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DECONTROL POLICY

GIVING THEM THE DUST

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1950,

World Copyright By arrangement with Daily Herald

THE PEERAGE.

withou d

white was h

Our bold, bad barons, and

T

their wicked ladies

HE story of Britain's nobility-with “no whitewashing and no flunkey- dom" is being told in a monumental work of reference entitled "The Complete Peerage," which has so far taken 63 years to compile and will not be finished until 1954.

All the virtues of the great ones have been set down. So have their vices. The editors, aiming at historical accuracy, have not spared the feelings of any peer's descendant. They have omitted from the record, they tell me. only vulgarities. They quote this description of one baron: "A bold, bad, blundering, blustering, bloody booby." And they include two appendices on the 34 illegitimate children of Henry I, and Charles H-many of whom became

dukes and earls, duchessen. and countesses, founding 1 famous lines.

The origin

of

olher

the Blake as R sorceress who tried to pre the King of Sentland in 1537.

aristocratic houses may

The formidable Lady Janet Ceny mothevert her die 2- cause surprise, Our Duchessa hand at the end of the fifteenth

the Conany, but fated two trong

The cruel Lady Mariehal

of Gloucester

illeritiumte daughter of a died from hughing at a falling Mayfair milliner. The fifth in 1500.

Earl of Berkeley wei

publican's laughter.

24 The ann

Jeal

FE

i.

Why

mastre ser eng hund

Chem 1. with

There are tailors, carpen-

ters. Jartchers, Chamber Flightiest wench

muids, apothecarion,' woul

09- of

stage couch robbers who THEY were "given to rewardi have received titles. Some ther in rit in their regiere

and Live d partment. peeresses ran off with pain. Parere ters, jockeys, stiers, and prodery young. and land- gipsies.

neubject."

Set the fashion

F: mier

Marital deity appears Fare altribute <! our eld at feerney. The Bar of Can - vegna veured £10,00n di magg in 1940 for his wife' adultery over hundreds with the Buite at Cumberland, of 01F1* most celebrated the King's brother.

SCA

(CANDALS throw a sear-

let Tight

names.

When the great Duke of Mari» rough,

victor of Blenheim,

reached his dotage, his duchess, Sarah Churchill, of fury heart The Arst Marqua of Aber and fairy face," went on gaming Noble lords and ladies not corn, a Tory MP, who 142- from morninut till night, "little merely mirrored the bad- quired his housemaids to wear concerned."

When gloves ness of the time; in some white kid

made his bed, discovered

they Thal

SARAH. DUCHESS (

MARLBOROUGH

O furg heart and fatty ince. She would namlık all day.

EARL FERRENS 01 ungovernabi temper He murdered lafs steward and won hanged at Tybura.

Baron Leitellao (1743-70) is

downright wicked," remembered as a very bad man and the Earl of Sandwich (1718-02) us greediness? a lord who "wrought sin with

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OVE alairs

ages they seem to have set is recont wife planned elope laces never rists from her seat

And "whether she wins the fashion for wickedness. ment

without 'God damn you."

Baron Hun-

gerford

Was

found guilty of

un-

Was

so many natural crimes that he behended in 1540.

Y

Read this aloud-it's funnier that way

--says BERNARD WICKSTEED

who is touring Britain in KYX2

one

CROWHURST (Surrey). YOU can see how convenient 7EW trees in village work havoc with your Innards, this is, The passing years may churchyards have a but the weight you've put high place in my list keeps you goinit. No of ingredients that go

to would

nind getting fat and make

hollow if he could live for 1,000 up England. So, years. after breakfast, I piled the family into our car and we

KYX 24

trees

slender

set off for Surrey to look at yew

some.

that begin by YOU ought to have been been known to attain a girth of striplings have with Us. Surrey in May 50 feet. There's one here at with its beeches, just out. Crowhurst that is 33 feet nine and its bluebells, oaks, and reon: inside for 14 people,

inces round the waist, with cottage gardens (not to του

dn't write and tell mention the Cabinet), is a me I'm getting my yews mixed lovely plate to be.

up. There are two Crowhursts. YEW

i!! Surrey

and DIC In much as people do, and they Susses, and both have yews In

the news. of the

YEW tree news Was

Surrey Clowhunt table and berches in the hallow 1820, when rome people put a and served tea to visitors. The

trees like Surrey us

live there la proce 10 aje.

it Breat

The chalky soil and the climate agree with them.

