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1. Which white notes on a plano have no black notes be- tween them?

2. Where (gnorance is blins, The folly to be wise.

This quotation came from the pen of.....

Stewart MacPherson, King Canute, Sidney Colls, Thomas Grow, Confuctus, Cardinal Wolicy?

3. What was the "mark of Cala"T

4. Why are these judges dift. erently dressed.

B

A runner

In the

100

pursy he

Woudel

5. If yards were be-

Determined to win the prize, short-winded,

bari

bandy?

A

loser,

G. The biggest hole ever made by man is såld to be at-

Nagasaki, Pittsburg, Wen- worth Woodhouse, Kimberley. Ilindheed?

7. Can you add the sornatnes to these initials of England v. Australia Test match captains—

J.W.H.T.. A.P.F.. RE.S..

W.R.?

8. Which of these composers was too deaf to hear his tast compositions—

Bach, Beethoven,

Schumann?

Wagner,

9. A mahlstick would be use- ful for

Painting,

digging up-the-

street, sitting on, handing over

In a relay race?

Infantile Paralysis

Research

A doctor who, as a major la the RAMC,

to helpe

counteract infantile paralysis fionig Allled troops in aly, has been appoin- Lancashire Council to ted by the Investigate the present incidence of the disease at home.

He is Dr F. W. Bunting, of St. Helens,

assistant medical offeer of the County Council.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1947.

Grille Razor

The Guilds Of The City of London: No. 8

THE VINTNERS THE COMPANY

T

WITH THE SWAN WARDEN

HE Vintners' Company was associated first with the

care is taken of tho swons on the Thames and it is an offence against

wine trade many centuries ago. By BARRY PEAK the law to damage or hurt them in

licence.

It is recorded in Trevelyan's "Itory of England" that in 1042, the wine merchants of required

wharf at the Rouen had a

the Wall Brook, mouth of London, known now as Barge Yard. Although records, dated 1205, refer to the Company as n corporate body, there are many indications that the foun- dation of the Guild was at least 200 years earlier.

to

take out un Excise

any way. Should there be floods or severe frosts, the birds are housed and taken care of on shore.

The in

wenr

The exclusive privilege of "Bell Inn" in St. Nicholas Lane,in Mayors of London, and it is interest-

trading Gascony

in admission fees.

By 1440 the Company had two Halls. The first Hall was in Stodeye's Lane, named after Sir John Stodeye, a member of the Fraternity. second Hall, erected on the same site with the addition of certain landed gifts made by Guy Shuidham, was destroyed in the Great Fire of Lon- don in 1680. After the fire, the Com- pany

held their meetings at the las Lane, but, moved to the "Fleece" wines in Cornhill. However, a new Hall was London was first granted to built practically on the old found the past members of the Company the Mysterie of Vintners in tons, and was paid for by subscrip- 1863 by Edward III, and this tions made by the members of the Charter gave

monopoly to Company and considerable increases the Company. Only those en- franchised by the craft were allowed to trade in wines im- ported from Gascony, and Gascons

forbidden to sell wine except by the tun or pipe.

The Viniry" was, and Indeed still is, above London Bridge where all the wines which were unloaded.

The Company

was also granted the right to search all taverns and observe that prices and the various adhered to: this ord hances were was carried, out by four members elected annually.

There are many quaint and tradi tional ceremonies in connection with the Guilds of the City of London, and this custom of Swan Mariding is beautiful considered one of the most

custom carried out with great is the legends of London. Not only taking port dignity, but the officials

the traditional costume. This makes the annual ceremony a pic.

historle occasion. turesque and

Many Liverymen of the Company have have been Mayors and Lord ing to close by recording that among- and grandfather of were the father Geoffrey Chaucer, England's famous mous Ingoldsby poet, and the Rev. Richard Barham, author of the famous Legends" and one time Chaplain to TRADITIONAL BANQUETS

of Vintners. Ancient Mysterie IN normal times famous, traditional the Anci

In more recent years the Duke of banquets are held in the Corporate Gloucester, the Earl of Athlone, and, Halls

of the various City Gullda. during 1940, Viscount Mountbatten of the The most notable banquet of the Burma, have been admitted to

that of the "Swan Feast", Freedom and Livery ΟΣ

Com- the Vintners It is interesting to

to record that at the pany, Honoris Causa, thed

The core- "Swan Feast held on May 15, 1930, manies which attended these admis-

of York) King George VI (then Duice of

slons took place in the Court Room and his brothers honoured the Com- of the Company, now the oldest room them. Jnci- in the City of London, It was built pany by dining with dentally, the swans that are seen on in 1456 and survived both the Great the upper renches of the Thames are Fire of 1660 and World Wars I and partly owned by both the Vintners' the while and Dyers' Companies King. "Seigneur of

the Swans," the remainder. The Vint- possesses ners' Company has enjoyed the hon- our of owning a "game" of these HE Vininers were called the Mer-

in the Royal birds un River Thames chant Wine-Tunuera of Gascoyne from me beyond legal memory. and were divided into two classes

