SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1928.
LONDON BY NIGHT. could hardly sit still for a moment SIR HARRY POLAND.
PLIGHT OF DERELICTS OF ALL CLASSES.
CONCEALED TO THE LAST.
more
For the
before her departure. worst home is better than the best shelter.
DEATH OF FATHER OF THE BAR.
There is a great difference be- tween women and men derelicts. TREASURY SLEUTH-HOUND" The men make a show, of their terrible poverty and use it. as an asset. I know of no sight (writes Mr. F. A. Markenzie The women inestly try to conceal in the "Daily News and Westmins-it, even from one another. ter Gazette") than the nightly -gathering of homeless
women to secure a bed at one of the cheap London common, lodging-houses or shelter.
she is near starvation...
THE CHINA MAIL,
Chaffers then made a statutory MARRIAGE SCHOOL,
declaration in the Bow-street Police-
court that Lady Travers Twiss was DIANA BOURBON SPEAKS HER
as Marie Gelas, formerly known
the she had been an immoral
the
MIND.
AMERICA AĻARMED.
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the aninteur clothes that turned
out unsuccessfully.
There is a sort of' training course that might benefit married happiness. But it does not date from the end of a successful con- quest of mathematics or English, as the proposed College of Matri mony would have us believe.
Its
roots go much further back to a
time when the excellent husband and super wife had no manner of
were about in the training of them.
It is ante-nursery in origin.
Much of the unhappiness that does exist in marringe is due to
Shever visualise their children ns
agu to see them. Leaving her car in her imagination, und de auy., brought into relief by à lent, high office, and I have seen it stated the small modern family. Crisen faulty training in infancy. Parents
in the main road, she walked quiet-thing to keep up appearan
ly down the back street, shadowed by a private detective..
but
He was one
potential
woman, and had misconducted her- self with Chaffers himself, and others for money. Action was America, growing alarmed over Sir Harry Poland, whose death taken against Chaffers, and Poland the conspicuous inelliciency of is announced, was known na "the acted as her counsel. Chaffera, in mere love in making a success A woma will sell her very un- sleuth-hound of the Treasury," He cross-examining unfortunate modern marriage, threatens us with derglothing for food and not by looked the part at least when I woman, ripped up her past, and she a new matrimonial hurdle-a sort a whisper reveal the fact that saw him many years before the end was so unnerved that she fled from of post-graduate, but ante-nuptial, iden what their mother and father
of his long life.
He was of middle London, refused to reappear in the university course in All Branches height, The frame was alight box, and the case against Chafers or Matrimony, from She will keep away from her
The unfor-wife.or
choosing friends who would help her, talk the face was thin and narrow, and had to be abandoned.
husband according to The wife of a great statesman quietly of resources that exist only, the thinness and marrowness were tuante husband had to resign his
the scientific character-training of went unannounced a few weeks
protuberant, bouky nose; the eyes that he became a wanderer and a
cold, vigilant, but rather beggar in the East-end of London. and danger points will all be met potential future husbands, seldom, I know that there are some who were
colourless; altogether there was the greadily and unashamedly grasp
of the counsel to and folled by well-tried formulantil rather too inte, as sleath-hound suggestion in both obtain the verdict against two sets adapted to every emergency, it Jall they can. But they are the ex
future wives. If they did they "I had no idea that such a thing.
ceptions. Pride is often enough' face and figure. Ilis movements of murderers at sea-they were sounds rather appalling!
might make at least as much effort could be," she said at last, in the derelict woman's sole inherit were alert and rapid, as though of executed in Newgate the "Lennie"] Apparently Amerlen believes to fit them for that difficult calling broken voice. Very few have!
When that a man who was pursuing his preymutineers and the pirates of that University training and some as they do to make them semi-
The expression always seemed the Flowery Land. A case Look at them! They are nearlyance. that remains.
