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TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1931.

YOUNG SPENDTHRIFTS

A 23 YEARS-OLD NOVELIST TALKS

ABOUT ECONOMY.

This is a spending age. Who away among our other impossi-

ble dreams. will deny it?

Indeed, to such an extent has this mad pursuit of pleasure taken hold of the populace that the thrifty are no longer admir

life.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

WHY ROYAL EXILES GO

ABBEY DISCOVERY. DID CLIVE COMMIT

Third Sarcophagus at Shaftesbury.

SUICIDE?

Unsolved Mystery of History.

TO BRITAIN.

Under Protection of the Union Jack.

A LONG LIST.

· FRAGRANT OF SHROUD.

AN OPIUM ADDICT.

If King Alfonso goes to Lon-

Is there no evidence that estab It only becomes dangerous

The site of Shaftesbury's an-ishes once for all whether when it begins to menace our don he will not be the first of his home life. That is what is hap-house to find a refuge on British cient Abbey continues to be the Robert, Lloyd Clive, the victor of For the time soil, writes a Daily Express cor- scene of discoveries of consider Plassey and founder of the Bri- pening to-day.

If he should by able importance. The work of tish power in India, took his own when people were content, after respondent.

ed, as they should be, for their the day's work was done, to chance visit the pleasant mar- excavation and investigation has life or died by misadventure?

spend the evening quietly at et town of Aylesbury he will steadily continued under the per- Macaulay, reviewing Malcolm's sonal direction of Mr. John official "life" of Clive, written thrift, and lauded as an example home, talking or renting, is past find there a "Bourbon" street.

It devises the name of this Wilson-Claridge, son of Mr. and from the family papers, said that to the thriftless, but rather de- and gone, and instead we have a luckless royal house from the Mrs. Claridge, the owners of the Clive "died by his own hand."

Tho spised for their caution and some passionate craving for excitement

Encyclopedia Britannica, times even

of some kind or other. We want act that Louis XVIII, King of Abbey. pitied because, ac-

It may be remembered that Chambers Encyclopedia; and cording to the spenders, they to go out into the streets in France, lived close by at Hart obtain so little pleasure out of search of adventure. It is con-well House while Napoleon forded human remains were found in most history books use the sand circumstances which point phrase, implying that Clive com- sidered the height of dullness to it over France and Europe.

Here, in 1812, the diarist strongly to their being the relica mitted suicide. Some books say stay indoors.

The truth is we are no longer Greville found him in a dreary, of Edward, King and Martyr, that he cut his throat. capable of amusing, ourselves by disagreeable situation" playing murdered at Corfe Castle and en

May Have ut whist for three penny points, shrined at Shaftesbury Abbey. ourselves. Instead, amusement

and from Hartwell House, in These relies were lost sight of book, "Clive," ((Jarrold's, 16s.), Mr. P. J. Minney, in a new has to be provided for us. cinema," the theatre, the dance/1814, he went back to win his at the Dissolution, when the leaves the question undecided. ball, the greyhound track all have throne

Abbey was destroyed. Other kings who found a

His conclusion is:- Later Mr. Claridge found a

"It may have been suicide their passionate devotees among

taining the remains of a former been no more than an accident after night. That is where, the so lucky.

There was that pathetic Ger- Abbess.

and the hurried and secret burial money goes.

man adventure, Theodore von

In May, Mr. Claridge found a

merely a desperate desire of the

By pleasure is meant nightly visits to the cinema or the dance hall and that of course, costs a good deal of money.

A

Been.

They know it us. All of them are full nighthaven in Britain have not been Purbeck marble sarcophagus con-It may, on the other hand, have)

That is why, I suppose, nine people out of ten to-day never even think of trying to save penny, says Godfrey Winn in the Daily Mail, would be useless. Instead, they spend a their income, and sometimes more, in a deter mined, though perhaps rather a good reckless, effort to have

flow Are We Spending?

pledge.

be

Now, are we spending wisely Neuhoff, who actually made him third Purbeck marble sarcopha-family to elude the prying eye of | or foolishly? Like all questions, self King of Corsica for a season, gus, and in conversation with a time, and to enjoy every moment there are two sides to it and two but who was forced to pledge his reporter, said that he believed a gloating public."

Mr. Minney prints a list-of of their leisure hours while they answers. Up to a point, but only realm to pay his London debts these Purbeck marble sarcophagi authorities he has consulted about Clive. They fill a page but still possess the health and the up to a point, I think it a good when it was no longer his to found at Shaftesbury to

unique. He could not find any there is apparently nothing in desire and, most, important, the thing that, whatever our age, we

He Innguished in the King's record

Purbeck marble being them from should spend a certain amount After- wherewithal to do so.

The generosity used for such a purpose any Clive's death that solves the inys. any eye-witness of on pleasure, in order to counter-Rench Prison. wards

But they neither seem to think balance the deadly monotony of of Walpole and Garrick restored where else.

him from the prison to an attic

tery. Latest Discovery...

Clive died at his house in nor to care about afterwards, our work.

