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Okay, Chief!
Shortly after the cident had ruffled opinio
South Africa and Down!
three African chiefs ware
London and a dinner was, arradited
in their honour.
"Jim"- Thomas decided that it would be good business to be pre-
SATURDAY, MARCH 31
SPINSTER AMO THE IMMORTALS
LOUISA M ALCOTT'S
CAREER
AUTHOR OF “LITTLE WOMEN
(By Margaret Lane.)
Sixty-six years ago, in an attic child, for at ten years 'old' she ha
TOOM.
sent, as a delicate compliment in Boston, Massachusetts, a youngwritten in her diary. "In the ev from His Majesty's Secretary of woman sat crouched over a writ-father and mother and Anna and State, for the Dominions to the ing-table, and the scratch of her had a long talk. I was very uni native Africans living under the pen was the only sound jo the happy and we all cried. Anns and I cried in bed and I prayed God to old flag.
Accordingly he turned up at the
Her hair was bundled untidily keep us all together.
Thirty years later she wrote in appointed time, boiled shirt and into a net, and the stuff of her all, and modestly took his soat as heavy crino-line dress was faded, that same diary, Twenty years an ordinary guest.
She was writing as if her life de-ago I resolved to make the family.
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His neighbour was a coal-black pended on it which, indeed, it independent if I could. At forty African, chieftain, who received did. She was writing against that is done. Debts all paid, even Jimmy's attempts at bright time to keep her adored and shift- the outlawed ones, and we have cost me my health, perhaps, but conversation in such stony silence less family alive and out of enough to be comfortable. It has 1 that the Dominions Minister was trouble,
་
I still live, there is more for me to do, I suppose."
forced to the conclusion that the They were swamped with debts Door African knew no English. and there was so much to pay for
The actual writing of "Liftle, new clothes for Nan, draw- The soup course being reached,
Women" was an accident. From "Jimmy" made another attempting lessons for May, little com the day she sold her first story,
"You likee
soupee?" he in-forts for "Barmee" and out of (when she was 16) for the sum of quired, pointing to the plates be the whole family only Louisa $5 Louisa had been supporting the fore them. Still the chief pre- plain, quick-tempered, generous family by scribbling "blood-and- Louisa-had the capacity for served a diplomatic silence.
thunders" as fast as she could
The time for speech-making earning a penny. She scratched think of them. Like Jo, she was
nover interested in girls or girls' to
having arrived the toastmaster away with her pen, pressing her called upon the said African chief fingers against her temples stories, and thought out tales of to address the company, which he deaden the neuralgia that tor-wrath, ruin and revenge over did in a ten-minute discoursemented her. She knew that only her sewing, dashing them off in which revealed a perfect know-by writin for dear life could she the Boston boarding-house attic ledge of the English language hope to meet the bills for the where she lived for $5 a week so
coming quarter.
and. an Oxford, accent.
As he sat down the chief flashed provision for a more equitable Grade A set of white teeth at exchange of goods in liquidation the Dominions Minister. and said of British Government trading gravely:
"You likee speechee, Jimmỹ?";
Your Daily Smile.
Hong Kong, Saturday, March 31, 1934. advances. Last year, for m
ANY WIFE
Cheque-male,
that she could be quiet enough to write.
What she did not know was
It surprised her when a pub that the sheaf of untidy manus- fript piling up on the table was lisher asked her to the writing to become the best-loved book in girls'satory, and she began it in a America, was to keep her family half-hearted way.
Was
who
Fame At Last
in comfort to the end of their stance, British took £17,500,000
days, and achieve the astonishing worth of goods from Russia, and
distinction of becoming - the se "I plod away," she says in her conded-best seller to the Bible. dlary, "though I do enjoy this Anglo-Russian Trade. sold her only £3,250,000 worth. As for the embargo in the event!
Louisa Alcott never had any sort of thing. Never liked girls of a repetition of previous dump-
thing but a very modest opinion or knew many, except my sisters; Yet another Anglo-Russian ing, particularly in timber, which
of "Little Women," and always but our queer plays and "experi- temporary trade agreement has is Canada's leading interest, the
Heavy Toll
said that if it possessed any me ences -^ may prove interesting, been concluded in London, and Soviet pressed for six months'
"Shall we knock off for to-day, it at all it was because it was though I doubt it." Britain will make another effort notice, while Britain took a stand
She finished it in two months to conduct an exchange trade for one month, The new treaty sir?" the head keeper asked his all true.
The Alcotts lived in Concord, made a note of the fact in her master. which both countries desire. Hi-provides for three months' no-
Nurich, who had lately taken up Massachusetts, in the cheerful journal, adding, "Very tired; head therto politics have constantly tice. The formula for protec hindered it, and this Governtion of the Ottawa preferences the shooting, gave him a puzzled poverty-ridden house described in full of pain from overwork, and ""Little ̈ ̈ ̈ Women.” Their father heart heavy about Marmee, who is glare. ment-aided and Government-spon-provides that either party may
an unpractical · philosopher growing feeble” "Why aren't there any more sored economic exchange has run protest to the other that such
thought beautiful thoughts) She thought the book, could only a chequered course. The Mac prices are being created or main-birds about?" he asked.
