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THIRTY YEARS ON
STAGE.
Jessie Millward's Stories
of Great Persons.
"Of course, your daughter will go on the stage." Henry Irving said to the mother of a little girl whom he had heard recito at her home in London.
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OF COURSE."
The Chivalry of Cricket.
pared to let the chivalrous prin- ciple carry them. Eton was this year rightly, though not unkind- time of play to enable the Har ly, criticised for prolonging the
A correspondent wrote to the Dow captain to make a century”- London Ties in mail week:- rightly, because the making of In a recent number of the centuries is not the end of Times there was recorded an accricket, but not unkindly, be- cident to a bowler during a match cause it was realized that it was at Lord's which forced him to graceful action which mada na deliver the last halls of his over difference to the result. But if with his left hand: off these balls, the result be affected, what then? "I would sooner see her in her in the words of the reporter. Had the last two balls of our grave," the mother retorted. Mr. --, of course, did not at-original instance been the last two of the match, and had thres Howover, within a few years of, tampt to score,” that stern announcement the girl
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tention to the fact that, by this necessity, we should violate the International Banking Corpor-written a volume of remini assumption, they are claiming law of chivalry, of what value is
scences, which cover the last 30 that their favourite game is gor. our allegiance to it? years of theatrical life. (Hutebin-from those which prevail else- erned by standards quite different Netherlands Trading Society.son and () As a girl, Miss.where, and to consider in what that it is of no value at all ja
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Millward was leading lady to William Terriss, who
of the Adelphi Theatre. murdered at the stage played also with Henry Irving, but her first engagement was
with the Kendals.
A PAMOES WIDE.
The prosaic critic will answer this difference may be said to lie.mere graceft! attitudes and be In the first place, it may be may even point out thatericketer said, without fear of contradic are not consistently graceful A tion, that nothing of the kind good college crew at Henley. he could occur in any other game may say, would not beat a crow at any rate, in any game con of schoolboys by more than the ducted under conditions of keen margin necessary to be comfort- Educated at the North London competition similar to those able; Yorkshire would press to Collegiate School
under the which prevail in county cricket the fall an advantage over Glam- famous Miss Buss, "an austere Should a prominent forward in organ and defeat it by an innings old maid, plump and excessively League football have dignified." Jessie
been and as many runs as possible. Millward unfortunate enough to injure his What has become of the boasted loathed school She got her right foot. few things are more chivalry of cricket? great Fhance on the stage through improbable than that the oppos- the kindness of the friend of hering backs would purposely give questions, to which no exact an- These ure high and difficult family. John Toole and appeared him time to shoot with his left:swer can be given. Evon cricke in "Love's Sacrifico" with enor- nor would an injury to the armiters will disagree in their inter- of a goalkeeper cause the oppos-pretation of its spirit. The famous ing side to select the other side wide bowled in the University of the goal for their attack. No match thirty years ago Was player in a tennis tournament thought by Oxoniansucchivalrous would fail to take advantage of and by Cantabs both legal and an accident which prevented his wise; it certainly brought about a rival from using his most danger-belated change in the rules. What powers, or what rights have cap-
mous success.
ous service.
POUNDS, NOT SHILLINGS,
Her next professional engage ment was with Miss Genevieve Ward, at a salary of £5 per week. When Irving sent for her and offered her a part, he said :-
"Of course, I shan't give you At Henley, this year, one oftains to countenance violations of five pounds a week."
the oars in a boat fainted at the the law, or to override the ob "Of course not." I groaned de-mile, when the two crews wereviously faulty decision of pairingly, and then to myself. level; this did not prevent the op-ampire in the interest of an Ten shillings a week again."
"For the first year I will give course and securing the victory to take every advantage that posing crew from finishing the opponent? Is it right or wrong For 12, and for the second year though this event occurred in a chance or accident may giva?
race between Public Schools,
W.G. Grace would have had
15."
