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PLAY-TIME AT

AN EXHIBITION

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

London, Oct. 17.

·

A display of British toys and sports equip- ment opened in London on October 11. It is one of many exhibitions organised by the Council of Industrial Design to show contemporary products from existing British stock lists. At the Festival of Britain in 1951, all the items on the stock lists will be shown to the public under the title of "De- sign Iteview."

In the sports section. tures. Among these places Is which included shooting, bed which enn be expanded Unit stor- riding, ski-ing, tennis, bad the child grows.

age furniture takes the place minton, skating, hockey, of out-moded cupboards and golf, fishing, and salling, the

most revolutionary item was

wardrobes.

And by the side. phone which of the bed is a miniature tele- Bghts up when n plastic shuttlecock. It is the

Is raised, receiver made in one piece and one buzzes when dialling commen-

is operation,

the same. As if this were not suI- nclent, FL 13 also H money- weight as the feathered

box. type, and can be crushed in the hand without breaking. Holes in the skirt reduce weight and drag, and there are varying weights for different speeds and mates.

cli-

*

In the same section was badminton racquet in stainless steel with nylon monofilamen: strings, which will stand up to adverse climatle

conditions and

requires no press. Many peopl

wonder why tennis racquets arr noi made on the same principle, or whether tradition dies harder in this game,

For those who wish to in- dulge in the ancient game of bowls, when far from home, there are bowls specially made for tropics countries. which unareled by extreme

-BTC

climates.

ROLLER SKATES

A bigler degree of grace and profetmy can be obtained. by new type roller skates with spherical rubber wheel, when bring this port into the lee skating clogs. There are

unly two wheels on each skate, and

holse is practically eliminated.

Soccer entiansłasts were mod Interested in a football without lacing, which to blown up by piercing self-sealing hubbe .cnp. Golfers ran have a nea golf cart On wheels, which

a

holds all the necessary equip

can to cast13

"nient,

handled.

first lec-hockej The

stick, made

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1950,

Chelsea Hospital Really Was Not Nell Gwynne's Idea

By Pator Lovegrove

It is generally believed that Nell Gwynne was so affected by the plight of an old soldier who accosted her in the street that she hurried to Good King Charles and implored him to do something for his veterans, thereby inspiring the creation of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 'whose scarlet-coated Pensioners have become part of London's pride and occupy a distinctive niche in popular esteem" throughout the British Common- wealth.

It

WAS

Unfortunately, this at-lthet "we will fight no more le! £1,000 a year, he was mala- tractivo legend,

for when the wars is over like

we tained by the Hospital almost from the cradle to his death is many, has no foundation in ailted like dogs,"

comparative affluence and com- The story was first

Sir Stephen Fox, plate idleness. circulated in an anonymous pist, who contributed most to been collected from the Amay Ticasury ofletal and philanthro- By 1782, over £5,000,000 had account of her amours some the idea of an establishment to of which less than £2,000,000 50 years after her death, house the maimed veterans, no had been expended on tho and must be attributed to doubt influenced by the creation Hospital, The balance had been an imaginative hack.

of the Invalides in Paris by devoted in a small measure to Louis XIV for similar purposes. the out-pensioners but largely

The funds were not provided fritlered away.

There is absolutely nothing

Duck

BUILDING bricks, in large and small sets, form

on show.

fact. some of the play equipment

Empire aid plan counts on America

"MEXICAN BILL," a variation on the familiar pyramid toy. It consists of 10 coloured discs of varying shapes and sizes which can be arranged in any order. Top and bottom pieces are then screwed on.

BUILDING UP AMMUNITION

10 by Britain National Lengue standards,

and Brith-made ski-boots.

used

4122

Swiss by

champions, were among other lems which interested Canadian

American visitors.

Shooting sent

greatly improved

sticks have ts design.

One J100 1 three-cornered

seat

which folds so that stoul tip cup holds the seat in a

closed position

ti NC,

not in

when

a single

FOR ANTI-LOCUST WAR

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT}

London, Oct. 18.