First

record relating to this the Vinetaril and the Tabernuril

ancient custom is to be found in the The Vinelarii imported wine and

accounts of the Master and Wardens lived in stately stone mansions near of the Company. These accounts are the wine-wharves. The Tabernarii

nar In the British Museum are dated

and did not

to have sufflelent 1500. It uppear

the custom of the Com- capital to buy wine in any me any

con-

to place the care of their siderable bulk, a few luns at a time "game" in the bands of the Junior

TELE

house.

were

came to London

TWO CLASSES

The

day

Weck-The

· Next

Clothworkers

Until somebody finds how to stop whiskers growing for good, Do man will believe In Cany shaving. A firm whlels made the Stalingrad presentation sword said they would put a razor on the market next month which wilt revolutionise aliaying. It need no soap, no water, no blades, no electricity and no cleaning: It is self-sharpening, The self-oiling, self-cleaning. razor head is finely perforated chromium grille (3-1,000ths of an inch deep), about two inches long by one inch. An the razor is rocked over the face, two self- sharpening blades behind grille cut the whiskers.

the

PARADISE FOR MOTHERS

By JOHN SHIPTON

OCIAL welfare experts £2.10s. a week for the mother and from all over Britain have £1.5s. for the children, but in most been amazed at the result cases a mother is expected to vay achieved at the Brentwood-Re- what she can afford. cuperative Centre, which has been described as a "Paradise for Mothers."

Situnted at Marple, Cheshire, Brentwood is a large house in a pleasant garden in the foot hills of Derbyshire's Peak Dis

Happy Atmosphere

Mothers, on arrival at Brentwood, Miss Darla Abraham, are met..by, the warden or matron, that relaxatlon, reercation, and a who known happy atmosphere winning back to health the over-

are cosential in

trict, which was formerly used anxious mother. Miss Abraham'a to nurse back to health mothers tlon, for the house has room only main worry in lack of accommoda- and their children who had for about a dozen mother and up suffered during the bombing. to 30 children. Now it is a rest centre for mothers whose many and varied household problems, ill-health. and other worries have led to a breakdown.

It is not an institution, nor even a convalescent home, but a delight- ful country retreat where a mother can regain the confidence in herself to face the future.

There ore nurserica, in which trained assistants entertain their

young charges, sandplis, hundreds of toys, and even a children's dining room. where the chairs, tables, and cutlery are just the right size for toddlers. There are spacious grounds, lovely country walks, with good and plentiful food, with no rationing and cooking problems.

Here is a sample menu: Break- Sponsored by the Community fust-com flakes

and milk, bacon- Council of Lancashire and Cheshire, and fried potatoes, toast and mar- mothers are sent to this "paradise" malade, toa., Mid-morning-tea and by voluntary organisations for from bread and butter. Lunch-roast beef, six to eight weeks--and even longer Yorkshire pudding, potatoes, cab- if necessary. Money does not matter; bage, rhubarb tart and cream. High if a mother cannot afford to pay, this tcu-Sainton or spam and salod will not deprive her of the inuch- raspberries and cream, cake, bread aceded holiday.

and butter, tea. Supper-Tea and biscuits.

Indeed, the Manchester Corpora- tion has often paid the full cost of

APE-OR LONG

AN APE

WAS IT AN

Willic?

LOST UNCLE WILLIE?

prehistoric

By DAN L. THRAPP

(United Press Staff Correspondent)

discoveries.

a

every

showed it was other type of

being hit they could 10 cvercome Warden, known as the Swan Warm WELL, was it an ape or long. roundly, ph-pooled the African present in

To is his duty to direct the Swan importers.

lost this difflculty they purchased what Marker and make provision for the

"It can be asserted with every primate. He also showed, through they needed from the Vinetaril, many

possible assurance that all (of these his own research, that it not only appear in fully developed takes An annual Swan Voyage

Sixty of the world's most com fokslis) are opes," he cried, "and did of whom were men of considerable safety of the birds.

nol wealth, and it was quite a common place every year on the second Mon-petent anthropologista decided, at that they throw no light whatever humans, but was absent from every practice for the Vinetarli to stock in July. At

well. this Lime the Nairobi's recent Pan-African Con- on the primate forms that were stage of pre-birth, as the cellars of the Tabernarri who

This showed, he said, that it was had not sufficient funds to buy out gnels are about two months old, gress, that fossil skulls and bones ancestral to home."

