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THE FIRST SCHOOL STORY!
SARAH FIELDING AND “THE GOVERNESS " LEAD THE WAY TO THE GREAT AGE. OF STORYTELLING FOR CHILDREN.
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the schools in all school stories would do something towards rellev- that have since been written. ing that "distress in her circum- There was Miss Jenny Feacó, stances" which, as she had written pretty, amiable, and clever, the five years before in her Introduc- first of those adored head girls who tion to her story, David Simple, in a thousand schools have queen- was "the best excuse that can be ed it over a devoted following. The made for a woman writing at all." characters of the others may be,; She had no ides that, like her to some extent, inferred from their brother and "dear Mr. Richardson," names-Miss Sukey Jennet, Miss she was to send out a new literary Dolly Friendly, Miss Luey Sly, form, the pattern of which was to Miss Patty Lockitt, Miss Nancy be copied by a long chain of Spruce. Miss Betty Ford, Miss writers through the ages that were Henny Fret, and Miss Folly to follow.
Suckling.
"Variety, the spice of life' should, furniture, old, pictures and prints, aurely be the slogan of all pawn Provencal quilted coverlets, china,
Nearly 200 years ago Sarah would scarcely venture to present) and antique shops, for there are few and brass and copper pots and pans the Stock Exchange to-day states: Richardson, sat down to write the pupils, and these Miss Fielding
The official summary issued by and devoted admirer of Samuel
Fielding, sister of Henry Fielding a "fat" goddess for their adoration. of us humans who can resist the Some of this old Italian copper is
Mrs. Teachum had only right joy of a bargain or the zest of a very attractive and we were greatly bunt. Curiosity shops supply both tempted to buy an enormous pierced Year trading to all intents and inspired by the thought of the dants, each garbed in the fashion She was not carefully labelled. Their descen and I have spent pleasant hours in copper brazier on a high stand, for purposes is practically suspended, Christmas market and large sales; of her day, have helped to fill all Barnen rosing round the Chiness we pictured it glowing with char- and rates are more or less nominal. but she did hope that the book pawnshops their Eastern equiv coal in a corner of our alent. Having climbed up a dark and room.
drawing Another templation was a rickety staircase one is ushered into glass vase, tumbler-shaped with a a room with floor and shelves piled lowery base the flowers were with brass caskets, jars and trays, moulded or blown into the glass. It oblong and round. They all bear was so solid and heavy that not even pathetic little labels on which are the gusts of a sudden monsoon gale written the names of the owners would have upset it. The owner who yet hope to claim them when said it was unique in France and I the loan and its exorbitant interest could have it for 100 francs. Lying) are paid off. Only when the goods out in the overcrowded yard glowed become Inkp—which means for the translucent green of a few 'bom- feited by non-payment-can the boms, those narrow-necked balloons would-be purchaser carry off his of glass, protected by a covering of bargain. Sometimes he may have plaited osiers. that are used for to wait a year
for some treasure storing wine. I can remember one) which is in and out of pawn accord brilliant March morning, the first I ing to the state of its owner's had spent in France, turning out of pocket, writes E. 1. in the Singapore a dark corner in a village street and Free Press,
seeing an old man, clad in blue. Many a wild goose chase, however, deftly twisting the osters around were we led when the natives learnt! one of these green globes which that we were prepared to buy old caught the dazzling spring sunshine. jars, plates and so on. On one oc- An ingenious friend of ours bought casion a tempting bait was dangled two of these 'bom-boms' and con- before us. Word was brought inverted them into globes of pale that an ancient dish, reputed to green fight by a clever arrangement have been treasured by generations of electric bulbs,
They stand in of Sulua, was at our disposal in an niches on either side of the fire out-lying village. Hoping that we place and complete the pale green might be on the track of an heir- and rose of her colour scheme. loom of Celadon, Ming or what not,
HIS ENEMY'S SWORD.
About the "Knightly Chivalry" of a Briton.
A Prim Portraft. Yet so it was, 88 an examination of her book, The Governess: or the Little Female Academy, will show. Miss Fielding worked on a simple and definite plan. She fixed her eyes on a certain small portion of the Picture of Life, as she saw it.