Pelite and Irish, with dark hair sharply setting off her trim white uniform, Miss N. Frost climbed the rostrum of her laboratory to bewitch les her audience of pressmen with a subt'e brogue.

Another, In aluminium

and father, hap

with telescopic adjustment for

height, and a specially shaped But her five-minute rapid- cup-like base which does not fire lecture

sink into the ground.

For campers,

there

water duce

19 A

(Benzine

on

"B.H.G. Iloxachloride),'

heater which will pro-fractional distillation, three pints of boiling emulsification of liquids"

water in six minutes, no mat

ber how heavy the rain or high and the like left the non- the wind. All that is needed technical among us

more

for fuel is a handful of leaves or than little bothered and

a few berapa of paper. The ap-bewildered.

paratus consists of two alumi-

alum cylinders forming a water

Jacket currounding an Inner The eye would stray to

Auc.

аге

OLD FAVOURITES

fascinating ongoings providing the background to Miss Frost's eratory bubbling test-tubez

(for

spectrophotometer

All the old favourite games and such mechanical delights as

there, and for Bose who the continually lose draught pieces, measuring something there was a neat round plastic other!) container which hold them all

bourd there!

or an-

in position. A miniature We should have been listening travelling chess set was made intently to this Iaboratory of wool in four portions. No wonder woman, of course. Her Lames Were left out there words were of first-rate impor- Wis even a shove halfpennstance for practically every corner of the world for British toys, today renown- Malaya, with its rubber tree ed for their design and dur.disease, problems, Kenya with ability, show how great has its roffée plant disease problems, been the resurgence of the toy Middle East and African coun- industry in this country since teles gravely concerned at the the war. Probably most of the moment with threats of locust success is due to the fact that invasion.

toy-makers seldum play down

Many

to the children, and

toys are faithful miniatures of grown-up hobbies,

ADVISER IN IRAN

"THE modern abacus." This instrument--an enlarged slide rule--is used for complicated calculations.

ever before." With

move

of 570 million

will shortly be announced.

Non-Commonwealth. Coun tries Dre alsu to be offered: uroistance,

"Had those large sums been

in contemporary records to sub-by the nation or through Parila- stantiate it. Swee; Nell of old mentary retirosity, but by sub- Drury to tenemus in many scriptions, or levies from the invested," remarks Capt Dean. the Army itself. Cost of the land,the fund co created would have jeet which included Ranelagh Gar-more than sufficed to maintain slightest interest in the procedens, was then under £51,000: the hospital in perpetuity with

Nyi

never

showed

Lospital, Chetrea, which Messrs

and it would be worth several

PENSIONERS' LIFE

grants."

and

never contributed to, although there In

fty years ago the property was out any need for parliamentary plenty evidence to show that sho dd valued at just under £1,000,000

It was not until about the subscribe to several olher

middle of the 19th Century deserving causes of the period. times that figure today.

that the administration WES The belief has been finally

cleaned up and reorganlary on the model lines on which, it is exploded by Captain C. G. T. Charles If never Edw the conducted today, A six-year Commonwealth | Dean. ABE, Royal Artillery. In scheme working, for the build-

It was at the same time that development scheme for his new history of the Royal Hagu were no, completed until the veterans were completely raising the living standards Butchinson have just published, and Mary. The Hospital pro- ment.

