DIVORCE REPORTS
Sir Evelyn Cecil On Some Suggestions
HOUSING IN FICTION,
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House rent-free to his slater- DAIRY
law, intimating to her that harj {daughters would obtain consider
The Landlords and Tenantsable social advantages by living at Allington. And when Mrs. Dale, taking offence at his words about her daughter's marriage, resolved to take another house in Questwick, Squire Dale WAD deeply hurt
Sir Evelyn Cecil, M.P., who Housing is one of the questions beaded the deputation to the of the bour, and as a friend has Lord Chancellor to urge the not only directed my attention to: desirability of placing some this fact, but has also supplied me į check upon the publibation of with a list of landlords is fiction,
He regarded the Small House the details of divorce cases, re- landlords and tenants To Great House was his own. In as their abode as surely as the .capitulated recently in anjunavoidable subject for theas interview with a representative notes, writea "Penguin" in the of the Observer, some of the Phserver. suggestions that are being put forward for consideration.
giving him his due, it must be declared that any allusion to their holding these 26
benest done to them by him had been very far from
his thoughts Mfrs. Hearn, who held her cottage at half its real value, grumbled almost daily at him
All my friends' landlords are bad ones (I suspect him of not There is the possibility," be being eager to see houses decon said, “of adopting the French trolled) and I begin with one of Jaw. Under Art. 239 of the the worst. He is, as have prob Code Civil only the names bly guessed, Sir Murtagh Rack of the parties to the actions and tent, in Miss Edgeworth's novel, her fandlord; but it never the judgments may be published. Sir Murtagh, as his steward, courred to him that therefore be Whether that would exit this Thady, lets us know, had a way should raise her rent, or that in. country or not is a matter for of his own with his tenants not doing ro he was acting consideration. I
am a little. His turf was cat, his potatoes with special muniôcence. It had doubtful about it, but I mention t and dug, his hay brought ever been to him a grumbling, it as a possibility.
home, sad, in short, all the work cross-grained unpleasant world; "Then there are the various for in all our leases there were Hearn, or from his sister-in-law, about his house done for nothing: and he did not expect from. Mrs. suggestions made by the Divorce strict clauses, which Sir Murtagh anything better than that to Commission in 1912. Osa was knew well how to enforce; so which he had been used.
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Bombay Artillery, received his be reported until the end of the when the creature was getting in landlord's visit (when Pen was case. There are certain advant- his own barvest, or thatching his canvassing the division) with ages about that which will be cabin. Sir Martsgh made it a great cordiality, "showed him readily realised, and it has the principle to call upon him sad his over the grounds and the new further merit that if any false borse. So he taught 'em all, as pond he had made in the back- statement is made it could be he said, to know the law of land-garden from the stables, and talk- omitted or corrected,
ed to bim confidentially about the "Another
That the law of landlord and roof and the chimneys." And in made by the Commision was that tenant was known in England spite of an initial difficulty about no pictures should be published as in Ireland is proved by re-papering. Mr. Hale and bis relating to the case. That would the practice of Mr. Christopher daughter, in Mrs. Gaskell's put an end to the snap-shotting Casby. in "Little Dorrit," To the North and South." had nothing of persons coming out of court tenants of Bleeding Heart Yard to complain of in the behaviour and giving them A fictitious Mr. Casby was a gentleman of the landlord of their house st heroic importance, A further whose physiognomical expres Milton. Old Jemmy Oilerenshaw suggestion which, I think, ission seemed to them with beic Mr. Arnold Fennet's "Helen worth consideration and bae, in nignity," while his agent, Mr. with the High Haud," was a good fact, been mentioned with apPanks, haranguing the inhabi-landlord, but obliged now and proval by some members of the tants оп Press, is that there should be breathing notices to quit and
their backslidings, then to go to extremes in pursuit of his rent. He trotted about all! published onls & brief official executions, ruaning down de day on Monday and on Tuesday report.
faulters, sending a swell of terror morainga collecting bis rants, For myself I think, a good on before him, and leaving it in and on Tuesday afternoon ex- deal depends on the discretion of his wake" was an enemy of the perienced the assuaged COD. the press. and if sincere broad human race. "It was said that tent of an alligator after, the minded members of the profession Mr. Casby's being town agent to weekly meal. Old Jemmy was, -nd I am sure there must be Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle was the type of man who would have very many of them-could belpreferable, not to his having understood, but condemned, the with me and my co-signatories the least business capacity, but behaviour of the landlord in Mr. (who included members of all to bis looking so supremely Shaw's Widower's Houses."
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parties) in the letter that was re-benignant that nobody could aupthers are the landlords whos: A FEW OF OUR RECENT CONTRACTS. cently published on the subject, pose the property screwed or and talk things over, & wise deci jobbed under auch a man; also, house I should like to rent:- sion might be reached. A grest that for similar reasons he cow "And I think, my dear brother,' consensus of opinion exists in all got more money out of his own said Nicholas's first friend, that quarters that something ought to wretched lettings, unquestioned, if we were to let them that little be done, because the publication than anybody with a lees kaobby cottage at Bow which is empty. of evidence has now gone beyond and less shining crown could pos- at something under the usual. the limite that can be tolerated. sibly have done. But Mr. Panks rent, now? Eh, brother Ned?' The only question therefore, is bad bis revenze. He "whipped
"For nothing at all," said Bro- what it is best to do.
out a pair of shears, swooped ther Ned. We are rich, and **No foreign country publishes on the patriarch from behind, should be a hazed to touch the - the revolting stories that we pub and snipped of short the sacred tent under such circumstances sa
flowed upon bis these." that
jocke
"Perhaps it would be better to! Yarders that say something, brother Ned.")
lish here. I bave had, in fact, one shoulders." thus revealing to the or two distinguished foreigners Bleeding Heart ask me whether it is really neces- Casby, besides being a rack-rent- suggested the other, mildly; it sary that they should be publishing landlord, was a barepolled, would help to preserve habits of ed. What could be worse than to let the younger geceration, es goggle-eyed, big-headed, lumber frugality, you know, and remove pecially those between the ages of impressive, not in the least venering obligations.
ing personage, not in the least any painful sense of overwhelm fourteen and eighteen read these able."