A great part of The Governess. is made up of stories which the young ladies told or read to each) other-all expressed in the most elegant language and all adequate ly supplied with a moral. The book was highly popular with girls of its own and several succeeding
This portion she enclosed with generations. During the next 30 firmly drawn lines, cutting it of years three new editions were call- inexorably from all that lay be-ed for, and in 1820 it was re-issued High tribute is being paid in yond. Then with the same the Berlin newspapers to the and heavy hand, she proceeded to Mrs. Sherwood, author of that im- firm in a considerably altered form by "knightly chivalry" of a British go over the outlines of the figures mortal work, The Fairchild Family. officer.
within the frame she had made.
The "Awful Example." the process the individual
The changes that Mrs. Sherwood were lost.
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Everything Near Ypres in 1914 Baron was slightly distorted and out of made in The Governess were large- dating from the Chinese occupation handsome warming-pan, to good Wilhelm von Lersner was at the drawing, and the effect, though not is concerned with its colours RED HORSE
some 500 years back, the men futk
rose to the bait and atarted off. After miles of alogging through the jungle the village was reached and. after many preliminaries, the trea-
This is the story they are tell-In ing, as given by the Exchange: features We put one of our purchases, nj purpose on cold nights when, filled head of a German patrol when actually grotesque, was stiff and She painted upon Miss Fielding's with glowing embers, it warms our he was captured by a party of unnatural. beds in the good old-fashioned way British troops under "Lieutenant attended to the colouring of her shadows and the lurid flames char- Next, Miss Fielding flat, drab surfaces the dark beloved of Dicken's generation.
Marix." Sometimes we take
The Baron's sword was taken in favour in her day-a drab her day. She introduced the A- picture. She applied the tint most acteristic of the Eyangelicalism of from him, but "Lieutenant morality-with
ΑΠ industrious ful Example, and inserted a terri-
our friends
to
sure was produced from its volumin-1 on these hunts and it is not always Marix" handed it hack to him.brush, blotting out all natural huesfying picture of the torments that ous wrappings to reveal a large oval in curiosity shops that we dig up Then the Baron asked the Lientland lifelike shading; and she pre-awaited, in this world and the next, meat dish, chipped and of the com-treasures. We were on the look out mones; white earthenware. We for a door knocker intended for anant to keep it for him until sented her handiwork to her young the girl who preferred play could only suppose that its oval house in the middle west of America after the war. shape and unusual size, in a country and had drawn blank in several at- where large British joints of ment were unknown, had enused it to be an unwanted detail of an Eastern dinner service though eagerly pounced on as an embellishment of a native house. But occasionally our heck was in. One day we ar-
He did so. And now, 17
years after, "Lieutenant Marix" has
Buc- ceeded in finding Baron von Lersner and has returned the sword through the British Mili
readers as something that would lessons, or disobeyed those set in tenipts in Aix and elsewhere on this
make them "wiser and better."
authority over her. trip. In Arles however, where we
The Schoolgirls' Idol.
In its new form, and with a name The most prominent of the out- revered by all seriously minded were exploring with these American friends, we left the car outside a
lined figures was Mrs. Teachum, Parents on its title-page, Thò shop decorated with the sign, "Ser-tary Attache in Berlin.
the GovernOBS. She was "about Governess entered on a fresh termi rurerie' (Locksmith). It seemed an
Wing-Commander Now. forty years old, tall and gesteel in of popularity. For a long time it unlikely spot but
Mr. we wandered in Evening News correspondent) is clined to fat.
"Lieutenant Marix" (writes an her person, though somewhat in had no rivals of any note. rived in an outstation on the month and asked if they had such a thing Wing-Commander R. L. G. Marix, and commanding eye, insomuch Mary Lamb, published in 1807, was She had a lively Leicester's School, by Charles and ly tour of inspection and were told as that three Sulu conts-of-mail had Spanish-looking proprietor might ganisation Department of the Air in all her little scholars; except collection of tales told by Mrs. a door knocker. The sallow: D.S.O. He is engaged in the Or that she naturally created an awe not really a school story, only a been turned upon amongst the have been expecting us, for he dived Ministry, and he tumber of a Chinese shop and were without hesitation into a drawer and R.A.F.
was principal when she condescended to smile Leicester's pupila. In 1841 came lying in the pawnshop for sale. produced the only
one he had in Schneider
representative оп the and talk familiarly with them, and The Crofton Boys, by Harriet Mar-| They were indeed intereating and the shop-a hand-made knocker in
Trophy Committee then there was something perfectly tineau, who had no creative power, beautiful pieces of handwork, pro-iron filigree,, black with age.
this year.
kind and tender in her manner." and could not break down the con- bably 200 years old, made of small assured us of the excellence of its in the 3rd. Squadron, R.N.A.S., been the idol of hero-worshipping firmly established, and
In those days of 1914 he was Here is the headmistress who has ventions that were becoming ao plaques of buffalo horn linked to workmanship and expatiated upon under the famous Commander schoolgirls through many genera story free.
