WEDDING BELLS. | LOUIS XI STATUE.
TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1932,
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Pretty Ceremony at Rosary Church.
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QUAINT NOTIONS AND HUMOUR
OF CONVICTS.
By The Rev. John Cawley.
Recently Chaplain at Dartmoor Prison.
After the recent events at Dart-country residences-one in Devon-] moor it will perhaps come as a re-shire and the other in Hampshire." lief to read of another side of life It was all too true they were his in that institution. Not all the Majesty's prison at Dartmoor and finer points of humanity have been Winchester. stiffed: there is that beat of all sav-
Ing graces-humour.
The Prison Band.
HOWELL-LAWRENCE.
Liscovered in Good Condition at Nancy.
BOUGHT BY AMERICA.
The Rosary Church, Kowloon was A crabbed, cruel, old dodderer, the scene of a pretty wedding yea- going about with his hat decorated terday afternoon, when Miss Mario with religious figures and sending Perpetual Lawrence, of 19 West displeasing subjects to the gallows. Terrace, Kowloon Docks, eldest
That's how we usually visualize daughter of Mr. J. H. Lawrence, be- Louis XI. as, the late Sir Henry came the bride of Mr. James Lloyd Irving represented him in the play. Howell, engineer on board the death through his confessor.
Or the cynie trying to buy off
3.3. Selatan, youngest son of Mr. The Albright Gallery in Buffalo C. L. Howell, The Very Rev. has just acquired a wood carvingtow of the young Doula that gives quite te Father G. M. Spada conducted the}
a different picture, ceremony.
The bride, who was given away
A Lovely Carving, More than that, it is called one by her father, looked charming in of the most important works of ait
a dress of white crepe satin trimmed in this country-one of the lovell The men love music, and the band with Strass and bead embroidered est examples of fifteenth-century French carving," says Edward Many of the men there possess a at Dartmoor is extremely popular. galoons, with lace and orange Aiden Jewell in the New York real sense of humour, some of them It was my privilege to play the blossoms, and a long satin train. Times. impishly, which any prison chaplain cuphonium. A slight cold one day
has it too.
men without it.
methods of interpretation.
Target for a Joke,
song
"Well, mister,
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As bridesmaids, the
The Buffalo transaction was made
can always find, provided he himself kept me out of the band room, and Her veil was of fine hand-embroider-
As a matter of fact, a it was not long afterwards that Ied Bretonne net with diamante and through the agency of Joseph Brum- mer, the art dealer, from whom Mr. chaplain will not do much with the was suffering from hydrophobist orange blossoms headgear. She Allen draws for information:
That was the nearest to "euphon- carried a neat bouquet of white] "Mr. Brummer tells us that it was They love to tease and be teased. Ilum" some illiterate gossiper had Arum lillies trimmed with lace and discovered in Nancy, in small cof- He sees the men privately in their been able to manage.
lection of which it had been a parti cells, and many are the stories that Another wag approached me with ribbons.
since the French Revolution, and he hears; some end, others positive the suggestion that as we had a Misses C. and B. Beltrao, K. Baratto that prior to that it was in Nancy's ly funny.
band, we should also have a regular and P. Een, were dressed in pink fifteenth-century Ducal Palace. In a prison pulpit the chaplain is swan
ode. or regimental (not "six feet above contradiction," Readily 1 agreed, and asked for his georgette. trimmed with pink silk "Mr. Brummer says the poly you lace, and carried bouquets of gladioli of the pigment has disappeared chrome is all original, though mosti for should he say anything which is suggestion. debatable he is sure to be challeng- couldn't do better than "The Little trimmed with pink net. Miss D. from the back of the figure, and ed. Indeed, I do not remember Grey Home in the West," he said, Medina was in attendance as the colours that remain are prob preaching a sermon without having with a mischievous grin at my ex-
Matron of Honour, and wore a dress ably a great deal duller than when to discus it afterwards with some 'pense..
Arst applied. Louis: XI-still dị of the men. They had their own The most favoured instrument at of georgette with pink and blue
Dauphin as portrayed by the Dartmoor in the violin. It is use-trimmings. As the flower-girls, artist-wears a pink hat, similar less for a second-rate player to go the Misses V. Lawrence, E. Medina in shape to that worn by A chaplain has some respon there. Many celebrated violinists and A. Marriott, were dressed in the young fifteenth-century sibility by his office. He has also have played in Dartmoor-as visi-pink satin and carried baskets, of gentleman in Joós van Cleve's por? to deal with concerts, lectures, the tors, of course." On one occasion tea roses. library, and (at Dartmoor) the a noted orchestra was playing and Master F. Monteiro Was pagelery of P. Jackson Higgs. band and choir, and a few other odd, I overheard this discussion: "This and wore a costume of white satin. things which give him real opporis a-good band, and that's a The bride's mother attended in a
Original Colours. tunity of getting to know the men, smart chap on the fiddle, and it's a dress of black crepe satin trimmed "The cloak is gold, lined withi I was not without apprehension good fiddle, too." His mate agreed, with black silk lace and a diamante delicately engraved blue flowers;! when I conducted Divine service for and hazarded, "It looks like a buckle and sprays of pink velvet red hose, black shoes. The falcon, the first time. As I was about to Rembrandt." The first speaker flowers.
perched on the Dauphin's left-wrist; enter the chapel whilst the bell was patronisingly replied: "Yes, it is; Mr. T. Easdale discharged the is dull green, being tolled, one of the men sidled you're right for once in your life." duties of best man, whilst Mr. W. "But it is the pale, exquisitely up to me, touched his cap, and said:] We had "argood choff, too. It's Easvrence officiated in the capacity carved face of this youth that "Lumme, it's the same old tune ability to render certain items de- of groomsman.
