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Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before the too into the Dust descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to le
Sans Wine, sans Songs, sans Singer, and sans End
Omar Khayyam.
Stephen Robinson, aged 57, unemployed miner, once carning thousands a year from Californian gold minca, later handyman to a Russian princess, quoted two verses from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in a letter before taking his life in a small room at Howell Street, Paddington.
Recording a verdict that flobinson "Too old" employers told him In killed himself while of unsound London, mind, Mr. Ingleby Oddle, the Pad- dington coroner, described him as "a lonely man in London."
He had apparently come down in the world, having been living on the dole and worried as to how long his money would last.
LUXURY TO 10%, od. A WEEK "My best and last thoughts" wrote Robinson, "are of the kindly soul, my landlady in Shirland Road, who is the salt of the earth."
He referred to 84-year-old Mrs. Isabella Woods, his only friend in England. She took pity on this man
have had luxury dangled before my eyes many times" were words in his last letter-and boarded him for 10s, kl, a week.
Robinson left Mrs. Woods without saying where he was going. Next morning he was found gassed at Mrs. Mary Cole's house in Howell Street. He had lodged there previously.
Mrs. Woods told a News Chronicle reporter something of the strange lite of Stephen Robinson, whom she met four months ago.
A SOLDIER OF RUSSIA Born in County Kerry, at 10 he ran away to America, saved, educated himself at an American University, went West in search of gold.
As a gold-mining engineer in Cali- fornia Robinson soon and several thousand pounds. Then he travell- ed to Russin, where he joined the Russian Army, to Japan and 10 other countries.
lis fortune dwindled. the gold- mining company falied, and Robin-
son fell out of work. He was offered a handyman's job by Princess Anna Jouromsku, a Russian living in Call- fornia, and he served her for many years.
Two years ago he decided to try his luck in England.
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Eventually he got a job as a stoker at a block of mansiona in Maryle- bone. He was discharged several months ago.
Mrs. Woods sald: "He Was kindly, well-educated man.
"Often he would read books to me, and sometimes would talk about his travels."
She pointed to certificates stating that Robinson was a member of the National Geographical Society, Washington, D.C.
Leopold Stokowski, director of the Philharmonic Orchestra, us he returned to New York from abroad, refusing to say whether or not he and Greta Garbo, flim star, were married or were soon to be married.
SEPTEMBER 24, 1938.
OLYMPIC DANES BERLIN 1930
THE FRIENDS THAT CALL TO CHEER YOU UP AND TELL YOU ABOUT THEIR OPERATIONS... THEIR OPERATIONS ! ... THEN
THEY EAT YOUR FRUIT.
THE FIRST REAL REST IN
YEARS - NO WORK, NO WORRIES -JUST FLOWERS, RADIO,
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WHEN GRANDPA
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WASTE MUCH TIME- ON THE PATIENT,
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