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I ventured to mumble some-which are naturally held to be no doubt of the answer, but most thing about 25s. not being very the home of sportsmanship. No cricketers will prefer that the much, even if dresses and everyone dreamt of criticizing the question should not be put. They thing else were provided.
Irving laughed.
result, on the obvious ground that will know, that the spirit cannot not to be fit to stay the course is al be bound by exact definitions; "You don't quite undersand.
fair disqualification for racing they value the thought that their he began. and a mad. incredible Cases have occured at Henley in.game is not as other games are, idea flashed across my mind. which scullers have waited for and they thank your reporter for You-you-you doa't mean their opponent if he steered into his use of the phrase "of course." pounds?" I stammered and smil the booms, but this acting has not ing. be explained that pounds won universal approval; in this were precisely what he did mean. case, no doubt, the dis.
I was too flabbergasted to speak.tinction may be drawn that the. Miss Millward was once in-accident is dus to lack of skill vited to lunch with Tennyson, but the same might not untruly and as soon as the meal was over be said of a bowler who split his she was asked to recite the poet's finger by misjudging a catch.
* May Queen."
A NOBLE FOLLY.
CHILDREN DO NOT FIGHT.
Against Baby's Own.
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It is needless to multiply in- stances from other fields of sport. THEY ARE EASY TO GIVE AND Mr. Wethered loses the cham- pionship by accidentally treading |
PLEASANT TO TAKE, Children require special medi-
I though: had not done so bully, and when I bad faished I felt that I had earned some little compliments, however perfunc- tory. One or two people, it is true, did marmur the inevitable on a ball, and, though every one cine of their own. made of such. "Thank you, so much, but laments his ill-lock, no one ingredients only as cannot possi- could not help noticing that the blames his opponent for exacting bly de them harm, and put up in friends of the house were looking the full penalty. And if these exactly the right dosage to pro- rather anxiously at the poet, and things are done in the green duce without loss of time the seemed to be awaiting his verdiet fields nf golf and football, it is desired effects, before committing themselves. unlikely that a different code Baby's Own Tablets precisely
At last Tennyson spoke, or rather prevails on the green tubles of answer this description. being growled. "Why have you left out | billiards or bridge, or in the dry absolutely free from harmful some of my lines?"
atmosphere (should we say?) of drugs or opiates, and equally safe And not a word more did he chess.
and helpful to the infant in arms way...
Cricket, then, is governed by a as to the child of six years or AS Prince of Wales, King Ed-spirit which we may not unfairly more. Furthermore, they bave the ward VIL was enormously popu-call that of chivalry, a spirit of a advantage of being tasteless plea. lar in theatrical circles. On the noble folly. Critics, according to sant in appearance, and free from eve of Persimmon's Ascot Gold their temperament, will empha-all the horrors associated by Cup win Mr. Terriss told the size its fundamental foolishness children with castor oil, senna, Prince when he visited the or its essential nobility, but its Gregory powder and similar Adelphi that everyone in the nature 18 everywhere plain. causeating medicine. building had their shirts op Per When Apollonius said to the Baby's Own Tablets are a simmon. When the horse won, Maccabean high priest, "If thou promptly officacious remedy for the Prince, in response to con- trustest in thy forces. come infantile indigestion.constipation, gratulations, telegraphed his down to us in the plain," he was colic, diarrhoea, simple fever, thanks adding, "and is glad that applying the agrument of chi- croup, colds, teething troubles and Mr. Terriss has retained his valry: but the Jew, who knew worms. Almost like magic they shirt."
his strength to lie in the moun- bring calm health-giving sleep in The Bancrofts, Beerbohm Tree,tains, was acting on a sound mi-a natural way. Your chemist Marie Lloyd, George Grossmith litary principle în refusing the sells Baby's Own Tablets, or post and George R. Sims are among suggestion.
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But it is worth while to con- Williams Medicine Co., 60 Kiang. amusing pages.
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