All work and no play makes in Soho, where, seated beneath a

Berkeley Square on November In their foolishly optimistic way

The position of the latest find 22, 1774. He had been ill, suffer counterpane draped to form a saying to-day as ever it was. -I

they believe that the future will Johnny a dull boy is as true oral canopy he thanked his Bri-is in the south aisle, between the ing much pain, and had taken to "Have a good time to-day and think, perhaps, our fathers betish friends. He died there of crossing and the south transept, opium. His valet told him that!

take care of itself.

to-morrow will never come."

want in 1752,

too

Unfortunate King.

fore us were too thrifty,

and almost directly behind and in the coach was at the door for an He left another to fight for line with the sarcophagus found intended journey to Bath. Clive cautious. Mad Craze for Pleasure.

They saved and saved, and Corsic freedom, the gallant Paoli in the Lady Chapel containing went into his dressing-room:A This is the motto of my gen-

became president of the what is believed to be the re- thud was heard, and the valet, eration, and not only my genera when the time came and they de-who tion, I am afraid, for all ages cided they would like to have aisland, but was finally defeated mains of an Abbesa..

The discovery, when found, the floor.

rushing in, found Clive dead on He was only forty- alike seem smitten with this mad little play they found to their by the French and forced to seck

appeared, unlike previous dis- nine. craze for pleasure. We worship bitter disappointment that their sanctuary, also in London.

coveries of a similar nature, to The newspapers next day" it, as though it were a go, and zest for enjoyment was dead in

Dr. Johnson, the lexicographer, have been undisturbed.

When (says Mr. Minney)" announced as an offering to that god we will their hearts.

They were either too old or tou often gave him a much-needed opened it was found to contain that death followed a fit of apo- ingly sacrifice security; our.peace

the complete skeleton of of mind, and a stable, firm back-set in their ways to obtain any meal.

aplexy but a'day or two later ap real pleasure. from spending Then there was that unfortun-woman, but there was also an-peared a hint that he might ground.

ather female akull and several have died from an overdose of bourgeois Instead, we walk dangerously money. That was their tragedy ate

Louis king

other bones. The skull of the opium, unwittingly taken. on shifting sands.

queen

One primary burial. rested in the hol or two gazettes commented on Once upon a time, and not so for us if we go to the other ex-landed at Newhaven one morning.lowed end of the massive recep- the undue haate in burial.

treme and spend too much while in 1848 with nothing save the our positions and our hold on life clothes in which they stood. tacle, and the position of the

"Malicious whispers, based are still insecure. That is only They were known as Mr. and ones of the hands and arms in perhaps, on talk of servants, or dicated that the hands were spread possibly by his enemies courting disaster.

Besides, just as too little re-

crossed over the breast.

Mr. soon said it was suicide. Some creation has a deadening effect

long ago either, every class of

the community automatically put aside a portion of their income

a portion either large or small, According to their means and, circumstances-saving it

up

But ually it will be a tragedy Philippe, who

with his

Mrs. Smith.

Queen Victoria gave them

years later.

ล

turies, and it was

wisely, year by year, against on our lives so has too much. Aome at Claremont Park. in Sur-Claridge believes the burial to be declared that Clive had been their old age or that period of string of hectic pleasures, night rey, and there Louis died two between the 12th and 18th cen-found with his throat cut, and remarkable history has unwarrantably ne bad luck or illness which is like. after night, must in the end When Louis Phillippe landed, that a distinct fragment of the cepted this." ly to come to any of us. But to- stultify our brain powers, weaken another exile, Louis Bounaparte; shroud, with web and woof

Double Dose, day, alas, this wise and sensible sur physical and nervous re left Britain to become the clearly visible, remained in posi behaviour has been superseded sources, and therefore minimise Emperor of the French as Nape. tion over the head, by means of Mr. Minney does not cite any by an era of universal spending, our carning capacities.

leon III, in his place. He did not rin in a perfect state of pre-eye-witness evidence, however

in disproof of the story. which in many cases borders The man who is going to get leave here for all time another servation. dangerously close on wild extra-on in the world, carve out a career

He does quote a letter wrilter

vagance.

The Truth, There is no exaggeration in that statement. It is the truth. As I sit at my desk and write this..article I look out on to a square which is used as a park-

ends or in holidays.

made them restless and dissatis- fied. The lure of the unknown excites them.

.. Work Must Suffer.

That "is

don.

A

by Mr. Robert Pardoe, a Lin-

Is there'

any

The

real evidence that he did? double-dose story may be as un founded as the cut-throat story, It may have been apoplexy.

**THIRD DEGREE.”

Prisoner's Serious

Allegations..

HIT BY DETECTIVES.

A Chinese who appeared at Cen-

torn of fortune's wheel brought Remarkable Features: for himself, and rise to the top him back, a broken exile again.

More remarkable still was of his profession is the man who to die weighed down by his sor.

coln's inn attorney, three dayal comes to his work every morn ing with a clear head and a fresh rows at Chislehurst, bear Lon-distinct patch of fair hair be after Clive's death. Mr. Pardoe neath the portion of shroud, but wrote: "He had taken, opium for otherwise the skull was bare and many years and...

he took a body.

