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October 13; -1939.
Dickens'
Speaks
"I LOVED my father
better than any man in the world. I loved him for his faults. My father was a wicked man- very wicked man."
Kate Perugini,
younger
by
Daughter
Last
at
TOM DARLOW
INDIVIDUAL Dickens
pass the misery and unhappiness. of our home.
"Every shred of evidence re- garding former domestic dis-
en- widow and children of his friend, agreements," continuca Miss thusiasts, as well as the Dickens Douglas Jarrold. Fellowship, have strenuously maintained this completo fa-
our
him."
4
*
Storey, "was raked up and used ቢዛ a weapon of defenco and justification to the outside world
he
J.
daughter and third child or brication. Most of them cer- MRS. PERUGINI described for the coming separation, 'by tainly believed what they said. Miss Ternan as "the small fair- mutual consent,' which Dickens Charles and Cathering Dickens. Others, I am afraid, certainly haired, rather pretty actress" of brought himself to bellore was | is speaking.
Her voice comes from the know the truth.
no special attraction save her right." grave, for she died on May 9, I have a certain personal in- youth.
Georgina Hogarth-Mrs. Dic- 1920 at the great age of eighty- tereat in this matter. Somo "He had the world at his lived in the household for years kens' younger sister, who had nine, but it rings strong, clear years back I spent many months feet," his daughter added, "she and true as it is reported by her helping my friend, Mr. C. E. was a young girl of eighteen, Mamic, "entirely sided with --and his other daughter, familiar friend of many years Bechofer Roberts with his book, elated and proud to be noticed Dickens." His eldest son and SPECIAL DISCOUNT OF 10% standing, Gladys Storey, in her This Side Idolatry, which, in the by him." "As for Dickens,"
book. Dickens and Daughter, form of fiction, attempted to tell comments Mins Storey, "a flush father's wishes." Mrs. Perugini Mra, Perugini "acceded to their Inspection and trials by arrangement published by Frederick Muller the true, tragic story of Charles of youth was rekindled within took her mother's part in so far
Ltd. for 10s. 6d.
Dickens' private life. It will certainly
as it was possible for her to do cause a We started our researches tremendous sensation and scan- fully
"He pursued the realisation of no. belleving the dal. It tells, in Mrs. Perugini's legend of the great and good on Mrs. Perugini's authority, ficult one, since Dickens had
current it," she continues, basing herself "But the situation was a dif own words, the carefully and. long-concealed truth of Charles were opened. In spite of every thoroughness
genius. Gradually
oyes "with the same energy and sternly impressed upon them Dickens' separation from his effort at suppression by the everything he set his heart on their best
applied to that their father's name was wife, and of his well-established Dickens
possession-which family-except association with Miss
Mrs, doing. Ellen
they knew to be true-and he Lawless Ternan, who was his Perugini-and by the Dickens
"His observation regarding expected them to act according- idolators, almost the whole story his wife at this time, that it was ly mistress for many years and could be pieced together by pa- a pity he ever fell in her way' bore him a son who died in in- tient unbiased work.
Indeed, this was so. Had it fancy.
was subsequently to become the become known that the idol of Hongkongven of so trent and ally revealed looked very like the regarding herself and Dickens "carrying on" with an eighteen- most private And the man who was gradu- retributory thought of this girl mid-Victorian respectability was illustrious a genious as Charles father of Mrs. Perugini's when (after his death) she year-old actress to his wife's Dickens need not be dragged out memories as Miss Storey reports married a clergyman and be great sorrow, sales would have into the glaring light of them.
came the mother of his children. slumped, and the whole of publicity nearly seventy years
Dickens' glorious golden career Naturally, when This Side Ido-
"More tragic and far-reaching would have been bust, past re- after his death, were it not for Intry came out, the Dickens in its effects was the association pair. the fact that a great campaign worshippers fell on it with a of Charles Dickens and Ellen has continued, ever since he whoop of delight, flayed it, Ternan and their resultant son separated from his wife in 1858, mocked it, and generally played (who died in infancy) than that to make him out a model hus- old harry with it. Bechofer of Nelson and Lady Hamilton of this affair, reports Miss ONE afternoon, at the start band and father, the pattern Roberts and I have had to wait and their daughter, embodiment of all the Victorian a long while for our justifica-
Storey, Mrs. Perugini found her "My father was like a mad- mother sobbing at her dressing man when my mother left table.
"Your father has asked me to home" (In 1858 after 22 years the average Hongkong resident is and Miss Storey have to say.
