ROYAL ‘FAG”

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 299, 2 December 1936, Page 3

ROYAL ‘FAG”

Viscount Lascelles at Eton THE KING’S NEPHEW (thru Correspondent —By Air Mail) LONDON, Oct. 12. Viscount Lascelles, thirteen-year-old nephew of the King, and elder son ot the Princess Koya! and tho Earl of Li are wood, will learn to-morrow for whom he will have'to run errands as a fag at Eton. tie must be prepared to make tea, stoke fires, run errands, and answer the beck and call of certain senior boys. One of these seniors will have a prior claim on Lord Lascelles; but when not serving him the Viscount will have to work tor the others. Any slackness or insubordination on his part is liable to earn him a “swishing” administered before the “fag master” and a committee of boys. A thin malacca cane plays a prominent part in “swishings.” The young Viscount is in the house of a. r. Charles James Kowlatt.. The Duke of Gloucester spent hi s Eton days at the same house. The forty boys are wondering who among them will in after life be able to recall proudly that a nephew of King Edward VIIL “fagged” for him at Et’Qll. The boys at Rowlatt’s House have deen asked for and have given their word of honour that they woii?u not reveal to the outer world details of Lord Lascelles “fagging.”-

1 “I sometimes hear or read that to- ' bacco is an evil thing,” writes “Old | Fogey” in the “Onlooker,” “but as a I medical man I agree with Huxley that | smoking is really no more harmful than tea-drinking. Of course, just as ' there is inferior tea, so there is in- i ferior tobacco. As for myself, I have ■ derived not only the greatest comfort, j but the greatest help, from my pipe, | and that tobacco is invaluable in j many cases of brain fag and mental j stress. I know well. The best advice | I can offer fellow-smokers is to use ! discrimination in their choice of the j weed. Purity is essential.” Well, if ■ that is so, as it assuredly is, what ; about “toasted”? Practically without nicotine (eliminated by toasting) its j equal for flavour and aroma has yet to be. found. It is at once the purest I and most delightful of all tobaccos. , But there are only five brands ot the i genuine article, remember: Cut Plug j No. 10 (Bullshcad), Cavendish, Navy I Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold ; and Desert Gold. ’ware imitations! There tire several about'