holds one enthralled. Its expres every Sunday-Come, all ye faith-pended, of course, on the comings Subsequent to the ceremony, asion is at once dreamy, keen, cynl- ful."
and goings of the men. It was largely attended reception was held cal, sensitive, and 'cruel. 'One My second sermon was based on great to hear them sing "Martyrs at the Club de Recreto, King's Park, might search far without finding the text, "Silver and gold have of the Arena," or the Gloria from after which the happy couple left anything in plastic work "more none." Its announcement was Mozart's "Twelfth Mass."
for their honeymoon which is being searching, more subtly and beauti- greeted with good-natured grins, in
A perplexed man inquired one spent in a trip along the Coastal fully wrought than this characteri-} which I had joined, knowing that day, "Chaplain, every Sunday the ports: Mrs. Howell's travelling zation.
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trait, now on exhibition at the gal
had struck some unexpected and, 1R.C.e parade in one place, the Wen- dress was a treation in yellow flat "Louis XI died in 1488, and the hoped, helpful train of thought. leyans in another, and the C. of E. crepe silk with a molo colour plece of sculpture is tentatively as-
The parson, like everyone, was in another.
I suppose they're all charmeuse satin coat with hat and signed to a period between 1470 and}{ often the target for a joke. In their making for the one place and hops shoes to tone,
1490, so that it may actually have free hour I would find the men spin- to get there?" I cautiously ventured, "The bride's gift to the groom was seen made after the King's death: ning yarns and exchanging compil "It is quite possible."
a gold watch and chain, whilst the Jut the sculptor, in prefering as ments, and there would be a regular "Well, tell me this, he persisted of the bridegroom to the bride was his subject the youthful Prince, has battle of wits. On one occasion "What's going to happen to the a pair of diamond earrings." yet succeeded in inscribing the po- one fellow was trying to prove that bunch of us who get excused Mrs. Howell's bridal dress, travel-tentialities of one who was to be- "any fool can be a parson." He chapel?"
|ling dress, and her mother's dress, come known to all as "the terrible waxed eloquent for some moments Once, and once only, did I parade were all created by Madam 8. Leite, King." This is a profound psycholo- -an art ho claimed to have practis in a súlt of plus fours. "Pardon, Asiatic Building.
gical study as well as a superb work of art: In its modelling, the figure reminds us that although for aéme]
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ed in Hyde Park. When he had sir, has there been a fire?" One and finished it was my turn to ask: "If convict asked, and his neighbour-im-
cap."
Atlantic Swim.
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It is all so easy, why on earth did proved on it by asking, "Did they fit; but I know of many a man who time Flemish realism had replaced, you not set out to be a parson?" get the bloke what knocked 'em off has gone out with a changed out-it France, the pure, lofty styliza-
The discussion ended in a roar of, (atole them) ?" A third was, more look.
They do not all seek favours, tion of the Middle Ages, men had laughter, when another of the party cryptic." “Nobody" "with" "a" scrap of but it is worth the doing to make not altogether forgotten'an darllek intervened: "Chaplain, if is 'ead religion would wear a suit like them feel that there is another side radiance. Professor Hudnut" of was stuffed with dynamite instead that." It was my turn to wonder to their sombre lot.
Columbia has indicated that such of brains, and the 'ole lot blew up, what was behind that burst of logic.
"Lookin' Round.”
|Imperative realism could be tem- the explosion wouldn't raise One of the real veterans of the I suppose I shall always be run-pered by Galic restraint and charm.. prison rejected all my entreaties toning across my men of the "In many figures of the fifteenth come to the class in which I taught moor, and will always be century one finds Trench draperie Convicts do not lack imagination, illiterates to read and write. "No, anxious to hear how they are far more fluid and gracefulFrench which often leads to strange obses thank you" he said, "the schooling in the struggle to "go groupinge less agitated, faces more In his cell I found a long master is paid to think and spell for straight." I have encountered tender and serene than are corres- sentence man working out on his me, and his writing isn't too bad one of them already outside the ponding elements in Flemish work.” slate an extraordinary problem. He I've lived a long while and managed Public Library in--well, no; IA Bit of History.
I may want you some must not arouse fear in the minds. Just to recall a bit of history: asured me that he was planning to pretty well, make his fortune, and quite on day it will be with the under- of those who realde in one of Lon- "When Louis XI was five years the straight."
don's fashionable suburbs known to old, Jeanne d'Arc took up her ban- He thought it possible to swis
the fraternity at Dartmoor asher and led the armies of France. When he was six his father, Charles
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was scaftely thirteen when he was the fortune if I would help, and was his mode of life. I asked him to of housebreaking and burglaries, wedded to Margaret, daughter of promptly allotted the task of ad-remember the words of the poet, "Hallo, Snuffy, what are you doing James I of Scotland. vertising and publicity, It was Stone walls do not a prison make, here?" I asked, when I met him Jonly a question of endurance, honor iron bars a cage. He looked outside, the Town Hall.??Just argued, of multiplying the, Channel bewildered. "Lumme, guv'nor, having a look round, guy nor the shelter of boyhood behind bind "They awam the Channel befers they 'aven't arf 'ypnotised me, I did not like the sound of itsibly the most tangled web of polk they flew it," he protested; and then!".
Look baré, Snuffy, this place they're always, doing it now. Just as I had finished my pipe red-hot I'll wager you we'll meet fica plot, and counterplot that
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Frb res swim it. Who wouldn't be a fool your breath; what's your baccy 're taking a big for a fortude? headed I told him that it was last
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