for a living and never got paid.” - (bề dull;" because it was about them- "Plenty," said the unhappy hend Donald Labour Government tained as are likely to frustrate
Their mother was one of those selves, but the modest little volume made an agreement with Moscow preferences already accorded, or keeper; "but the cottage hospital for exchange of Ambassadors into injure home production, has sent a message to say that are women who can keep the con- brought her (to her utter astonish
fidence of their daughters, and ment) what the story-books call late 1929, and with this act of Thereupon negotiations are to they haven't any more beds for
was something of a saint into the "fame in a night." It ran into recognition the Soviet agreed, as ensue, and if these fall, the pro- the shot beaters."
bargain. Louisa drew ber, exactly edition after edition, people came more recently with the United testing party may give notice of
as "Marmee" in "Little Women," to stare at the Alcoita' house, and. States, to prevent subversive cessation of the most-favoured-
though she always said after-local reporters came to Interviewi propaganda in Britain either by nation clause-that is, impose an
wards the portrait was not half her on what it felt like to be its own agenta
good enough."
famous. Lousia dodged them as a There were four girls-Anna rule, for she was tired andIn, (who is Meg, with her gentleness, though thankful that her "scrib- and amall vanities), Jo (the tom-bling" had brought security for boy, who is Louisa herself), Beth last
fe (Continued on Page 6)
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A BIT HOT The fire-raiser who pleaded that or by bodies embargo. On the other point, a chap had to burn his own living directly or indirectly under its Russia now engages to spend In-somehow. control, or receiving any subsidy creasingly more of the proceeds from it. The debts' question of sale of Rursian goode in Bri
•
THAT PROVES IT!
and a trade agreement were taltain upon the purchase of British The Intest police test
,
(who is Amy, the youngest sister,
be negotiated following the ex- commodities and shipping ser- drunkenness is to make you tie a (the one who died), and May change of Ambassadors, In vices, so that after a progres dress the without a mirror, April, 1930, a temporary trade sive improvement during four agreement was signed, but after years, there shall be an approdrunk.
...you're the one who got into such trouble
If you succeed
MY EXPERIENCE".♥
with the pickled limes at school). The girls were brought up on unsweetened bolled rice and their
for any
never any money
HEADMASTER ON "PASSION PLAY!
it had been in existence for alximate balance. In return, An-1 little time, there were repeated glo-Russian trade is to be eligible accusations of Russian dumping for British Government export on British markets. Following facilities, as in 1930. As before. "Collecting ancient coins is no cousins' made-over clothes. There the Ottawa Conference, at which the British Government agrees, jeasy matter," says a writer. Cot-wa the Dominions drew particular in view of the State monopoly of lecting modern coins is even more thing, and Louisa, never had a Mr. Sargent's Address In attention to this dumping, the foreign trade in Bussis, to grant difficult. British Government in October, to the Soviet trade representa- 1932, denounced the agreement tive and his two deputies diplo
PHILOSOPHY
ith a broad|
silk frock of her own until she
Church Hall.
The celebrated "Passion Play" of when one of them was asked to a party. Somehow they managed to Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany, make a joke of the pinching and was the subject of an intere acraping, but Louisa decided lecture given by Mr. C. B. Twixt the when she was still, a child that gent, the Headmaster of the
some day she would end It Church Hall last night
an Boys School, at St. And
RACING - PROVERB There's, many Cup and the tip
THE EXCEPTION
Many Hardship.
The speaker, when
As the afaters in turn reached his lecture with compreh
was twenty-six and paid for it herself. They trimmed and red trimmed their bonnets from the LANTERN SLIDES EXHIBITED on the ground of need to main matic privileges and immunities, The man who said nothing can family scrap-bag, and all four tain the effectiveness of the exclusively for their commercial be done by sitting still evidently sisters contributed bits of finery Ottawa preferences against functions. The names of these never saw a proud ben the action of any foreign country three are to be published periodi-of chickens. which might stultify the inten- cally, in the Board of Trade Jour-i tions of such preferences. The nal The Canadian protest re interruption, however did some garding lumber has caused con- injury to British exporting in-siderable difficulty, but the Bri- terests. These were obliged to tish Government belleves that watch Russian orders golag to the formula against cut prices other countries, and the Soviet will serve. The pressure from Tinned foods, says dentist. Government played its foreign trading interests, among its own trading game artifully to magni people for the agreement has cause defective teeth. Not, how their fifteenth birthday they went tern, alides, of the fy the apparent loss to British been considerable, The Scottish eyor, if a tin-opener is used, exporters. It was represented herring fisheries are an example. that Dominion Interests under Before the war, exports of her Ortawa in the British market rings were annually about 214 Could be protected by the quota million barrels (of Scut each), "of system, and that the Injury al which Russia took 1,000,000 bar leged to be done to them by Rus rels. Up to: 1929, the annual ex- sian competition was more than port was still 15million barrels. balanced by the damage suffered Russia played with this trade, by British traders with Russia and theatrically bought, elis- Negotiations for a renewal of where in order to press her ag the trade
ere begun, tation for trading, cre 1988 by inproved relations in
the sim bought, heavily,
Höhen
but
the
Facts You Did Not Know.
The promot the use of the For
nese language in Portural of others the rhidden. the erection of vand, posters Vin
out to earn what they could (all the simple life of except Beth, who did the house exclusively fill the work). They taught in the local The play dame-schools during the day and years ago In brought plain wowing home at plague which stru night. Louisa spent one summer
an in- holiday earning 12 a week as servent, and when school respe
cheerfully Every
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