We might say dings? It is often not necessary
fifteen pounds or twenty pounds, for the administration of justice: Persuasion." gave to Sir Walter make it up to them in some other Admiral Croft, in Miss Austen's sad if it was punctually paid, it simply lowers the moral tone of Elliot's agent every proof of Way. And I might secretly ad
the whole nation."
TWO VETERANS.
An Old Mulberry 'Tree.
being a most responsible, eligible ance small loan to a little tenant," although Sir Walter furniture, and you might secretly began by promising to be any advance another small loan, thing but a pleasant landlord brother Ned; and if we find them "Supposing I were induced to doing well-s we shall there's let my house, I have by no to fear, no fear-we can change
up my mind the loans into gifts."
TheanS made
as to the privileges to be annexed With the Cheerybles for my Everybody who has had any posed to favour a tenant. The coming of decoctrol with perfect to it. I am not particularly dis- landlords, I could look on the intimate connection with Camark would be open to him, of equanimity, bridge must bave seen, or at any course, and few Navy officers, or rare beard of. Milton's famous
mulberry-tres which stands in
men of any other description,,
the Fellows' garden of Christ's/Can have had such a rango; but GREAT COIN COLLECTION
what restrictions I might impose
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ollege, well propped up, it is izue, but still vigorous enough to the use of the pleasure
I Am
bear fruit Under the title of
grounds is another thing.
Purchase by the Italian "An Old Mulberry Tree," Foot fond of the idea of my
Government. shrubberies being always sp- Chu-i, who flourished a d, 772-836, has a few lines which may not be
proachable: and I should Rome The Italian Govern- a great effort, though the writer commend Miss Elliot to be on ment has just purchased the fine was a great poet, but which her guard with respect to her collection of coins put together illustrate how Chinese poets disposed to grant a tenant of research by the late Comm. flower garden. I am very little during many years of patient! often weiss on, and express as Kellynch Hall Ary extraordinary Francesco Gneccbi, of Milan.
pleasant conceit, some trifling observation of Nature's favour, I assure you, be he sailor
or soldier."
Landlord and tenant, however,
*
apparent eccentricities, writes
It consists of over 20,000 pieces, of which 900 are gold, and for its richness, beauty, variety and ex-
Professor B. A. Giles in the managed to keep on better terms cellent state of preservation, it Chines: Student.
At the risk of bandicapping the tham might have been anticipated. ranks as one of the great numie. tranelation more than must always breakfast-room chimney smoked Ita gem is a unique exemplar of Admiral Croft found that thematic collections of the world. be the case, I have ventured to little when the wind was due the gold medal of Theodoric, and render fae little poem in verse north, and altered the laundry it also includes a series of 500 rare claiming at the same time a cluer door. But Sir Walter Elliot boze medals executed in the three adberence to the original.
these changes with equanimity.
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New York" Never mind me, my house is on fire," cried a retired sea captain, who wWES found in a street of San Francisco with his clothes ablaze.
He pointed to a big rusty boiler, standing in a vacant plot amid Pemail piles of debris from build- Using the nine digite (1, 2, 3, 4,ings which had been demolished metals, gold, silver, and bronze. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) fill in the stars shown in, the great earthquake and fire AN OLD MULBERRY TREE
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The sum of one million four above in such a way that the of 1906. An old tree standing by the Landlords who let their houses paid by the Government to Comm. up to the same total 'sa the four had been. fitted up like a ship's hundred thousand tire bas been four.figures from A to B will addIt was found that the interior
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rent-free are not common either Gnecchi's heirs, and it is con- figures from B to C and A to CF Time did not age it in a day-in fact or fiction. "There is a sidered that this is far less than
cabin. The ceiling and walls which I can put you into till it is had it been put up to public yards of rope into ten pieces, each very comfortably, even to the house empty that belongs to me, the collection would have fetched If a man desired to cut twenty the strange abode was furnished
Yesterday's answer:
were painted white, and altogether let" Ralph Nickleby told his sister-in-law," and then, if noth-
two yards long, and if he cut off extent of a bath tub, ing else turns up, perhaps
two yards each day, it would take For 17 years Capt. John Me shall häve Trollope's Squire Dale, in "The another."
bim nine days to cut up the rope. Kenzie. had resided there. His At the end of eight days he would house was destroyed by the earth- Small House at Allington," was a
have a four-yard pisce remaining, quake, and he crawled one night better brother-in-law and a better
and his ninth-day cut would into the boiler to sleep. Finding laudlord. He offered the Small
divide that piece into two pieces it comfortable, he decided to make (each two yards long..
it his home.
Its yellowed bark still makes & show;
Ita blackened heart the first to go
Sure'twasio géinward sorrow preyed;
No, outward fire this havoc made,
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