It is not only monarchs who showed traces of decay, due to double dose against advice and That will obviously be impos have stayed in Britain while his its great age, although the died in a fit.. ing place for vehicles. It is over-sible if he has been late to bedtory spelled out their destinies teeth formed an almost perfect |

Mr. Pardue does not appear There are other great names on to have said where he got hold of of the case, he will feel tired and the-list-of-Britain's refugees.ness, and indicating that the re-his story that Clive took a double size and description.

There was the philosopher, these cars paid for? I doubt it listless and uninterested in his

work, and his work must suffer Voltaire, prophet of the French mains were those of a youthful dose of opium.

person at death. very much.

Revolution, who was packed off It is the fashion to-day for in consequence.

Two other pins, both perfect, Again, it is only natural that from the Bastille prison across were found with the remains. everyone rich and poor alike, to

A curious feature is that the own a car, or if not a car, a motor his mind should keep wandering the Channel in. 1725, and Karl bicycle, some means of transport all through the day to the even- Mars, expelled frm Germany lid, which when found was crack. which will enable them to career ing's entertainment that lies and denied entry into France, ed and slightly holed, exactly tol about the countryside at week ahead of him. He will be rest- who planned the stormy future lows the outside lines of the sar less and impatient for the hours in the long years he spent in cophagus, but was not less than Once people were content to to go.. Instead of losing himself London from 1849 to 1883.

His disciple, Lenin, lived in 144 inches longer and projected over either end, the lid being ? stay in the environs of their own in his work, he will be watching home towns, but they are not so the hands of the clock with fre- Bloomsbury. In London he met feet 4 inchs long, and the out Trotsky, whom he took for a long side measurement of the sarco any longer. The cinema has quent impatient glances.

way of Westminster phagus being 6 feet 2 inches. a very unfortunate walk by

The lid broke into several frag- state of affairs, alike for the Bridge:

Bolsheviks' Beginning. nation as for the individual. For

ments when moved, having he They are filled with a longing if we are to regain our pre-war In London, too, in 1903, at a come brittle with age, but the tral Magistracy yesterday on a to get away, to see life, prosperity we

must have men, Socialist congress his party of sarcophagus, except for a verti-churge of conspiracy to commit an

Bolsheviks was to experience life as it exists both young and old, who are will the

formed cal crack at the massive hollowed armed robbery at 39, Third Street; in the world which lies being to work hard, work overtime. When fortune rafsed him to head, is in perfect condition. made serious allegations of ill- yond the end of the street where- and enjoy doing so. Let us seek power greater than any monarch, Excavation work in crossing treatment against Chinese detec

our pleasure in our work.

He denied the charge, and his predecessor, Kerensky folhas revealed massive rough foot tives. In a way that is quite an un- We shall be far happier in the lowed him to exile in London, angs between the piers which said that he had been assaulted and derstandable longing. It lies long run if we do so and Louis Philippe followed Napo supported the central tower. Mr. forced to make a statement, being buried deep in the heart of all of need hardly add; considerably leon III.

Claridge has also uncovered the poked In the ribs with a pole, which ua and there is no harm in it as better off and infinitely more Other exiled revolutionaries footings of the south wall of the caused him to vomit blood. long as it is controlled and locked secure in every way.

have waited in London for future nave, which run in an unbroken also alleged threats by the detec greatness or future disillusion-line the whole length of the clols- tives, in consequence of which he and saw them used by other ment. The Hungarian patriot, ter. Patches of tiles in the clois-lad invented the story produced in members between 90 and 100 Kossuth came to London in 1851, ter have a dragon in circle de evidence.

and the ex-Hungarian President, sign. T

Mr. Schofield adjourned the hear Their Only Success. Karolyi, in 1920. Mazzini toiled Work which is completed has ing, directing that the detectives in and dreamed in London, and heen-levelled and turfed and the case should called to give evid- On the first occasion the con helped from his slender means made bright with flowers and once. stables each won 2s, but lost the raged Savoyards of Saffron, generally Mr. Claridge by his "Diddler machines made in every other time, Mr. Caldwell Hill In London, too, he was re- knowledge and sympathetic Chicago on one of which it is explained that the machines were conciled with Garibaldi, the war- handling of the work, has trang- said that a woman lost £200, worked with shillings and no skill ríor champion of his ideals, formed what was a few years figured in a case at Eastbourne was required, so Salvemini, the Florentile ago an unsightly heap of stones Police Court recently.

The Mayor Where are they Liberal, was forced to fly to Lon- and weeds.- Pines totalling £130 were im- made? don a few years ago for preach posed on the Berkeley Club, Mr. Caldwell In Chicago. Ing Mazzini's creed in Italy after Eastbourne, and the manager, A detective said that comItaly was free. In London Carol Sidney Reynold Lewis, who was plaints were made to the police of Roumania planned to win charged with using the Club as that women were losing sums of back his throne an unlawful gaming_house,

in is their home.

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CLUB FINED £130.

Women's Heavy Losses "on" "Diddler" Machines.

Plese of guilty were entered in

times.

THE WICKEDEST BOY IN ~THE VILLAGE.

Не

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