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Hitler Stops Football Match.
Herr Hitler, accused avan by his admirers of lacking' the Mussolini spirit, has been demonstrating his power in a new quarter." -
By threats of Nazi violence be has succeeded in cancelling the gront inter-city "Soccer" match be- tween Dresden and Prague.
The game was to have been play- ed at Dresden, but as the Czecho-f slovak Government has recently con- demned seven German-Bohemian Nazis for plotting against the State, Herr Hiller has decided that the was Czechs are not ti opponents for Germans.
Both the German and the Czech
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1932.
Rossetti A Poet And Brute
Story
Of Martyrdom Of His Wife
-!
NEVER SAW HER GRAVE.
(By Howard Spring.)
On February 12, 1862, an inquest("Fauny," says Miss Hunt, "was the
held R
Elizabeth Eleanor only person that Gabriel knew well
to leave thus jenough
cavalleriy Rossetti, who had died the day
whilst half the love-night was still before.
anspunt." A comment not easy to
football associations tried hard to Swinburne had discovered a new reconcile with what one would ex- bring the match off, even appeal- restaurant, and had asked Dante pect of the circumstances. ing to Berlin for adequate protec-Gabriel Rossetti to come along and tion. As the police were unable
home.
Your Daily Smile.
QUERY.
tailor?
Did You Hear"
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It is a sad and piteous tale that | Miss Hunt unfolds, n felon blow to
to give the requisite guarantee, the dine with him, bringing his wife, the placid acceptance of Rossetti's Czechs, not wishing to play in a The restaurant was in the Leicester as a noble love. Elizabeth Siddall. hailstorm beer mugs, remained at square region. Rossetti's wife was whom all her friends called Lizzy, queer" in the cub on the way to worked in a hat shop. She first keep the appointment, and the din-came to Rossetti as a model, iler family claimed antiquity, but they ner was a bit of a flusco. Swinburne were down in the world. Lizzy was had had something to drink before "more handsome than pretty, tall I cannot understand, persons ad- the Rossettis got there; Elizabeth without being weedy, with big white vertising for some one to write to scolded him; Rossetti was displeased arms and neck almost too columnar. them regularly. Have they no with Elizabeth, and took her home agate, and prominent, so that she- Her eyes were blue, the colour of
early. They lived at Blackfriars-could not have worn a veil without at 14, Chatham-place--round about fretting the lids." Rossetti rave
about her red hair. She was About the absent-minded pro-blutted out so mung landmurks.
great reader and something of an fessor who fell of the pier and
They didn't quarrel in the cab on artist. was drowned before he remember. ed he could swim.
the way home, but there was a cold-
Rossetti knew her for ten yours ness. Elizabeth at once began to before he married her. She become Street-Corner Petting
as his model. undress, and Gabriel said sulkity his pupil as well that he was going out. Then, asing the rest of her time in company
"Living in rooms by herself, apend-- he went, the storm broke. Elizabeth with one man, closeted alone with hung over the banisters and shriek-him for hours, for days, for nights, ed and shrieked. "Go, then, undjasing his chambers when he was are you'll kill this baby as you killed the away, sleeping in his bed, yet unabla de-lust" She had had a still-born to point to a ring on her third didn't child.
Singer." He came back a few hours later!
Avoided Marriage. and found her dead. But every. His friends and hera tried ever From one extreme to another, In one part of South Africa a thing went well at the inquest. It and again to bring him to the history swings.. The unchecked man cannot marry until he has was known that Mrs. Rossetti a con- scratch, but for ten years he shied individualism which had such killed a rhinoceros. He is then aumptive whose health was dread-away. He would do anything for large scope during the nineteenth considered brave enough to face a fully undermined, had been taking her but murry her: send her on century accomplished a great mother-in-law.
laudanum, and when Rossetti and holidays when she was ill, fit her up deal of good, but had seeds of
Swinburne and the landlady and with a cottage at Hampstead, and much evil in it. Itself a reac-
lothers had given evidence a verdict almost always at someone else's ex- tion from ages of restraint, it in
was returned thut an accidental pense. They quarrelled like cat and Hong Kong. Saturday, Nov. 12, 1932, turn produced the natural re-
overdose of the drug had caused her dog, bringing on paroxysms of her death.
illness, and then the sight of her: sickness nauseated him, putting the
IN MEMORIAM.
"I are far too many young men remediable inequality of men, and women embracing in public," who cannot be levelled by some declares a magistrate.
means such
28
universal suffrage. The State is Agreed.
