1950-03-12 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1950.

NO-RENT TENANTS USE ROYAL PARK AS GARDEN

POCKET CARTOON

by OSDERT LANCASTER

SALOME

10000

ALE WAS THREEPENCE

A QUART

A Mile or so from Hyde Park Corner is a "village," where the inhabitants pay no rents, and use a royal park as their garden.

In Kensington l'atace, whose grounds is a small block of flats retl-brick buildings 1/c be- for members of the King's tween busy Kensington High- domestic staff.

street and Kennington Gardens,

Here Ive Mr Ainsile, steward,

are a dozen or more collages, Mr Kemp, the Queen's page, plus several fats.

Ilere members of the King's

inud others.

household and the royal staff The main slate apartments of live, together with one or two Kensington Palace are unoccu- old friends and pensionera of (pied, and rarely used. the Royal Family.

It was a favourite remark of The first group have their King George V.'s that, if State tenuncies na oficial residences. (business allowed, he would re- They pay neither rent nor rates, and all repairs are done free by the Ministry of Works.

The second group, who enjoy their dwellings "by the King's race and favour, ny to rent, but must pay rates and for repairs.

TINY COTTAGE

Best known of these is Mrs George Buthlay, formerly Min Marión Crawford, ex-governess to the Princesses.

Th

move from Buckingham Palace, which he always considered un- comfortable, to the more elegant Letting of Kensington Palace,

STRICT RULES

But several members of the Royal Family have their homes within the walls of "K. P.",as It is known in Court circles.

Armentieres Sends Mademoiselle

To Gaol

Mademoiselle from Arm- eptieres recently spent a week-end in prison becausc alie parley-vooed once too

often.

n

hers, of a

Not the Mademoiselle the old sweats of 1014 sing about at

reunions, but regimental fellow-townswoman ot Mlle. Cecile, daughter They Include the Earl and university professor. Countess of Athlone, brother!

of and · sister-in-law Queen Mile. Ceelle saved for years matu Mary, who live in the Clock to buy A house in the

which

In tiny Nottingham Cottage, House, the Dowager Marchioness square of Armentieres where the lives with her hus-of Milford Haven (grandmother has on its ground floor a shop Land, "Crawie" wrote most of of the Duke of Edinburgh), and with a huge plate glass window

memoirs of the royal the Marquis and Marchioness of kept by a cycle dealer. nursery days, recent publication | Carisbrooke.

The Spinster of Armentieres, The recent presentation to of which in America caused a

The Duchess of Kent will as they eat her, meant to re- The Sherwood Foresters Re-tle in royal ciretes.

shortly join their number,

The bicycles with place giment at Nottingham of a Ofeial residents at the palace

These royal dwellers also holdbroidery, to be sold at the sign Sir Dudley, Colles, their homes on "grace and of "The Fairy Fingers." complete catalogue of theclude

Secretary of the Privy Purse, favour" feases which can be But the cycle dealer refused reveals wh Burton Collection

occupies Wren House, called in if the holder incurs the to details of interest to students¦ designed and built by Wren. Sovereign's displeasure.

of local regimental history. Nearby, ** Old Barrack- No paying guests must bej

lecal and the declined to eject him.

ARTICLE 47, SAID-

Mademoiselle FL51

This collection is a miniature inguare, liver Mr Kennedy, who taken in, and there are strict regimental museum which Mtr responsible for all, the food-rules Hoverning repaira Frank Burton, of Orston Hall, stuffs taken in at Burekingham alterations.

who died in 1948, baad Palace. Buteling up for over 50

Noti

been

years.

It is still honed at the

m-

court

stuck a poster

on the plate-glass wladow: This is my shop. of which I am not allowed to take possession

Time passed and her lawyer

Every leaseholder has a key Arross the way lives Miss to the Gardens, where the walk in the Hall, wher visitors are wet-Helen Gardiner, chief secretary palace folk moy

to-inspect a unique culs in the Private Secretary's Office. sumner evenings after the rates failed to get her satisfaction. The lection of uniforms, battle

prints,

compalen

medals and

other reliv. of the Hapiment.

Included in the catalogue is

the article writion by Mr Bur- ten on the Regiment's honours! and inedais, as well as it: history time 1739 when it

In another part of the 20-acre have closed at dusk.

for the be in the Sleepers

was known as 45th--!

1st Nottinghamshire Regiment, first raised as a marine unit.