1601, in the reign of William divorced from active employ people in This is

Companies of Invalids most detalled account vided accommodation for some had occasionally relieved foot South and Southeast Asia of its origins, development and 500 in-pensioners, and supplied regiments in garrison towns and

picturesqu Customs need oil

ridiculously oficial records

small and personal

pensions--parts In times of emergency were still 5d. a day During the Jacobite rising unlis experience by an officer who they

Inndred years Inter-out-were sent to Plymouth and just has been Captain of Invalids i

forestalled the Duke of Ormondo at thin colourful military Pensionera

who had attempted to land The veterans were clothed in near by, and they were on duty ordinury infantry or cavalry in London during the uniforms according to the armriols,

which they had served. NO CLOSSING OVER

Omeers carried pikes, sergeants Indeed. It is more

had bulbordka-a combined axe, than a About Britain's share, Mr. inere recital of

events and beak and spear head carried on

In even earlier days they had

thic Hogh

boundaries of Gaib kell, Minister for description of the masterpiece a staff about seven feet long-patroiled

had "fugees" Chelsea, then a happy hunting- while privates Economic Affairs, said:

Wren architecture. which of

(fant-lock fusils).

ground of footpada and the has been for some 260 yeara an| "We still naturally want to enduring memorial of atitude

Fach pensioners was allowed favourite rendezvous of duel- the beat we can, but it to men who have suffered 1 ounces of meat dally and liai would not be fair to decribe! weunds and mutilation in the

cimilar amount of tish On Fridays, also two as an intolerable burden."

cheese, two quarts of beer and largely run the hospital with Details

the plan were

Nearly all the leading political unspecified quantities of oat-their own labour, which provides approved at a sing-day met figures of the time were in musal and vegetables, Sergeantam with a variety of part- ΠΑΣ in London of representa volved in the appointments to and above received four were tele age and capacity,

jime employments rultable to lives ul Britain, Australia, and administration of the Hoa ounces of meat. All were Canada, Ceylon, India, New Zenbind, and Parklan.

establishment for over 20-years The cost is still secres, ite Adjutant for the pist but

the US, will be asked to decade, help and informal exchanges have already take place with Warbington.

I

cf

AGRICULTURE

Economie

to

service of their country.

the

loaves

outside. but

who

had

of

RENDEZVOUS

Nowadays

the

Charlist

pensioners

dives

pal, and as Capt. Dean has allowed to take food to their them some extra pocket money In as an incentive to work, and made no attempts to gloss over dependents

aflords them the catlafiction fantastic inefiletency and practice much of it was cold corruption which were rife in to strangers, particularly by the of feeling that their labour Is public life in the 17th and 18th cooks,

utilised for the substantial being

public Centuries, his work provides an "perks, All women tervants food But there is no comput- aid will be given illuminating example of the were widows or wives of slon whatever, and except for any country with a proved effects of the patronage syrem soldiers not accommodated in certain routine duties such as

after his br need. It will

financed at its worst.

looking the hospital

own bunk no mainly by Government loans

The

veleron need work a day longer Hospital was,

he chooses there or grants, but

for openings

private enter of the ancient elmshouses which

Sines prise.

had been open to old colder celebrated in the Chapel, but headphones a gift from

Weddings used to be regularly bunk has a wireless set with the few exclusively devoted to their relief. Maimed and

were not allowed to renders-of a newspaper,

ILG

Royal

will be simply, a logical development WOMEN NOT ALLOWED than 1930, by the way, anchy

Non-Commonwealth

coun-

with

nesia Burma, Indo-China, and Slam.

to

women

'events,

teles Invovled include Indo-disabled veterans and a very reside at Chelsen though two

The Hospital, which has ap- lern time in the 10th and 17th ainazons were placed on the out- Centuries, according the pension list and burled in the peared in the Army List illcer Aid

They were Christiadny other garrison since 1798, funds

rpent Articles of War, a soldier who rounds. will be mainly on agriculture, com- was no longer serviceable was Walsh, who fought with the has been the scene of a number munications, and developing sent by Pass to his Countrey Royal Scots Greys and the In- or important military

and Hannah Snell, Famous courts martial have hydro-electric power.

with money to bear his chargesniskillingo, In his travel," Such money, on who was wounded at Prindi been held in the Great Hall, Gover-occasions, did not exceed six-cherry, when serving with the including that of Li-Gen, White ments are to contribute to a pence!

predecessors of the Royal Warlocke, who was held responsi fund_tolling not more than

wickshire Regiment.

ble for the failure of operations £3,000,000 in the next thres

of Buenos Aires in 1800, whito The pensionera were ruth- it was the scene of the inquiry years.

by the ad into the muddle and bungling generations that had occurred in the the Hospital Crimean War.