In loving memory of our dearly mechanical beloved Father, Carlos Maria Castro, who died on 18th Novem- spiritual and moral force." An M. P. says sweepstakes The State is a spiritual and demoralising, degenerating, moral force." In that last aen-grading, and delusory 1 tence, were there nothing more, win anything either. Moscow is challenged and defied.
ber. 1928:
A dear one from our sight is gone A voice we loved is still'd
A place is vacant in our Home Which never can be filled.
H. A. C.
The China Mail.
Fascism Contrasted To Bolshevism,
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Facts You Did Not Know.
*
will
more of it."
bound. In the last decade half-
dozen nations have reverted to Chemical treatment that
Her Farewell Note, rule by authority instead of rule about double the life of fishing nets by supposed consent.
But one piece of evidence did not thought of marriage farther off than The most has been developed by the United
lover. come out at the inquest. Ford ruthless example of this is States Bureau of Fisheries..
Madox Brown found pinned on the Madox Brown, and seemed to think He borrowed remorselessly from Russia, which offers an extremel The Italian Government has abhorrent even to those who see A weed that produces a poison like dead woman's nightdress a piece of it but his due that Mrs. Brown
dragged back from -been first to accept the British most clearly the need for dis- the nicotime of tobacco for spraying paper on which was written: "My should be
cipline. The remaker of modern fruit trees against insects has been life is so miserable I wish for no much-needed holiday to look after suggestion that Germany's with Italy saw that part at least of discovered in Russia. drawal from the Disarmament this reversion
That is the sentence which Violet Lizzy, reduced to accustomed wreck- was justified. Conference should be considered "The world has beard "too much A novel rack for hanging hats or Hunt puts on the title page of "The age after another scene. He began ¡to take a livelier Interest in Lizzy's- Rossetti: Her Life and art when Ruskin gave hor a fixed in London by Britain, France,
about liberty," said Mussolini amall garments in automobiles is Wife of
(The Bodley Head, 18 income on condition that she went Germany, and Italy, and the some two or three years ago-mado of wire and can be suspended Death"
net), written, she tells us, from! and the demagogues are daily from the edge of a window pane.
on painting, but his interest waned Fuscist system, not for the first adding to the evidence which
"sources that are chiefly oral, from when the subsidy ceased. time, has shown a spirit of
that supports
truth. strong common sense.
If a person called by telephone in the circumstances of my childhood At long last he married her, and It has
Fascism has stopped far short of Switzerland is not at home the and carly girlhood spent so much in often been asserted that Fascism
It has telephone company will accept a the company of the actors in the fieth, married into an alien tribe." is simply "Bolshevism turned a crushing uniformity. inside out"the meaning
striven, as both its precepts and message to he delivered when he sees matteninting to described Mrs. Rossetti and the frustrate- An episode which has become Christina and her sister Maggie which seems to be that Italy re- of all that is best in the indivi
its actions show, to make a blend returns.
famous in its way followed the find-would not cross her doorstep, though presents a socialistic community dualist and the collectivist con
News In Brief.
ing of the coroner's jury. When Christina sent the happy couple a controlled by the Right Wing
Elizabeth lay in her coffin Rossetti) instead of the Left. A certain ceptions.
came into a room where his relatives Wastepaper basket a year after ther
wedding. family resemblance, of course
reason for supposing that, so far A charity concert for the Society and friends were gathered, carrying at least as Italy herself is con-of St. Vincent de Paul is being the little green book in which he exists among all
Nothing From Marriage. forms of
cerned, the Fascist regime has held in St. Patrick's Club, Garden had written "The Blessed Damozel hoped to get out of the marriage Whatever Elizabeth Siddall had organised government. There is not one, for example, which does produced the happy medium? The Road, to-morrow. Sunday, Noven and his other poems. He made for for which she had longed so intense- not rely, in the last resort, on world as a whole little knew, and ber 13; commencing at 9 p.m.. the bedroom, beckoning Swinburne, ly, she soun found that she was to
which
of
But
Is there not much
樱
she found herself "a daughter of
wicker
husband made merry with his
force for its maintenance-a fact has already forgotten how par-
to follow him, and saying, "I have, The Rev. Brother James is att often been working at these poems
get nothing at all. She Bank down many gentle idealists lous was the condition of Italy are slow to grasp. When just at the close of the war. In other passenger by the President while she was ill and suffering, and into a drugged peace, cheered a little towards the end by the devotion of they .do
He has just completed I might have been attending to her, grasp it in any dustry was approaching a stand-Madison. particular case they are quick still; anarchy reigned. To-day, a trip to Manila and will be with and now they shall go." In the the boy Swinburne, who would come to see her where she sat with her to condemn. Mussolini, who without any violent upheaval the the St. Joseph's College in Hong bedroom he "lifted the tiny, thin, laudanura bottle and her crazily does not cut
himself off country preserite a picture of Kong.