Knes, Heaven help her.
of blackboard maxims can accomplish agreeable dependants to have all middle-aged or old, some very What do these women. do for a preternaturally cold and impassiva, more general interest is that more than loving kindness, and the about the house. olt. Their dress is varied enough living? An eminent organiser of fle was born in London in 1829, of Henry. Wainwright, the
tolerance that comes only with
The Task. monotonously shabby
of Harriet Lane, and philanthropy assured me recently and educated at St. Paul's School-murderer
It much experience. Or perhaps If the mother brought up hor worn. Some have very little elath-that there was really little reason now removed to Hammersmit will be remembered that Wain-companionato marriage" is to be son to be just the kind of hus- ing.
to trouble oneself about homeless Apparently he came from a co right, who was a married man included in the curricula, and will band to some other woman that This woman, for instance, is try-women. "They can always get a fortable family, for though he was and had carried on intrigue with ing to hide the fact that her job if they are willing to work-reticent about his early years, be Harriel Lane, killed her in his shop provide even that last test of fit-she would have liked his father- tire raiment is a thin skirt and
eharing, domestic service or the did now and then show some uil in Whitechapel-road and buried her ness. It would be only pushing the however much she may have loved an old jacket, with nothing under like," said he.
paintings, which were heirlooms in remains underneath the floor.
experiment to
its logical. con-him just as he was to be to her. neath, no stockings und A very Tant good man lives in West his possession. His father was was present at his execution inclusion, and in this outspoken and I feel sure the father could con- Freudian age it is hard to Bee tribute equally valuably to the much torn pair of boots...
London. "I wish he would come Mr. Peter Poland, a London mer- Newgate. here," said the head of one big chant. -He entered for the Bar in
where else the line below. which future happiness of his little East End shelter.
"fais" appears can "We would. 1818-the year in which I was born
possibly be daughter's husband. teach him better."
-three years afterwards he After FL woman has passed called by the Inner Temple. and has little bundles tied around middle age she finds the utmost The case which decided young her. But she has come to difficulty in getting anything but Poland's career change words with another, not toasual tasks even, na the humblest
She refuses to live in servant, save in very pour homes, John. Dean Paul, banker as woman died, and it was charged Eugenist standard of physical fit any number of three-hour lectures house, and sleeps out every nighti Some sell matches, some clean eminent for his ostentatious piety against the Stauntons and Aliceness; but also with their post--no matter how beautifully they about unselfishness that she can, She has her own steps, some
earn their week-end, as for his high financial position, Rhodes, who was the mistress of graduate "report," and marka in may write
But you can 'tench favourite arelway, too. Another keep by lighting fires and doing was convicted of fraud.
the married Staunton, whose wife's "the Finals" of the theory of mar- afterwards. old woman long shared the arch simple services for Orthodox Jews complicated and a hard-fought cas, death was under investigation, that ringe examination, but to speak of them to a baby before over it has way with her, but the winter cold on their Sabbath.
contributed 10 the the record of one or severni experi- learned that there is any difficulty death by semi-stary-mental alliances,
about learning anything. killed her.
Jing and neglecting the
fortunate ervature. Sir Henry Hawkins was the judge, and Siri Edward Clarke, then a young lawyer growing into fame, was the chief counsel for the prisoners. The judge charged strongly against the prisoners, they were all convicted, and all sentenced by him to death. The sentences were not carried out, and Alive Rhodes was released very shortly afterwards.
Many of them are dirty, vermin oua, repulsive, most make senie a tempt to keep clean and tidy.
This old weraan is a scavenger.
stay.
A University Woman, There is another of quite a dif ferent type whom you will not a here to-night. Her low vnice even now, that of a cultored a refined gentlewoman, and she is graduate of a great, universi:“ Recently
visitor- chance woman on kindly purposes bént heard her name, one well known n Yorkshire. She gazed at her an recognised her, "How you reserv ble my friend Mrs." said t! visitar. "You must be her sister
#
The woman went rigid, "Don' tell my sister that you ever s me," she said in a low tone, i which agony, panic, and pride mingled. "For God's suke don't tell her!" She diappeared th night-probally to sume oth slum quarter of London.
