1956-01-28 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY

28, 1956.

Tare 5

ALLYE MONTE

TRES

At least

More troop movements.... Turning to the Monte Carlo Rally in an effort to avoid military subjects we find there is no escape. four gentlemen from the Brigade of Guards and one high-ranking naval officer were among the competitors. friendly atmosphere that builds up on such occasions, I can tell what our friend on the left has been saying. "What have you done with Knowing all about the

the band?" he said.

HE SPENT YEARS TRY-

ING TO TRAIN UP

THE PERFECT WIFE

Tis

hard to find

perfect

wife or husband, for that

matter. Thomas Day,

a rich 18th century lawyer

and writer, born in London

were

AND

THEN HIS BEST FRIEND MARRIED HER!

One of the World's Strangest Stories.

by John Sidney

be

The authorities of the orphan- on June 22, 1748, thought ages from which he took the he knew the reason why girls surrendered them into his keeping on his own conditions: perfect wives

tint he slusul choONG one of scarcenen chose wives them to be his wife and the ready-made as it were. Why other he would apprentice and not a tailor-made wife? maintain until she married or became independent, If he So argued the 21-year-old should change his mind about Day fresh from Oxford marrying his choice, then University, LI1;

already would give her a marriage por-

ffon instead. twice disappointed in love, There was the young lady of Shrewsbury who had theipfes to nuke them strong stoutly resisted his notion of mind and body." As well that they should marry and as being stoped in Rousseau. "live Bnoticed in some Doy was an admirer of the Slofe secret grove." And another Philosophy of the ancient world.

Sabrina and Lucretia were le he educated [X] the severest

ond his elassie latus is obvious

Sabrina Miss Seward alleges that Day provveded to test Sobrina's tortude by firing pistuls landed with blanks at her cars and at her pettleoats,

For a time Sabring stayed at the house of James Bicknell. In 1770 Day took Sabrina to Lich- felt, where a circle of writers and thinkers radiated about the perans of Erasmus Darwin and Dr Samuel Johnson.

Back In London Day met with EL rebuff from the caustic- tongued Elizabeth once ogala, who told him that she preferred "the blackguard" to "the fine gent"

Sabrina was now a charming young lady, but Day considered she still Jecked sufficient strength of mind to make her his perfect wife.

It was Day's singular fate to friends, Richard Edgeworth and have found wives for his two

Junies Bicknell. For later on Sabrina married James Bicknell, by then fairly prosperous ous young lawyer, and Day carried cut his part of the burgalu by Calfield. to a bourding school at Sutton giving the married couple £500

Then, this part of her educa← tum complete, Sabrina was sent

Social graces

A

ayeur; while Honoru and Eliza- beth Sneyd became the second and third wives of Richard Edgeworth.

Middle Temple as BOUT this time Day thought

made

attractive young woman, then the numes he chose for his A he saw a perfect wife, ready. sister of his great friend, two protegees. He drew up a Richard Lovell Edgeworth, strenuous curriculum the

for had also

two little girls; they were to be refused him- though he was well off, was thoroughly trained in languages, sciences. The classics, and not unhandsome and had a deporinent. very kind heart.

The truth of the matter was Lot of trouble that Day, In the eyes of practical young women, had a Jumber of "cranky" which he had imbibed at

Oxford-notably the notions social equality and a return to the simple life of the suvage the French as propagated by

Jeun philosopher,

Jacques Rousseau,

who' llved from 2712-1778.

Two orphans

TE Look them HE

According

trouble on account of their bad

She was and to hand! Honori Sneyd but she liked the idea of complete seclusion no more than the young lady of Shrewsbury or Richard Edge worth's sister.

Day turned then to Honor's sister, Elizabeth, with no greater

success,

D

He and

(London Express Seruled),

THOMAS DAY

They were married at Bath on August 7, 1788, and for a timpu they lived at Hampstead. Edge- warth has given 113 another picture, this time of Esther walking barefooted on the Heath In the snow. The following year Day bought a house at Abridge, in Essex; he allowed.

his wito no servants and sho gave up her beloved harpsichord.

"We have no right to luxuries while the poor want for bread," Day had been admitted to the

sald Day lawyer but

He took

a keen interest in never practised. Now he turned politics, but refused to stand for to writing and quickly won Parliament, even though he had Lame with a number of his been offered a sate stat. From works, work Notable among them Abridge

moved they

to were འ

"The Dying Anningsworth, near Ottershaw, Negro," which

denouriced in Surrey, where Day bought a American alavery, and that far. Here, again, they lived

"Sand- very amply, not even using

poem,

classic for children, ford and Merton."

