WHEN BARONETS WERE BOLD.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 120, 6 May 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

WHEN BARONETS WERE BOLD.

The title of baronet is exactly three hundred years old It was in the reign of Good Kino James that baronets first came into existence. To-dav. you could hardly tel! a baronet from a banker. But ii'i the jear 161 J. when Tames I. needed readymoney and created two hundred “littl •- barons to supply him with cash thev swaggered about m their l w ldlie’s and :ft7hio; nfl be ’ av ' d 111 tl,e courtliest Each baronet, in order to justify his title had to maintain a small armv ol thirty soldiers tor thro - rears In this way the crafty king not only increased bis revenue. but actimllv lightened his expenses'

‘r known that the title of ..••on- f.-o’ has twice been bestowed on women. One of these was the mother of a Dutch general The • •they was a Nottingham' ladv named Dame Alarm Rolles, who won'her wav into the good graces of Chailes T and received the title from his hands’. CHRISTENING ships. The ceremony r-f breaking a bottle of wine over a ship s hows before launching as mth the Tl imderer recently— IJ- t,le ancient heathen belie, that tefore starting out on any new enterprise it was mwessarv to oT fa r sacrifices to propitiate the gods sbfaL 1! !!r M 1 ’’ i^ f n > tor listening “L C Hpvai Navy f or centuries” but occasionally there am departures lior.i h , 19 u! , , 1 Krc’r’ ’’""'•hod at Devonport a bottle pl Ir-sl: j.. v n;t< brn[ X r ’°" S a —P’—’t to her

Jr. Amerum. t!-., Kansas and Kent-.i. I.v v.,.,,. cbrist V ’ pure water, out ..f f ie|-.. ri ,.' 1 temperance nartv.

. Sometimes th.'. throwing of flowers ’he re iZmI d o-.'\'" I ’ ra, " p - a,,d Japan -lie usual custom is to susnond of live birds over the bon s. Jf the • birds commoner to sing when set free 1- is considered a good omen. REPARTEE. Bicycling won.an .“I am very son v rir. that you have been the victim of «.n accident. but what else can vou expect when at this period of vehicular progress. vn ., ri(lo ;1 h1) ,., e n hicvt ie-”

.. Victim of Ar.-id-mt idiilvN '-Madam, it was not the bicycle the horse /«t.