Bet the gether by chain mail. We bought its antiquity and of the lost art that C. R. Samson. them all, though they were any flourished when this particular piece Belgium with the squadron in though perhaps a modern writer torian story-tellers had begun.
He had gone to tions, and still keeps her place; But the great age of the Vic- thing but cheap, but very handsome was probably made, in about the the very early days of the war, they looked when verdigris and rust fifteenth century. Fifty francs at the age of 25. were rubbed off.
changed bands and our friends be-
we un
He
In the course of time
On October 8, 1914, he flew a came the proud possessors of a real Sopwith Tabloid to Duesseldorf, earthed several good places of Chin-ly striking souvenir, while we re-and diving down 600 feet com- ese porcelain from the dim recesses joiced that the wheels of happy pletely destroyed Zeppelin Z9. of some pawnshops in out-of-the- chance had dropped us
30 for- way places. Once we picked up, for tuitously
His machine was heavily dam- #L the door of a few dollars, a tall Kien Lung jar unsuspected curiosity shop.
this aged by fire, but Marix managed sprinkled with delicate rosebuds and butterflies, and we also found Ming plates which have been much admired now that they hang on our
walls in the South of France.
It is not only in the Far East that we have fallen to the joy of the hunt, the second-hand shops in the Midi still repay a visit. We often look round amongst the medley of
to fly back to within 20 miles of Antwerp.
A WORD FOR ALGEBRA.
Teaching the Young Idea to Reason.
But one can overdo the practical | side of teaching.
Where Words Fail.
"The people who suggest found-j ing the curriculum on modern lan guages don't realise that in prac- tice modern languages Dean French and German conversation, and that is no education at all- German language and literature "If one could have French and
studied ilke Latin and Greek It}
Rosetta and Vivian Duncan, the) "Duncan Sisters," who have filed board of a train were the means thinks about the attack on algebra A borrowed cycle and the foot- I don't know what Smith minor their petition in bankruptcy, are he used to get into Antwerp, that has just been made by Dr. now threatened with a judge's war where he arrived the night that Alington, the headmaster of Eton; could be the basis of a real educa- rant from the Los Angeles bench to orders ensure their attendance in court forces to vacate the city.
were given to British but Smith minor had better not Pleading Illness, they had failed to
imagine that Dr. Alington was only A Chase and Capture. appear with the statement of their Young Mariz was given a new mind, writes an Eventing News car to be a chemist or an engineer, the "The same is true of mathema; saying what was in everybody's tics. Whether or not you are going assets and liabilities.
machine and was detailed to respondent.
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carry out an air reconnaisance Dr. Alington, you remember, has study of subjects like geometry and near Ypres with another officer told the headmasters conference algebra is of enormous value in in another machine.
The two British machines land why he had been taught algebra,
that he had not the faintest iden trafning the formal reasoning fa- ed to the South of Ypres, and which seemed to him a pure waste of the London Day Training Col-
culty the sense of logic.” de
Sir Percy Nunn, who is principal hearing that a body of Germans, of time, and that he thought alge with two British prisoners, were bra and Latin prose ought to be lege, holds the same views on the in a chateau half a mile away, alternative subjects. decided to try to rescue them.
pakkasen value of algebra, pranda On the way, with six marines, that he could easily do without
Smith minor thinks, no doubt and it trains children
"It teaches logic," he said, Marix was fired upon by a Uhlan squadron. The fire was returned either. And he will be grieved to get the idea of a problem or an
equation into their heads.”. and the Germans galloped off, earn that there are still people except an officer and a trooper, ready to say a good word for alge both of whom had fallen from
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The Uses of A + B + C Marix chased the two Ger- There a Ian Hay, for instance.
Before Mr. Schofield in the Cen- mans on foot across a field, pis Lan Hay has written so many funny noon, hearing was commenced in tra Magistracy yesterday after- tol shots being exchanged as they novels and plays that people are the case in which Mrs. Mariam
we forgetting that he was once a mas The two
Germans were tor at Fettes. He said caught. The officer was Baron "You might just as well talk von Lersen. And then followed about making eating and drinking the incident of the sword." alternative as bout doing the same
with algebra and Latin prone.
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