There are quite a aumber these one-time gentlewomen wh have hidden themselves in the r fuges and common lodging-house In some cases they have fallen 1- the gutter because of drugs Drink is not violent temper.
often the reason in my experience But more generally it is just min fortune, a dishonest solicitar, a bad investment, or the like.
When the Crash Came.
women
wan
of drawn.
The Penge Mystery. Poland was also in the case the Stauntona, two brothers, one of whom was married to a 'semi-
As a woman, I cannot say quite The candidates for marriage at what makes the best wife; but I some future date, then, may be do know that you cannot hurden a a searching man or woman in good habits in
and gave him hla imbecfle woman with a little money-faced not only with
first success was that in which Sir They all lived at Penge,
趁
It was a
washers in coffee houses,
Some are dish for Paul had command of raro re-
some sources and many friends, and Woman'a
they
and
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The
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Sir Henry Poland had a wealth of good stories and, interesting re miniscences, About Vice-Chancel-
or Baena he once said:
Ah! There is this story, about) him. A disappointed litigant threw an egg at Vlee-Chancellor Malins and missed him," "There is! some mistake here," said Malins.j "That must have been intended for my brother Bacon."
Discussing the curious fact that sometimes the smallest degree of force will cause death while the greatest violence will not, Sir Harry remarked:
That is so. Quite right. I member prosecuting for murder, at the Glamorganshire Assizes, man who had simply pushed ar assailant away with his finger, but
a
thereby had broken. a membrane under the eye and caused meningitis
to
Sir Harry was for the defence in 1874 the famous case of Governor Eyre, the honorary who had put down what he thought town.
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The Curricula.
Sometimes, too, you can teach a When trouble came and their get occasional jobs charing in the probably it was in meeting these They count difliculties that Poland displayed
And whereas the curricula of baby not to take for granted any-
I wonder how] little all weat, they prefe.red to houses of the poor.
strange He was not convicted. this
course and still thing that is done. keep themselves to themselves. 28. a fair day's earnings, and 38. those qualities of vigilance, ten- and death.
acity, and astuteness that gained The jury stopped the case, and he more the teachers of it (for who many post-graduales could ever Old treasures, thought to be worth good day's.
master the idea? Yet "taking for waa 'acquitted. In another, case is going to have the courage to ac- much, were brought out to be
a prime wrecker of Trial of Madame Rachel..
I was in a man took an axe and cut cept un appointment to the Chair granted" is sacrificed, and were found to be They are sweathed to the ut worth nothing.
The story of Sir Harry from this the top of his wife's head clean off of Happy Marriage at any univer marriages-even the unscientific The furnished most at every opportunity by people
certain obvious ones thut, ordinarily, have got a room could not be kept on. There a little better off than themselves. time forward is that of nearly all and she appeared to give evidence sity?)-present.
al bit of a chanée-"Daily Express." was nothing but the shelter. Men and women come to the shoithe big criminal trials of the period.against him-with a silver top to difficulties, the examiners are
ready appointed by mature. They Here is the woman whose hus-ters offering employment on such One of them was that of Madame her head.
that the wardens Rachel, who proclaimed her power
are the future in-laws of the can- hand earned much and spent absurd terms
A Confirmed Bachelor,
didate! much, clien
whatever the of renewing youth and beauty for left commandants, early and
and women of all ages,
Paland gave up practice at the her nothing but debts. She heads muy he called, often showi
ultimately convicted and sent to Bar after forty-four years' activity. day Romeo trying to broak to his
Picture the plight of some latter- NEW NOSES FOR OLD was not able to stand the strain, then the door.
He was Recorder of Dover from father the news that the Juliet of
VICTORIANS AND THE so here she came.
