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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
1985. ·
CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S NOVELS Names Recall The
Contribution In Volume
Was Small But
Her Name Lingers On
By Phyllis Bentley
It is a hundred years since Charlotte Bronte dled in Haworth Par- and the sonage. Charlotte's life was brief her age was thirty-nine volume of her work was not large; she wrote only four novels and a hand- ful of unimportant verses. But her writings and her personality seem full of life today.
The Parsonage at Haworth, now a museum, received more than Torty thousand visitors last year.
at once
So frequent indeed and solleation in 1847 was favourable are the references acclaimed by both erities
and
to her in contemporary English }public. and has remained im- Bfe that. R in well worth while (mensely popular ever since. to enquire into the nature of
10 oenis PER WORD OVER 20 her contribution to English
of 50 cents is charged.
LOST
terature and the reason of Its
vallety today.
To understand
the
The same there; the struggle ot the Intelligent, noble, passionate soul in a cold mer- cemary brutal world, is present- ed here in a thrilling story, and with n completely muccessful fusion between romance and realism,
to
of
Births, Deaths, Marriages, Personal $5.00 per insertion!
fully not exceeding 25 words, 25 nature of Charlotte's writings cents each additional word. we must notice the lime and place in which they wore con- ALTERNATE INSERTIONS
Though her parentage posed. 10% EXTRA
was Celtic, her father being Poor little orphaned Jane. if not prepaid a booking for | Irish and her mother Cornish, despised by her aunt's house- she was born, and lived all but hold, unhappy at school, an in-.
Little governess a few years of her life, in the significant
100 MT Rochester's West Riding of Yorkshire, a daughter. inspires the love
legitimate hilly northern region engaged MALE CHILD, Julian Yag Ang age at that period in melding the proud and dominating man by her noble spirit. The superb 10, lost my Centrul District, Any | transition
won from
ago-old
Rochester Brat information gratefully received by
where Scon father, Ang Buy Ching, 20. Sheung hand-weaving trade to a high-teasen Jane by saying she must
mechanised manufacture, Tung Lane. In floor, Salyingpun ory
leave his house, and then asks Before the coming of the In- any Police Station,
her to marry him. gives the dustrial Revolution, Haworth
key to the whole book, for Jane small weaving village crics passionately: WANTED KNOWN was
planted on a hillside amid wild Lavito mosquito-persecution and sombre moors. *=U98 "Dimp" insect Repellent. From Lending
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"Do you think I am a machine without feelings? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and illo,” I am doullens and 'heartiesa? You think wrong! I have as much soval on you -- and full as much heart Anti If God had gifted me with some
much beauty and
wealth, ! should have made it na hard for you to leave mes, now for me to leave you....
Tho
During Charlotte's life-time steam-driven mills sprang up' in
valley below,
In contains outstanding number such northern England generally us Bai Muroție, Latin American Fo
class
rather melodramatic Music, Moyle Cocktails, Studio For new millowning middle
towards rose Waitzing, New Tales From Vienna | 1680
and romance of the mad wife, Woods, Stars Over Paris, Dreams of social importance for exceeding fire, the cry heard from afur, Romance, Love At First Sight, that possible to the ordinary and
is held down to from D. Ex, 4 Der voeux ftond, Tuon 1, 2nd noor, English clergy, of whom. Char-earth by a sardonde
Yorkshire lotte's father was one. telephone 30100.
realism in the details of the Incidents.
cents each.
FOR SALE
Its
a
and
oo on,
the
This new middle class was at
worst purse-proud Sanorant; at
at its best it device improved educational facilities Suffers A Little
improve
for its children. All these
ANNUAL RETURN FORM-Form of Annual Return of a compally not having share capital. Obtainable at various factors helped to mould Boutis China Morning Post, Ltd. Charlotte's novels, together with interest as one of the first three Shirley (1840) has an espedal Ther
attempts to teach and her industrial novels in Engilsh one great adventure abroad and fletion. This story of the textile Into love, in Brussels,
workers' riots against the new Moder
research has put into machinery Is Charlotte's most
fresh ปี
tool for Yorkshire production; it pre-
Hiram Yorke
STAMPS
BOMETHING tors packets of assorted From 20 renta par packet upwards.
in
EXCLUSIVE, Coleo- ou: honds
tampa the probing of Charlotte's sents An entirely now series. South motivation. As children. the thoroughly typical specimen China Morning Poet Ltd., Wyndham Brontes
in tiny hand-the new Yorkshire millowner, Atreet, Hongkong and Salisbury writing in tiny books, Itoad, Kowloon.
Street,
Hongkong
Road, Kowloon.
and
Wyndham Ballsbury
wrote.