WAR RELICS

quotes an old advertise | 31.ent from the Notingham | Journal of the early years of; the 19th century appealing for recruits

Be Regiment,

stating that It was quartered

1."

delightful town" Hull-

Stretch

From London Way

Out To Calcutta

notices. changed every week, became more hitter.

My lawyer is a thief was 0119. Another declared: When 13 worker steals material from his Arm he is sent to gaol: When a lawyer robs his client his col- leagues whitewash him,

But rerently Mile Cecile went too far. Her poder proclaimed: The local magistrales are in it up to the hilt with my thief of

hwyer.

The Bench looked up Article 47 of the Penal Code. It said that publie hisulta to magistrates ntay be punished by imprison-

All new entrants to the staffs of British Railways are ment from eight days to twelve "where excellent ale may be bought at threepence a hill now being issued with an attractive booklet entitled:maths, quart and meat at a lower rat "British Railways Welcome You", which explains the

down."

So Mil

from Armentieres

in the local gaol.

„in most towns in the kin-organisation of the industry and the obligations and oppor- had to think out her next poster A feature of the museum 1 tunities of its staff. devoted to relics of the Penin~!

sula Wars. Three Peninsular!

Medals won by Foresters cach!.

From it the employee| Passenger Journeys in a year! bear 13 clap awarded for learns that six times as work out to about 20 trips per service

Dear

of the

every man, woman and child in many people as attend a Cup the country. The steam trains in 13 battles campaign.

This is not a record, Final are employed by Bri- consume an average total of 40,- Mr Burlon, for Lard

000 tons of coal a day, the electric stated

tish Rallways, whose en- Cheylermore, collection has a

ones daily using two million unfls with to steps awardedigines, if placed in an Ima- of low tension electricity.

medat Pie James Talbot, of the ginary line, would stretch |

to

It is not generally realised that

UPS AND DOWNS IN HATS

45, the only man in the Army from London to Cardiff, or British Railways has a fleet of who could definitely testify to

present at 15 of Liverpool to full. Thetri having been

120

10 ships, half of tiem sea-going total annual mileage is equat) and thir the Peninsula engagements

Until the mid-sixteenth rest cruising constel iwalers, jakes and lochs, Its road century, women's hats in- The Burton Caltection ron-110 21,500 times round the

transport service. like its Polic tains a portrait of Coline earth.

Fore, is the second largest in thedicated social position. After George Nevile on explain of the

corntry. General gonds traffe that they began to emphasise Grenadier

f company

carted to and from the depots personality, militia. He is shown wearing

to the customers' premises calls liver porget, which is in the

for 12,500 inotor vehicles and museum, too.

1,000 Frailers and 7,000 horses anti 24,000 horse drays.

th

There is an ex-

ample of one of the first-and

BOOKS EARN

the last-to bear the Haverion MORE DOLLARS

coat-of-arms, which was the Long Service and Good Con- duct Medal instituted in 1830 by William IV.

FOR BRITAIN

BOOKS

SIGNAL CONTROL

fal, until then almost totally conmalıd, teaped from captivity Fed for the next hundred years mattered more than the hat Reinforced with pads and art-

frences, Janic

mountai The tonnage of freight which higher and higher until once tarts a lourney every worklog NS -a, second-hand day on the railways is nearly to beaded, powdered and dressed.

NOW -- of the

is the registered tonnats of was left three months with- out combing. Such ornaments Hormones Foreto e te earalen dole liner Queen Mary. Teatre

Her rinse devaluation. Increased over the whole system is guarded as a ship in full saft or a small business with Am: rica and by 14.000 signal boxes controlling farmyard were perched on top. Canada is reported by many mo

Wats came into their own again more than a quarter of a million |UK. booksellers.

signals. For communication be with the Napoleonic wars, a HBC tween the boxes there are 750,000 London Letter says. Trimmed The spokesman of a West End telegraph poles from trees suf-with anything up to 40 yards of Ten more years may be nakledem said: "Since devaluation cient to plant a good-sized forest, gaily coloured ribbon, flowers, to the average person's life span we have increased our business and over 400,000 miles of wire, by new hormone compounds with the United States and now being studled by research | Canada by about 25 percent. workers, according to Dr Gerald Wendi, New York selence nutha- rity.