Commonwealth

The bureau

areas.

money

for

MANY CASUALTIES Various measures: had been lessly exploited

ministrators will finante a tried to cope with their plight. to spread the "know At one time they were, sared The Governor of how" for developing backward with "bagging passepories" per- was always appointed by the

(until 1931 for life), WELLINGTON IN STATE mitting them to seek alms in Crown streets in contravention of the bus merit was quite a secondary

Then

Tho rates consideration in the illling of

Duke vagrancy

of Wellington's were collected in each patlah the other appointments, which body lay in state on one of the on their behalf, but these famed were

no political dining tables for a week; Army or the Civil privileges by on the outbreak

the Paymaster- | entrance examinations have General, and War.

provided the been held; and since 1810 I source of considerable fortunes. has been the repository for

ind' eagles which had been

The main development plan begins next July.

COPRA SHIPMENTS

Jaw.

When the Merry Monarch

and from

bestowed

Canc to the throne, he coon Captain Dean cites a numberry trophies, tings, coloure found large numbers of casual of outrageous irregularities: rotting and wasting in St New York, Oct. 23. ties on his hands-old Cavaliers even the apothecary's post was Paul's Cathedral. In 1947, 14 Copra for nearby shipment and victims of fresh wars once granted to a boy of 13 at wor

at were

handed OVLT to 'the the request

of his influential regiments which was quoted nominally at $210 against the Dutch

had captured father.

This fortunate youth

them. Research Centre, London, than modem nature of the equipment per ton, CIF. the Pacille Const. Tangiers-and very little money

That never troubled to acquire any In 1796, # the cessa-invatalled, The

newly-invented Iaboratories, in coconut oil, nearby shipment to relieve their distress. tion of the rains, locust swans fact, are claimed to be the mosi was offered at 164 cents n this could affect recruitment professional training

By en Admiralty telegraph was erected. One such toy Way & cons- Locusts, Indeed, provided are now on the

from modern in the insecticide world.ound, FOB. anilis. United was evidenced by an anonymous gaging a deputy and profiteering on the roof--a clumsy apparatus truction set for electric clock something of a theme for this India to Pakistan westwards. They appear

teller he received waming Him on the sale of drugs to the tune completing of a wooden frame have every Press. movement. Says the caption: occasion, which was the opening and from Eritrea and the thing necessary, from scales "It la of interest to children ot laboratory extensions at Sutinn, northwards. of pix years upwards!" We Yolding (Kent) of Plant Protçe- Inngine many adults will be tinn, Ltd. amused. and exasperated by Yalding laboratories, that the trying to fit together,

Jocust-balt, "Agroeide," was de- Strange naries meet our viced and from which supplies eyes when we look to see what now re out to various parts of the

new toys are made of the world. urea formaldehyde, for ONL.

This plantie was used for a set

It was here, at these

KCVO,

to

a vacuum

which weigh a fraction of # miligram to apparatus which Among distinguished guests cupplies

simply by to Yalding for the turning a tap. Who cune ocention was Is Excellency the Sheikh Hanz Wahba. Ambasador of Saudi Arable, Chatting nf'er a luncheon Party, working on the twin problems For years relentists have been

of the eradication e told me that while his coun- and insects from crops and the of diseases and Egypt, Saudi Arabia was stimulation of their yields, What in the anti-ready with the manpower need. io discovered in the scientist's wha made by Sired to deal with a locust inva- test-tubes, however, hể của

Reference to the part the fooked for help to Britain Interlocking barrels firm was. pinying for very young children, and locust wor

of

sevin

a torge scarlet postbox with Wallace Akers, former Director oddly perforated ld, througu of atomic which

odd

research, now Re- shapes in plastie search Director with 1.C.I.,

the serious

aro

careful formulation, expérimen- ion. He recalled invasion of Saudi Arabia in tatlon and field trials before it could be posted. Old-fashioned when he performed the opening for sheep and camels as the re- and agriculturists of the world. 1043, when there was no food becomes useful to the farmers hoops are back, but this time ceremony.

this formulation sult of the locust devastation of It is largely They are sectional, in gay con-

and experiments which trasting colours.