Then the sweaters wait outside penal nervitude.
1901, and received
NYMPHS. women to leave in the If you who read this have sister for the
freedom
his heart is only a pass and not an of that. or woman friend in London who morning, waylaying them with
honours graduate. I foresee al- For some years he
The last of 2,000 of famous is hiding her traces, and making their offers, Foreign Jewe are the
most the professional in-law in was a menacing rebellion of the was an alderman of the London
statuary casts, which were mystery of her whereabouts, look worst offenders..
They think Is. a day good negroes whom he ruled over as County, Council. if she may not be one of theso.
blema. The happily married are
wir-time occupation of the pay for 12 hours' scrubbing, and Governor of Jamaica by strenuous his days he was te seen at the quiet Here are oid
of the streets, too old for their hideous; sometimes they put the clock means, including a considerable seaside resorts where retired men mostly without theories, and the
He was unmarried without practical ox Crystal Palace, was replaced on
exhibition recently. back an hour in the afternoon to nuniber of executions and floggings) find health and solace. calling. They are the worst look-:
and imprisonments. make the day longer..
Now that it is once more com-| The case ex-active, however, and was a frequent perience; but neither accusation ing, and often the worst temper-
could ever be levelled against an plate, this exhibition might be el at all. See this hard-faced The first time that studied the cited a great deal of attention. correspondent to the
and, as in the ease of Amritsar and on subjects which excited his In-in-law! A college staffed entire classified a little better. For in- madam. It takes some imagination lives of these destitute women n
General Dyer in our own times, the terest; his memory, especially forly by them would have only one stance, some famous Victorians to pieture her as abe was a few sense of despair came years ago. Some of these are the "What can they do?" I asked my Governor had plenty of ardent détail, remained marvellous to the problem left to grapple with-how arc in rather unseemly surround- most difficult cases to handle.
He never married; it is much they intended to teach. self. "Surely the happiest thing defenders-among others, Thomas end,
s that, after a few years of this Carlyle. The proceeding ended in-worth while recording his judg In fact, the main trouble will be Broken Marriages.
In a room supposed to be sucred have life, most of them die."
decisively, but Governor Eyre wonment on The majority, of course,
the comparative merits quite a different one-the futility to Grecian statuary, Queen Vic- in the litigation. Courage.
of celibacy and marriage: " of any amount of mere knowledge toria is to be found turning for Many much more prosaic, tales.
worked hard Another big case was that of the have Better knowledge taught me that derelict wives. Their hus
livin the unequal contest with love. sympathy to Cleopatra, Mr. Glad-x Carefulaess has plainly. bands have gone and left them there is hope even here.
very daring and skilful Americans ud
dozen beautiful women, and and they are unable to obtain Dr. Menzies, the Medical Officer who eucceeded in committing a prevented, me from knowing the No matter how Phyllis heart may stone beholds the bare backs of a
aink when, in answer to question of the LC.C. struck a true note in great fraud on the Bank of Eng pinch of want, and thank heaven 18.B. of the test formula for pros- Disraeli is almost lost among four Venuses, a couple of Eves, "It's one thing to get the order. his last report, when, after dwell. land, with a man called Austin-1 am a confirmed bachelor....pective husband, Cuthbert con- Lady Godiva, and some nymphs
The had married I might have been fesses that he detests dogs, but about to enter invisible baths. another to handle the eash," asing on their pitiable lot, he said: [Bidwell as the chief figure. one disillusioned wornan put it.