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Rusty Busy "Stoking Up'
What else
a hungry elephant do but take ita feed by the shovelfult At least, that's the view of Rusty, the Ceylon elephant, who helps herself from the bucket of potatoes at the London Zoo.
Reuterphoto.
Welsh Settlers In Argentina
Buenos Aires, Sept. 7. Numerous families named Lewis, Jones and Roberts in Argentina today recall the feats of a gallant band of Welsh settlers who landed on lonely stretch of beach near what is now the town of Puerto Madryn, in the Territory of Chubut, on the bleak south Atlantic coast.
a
They landed, 153-men, women and children, from the ship Mimosa commanded by Captain Love Jones Parry, on July 28, 1865, full of hope.
The landing. however, was) Then, one day Aaron Jenkins, not a happy one. In the Bri-whose plot of land was near tain they had loft, it was high the river, struck water when summer. Here, in Argentina, itdigging. This led to an irrige- |was mid-winter. The Boitierson system which was soon to
found, Instead of the green provide the sellers with valleys which they left back frst reward for their toil home in Wales, a flat, Inhospit- raise their hopes for the future. able semi-desert. The ground was covered with snow and a
Colony Grew
and
00-mile an hour gole was blow- ing as they put ashore, and
As the little colony strew and were met by Lewis Jones and expanded some returned. to Edwyn Cynric Roberts, who had Puerto Madryn and others went gone ahead months before
and Calman. prepare accommodation for the inland to Trelow
By 1873, the Welsh colony num- panty on the land ceded to the bered 200. That same year, the settlers by the Argentine Mini colonials
to
ster of the Guillermo Roweon.
Interior, Dr
sent their first strip- Buenos ment of whent to the Aires market.
By 1870, they had built the With barely sufficient equiparat dam on the river as part ment to till the hard, unyield- ing coll, they decided after
0
Hindu Wedding in the Chubut river valley, and
In London
of their irrigation plans
Wales.
thne to sook more fertile land now immigrants arrived started a 9-day pilgrimage south through wind and snow,
Two Dead
and
from
first
the Two years later,
dry tho community newspaper Chubut valley, Ein Briniad, ap- peared, edited by Lewis Jonės, virtual head of the colone.
In the following
Year 1879, London, Sept. 7.
They left behind them the the Argentine Government Five hundred guests at Lon- bodies of two children, who had pointed the first Governor don's Chelsea Town Hall this died on board the Mimosa short- the district, Senor Luis Fontana arrived. The and shortly afterwards tho
SOUTH STAFFS vening witnessed the Hindus before she
IN CYPRUS
Nicosia, Sept. 7. About 100 men of the First Battalion, the South Staffford- shire Regiment arrived at Famagusta from the Suez Canal
this Zone
afternoon in Bleamship Evan Gibb.
the
moun-
They will be available accurlly duties in the tainous regions of the island. Reuter.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
of
LOOK AT MEITHE PILL WORKED/ I'M
TWENTY YEARS
masses shrewd, tenacious and Inde-
between the
of
two
of stories depicting the imagin-pendent. STAMP ALBUMS "Collection | ary worlds of their daydream Bulider" series. New stock now invention.
The book suffers a little in available, 13. From South Coina The American scholar Miss construction by its diffusion Morntu Post, Ltd..
Elizabeth Ratchford has interest
transcribed upwards of heroines, Shirley the frank proud intelligent heiress, and who the dependent Caroline suffers the pangs of unrequited love in allence, longing for some useful work to occupy her heart and hand.
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Notice to Shareholders
NOTICE 19 HEREBY GIVEN that
a hundred of these tiny book lets, and Charlotte's longing for love is revealed in the many affaires of her favourite the
Duke of Zamorna.
A perusal of these little book- leis enables us to understand Charlotte's aim in writing her first novel, The Professor.
The Result
If Shirley to Charlotte's most
Yorkshire, Villetto (1853) is her most Celtic production. Lucy Snowe's adventures in the Brussels school closely dollow Charlotte's own, and reflect the terrible anguish and inten- Dividend in respect of the kind of forewell address to her Lucy is indeed
She had recently composed a sky of Charlotte's own feeling. a superb pors year 1955 of 70 cents per daydream world of Angria, trayal of Charlotte's favourite
П
Interim
with of
share, free of tax, has been From Its "burning clime" of character (drawn from herself lonely. declared payable on and after romance she now turned
of course) the ardent, determination to the sober grey other main personages, smooth self-supporting woman. The 8th September, 1955.
tints of real life.
