1933-05-20 — Page 7

SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1933.

$2,200 WANTED FOR DICKEN'S CHURCH.

Chimes Silenced By Death-Watch Pest.

*VILLAGERS START DRIVE

London. 'The death-watch beetle, which has wrought auch havoc among the roof beams of innumerable lovely old churches throughout the English countryside, has dealt a heavy blow to the village church at Cobham in Kent-the Church which Charles Dickens, the great novelist, knew so well.

This church must be re-roofed at a cost of £2,200—a large sum for a little village of fewer than 1,000 not-too-wealthy folk.

PRISON IS HAPPY

·HAVEN "NOW.

Many Deliberately Seek.

Admission.

-Large."

Cape Towa.

INDIA TO LONDON

THE CHINA MAIL,

To-Day's Short Story.

WALK

British Sergeant's 5,324 Mile Trig

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Calcutta.

By Guy De

CHAIRMENDER Maupassant.

was the opening of the that lasted for fifty-five years, with

4.

What

Prison is often not a place of TEA GIFTS FOR MONARCHS. punishment but of refuge, accord-i ing to the annual report of the Department of Prisons.

A British sergeant, Mr. M. H. I shooting-season at the house out a day of reapfte, and which "It seems certain that under Chalmers, has left India for a of the Marquis de Bertrans, ended only with death.” the present difficult economic 6,324 mile walk to London. He ex- Dinner was over; eleven sports. The Marchioness conditions many persons either Pects to average 25 miles a day and men, eight ladies, all of them hands. "How beautiful, and what clapped her carelessly rink or deliberately arrive there in September, follow-still youthful, and the doctor of a dream to be loved thus! seek admission to prison as ing the overland motor road. means, of escape from the uncer Mr. Chalmers, who has lived in the district were seated round happiness to live for fifty-five years tainties and stresses of life at India for many years, never drinks the great lighted table, decor-wrapped round by such deep and anything but te. He is so partial ated with fruit and flowers ardent affection! How happy and "In these circumstances it might to tea that he is having parcels of They began to talk of love, and how full of joy in life must the man be advisable for the Courte to con-it sent ahead, waiting for him at S `s great discussion ensued, that thus adored have been 1" sider some means of reducing com-stations in Persia, Iraq, Syria whether true love is possible once randame, you are not mistaken about

The doctor smiled.. ‚ever-recurring discussion as to

"Indeed, mittals to prison."

Turkey, Bulgaria, Australia Czecho-

fone points that the beloved object So the men who were boys when The report also refers to whip Slovakia, Germany, Belgium and only or many times.

Examples were quoted of people was a man You know him; it was 'Dickens came to Cobham are rally-ping and says: "the brutalising France.

who had only had one love affair; M. Chouquet, the chemist of the ing the young villager's and Dickens effect of strokes, at any

rate on Sergeant Chalmers, to Have a natives, has been grossly exagger the transportation inspector of the sons who had loved often and pas her too. She was the old chair

aged 48, is other examples were given of per town. As for the woman, you know lovers the world over literary landınark.

ated and there is no doubt that East Indian Railway. He holds the For in this prett village they whipping is far less harmful than King's Long Service Medal for 35 held that passion, like disease, can castle every year but I will explain alonately. The men in general mender who used to come to the still remember Dickens-Dickens a term of imprisonment which may years' service in the East Indian attack the same person many times myself more clearly." of the shrewd yet kindly eyes and completely demoralise the perion Railway.

attack fatally even should he meet The enthusiasm of the women had the swinging stride along the vijand give him a trend towards a

He has had previous experience wh some obstacle."

subsided. Their disgusted faces Jage street.

permanent criminal career.*-

in long distance walks, having made) Although this aspect of the sub-said, "Faugh!"! As though if were Outside Cobham the world re-Renter.

the 1,000 mile journey on foot be-ject was incontestable, the women, not meet that love should visit any members Dickens only for those un-

tween Rawalpindi and Simia in whose opinions rested on poetry but refined and distinguished people, forgettable figures he wove from his -dreams--his Pickwick, his Copper-

rather than on observation, affirm alone worthy of the well-bred! On his march to London he is ed that love, true love, the great field, his Micawber and the rest.

carrying a kit of 14 pounds, includ-great love, could descend but once ing a tent weighing two pounds. upon an individual, that such love He wears a semi-military khaki was like a thunderbolt, and that a

But Cobham is proud that it re- members that creator even moreį

BRITAIN'S FIRST

SUNDAY SCHOOL.

vividly than the character he Bi-Centenary Of Birth

Of Founder.

COMMEMORATION SERVICE.

London

many

1923.

carries a camera:

years ago, was used in the servke HAN YMEN GROWING Dickens, in those days, lived at commemorating the bi-centenary Gad's Hill, near Rochester, and he of the birth of that spinster. used to walk across Cobham Park

She was Mistress Hannah Bill village and lunch at "The 'and she set up the first Sunday

SCARCE.

not committed

MONDAY'S STORY,

Monday's story will be. "The-Price of Things," by Foster Wray.

to the vote. American visitors School in her cottage at High King Who Was Expert

uniform and a sun helmet, and heart once touched by it remained created. There is Mr. William Pye,

ever after so emptied, ravaged," for instance, still hearty and still

When he arrives in London he scared, at no other powerful feel- farming at 77, who as a youngster]

expects to deliver a lantern lecture, 'Ing, not ren a dream, could be bora used to have the awe inspiring duty i

showing the photographs of his again within it. of taking baskets of fruit from his

¡journey.

