the Com-But plek-pockets and snatchers car unusually broad

and returned banishees are dif- temper. Such a man is likely to be their cars set rather high and not Archduke is daring. He is con- mittee has put before the

too close to the head. ferent. The chances are they more pleasant in company than in

Ears that lie close to the head re-fident that his hour will come. Counell. And it seems, more- would never be particularly de-the home circle. Square ears belong

to strong characters, earnest, deep-vent a nature that is modest, retiring. When his advisers in Vienna over, that the Committee had' sirable members of the com-thinking, mystical, or religious, but and refined. Very prominent _ears assure him that the moment has opti- that stand out widely from the head struck, Otto will not hesitata to difficulty in discovering just munity. To such as these defleient in cheerfulness and

are said to denote that their possessor take the supreme risk. The long narrow ear-the car of loven money, and also that he will what work the prisoners are caning would be a fitter sort of mism.

punishment than the case the

the "long-headed," shrowd. and very probably get reason is not ex- Hongkong prisons offer. given. The

the car of the

D. Astbury. wise man-is also

Johnson Murray

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Large ears belong to the intelli-State, with himself at the head, gent; to the man who is still educat-and the trend of his vision may ing himself. Remarkably small cars be inferred from the fact that often indicate brillancy in some one he has expressed admiration for direction. "Never trust a man with

In such a State a Socialist