Their stories vary from a life discovery in that case came quite bothered by children, and perhaps has a sneaking fondness for tabby Mr. Joseph Cheek, superinten
A policeman visited even disgraced by them. As far as Some have found, marriage long record of honest toll and by accident.
blameless behaviour to the op- the house of a man named Macdon-I can see, married life is so much/cats; no matter how much Phyllis' ident-nurse and surgeon of all the ingdom and Irland, the Continent very disastrous experience. "Her
I am sure if I had married report from Professor "Crabaplc. statues, busts, and models in the of Europe, Afrien, America, Aalo, posite extreme of crime and nell, one of the gang; after he had warry. folly, but they are all marked failed to get any evidence he caught I should have been dead long since." who takes the maternity lectures, Palace, admitted that the classi- Australusis, vie. The names, addresses. nlike by a plucky determination sight of a plece of blotting-paper Such was Sir Harry Poland-amay upset Cuthbert's mammai fication might be improved. He and other details are classifed under to keep their independence, to that had been thrown into the queer, dry spirit, with perfect faith Cupid has 'dona his work properly has had a big job during the last avold the Poor Law, and to earn fireplace, and when he froned it out in the law, no sympathy with Cuthbert and Phyllis will marry seven years getting all the statues and ill-featured of all. "Her hus
what little they can as long as he found a copy of one of the forged crime or criminals; ready to be an just the same; having merely spent out into the light of day and re-
notes. they can.
almost automatic, ruthless, but fair a lot more of their parents' money pairing them. band was a brute. Her beat her,;
The Case of Mr. Chaffers, smashed her, ruined her health, Sometimes charity docs harm.
"I have put together beauties agent in driving the machinery on the educational preliminaries! There But surely, in the case of these
was also the case of that brings men and women to the I foresce that even a couple of that have been broken into bits, and then left her."
This rufian gaol or the scaffold; haunted by no students who "passed;" with dia to say nothing of providing now Here is a woman, one of many, elderly and lonely women, charity Alexander Chaffers.
Their had been acquainted with the wife ghosts of regrets or of self-tinction" might find all their valu-noses for old Venuses by the who has been obliged to separate can do nothing but good. from her husband because of long need is urgen' enough. Every of Sir Travers Twiss, then the doubtings; In short, the "sleuth-ablo precepts, their palafully ac-acore, and making ears and feet
welcomes old Advocate-Ganeral, and had acted as bound lack of employment. Their home shelter eagerly
of the Treasury."-T.P. quired second-hand experience, and arms and legs for all sorts and can be printed at a cost of £1. 10s. Od. for each trade heading under which they was sold up, he has gone off in clothes, and other aid, and makes her lawyer. When the lady had O'Connor In Daily Telegraph,"
Dying out of the window within conditions of nymphs, ancient are inserted. Larger advertisements at married this high official, and”; an
£10 per page. one direction, and sho in another. good use of all.
five seconds of the start of their heroes and Victorian statesmen," She still dreams and talks of the Efforts have been begun to in-apparently assured social position—|
first real quarrel.
he told a Press representative,
"The most difficult task is to The directory is invaluable to everyone days when she will have her own vont better employment for them helped by her beauty and her charm
Yet matrimony is left too much make fingers to match, and to fit interested in overseas commerce, and home again.
some task of kindlier nature-but-Chaffers began writing black- The City Council of Wellington
a copy will be sent by pareol post for without success.
mailing letters demanding money. (N.Z.), on which Labour members to chance. It is true that love on naturally. But, I've made so In 1868 she was presented at Court; are in a majority, has adopted wears thin and waxes inefficient many hundreds now that I can, nett cash with order, Chaffers wrote to the Lord Cham- a resolution in favour of the re-especially when bathroom towels just look at a broken statue and THE LONDON DIRECTORY CO. LTD. berlain to denounce her as an Immoval of guns and other war are dirtied too persistently by go straight away and make the 25, Abchurch Lane, London, EC. 4. to her friends, Mre, i moral: woman; the Lord Cham-trophies from public spaces. The careless handwashers in trousers, fingers correctly. she act up a room. of her own diary Anne. Deighton, or ogāla. She was so excited she ton, hanged herself.
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she was one of the brightest and most cheerful girls in London," said an experienced worker, point- ing out one of the most downcast
.
Pride. Sometimes this dream comes true. Only last week good fortune
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