The Marquis, having loved often, father us A present for "Mr. Dickens." And Dickens used to pat] A battered old desk, from which tea to the Shah of Persia and the assure you that one can love many months ago I was called to the

He plans to present packages of keenly combated this. belief.

The doctor continued: "Three] him on the head and ask him a little Methodist spinster taught King of Iraq-Reuter,

times, with all one's heart and with deathbed of this old woman; she -score of questions about the form the Gospel to village children in

all one's soul. and the fruit and the animals. the first Sunday School

had arrived, the, evening before, in "You tell me of people who have The "Leather Bottle."

killed themselves for love, a proof drawn by the wretched hack horse the cart which' was her house, of the impossibility of a second which you have seen, and accom- passion. I answer that had they panied by two great black dogs, her the blunder of friends and guardians. The parish chance of relapse, they would have pointed us her legal executor, an cuicide, which took from them all priest was already there; ahe ap and other Dickensians lunch there Wycombe Buckinghamshire,

recovered; they would have begun in order to reveal to us the signi- still in his memory, and the land-1769.

again and again till their natural ficance of her laat wishes, she told lord will show

you the chair in In the leaflet giving the form at!

death. Lovers are like drunkards: us her life-story. which Dickens sat, he same room service was printed a copy of a

those who have drunk drink again; thing more strange or more touch- I know of no- and prints and hand-painted china page from "A Guide to the English

those who have loved will love lamp by which he wrote and read. Tongue" which Mistress Hannah

Handymen are growing scarcer again; it is a matter of tempera never lived in a house built on solid ing Her father was a chairmen- Here to Cobham, too, Dickens owned when she was 16 years old, brought Mr. Pickwick and his On one of the pages of this bosk and scarcer. Many people, however, ment."

der, and her mother also, she had They chose, as arbiter the doctor, she wrote in a straggling girlith regret the ousting of old English hand:

crafts by machinery, and Mr. Alfred an old Pariala practitioner retired ground. As a small child she had Hannah Ball, her book, August the Society of Model and Experi- give his opinion; but actually he

wandered about in rags, verminous W. Marshall, a past-president of to the country, and begged him to

and filthy. 2, 1748.

mental Engineers, is giving a lec-had none. "As the Marquis says, villages. By the hedge-sides they To lern to spell. 1 sett my Name For to Betrey ture to the Worshipful Campany of it is an air of temperament. A would unharness the cart while the Turners to make a plea for the for me, I ave known of a pasalon horse grazed and the dog slept, his dying crafts of England.

friends on a famous occasion.

For it was to the Leather Bottle, opposite the old church, that Mr. Tracy Tupman fed from the world after he had loved and lost:

Mr. Tupman sought consolation in solitude-together with some rosat | fowl, ale and other soothing sucks. Here it was that Mr. Pickwick and the others tracked down the love-lorn Mr. Tupman.

And in the churchyard sster-| wards; as they paced to and fro together, Mr. Pickwick successful-

the Theife

Ia!

Thatt Steels My Book away. There was a man And som did!

call him mad

The maure he cast a way the

maur he had."

Reuter.

ly combatted Mr. Tupman's deter: SUICIDE WAVE IN

mination henceforth to cut himself off from the world.

Later Mr. Pickwick, in his bed. room, was roused from his philoso- phical meditations on the situation. by the old church clock striking twelve.

which

And the church chimes Dickens-and through him Mr. Pickwick-knew so well have now been silenced by the

death-watch beetle--Reuter.

TRUTH OF AMERICA'S GOLD PROBLEM.

(Continued from Page 6.)

JUGOSLAVIA.

Lovers And Students Seek Death.

Turner.

PLEA ROR DYING CRAFTS.

London.

"Sitting in a forest in Bucking-] hamshire to-day" he said, "are extraordinarily clever chair leg! turners, for example, who use the primitive pole lathe such as was used 3,000 years ago by the Per-)

13,000,000,000 FILMGOERS.

sians and Egyptian and Indians, £43,000,000 4 Year For

British Cinemas.

"At one time, not so long ago, retired Colonels and others-educat

ed men with artistic ability and per- PRODUCERS SPEND £2,000,000. haps some mathematical knowledge, -kept very elaborate Isthes in

their libraries, and did some ex-

"They stayed on the outskirts of

nose on his paws; and the little one would play about on the grass while the father and mother, under the shade of the cins, by the roadside, would repair all the old seats of the hamlet. There was litle conversa tion in this itinerant dwelling.