Mr O. B. Lean, technical head crops.

carried out at Yalding. EIGHT-TUNE CLARINET of the company's biological re

The goal of all the activity seen is creation of a future i which diseaser, and insects may Arablan still threaten but no longer des

were other

A whole store of music ins. (search Elation at Fernhurst, left truments

last week to advise an inter- In cream-coloured plastic will attract the musically national conference in Iran,

minded and portinps those who

OVERSEAS VISITORS

Sharing the

laboratories

Saudi

are not "No previous know- Studying the locust problem Ambassador's keen interest la troy the harvests of, humanity. ledge of music is necessary at its African end is Planthe

Gomil A. Responsible for the press ari in order to play the tunes Protection's managing director, overeens visitors Mr provided,"

OBE, who, Setoul, Agricultural Attache to rangements for the visit was we are seriously Mr S, W, Chevely, informed.

Tain notice applied in course of a tour from Egypte Egyption Embassy: Mr Ben-Mr R. W. Dickinson, of London to a recorder in which pitch 10 South Africa, was this week Jamin Ekalou, Professor of Press Exchange, Limited.

Chemistry, at Colabay: nad M- can be adjusted by sliding the at Kalarupa, Uganda.

K. W. Serenkuma, Agricultural Ho spent, his boyhood in mouth-plece backwards And

adviser to the Buganda Govern- | East Africa, where his uncle, forwards; and to an eight-tone Another of the Director, Mrment. A representative of the Mr W, J. Webb, is now ranna clarinet and saxo ARN. Roberts welcoming the Foreign Once, Mr H. Dudgeon, ging the family coffee and sisal phont, with.

tune visitors before the opening was also present.

estates ar Juja. · Nileu,«, in cords.

ceremony, anid, that at that

Kenya Mr. Pickinson, who had Nursery furniture was chosen moment, "graver reports from Technical experts and toymen not been in Kenya since before for construction, scale, good 200 observation 'points are being alike were impressed during the the war, told me he expects to ENDPORÍODE and surface tax-received at the Anti-Locust, tour of the laboratories with the be visiilor it again soon.

diatonie!

Girls'

Club Members At Work

with six large chutters which could be opened or closed in 63 different combinations. It trans- milled messages in 15 minutez ta Portsmouth via slations placed eight miles apari,

The

best-known ceremony held at Chelsea Hospital In ! "Charley's Day," held on the janniveranry of their Royal founder, which has been ob perved as a festival without Ja break since 1092

ROYAL INSPECTION

The inspection of the veterans in Figure Court la usually carried out by a member of the Royal Family or a distinguished soldier, After the pensioners

past to have marched strains of "The Old Brigade the Govermer leads the chering inst for "our plous, founder Di nodal theri ✨ for,

reigning

the

the

overeign. The twenty. Com |miselóriors and Visitors · Abate.

thepack + Buildings. mod comple bungoudding" whille:

the

on Onk At the festival fall on Apple Day, the status of Charlem "A happy group of members of a Girls' Club run by the Boys' and Girls: Club, As-I'm la fianyan - toga moda by ......mociation, concentrating in their handlexaft lomme The Ansociation – appesla

- decorsteck for Grinin Gibbonn more indles to come forward to help the work so that mora classe can be organised |wili oak, leaves, and the THE sionem wwer cale spring in / thai Muse for underprivileged children of the Colony, (Stam-Photographer),