Let us see what Mrs. Perugini married life in which she bore go and see Ellen Ternan." lightly taxed.
him eleven children, the young- "You shall not gol" exclaimed Unai un income Tax system is brought into force,
When he was forty-six, in est of whom was then six) said Mrs. Perugini, angrily stamping any statement
1857, Dickens met Mrs. Perugini.
her foot. But she went. regarding the number of taxpayers August, to whom it will apply can only be Ellen Lawless Ternan, through "This affair brought out all "In the early stages of their conjectured, since Government, as the some amateur theatricals which that was worst--all that was married life," continues the Financial Secretary admits, has no he got up and performed in weakest in him. He did not Perugini-Storey evidence, "Dic- incans of ascertaining the number of
sons who will be directly affected, most brilliantly, in order to raise care a damn what happened to kens made a compact with his minority who will bear the brunt of But it is safe to assume that the money for the near destitute any of us. Nothing could sur wife that if either of them fell
Wyndham St.,
'Phone 26615 October 13, 1939
War Taxation
DESPITE the worthy
to
which Government aspires to devote a quarter of our total income-both ordinary and extraordinary-in the
Perhaps the
twelve months after Income Tax be virtues. comes operative and thereafter for
the duration of the war, few people in the Colony will rejoice, either at the assurance that hitherto we have been among the lowest taxed of the Empire's multitudinous people or that Government is taking steps to remove Us from this allegedly enviable position.
Some form of increased taxation
in war-time is inevitable, and no person will fail to agree that it behaves this outpost of Empire to contribute to the utmost to the cause for which.our Motherland has staked her future, But the burden of taxa- tion propounded by Government is one which must have consequences inimical to the welfare of a people al- ready reduced to straightened cir- cumstances by their proximity to war that has been in existence their door-step for more than two years.
on
persons
Die new taxation will be infinitesim- ally smaller than the minority who bear the brunt of ordinary taxation, and if the sum of ten million dollars which has been mentioned is not an which exaggeration the contribution when this Colony is to make towards the Imperial war chest will be, per capita of contributors, a staggering one.
It has been estimated by Govern- ment that the Colony's total contribu- Don towards Imperial Defence dur- Tax
ing the first year Income
operates will be in the vicinity of $10,000,000 (or £1,000,000 sterling) of which amount $6,000,000 will be remitted to the Imperial Government በ5 the Colony's annual Detence Con- tribution, $2,000,000 will be expended
be procrtal
the
in twelve
to
tion.
Α
AFTER
A MONTH
Lessons of 1914
·
in love with anybody else, they were to tell one another.
"Such an idea at that period of their lives appeared ludicrous, but Dickens remembered the compact, and had told his wife to call upon the girl with whom The had fallen in love."
1T
SOON the final break came. Mrs, Dickens went to live at 70, Gloucester-crescent, Regent's Park, receiving a settlement of £600 a year, Another settle- ment was made on Ellen Tornan who was set up in an establish-
was then a charming
There is not very much thore
Government has been careful to claim that the extraordinary Increase in the Colonyls revenue during the on local defences measures and the T the end of the first month of The Battle of the Marne, which past twelve months has been duc estimated balance of 58,000,000 will A war, the man in the street is ended the drst phase of the fighting, ment of her own at Pockham, chiefly to the influx of refugees, many
as a free contribution to undoubtedly perplexed at the course did not take place until September which
Government
for the of them self-supppring, and not to`
-five weeks after the declaration of suburb. prosecution of the war
ne with Gora of events. any increase in the wealth of the any. The total represents, in all,
many.
For more than a year past he has war
Mechanical transport has speeded to say. Mrs. Dickens ever people of the Clony itself. Few twenty-five per cent. of the entire anxiously faced the possibility that tin the movement of troops, US Hongkong people, indeed, have not revenue Governmeht estimates it will the moment war was declared, or Hitler's progress in Poland shows. saw her husband again. Miss experienced vicissitudes and de- thury channels both through even before it, London would be at- But where armies are anything like Ternan satisfied and comforted terloration in their standards of tution of Income tax.
and by the in- tacked in ruid after raid by explo-
sive, incendiary or even gas bombs. equally matched or are holding fort- his restless spirit devotedly un- living as a result of the neighbouring
the Colony in à position
He is also rather puzzled-particu-fed positions elaborate and careful til he died, so far as his constant
preparations must be
be made for an hostilities and it appears an unfor- afford a
.and "readings" tunate fact that Government has been
there colon of this magni- Iarly if he is not old enough clearly tude there the only gainer as a result of the objection to it. But the conceivabic to remember the last war-by what) ment of air reconnaissance it is more would allow him to enjoy her
majority of is happening on land.
than ever necessary that they should
uld company and solace. situation that fias confronted is the people of this Colony, even the
Pola has been subjugated by the be made with the greatest secrecy... Under his will she received majority of the Colony since 1937.
European class, are In the position to pay additional tremendous thrust of the mechanised
of any substantial forces of Germany which poured mobilise mudi inter than Germany; 2,000 from his estate of just Colony have been lightly taxed and at their cross her frontiers and conquered a but three million French soldiers over £90,000 though, of course, in the past seems a somewhat rather existing economic level.
nation in three weeks. It is not were believed to be under arms the capital sum he had earlier To unnatural to assume that the moment within a week and the levy of an-settled on her remained her own. unjustified assertion when applied to single man,
$250 a month, carning probable support
France and England definitely ranged, or, three million was ordered.