No luxuries

7

even

WE

carriage.

a

Day continued writing and to Avignon in

"You lock refinement," the

Elving away his money to the where he hnd n two- misters told Day unkindly.

neody But on September 28, adventures time; he nursed You are so obsessed with your

1789, he was killed when setting them through smallpox and

out to visit his mother. His saved their lives in a beating prejudice against what you call

MEANWHILE Day's search for the

horse bolted and threw him on accident,

corruption

luxurious the perfect wife went on. of

to his head. behave like society that you

When he was 30 he found a

H. lo Anna Seward, boor and a blackguard."

wife, Father, died two possibility in Father Milnes, of a writer of the day, who was

Wakefield, Poor Day seems to have been

later of a broken heart, years a cultured woman rather flatteringly called the smitten with Elizabeth, for he and a writer of some achieve

Thomas Day may som Swan of Lichürld,"

the wont to

bizarro But to Lyons in France and ment.

she

character but Edge- children gave him a lot of spent a year trying to acquire not without

her worth, his faithful friend, could Law: * was that she had a very large write of him as "the most vir temper and ignorance. But Miss one of the social

private in dan

tuous human being I have ever fortune. Esther

and Seward is an unreliable witness: INDING

This opinion friend Edge- Thorne were deeply fond of known"

wan young

fencing, and his to Richard worth has left us a picture of and Day's letters with who

echoed by WE imbued

all hig but the marriage warmly Edgeworth are full of praise Day reading similar ideas, Day decided that

a book with his deferred for months while friends as well as by his officia he would rear a perfect wife

for the tempers of his charges. legs screwed up between two they debated terms.

blographer, James Kler, Finally

(COPYRIGHT) for himself. Accompained by However, back In London, boards in the vain hope of

agreed to adopt DAY'S gno of his best friends, Lucrotia was declared to be straightening them out.

and stoical form of life James Bicknell, ho chose "invincibly stupid," and soon two 12-year-old orphans.

One

apprentleed to อ milliner. Uberally

to the poor that when unimpaired, and her fortun Baxen-haired beauty Subsequently she made a good he was leaving they held a was to be sot absolutely beyond whom he called Sabrino, and marriage to a linen draper. meeting and requested him to her husband's reach,(Day-had the other, a brunette, he named Day continued patiently with make provision for their wants been steadily giving his away to Lucretia,

the education of the blonde during his absence,

the poor for years,...)

was

no

woman

CONFESSION

M

Teheran

ULLAH Kashani,

took 14asons

each

While in Lyons he gave saved

her health remained',

OF TERROR

By ERNEST MIDDLETON «tti

leader of Persin's bo murder and attempted oil revenue. The agreement, in secret society of murder. Kashan was arrested fact, was practically a 30-50 assassine now under arrest, after one of his chiefs of staff spilt.

is the bearded terrorist who gave his game away.

to every. MLP. and senator who opposed, Mossadegh's plan to grob Britain's oil Intereste,

Mossadegh went to geol, and when Hussein Ale, obeying the Shah's wishes, took up the reine But Kashant, religions of power again, Kashant struck. threatened to call a "holy talked as he stood blindfolded of Britain

The benchmanNavab Safavi fanatic and on implacable hater Ala 'l'pro-British," and so thei wanted the British Mullah sent All Zolder with war against Britain. This and tied to a post before a firing kicked

a gun to assassinate the Premier was at the time of the oil squad in Teheran.

50 Razmara was assassinated. last November. troubles at Abadan.

Satovi was about to dio for The prosent Prime Minister. The pistol mistred and tha his part

in engineering the Hussein Ala, took over. Within thug flung it uselessly in Ala's Successive Governments assassination of Persia's strong days he resigned, and on to the face.

hysterical have been afraid to arrest man, General Razmora, five stage stalled the

Bemerkbeck. him

Book it may the Kashani's his desk a new agreement with Kashani pushed his hatred into turtand this time the threats But now he will soon and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company full flower. mwelt, kuća, to face with his which would have given Persia

!! I of this band of hidden alayers His band af: killars in the will not be able to help him.

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