YOU and more uncient yew in the

churchyards of Surrey, Sussex, and Kent

thub any- where else in Britain, und few Lest

in East Anglia, Lincoln- shire, and Yorkshire, This isn't an estimate. but the result of n scientist's survey,

YEW trees don't have birth certificates,

so it is difficul to tel their exact age. There's ane at Fortingale, Perthshire,

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are at Yew Olde Teashoppe vas 6d, a yew.

was

YOU could eat out in

yew trees all over the country in those days, There was quite t craze for it at village fars. At Tisbury, Wis. 17 people down to breakfast jogie Now.

that is said to be 3,000 years YEW trees may be all right

cating-houses, but.. they

old-the oldest bit of vegetation In Europe. No one but a Scot should never be aaten them.

***selves,

believes that,

The leaves centain -an

YOU can't cut down an en-

2. alkaloid polson called taxine, cient yet! and count its rings 1t is death to cows, horses and because when they get old the you, but not to deer, turkeys

riginal heart of the free rots or ewes. away, and you're left with only

the newer growth outside.

I

[KYX2.

KYX 2

VOU sometimes

you

hear it sald that yews were planted in churchyards

that cattle

EW trees have been symbols wouldn't get thum Equally

times, but most of the ancient to ma

farmers keep katt

ones that still survive in Eng- of the graves.

fish

Emveyards were prob- YEW trees in churchyards ably planted during the spato were

church building after the but Norman conquest

doubtless used for bows, it is unlikely that there 1n 200 were ever enough of them

supply YOU And it was the same in bowmen

Bll the needs of the Normandy.

nt Crtey. Poletlers. There are 19 an Agincourt and the Conquest of Yews in the churchyards. Ireland. round Bayeux and the mouth

U00 to

yehrs ago.

Jelent

of the Seine. They are probably YOU Would probably much the same

veterans. YEW

trees

Islowly.

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ونا

As our nearer the mark if you suld They were first planted In churchyards

symbols of

Krow cycr

At a year they're a immortality und kept on be- foot high, and at ten years no cause the evergreen foliage was more than three fict, When so useful for carrying in Palm They tire 100 the main trunk Sunday processions. :tops growing taler and begins

: prcarl

put on that migte-aged YEW is not mentioned in the

YOU and I don't like it when we begin to spread. YEW trees do.

Bible.

YOU wred to spell yew "ench" or "yowe," and the word comes Their great from the te y attributed to IL.

Anglo-Saxon "cow," Frishi hoots come up at the base and

which meant yew,

Adieu, you and yew, erste themselves into the old

(London Express Service)

tunk.

Billy Rose

...

KARANTAJESIAEERSOS PANDEROCEACE!

PUTS FIRST THINGS LAST

IT'S an odds-on-Christmas

1 bet

"We owe the butcher for that De Maupas- dollars short on the room rent,"

three

weeks and we're ten sant, perhaps the greatest she said, "so you got to blow short-story writer of them in a week's pay for a toy."

of the peerage all, wouldn't last a week as One word led to many others, are often unusual. In 1719 a reporter on a present-day and finally, while Wanda was

irs the bedroom

playing with Of a Lord Save and Sele who mond wed the daughter of an newspaper. Let me try to the doll, Stan put on his hat |

the 18-year-old Duke of Rich-

by SIDNEY RODIN

that Lady Aber- corn 1:72

He thereupon bugged her "to take the family died in 1837 pt the age of 48, it earl when she was 13 to cancel couch, as it ought

was said: "15% HAS

between 10 Bacb.ing never to be said merry to last-

fashers. When his valet, up. asked for

debts

The

For four years he inear- cerated his starved wife in a castle and suborned the chaplain to poison her.

the

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day

fru the

tell you why,

ond stomped out of, the house,

Mra Mikalowsky News storles, with few child and put her to bed with exceptions, have little or the doll next to her, and then, ter tucking

When the Earl of Guilford in 110 suspense весличе the worried about Stan, decided to husband's roof in orders. he replied, *Pul twa Jum 1751 took for his third

go looking for him at the corner a hack chaise." battles of surrey by

my bed wfe the widow of a baronet she reporter deliberately bar and make up with him. To Flightiest wench of all was side

was so stout and the weather socrams the important facts keep his supper warm, she left and call me the Barbara Villiers. "insatt-

after tomorrow!"

led that they kept her on ice for into the first paragraph. the Kus stove on, and in her able" Countess of Castlemaine.