Anglican clergyman the very small percentage of the relatives not covered by parents and themselves by her side, some drama-1 The vast number of men have all to Later she married a most res total population who are the chief exemptions (ns many middle class the step would immediately be taken be conveyed over very congested rail-pected
vices lo depots, pick up their whose name is hot given in this and when the units book, but which is already well taxpayers and who will be the Eurasian and Chinese 20 the-Western Front to relleva the.
Ated to their
be no
To state that the people of the
nature
ure
pressure In the East,
attack.
journeyings And with the great develop-
On this occasion France began to
מונד
war
stations. Such an army cannot be known to Dickens scholars.
How Two questions remain, brought to action in a few hours.
much was Mrs. Dickens to blame? Can we believe Mrs. Perugini's evidence?
It is also
*
surprising that Ger-
certainly the persons mulet of the ten million
!are)
pro- dollars extra revenue Government disaster. To the married man
posed tax of 300 o
SU a year may mean man with expects to raise by the imposition of one child, earning $500 a a month and a ten per cent, fax on Income. The already harnased by swollen rents, Clearly the Allied Milltary Author- bulk of Hongkong's 1,500,000 people cost of living that has increased from ities cannot publicly explain what in pay but a fraction of the existing months, and increased school fees, their
to 50 per cent. In the last twelve going on or give any Indication of
To the first I think wo can intentions. But it may help dollars and will pay nothing whit- which will be his lot may prove of what can be done by recalling how air forces for Bihiluxury of frighten-only say this: Charles and annual taxation of forly millin the additional burden of $62 a year the folk to get a better perspective, marly, should be kunable to spare, her)
ing ant endar papulation. The drst Catherine Dickens were certain- intolerable.
war began in 1914: and support from every
principle of income tax must
France ordered a general mobilien- aim of each to obtain comly not well-mated, though we the zone of mill-may sympathise more as Mr. consciention on August 1; the British ultimn mand of Lie
Bernard Shaw has said, with be failing in its loyalty and duty to an August 4. Although detailed
over towards the war chest to which this Colony's Government proposes so liberally to pour wealth that can be so ill-spared nt this critical time
The
tlous person, and this Colony would tum to Germany expired at midnight) tary operatAll Vätter of graulica-"the woman who was sacrificed
It
over
ithman to learn
British squad to the genius uxoriousness to
bridges had to bear eleven children in the passage of sixteen ycare, than with a
after grievance which,
|| Rhino
majority is, al course, only right intive Council pounded in Legis- to ship the four divisions:
6 the Ing. A that, accord- the appalling extent of having
in our history. That ordinary.taxa- tion falls so heavily upon the minority and so lightly upon the
and just, since the bulk of our
the Motherland if it did not con-plans had long been made for send- tlun ustup tribute to the fullest extent towards ing an expeditionary force to France, officially at the successful prosecution of the war. It took from August 8 to August 10 rons are But the scheme
yesterday is manifestly
festly Eritish Expeditionary Force cross have been
Channel, Basos had to be pre- that great unfair to the medium-paid salaried population, unhappily, la, on the worker and unfairly generous to the pared, billets and commissaring to be verge of destitution and in existing highly paid. The minimum salaries arranged for their progress
the d
through
rendered
cx-
all,
on » standard that admits no exceir 20 which tàxotion will be applied forrance,
and all the appara. remes Ninely
try to amounted only to the fact that
wealth for purposes other than the barest sustenance.
inforced and
is worth
or necept a she was not a feralo Charles
for a glanco Dickens."
Sho seems to have had no
northern. $100 a month for single men or
r-maintaining na sny in a major role what the Rhine women, $275 for married men, $376 foreign country to be established. at the pap
routes by of the Billah runs right din the concentration The minority, for married men with one chlid, Tho whose standards of living are the $440 for married men with two Army at Mons was not completed which the Slekried of must be re-sense of humour, and she was
not tidy, or a good household.. children and $475 for married men until August 21. standards of the west, cannot object with three children-appear extra-
Qdo The British publie were not allowed to carrying the burden thrust upon ordinarily low. The concessions to to know of the sending of the B.E.F. Ford Plier the war of manager-yot her husband was the most meticulous and oxigent That fact
the Eastern them under ordinary circumstances salarled men with famules do not until Augurt 18. Indeed, the Annual by the destitution and poverty of the appear generous enough. In effect, Register states that owing to the suc- front collapsed In through the of hosts and householders.
the In such circumstances · bis majority. The fact that this burden under-31,000-a-month employes cess of the various measures taken disintegration of Barela and
Rumpfit, the Allies frustration at home' grew too is asked to contribute, far too gon- by the Intelligence Department, the crushing of and it is a small minority-would the upper class who can well afford still in ignorance of the dispatch of seem to dispose of the suggestion that to pay more than is being demanded. the BEF.
tho
is hal
|-· is, however, borne by the minority'erously: In comparison with those of German generals on Augual 21 were fought on for 18 months and wor bitter to be borrio, and, when he
the wht...
WTLY a chance of escape and hap
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