After the few necessary words to

settle who should make the round of the houses crying out the well-

known Chairs to mend," they would begin to plait the straw, sitting op- London. posite, each cher or side by side; tremely beautiful and intricate

Britain spends about £43,000,000 when the child strayed too far, or work. Now I am afraid, they pre-And the number of annual atten-village urchin, the angry voice of ||a year on "going to the pictures," tried to make friends with some fer a car.

"King George III

¡dances at cinemas throughout the her father would recall her: WU was a very world is about 13,000,000,000. skilful amateur tumer, and he could'

{you come back, you rascall Those figures were given to the "They were the only words "of A spring wave of micides is have earned £3 or 44 a week with sweeping over Jugoslavia. Many the ornamental work he did on his when Mr, Simon Rowson, a Diree, she grew older she was sent to Eyal Empire Society In London affection that she heard. When

tor of t Gaumont British Picture collect the damaged chair-bottoms;

BELGRADE'S HIGH FIGURE.

{bad marka.

Belgrade.

lathe.

JEWISH REFUGEES

IN PARIS.

Often the little boys would throw for come outstanding pictures had stones at her. The coppers given been; NG MAA

her by Indies she hoarded with care. City Lights, seen by 15,000,000 “Passing one day through this people; Sunshine Budle, seen by part of the world" when she was 10,000,000 people: Home Express, eleven years old, she came across the 'meen by 11,000,000 people, "ana! little Chouquet "boy, behind the gradually regaining ber lead in had stolen two sous from him. - It is not surprising that Britain cemetery, crying because a comride

are due to unhappy love affairs Boy scouts are being taught how Corporation, lectured about "Bri- then she would scrape acquaintance Many more-among students--are due to failure in examinations and to use the pole lathe, I believe, and tish Influence Through the Film" here and there with village boys,

that is an excellent Idea.. We

He said that 18,500,000 people but now it was the parents of ber A well-known trader of Zag make his own lathe and do all kinds Britain. A film had to be seen by their offspring: "Will you come should encourage the man who will went to the cinema every week in new friends who roughly recalled has hanged himself because on Its purpose is to keep the ratio New Year's Day he lost his silver of useful things such as chuir legs about eight million people in Bri- here, scamps! Just let me catch between the two currencies as stable headed cane. In a letter to his and repairs for his own home. tain before it could be counted a you talking to ragamuffins !' as may be a thing in itself as much wife he explained that this cans Machinery is killing such akill but real success. But British figures to be desired by Americans by had always brought him fuck it should not do so."--Renter. - ourselves. They would not care. When he left it in church thingi any more than we, to see the pound began to go wrong. Without it he worth three dollars one month and thought life would be unbearable four the next, and never to know

A 15-year-old girl, of Sremski from month to month what it was Mitrovitza, jumped from a balcony going to be month w

Into the courtyard 60 feet below Recently the Fund has been bay simply because her Latin teacher ing gold in order to stem the fight Commented on her well manicured of capital from the dolar. It bought hande. Her Latin prose was bad from France and America at from but her nails were perfectly cut 1188 to 1208 an ounce the same gold and polished so the teacher sug Only 10 German Jews or Coming their Alma-Reuter which not so long ago it sold to gested she might spend more time munists have arrived in Paris, them, when we still maintained the on her prose and less on her nails. where they have taken refuge from gold standard, at 858! There has In 1982 there were more deathe Nazi activities, according to been no profit for us in that, except from suicide in Belgrade than figures now fagued by the Prefer- in a steadying of the whole alta from street accidents. There were ture of Police. Of those, a small tion for the general good. 265 deaths from suicide; 188 from number have been accommodated

street necidents-Reuter,

All these facts are indisputable But the United States Government has moved in accordance with the trend of American" opinion, which has been led to demand that the dollar shall be given the opportunity

of sharing the advantages, attaching

A SHAVE THAT COST £200.

London.

A grocer's employee was sent

to a depreciated currency, to a bank in Brighton with a bag

Only 30 Enter France From Germany.

Paris

at the Jewish hostel and the others have gone to lodging, houses,- /

It is expected that the greater. number of Jewish refugeen will make" for Austria and Switzerland.

Reuter

The question now is how long of money containing 2200 OIL STRIJCK IN SPAIN will take the Americans to find out

On the way he went into A

that the conspiracy against them hairdresser's for shave and put

never had any real exi ence, and the bag of money by his side. ~ ~ Off

that what they com

result not of any

"the exchanges,

which we could not

of in the A young man in grey “ault,

of Bratched the bag dashed out of

the airdresser Bled along t

and vanished among

the film Industry, which she had These tears on the part of a gentle- before the war. Last year," "br man's child, one of those whom in producers spent £2,000,000 in mak- her fo ish little waif's" mind ibe

SMARTEST THIEF

- CAPTURED,

Picked Pockets While

In Custody,

had imagined to Le always contented and happy""""overwhelmed herz,” she Arew near, and when she learnt the cansa of his trouble she poured into his hand all her savings-sevän jous which he naturally took; drying. his tears. Then, wild with delight, she was emboldened: Being absorbedës in that

sistance, and A young man was brought, be- naith fore the Belgrade: Chi

of Police aga on Zusp! of having stolen several Polica Ch

Belgrade,

wag, baking him

uth (p.

and

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