the days before the ceremony, This, of course, is the exact hate threw her opron over the After three years she deserted her husband to become Charles

Anne Jefferies, the wife of an opposite of the keep-'em-guess back of a chair in such a way ing treatment used by the De that one of the strings landed II's mistress, but carried on so

ostler at the Pelican Inn, New-- mony

O. Henrys, close to a burner. simultaneous

bury, was sold to the Duke of Maupassants and intrigues DENTIE, fourth Duke of Chandos "with a halter, round and to give you an idea of the

Fifteen minutes later, when difference in the Two tech- the WON so riotous her neck" when they wed in

Mikalowskys came rush- niques, let me take a recent ing out of the bar, their frames news story which appeared in house was in flames, and fire- a Midwestern paper and write men

had to forcibly restrain

So riotous

Earl Ferrers had such an thal wisen her daughter Anne Ancaster, ungovernable temper that was burn two lords as well as that in its will, read in 1770, he 1744. he murdered his steward the monarch claimed

and was hanged at Tyburn

in 1760. Buron Barry of

hupxl.

It as if it were bicce of fe- the father Escaped from jail

father "left

legacy to a very smail man that was always his com- The biggest rakes in the popu- Panton, and whom, when he was Santry stabbed his footman ince were the barone, set the hearts of the company, at the route recond Earl of Mas-

often a close to death in a fit of passion brouesses were in 1788.

Roasted a boy

A

second,

as

sereene, sentenced

MAD Earl of Queens- there soon appeared long ac- berry fell upon a cook counts of her swearing and legacies to about 20 paltry old Massereene boy who was turning the drunkenness,

spit in the kitchen of Holy- rood in 1707, and spitted

tloit....

In

out

from rushing in to save his daughter.

"You wouldn't be any

Utc to 18

there," a сор told him, "Don't worry, they'll get her The fifth Earl Rivers (1054 years in a Paris gaol for debt,

One Saturday afternoon -not Catherine Tollemiche, daugh- 1713) goes down in history

not only escaped, but married

night watchman #

Fireman Joe ter un varl, was 21 when she "an atrast knave, dne

the prison fovernor's daughter go.

Miller, himselt of the was "the most

Stan

Mikalowsky was a father, climbed a ladder to married, the 10-year-old Mar- greatest rakes in England."

Superlative named quis of Carnarvon in 1724, but

coxcoinb that

Ireland Window-shopping with his five the bedroom ever

year-old daughter, Wanda, and crowd hushed as he disappear- window, and the bred." Swift wrote: "Ile has left

bs they passed a toy-shop the

ed into the smoke. A few excitedly was almost as child pointed

to a minutes whores by name.

later, coughing and and not J colourful a charneter as the doll nearly

ns big as she was blinking, he climbed farthing to any friend, depen- long-lived Marquis of Huntly, It had real hair and a soft blanket-wrapped bundle in his dant, or relation... I loved the Elonian Guardsman, who dyed rubber skin which looked al- arms, man, but detest his memory." his hair purple 1TK! "danced mosi buman.

Blustrate the difference with Marie Antoinette, the

The figure on the price tag between the two techniques of nobles Princess Charlotte, and Queen was only a dollar less than the tate-telling: The local Simon Victoria."

watchman's weekly pay check, paper headlined

its story and hla first impulse was to the fire with the line which walk- away but when the De Maupassant would Uni-

Jed her into the finish:

Her language

and roasted him before the

fire.

THE Irish Earl of Barry-

Duchess

J

many

down, a

news.

of

婚

There Thore, who married the whose name was evil In 1441/the

of daughter of a sedan chair por- Lord Lovat, friend of Bonnie Gloucester, "a marvellously fair ter, was so wild a profligate that Prince Charles, was "the variest and pleasant woman," was con- he was called "Hellgate" by rogue alive." He was dur demhed, to perpetual imprison- the Prince Regent, and, his lawed for foreing a' cousin to The Complete Peerage" is youngster, refused to budge be doubtedly have saved for the ment for witchcraft

Lady Chamis, ancestor of the vigour of her language, was for raping one of the Duke of Press at 3 pineas a voluine] store

sister, owing to the flow and marry him, and was prosecuted published by the St. Catherine shrugged and prestit Queen, was burned at called "Billingerate

Atholl's sisters

Express Sarples)

"Fireman Rescues Life-Size When Stan got home his wife Doll as. Child Dies in Flamen was furious,

-{London Express, Service)

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