The result
honest clever an almost Mme. Beck and saturnine realiam. ст
are, hero, fussy M. Paul Emanuel,
T
in-
Applications for Dividend Warrants should be made Crimsworth, is plain, spectacled, with Lucy, masterpieces Df either personally or by letter an obscure teacher of English characterisation, highly original
with a deeply to the Registered Office of the in Brussels; the heroine Frances and drawn Company, P. & O. Building, is "girlish but not strik-cisive pen.
their child quite for- Charlotte's novels form a 4th Floor.
midably unattractive.
literary unit with a well-defined The Belglan headmaster and confined to the schoolroom and pattern. Their range of scene is The Register of Members of headmistress are cynical, mer the parlour, Brussels and York. the Company will be closed cenary and sensual; the pupils
But shire. from the 20th day of August are sordid little horror.
Crimsworth and Frances arc All but Shirley are told in
and the first person,
2960 to the 8th day of Septem- persons of high integrity: ber 1905, both days inclusive, so here we have already a first
By Order of the Board,
F. H. FELL,
Secretary,
Hongkong, 10th Aug., 1955,
To ADVERTISERS
sketch of Charlotte's especial theme: the contention that men and women may have noble
A Pattern
souls and ardent passions, and The love-story in each follows have a right to such souls
and the
"master-pup!!" pattern such passions, even though they which was. Charlotte's own.. are insignificant in status and The theme which
all they appearance, (It was no doubt share has already been In- her admiration for her Belgian dicated. Their stories are ori- professor,
Constantin Heger. gina and firmly designed and which had iurned Charlotte's they are narrated
from dukes to school- overwhelming
with euch BUNDAY POST HERALD | interest
intensity that with chalk Врасо for
commercial masters
on their the reador is swept along advertising should be angere.) booked not Inter then noon on Wednesdays.
For the BOUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the
Refused
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the throbbing lide.
The blend of Celtic forvour and Yorkshire realism, with the Loneliness and Inferiority in- duced
by
her positions * under refused | governes
prevalling CHINA MAIL, 48 hour nine times and before date of publication.
not published conditions gave Charlotte's work [26] after Charlotte's death. palmant, pungent, troubling Spoolmi- Announcements Very different was the fate of quality which a unique in Eng- and Classified Advertise | her next novel, the famous sh Literature and will excites,
Jane Eyre, which on ite pub-
Her fierce little heroines, girls of ordinary sation, porting, self-respecting.. faced by problems which are the still highly relevant to Englishwoman's life today.
mente as ununt.
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Stockport, Sept. 7. FAST PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE-
A 16-year-old boy, who was sailing Sept. 10th found not guilty here today of a sailing Oct. 8th serious offence against 23- year-old girl, won skid by police to be married with child
"LAOS" "VIETNAM"
FAST FREIGHT SERVICE
"MEINAM" **PEIHO"
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The boy said he was in sailing Sept. 21st business on his own account as sailing Oct. 18th a merap merchant--China · Mail
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YOUNGER/
OH DEAR. LEFT MY SUITCASE
IN THE RESTAURANT --AND IT'S
CLOSED/
FERDINAND
NANCY
WILL YOU TEACH ME
HOW TO PLAY 3
O.K.
YOU GOT MORE PILLS IN THAT SUITCASE,EHT COME INTO THE ALLEY. WE'LL BREAK IN THROUGH THE BACK DOOR.
JOHNNY HAZARD
#KARI, DARLING «««LET'S NOT | MISTAKE GRATITUDE FOR LOVE I
I KNOW YOU'RE GRATEFUL FOR MY HELP BUT I WANT YOU TO BE SURE **AS SURB AS I AML
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WAY TO
DO IT
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of
22-year-old Saro landing place was called Puerto (authorities approved the laying
compin India, who has just from
The
religious ceremony of the wed- ding of
Madryn in homage to Captain of the first railways lines, The Naidoo with Dr Ramesh Dawar Love Jones Parry. who came first fixed bridge over the Chu-
the er
Castle Modryn
in but river was built in 1807 ond his post-graduate Cardiganshire.
h: 1900 the fast telegraph lines studies in dentistry here. Mr
settlers chose a site on were laid. Uaharbuch Arya from the Indu the banks of the Chubut river Now, every year, the "Feast Association of Europe officiated for their next attempt at cul- of the Landing" is colebrated bivaling the land at what is in Buenos Aires by descendants today
the city of Bowson, of that group of ploneers, To- The bride, 4 London law capital of the National Terri-day some speak Celtic,
many student, is this daughter of a tory of Chubut. Once again the speak English and Spanish, the prominent Indian businessman of settlers faced heartbreak
of their with language of the land Durban, South Africa, Mr Govin- | the rudimentary tools at their adoption, ia common to all. But
as priest.
for dusamy Naldoo The civil disposal and the fact that the they keep their Welsh names, marriage was registered at the ground was too hard. and dry inherited from the small band Kensington Registry Offico this to produce crops on an adequate who set sall from Wales 90
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