lace-bordered napkin that under-; from his people as Stalin does, wall-regulated prosperity. Law-
takera bring to cover the face, and cooing doves hanging in
baskets round the room that looked is then classed with the despots, lessness has been suppressed, Amongst the passengers who ar laid the book on the left side, be-out on the miasmal Thames. Later, and his methods declared to be and the people have learned as rived by the President Madison tween her hair and her cheek, when the dead child was born, she those of the Soviet. Only a very never before that sense of order yesterday are Mr. S. R. Cowley, sedulously averting his eyes, like a would sit there rocking the empty loose generalisation could fail to so doubly necessary in a crowd-who is connected with Messrs. child that has bean scolded." perceive the differences, which et land. Much, that has been Connell Brothers in Manila and Sedulously averting his eyes cradle, while in the outer room her far outweigh the likeness. Indone is offensive to those schools who is on a business trip to Hong the suggestion that Rossetti could friends and countesses rolled in reality, between Rome and which prefer a formula to visible Kong...
not look his dead wife in the face their carriages to Blackfriars to sco Moscow a great gulf; is fix-results. But, preserved from
is Miss Hunt's contribution to this
the Pre-Raphaelites in their ed, a spiritual gulf which violent changes, the nation Mr. H. S. Lowe, driver of ear. No matter and comment, upon it. She habitat." no mere machinery can bridge. stands to-day an undeniable as-446, has reported to the police that adds: "Gabriel never saw her grave. Gabric! was busy with his Fanny; A capital definition
of the set on the side of true civilian-at 5.40 p.m. on Thursday whilst and left instructions that he was he hadn't much time now for Madox Fascist ideals
express- tion. There is more of contrast defying along Chatham Road, near not to be buried in Highgate Brown, grown a little seedy and ed recently by Dr. H. M. Moran, than of resemblance to Russia in Hunghom, he accidentally knocked Cemetery
gouty; but Brown, an angel of for who met Mussolini while in Italy, all this. Notice further, how down a Chinese boy, aged nine, who whatever."
bearance all through the tragic tale, and at every point it presents that contrast works itself out The lad, who received an injury to She says, too, that all Rossetti's he helped the shattered Gabriel to was playing football on the roadway.
had a last service to perform when Fascism as Bolshevism's direct even in apparent contradictions, his left lek, was taken to Kowloon opposite. "Fascism," said Dr. Italy, admitting and proclaiming Moran, "denies the material sim spiritual and moral realities, finds Hospital where he was treated. His group knew his poems by heart. pull himself together and concoct a
The midnight exhumation, years tale for the jury, later, would appear to have been. a. One feels all through the reading of mere economic peace and hop- herself blessed with no small condition was not serious. piness, considering that, the measure of material prosperity.
bit of unnecessary: stageeraft. of Miss Hunt's story as though the realisation of mere material well-Russia, avowedly pursuing only for the body, and find after all Where did Roosetti go to when bluff that came off then has been being would convert men into materialistic aims, can neither that the body must still be he fled down the stairs that winter coming off too consistently ever mere animals.” (Complete re-feed nor clothe her hapless stinted. Assuredly Italy has night with his wife's malediction since; as though we shall all have to buttal there of the Marxian people on a scale approaching the chosen or had chosen for her ringing in his cars? Madox Brown, make some readjustment in our view creed, and of the ultra-utilitarian level of European comfort. The better part than that. Her says Miss Hunt, "thought it was to of Rossetti. May so much, after all, lines along which the rulers of minchine, though made a deity, rulers, to define their policy in a Wapping." Wapping was the place be forgiven a man for the anke of Russia are now striving to outdo cannot even reward its worship sentence, have refused to follow where Rossetti's mistress lived-a few pictures and a few fine lines? the harshest forms of capi-pers with the sole kind of bless catch cries. In that respect they that bouncing, lively, Illiterate We close the book with Browning's talism).Fascism," continued ing they expect. It seems a are the most fearless of present- Fanny hugher with the full white guttural in our ear! "I never can the traveller, "affirms their hard fate to give up everything: day administrators.
throat Dung back, lusty and fierce," forgive Rossetti!"
was
In any circumstances
Stagecraft.