"specific "Dr Jones has never even seen

character." which right. Thus the Tabernarii were in and the three Swan Markers, of is found in South Afrien were closely

Majesty

the King, the Vintners and related to the evolutionary main the fossils," answered Prof. W. E. meant that it was so typical that it much the same position as the land Dyers, assemble at Vintry Wharf at a stem from which came man. They Le Gros Clark, who teaches anatomy could be Used

sed to identify a

human ford of a present-day tied public-time uppointed by the Lord Chem- announced that it was one of the at Oxford University and who at character from any other Fort of

berlain. Then they set off on

"He character. He even went so far as Even in the early days, the Vint weck's Journey up the River Thameset sensational paleontological dis- lended the African conference.

coveries ever made, because It makes his deductions from photo to say pushed back the origin of man graphs--not

very scientific entogenetle development it approach.

be presumed to be a very enrly which acquirement, DURING this trip young cygnets, millions of years into the past.

their Hardly had

Dr Jones recalled that in his first phylogenetic reports been other than those owned by the

before

equally noted publication on "The Ancestry of meant that it developed so for back King, are pinioned and marked by received

cast

upon Men" in 1918, he had shown that a in human evolution ns to leave no doubts

during the Swan Markets so that when they anthropologists

one's lifetime are returned to the river they may their decisions. Most prominent difference in structure of the upper trace

man from all conception to death. be identified. The Vintners mark spokesman was Dr Frederick Wood Jaw distinguished

that of many books is two nicks in the upper mandible Jones, author

What happens in humaris on other primates-monkeys,, apes, anatomy baboons, and so on,

doesn't happen in other primales, one nick, and all science and especially on and the Dyers'

evolution. Dr Jones, This difference was the absence, he said, was that the bone of the unmarked birds are the property of and tuinan

of a bone Great of the Royal College of Surgeons, in man,

called "pre-

(Continued on Page 10) the "Seigneur. of the Swans."

ners Company exercised important powers in connection with both the importation and sale of wines and Today, the licensing of taverns. there are certain wine merchants, in the Clly of London and elsewhere who are described as "Free Vint- who ners." These are members who have been admitted to the Freedom of the Vintners' Company by either "patri- mony" or "servitude. When this is the case, it is not necessary or

SWAN MARKING

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

SLIPPING CLUTCH OR

NO SLIPPING

•CLUTCH THATS

NO EXCUSE

FOR SUCH LANGUAGE.

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Communal Life

Main idea of Brentwood is rest. All a mother is expected to do is to Inko a small share in the rota of light housework by keeping her own room making her bed, and personal ying

the

well-equipped laundry. There is no cooking, but they can attend cookery classes given by Mrs Violet Lambert, whose ex- pert advice is eagerly sought by the mothers anxious to surprise their husbands and families when they re- turn home.

Best of all the mothers like the communal life. They dance in the lounge, have sing-songs, entertain their husbands and older children, and they can even make visits to their own homes during their holl- day just to make sure everything is alright.

They can even go to the local cinema. Indeed, there are до ге- strictions, for Brentwood is com- pletely un-Institutional. It is a new

that from its very, plight and most successful experiment In

from

social welfare, where children are encouraged to develop good social habits and mothers are assisted to solve the problems of child household management,

and

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All without exception leave Brent- wood restored in health with greater knowledge and great faith in future.

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"The Motor Trip'

BU KEMP STARRETT

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104

SOMETHING ALWAYS GOES WRONG ON THE

TRIP YOU DIDN'T WANT TO TAKE

ONE YOU WANTED, TOO.........

"YOU'LL HAVE TO TAKE THEA ALL OUT.. THERE'S SOMETHING. I'LL NEED-

IN EVERY BAS.....

"AND DONT FOR-

GET MY COATS ON THE

FRONT SEAT

ADD OLAY

OVERNIGHT BAGY

AND THE

AFTER YOU'VE

| WALKED BACK TWO ¡MULES FOR GAS

ALL CUNSETS LOOK ALIKE...

SOME DIRECTION}-GNERS" PRACTICALLY CLIMB TO THE CAR AND SPEND TI WEEKEND WITH YOU.

WE'LL NEVER KNOW WAY ALL

THE DETOURS HAVE JUST BEEN TARRED ...OR ARE KNEE-DEEP IN DUST.

"THE ONE-NIGHT STOP-OVER WIEN YOU

MUVE TO UNLOAD AS MUCH STUFF AS AN

I ARMY, NEEDS FOR & CUMMERS CAMPING.

IF YOU HAVE A HÚSBAND. VHO SPLASHES LIKE

A TRAINED SEAL IN THE "TUB AT HOME BETTER. TAKE AN UMBRELLA FOR THE OLD-WORLD PLACES YOU'LL FIND ON THE ROAD_

IF THEY CAN'T AGREE ON THE BEST. ROAD FOR YOU TO TAKE JUST GET GOING = THEY HAVE ALL DAY TO ARGIE.

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