Longer Life

vegetables, and much from the zoo, they were something. British

building, Railways maintenance and repair factories After these high spirits come "We get orders from univer-employ 84,000 men, and 60,000 coal scuttle bonnets. At dinner, Jties, schools and uther educa- tnore keep the fracks, bridges a mule sented between INO stana Institutions."

and structures in repair, udag fashionable velvet berels as large 250,000 tons of new rails anually as teatrays caught a glimpse of

4,000,000 new his plate occasionally.

Dr Wendt told a meeting that the new hormones isolated for

A provincial seller recently and about treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

his diseases of old age sent and other

catalogue to North steepers. Amy

be the key to postponing America and within a short Unse

hundreds of received

orders.

The Victorian bonnet gripped

If you like your facts and the neck like a vice and died in

sea "medical men belleveOne day's post contained nearly figures in picturesque form, the the Crimean war. Daring young

He

the hormone compounds may 250 letters asking for books.

make it possible for a person to

Said Mr Jack Joseph, a West End bookseller: "What the

want ate Dr Wendt cited in particular Americans

be in as good shape at 30 as at

70 years of age."

new rails laid would, if placed indies took to the faster hat, and end to end like a ribbon, stretch by the early nineteen-hundreds from London to New York. If

millinery was aggressive again. placed end to end the sleepers proceed- would form a plank stretching Women emerged from the first the hormone compounds aething or transactions of learned from London to Calculta; cide by world war with short hair and cortisone, which he said societies, standard works of side they would make a wooden the famous cloche; during the nik! were only available in limited selence and similar types of roadway reaching from London second they returned to

amounts so far.

books that are out of print.”

K. O. CANNON

DON'T MOVE, PAUNCH-OR

"PROFILE! YOU DOUBLE-

YOUR FAT WOMAN-FRIEND ! \{CROSSING DEVIL! IF YOU TIKNX

I HAVE RECALLED THE

POLICEMAN. THIS IS WHERE

YOU TWO WRETCHED

COME TO THE END OF YOUR CAREERS.

you CAN SAVE YOURSELF BY, DITCHING US-

YOU'RE MISTAKEN!

to Dundee.

mediaeval kerchief.

The Riddle of the Red Domino

SILENCE, OBESE XELLOINT WHEN I REVEAL TO MA, CANNON THAT YOU ARRANGED TO POIBOH HIS DRINKS, AND DIAV THE ARNIVAL OF THE POLICEMAN SAVED HIM FROM DEATH - ITHAK HE WILL GEN- WHOSE GIDE I AM ON, SHENCS PAUNCH! GO QUIETLY WITH THE

WORTHY POLICEMAN. SAVE YOUR DENIALS FOR THE JUDOR. NOW, MY DEAR WHISPER, LET ME EXPLAIN MY ACTIONS SINCE THE DISAPPEARANCE

OF YOUR FOOR FATHER,

MY DEAR WHISPER-

I HAVE YOUR BEST............... INTERESTS AT HEART, AND WANT TO HELP YOU, VOU BELIEVE

THAT » DON'T YOU?,

WELL YES,

BUT.

the

NEWS IN PICTURES

IT DOESN'T FRIGHTEN THEM-The bathing notice al Datchel, England, is happily ignored by the three ducks who are swimming over what was once a lawn bordering the River Thames. Torrential rains caused

the river to overflow its banks at many points.

DOG LAW

IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN HUNGER-After he had bitten 13 school children in Philadelphia, this dog was picked up by police and taken to the pound. Here Jack Regan explains the dog law for public safety to the fox terrier, which was found free of rabies.

Mlle. Victorine

ARMLESS WOMAN PAINTER Dufaux, 65, of Perpignan, France, armless for 19 years following an accident, painis by holding the brush between her teeth.

HELPING OUT-Actress Barbarn Britton addresses envelopes in Hollywood for the Society for Crippled -- Children's 1950 Easter Seal campaign. Sally Ryan and Edward Jordon, two youngsters being alded by the programme, lend some assistance to the campaign to raise funds for the care of handicapped children.

ICED SCULPTURE-Icicles lend a fantastic appear. ance to the figures on the fountain in London's famed Trafalgar Square during a recent cold spell

NEW SUB SUIT This is the Royal Navy's new submarine immersion stilt, being tested at Portsmouth. Made of rubberised nylon, it is equipped with an escape breathing apparatus and a shoulder lamp which burns for 30 hours. When packed, the sult weighs six pounds. The wearer inflates it on reaching the surface. The light switches en antomatically when water enters a cell under the arm.