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SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928.

WE PLAYE

FRIEND OF CHARLES

DICKENS.

TRAGEDY OF A FARMER.

LOOKS BACK OVER EIGHTY WIDOW'S PITIFUL STORY OF

YEARS.

FINING A PRINCE.

A friend of Charles Dickens and a schoolboy of the time of the great Exhibition of 1851, Mr. C. J. Tijou writes for The Daily Chronicle on life, as it has ap peared to him over the space of

more than 80 years.

Mr. Tijou, as a lad, told Dickens of his adventures in the hands of

MISFORTUNE.

The story of a farmer's ill-luck was related to the Southond Coro- nor at an inquest on William Thomas. Meakings (02) lately staying in Leighton-avenue, Leigh, whose body was found on the beach there with a bottle of pol- aon near by.

The widow, Mrs. Rebecca Meak- Ings, of Sutton Court-road, Sutton, Surrey, said that for years they had lived happily on a farm at Halstond, Essex, in which her a cruel schoolmaster, and so pro-husband Chad, invested – £3,000. bably provided the author with Thon things went wrong, her hus- inaterial for his conception of band wont bankrupt, and because Squeers.

thero was not enough to keep tho two of them, they separated.

"Dickens," he writes, "was per- haps the acutest observer of his Although only a child,

"My husband went to work as a farm labourer, and I took a post

I was deeply impressed by his ass a domestic servant," she said. tuteness and insight."

Mind Changing.

Why is it, I wonder, that women are so fond of changing their minda?

When asked this questionn short time ago, a young lady of my acquaintance remarked that she thought men imagined this to be the case because they, on their part, had none to change.

"I have not heard from him for three weeks, and did not know he had been out of work. The trou- bla was that he was too proud to say so. He was too proud to beg." A verdict of suicide during tem- Porary insanity was returned.

Sydney, 2nd May: At the burial at sen of Captain Dayas, master of the Peninsular and Oriental 8.8. She supposed that in the days Naldera, who collapsed, and when the world was young, some died on deck when the "Naldera" renegade from the female camp was 200 miles out, the Australian made the suggestion in spiteful team for the Olympic Games, who mood, and that it had just stack, are travelling to Europe on the mon being unable to get the idea | "Naldera," placed a wreath on the out of their thick.heads ever since. | coffin' made of Australian wattle despite all evidence to the con- from the bouquets presented to the trary,

team at the farewell ceremony at Sydney.

Be this as it may, in reviewing the events of the lust half century it is the profound apparent differ- ence between the manners and customs of modern women and those of days gone by that most impresses, folk who have lived to see them pas8.

dangerous congestion. Yet, in the light of more recent times, it could not be said that there was much peril from fast-moving vehicles. Perhaps in years to come men will smile tolerantly at our modern problems, even as we now do at those of the folk of seventy years ago.

"Ringlet Fronts" would be laughed to scorn by the modern damsel, who disdains her hair to the extent of shaving like a poodle, And yet Victorian maidens would I am sure that a fast-stepping have hidden discreet amiles be-dogcart inspired as much awe in hind lace handkerchiefs could the breasts of the pedestrians of they have seen the sprightly calves the past as does a hooting omnibus of modern youth. Which seems in those of their modern to suggest that after all my young friend may have had some right upon her side.

Acute Observer.

One great man of the nineteenth century, whose friendship it was my privilege to enjoy, would have acen little difference between his own contemporaries and the men and women of to-day,

cessors.

-OnB

Perched high in a tree-top of what was Dulwich Park at the time of the Exhibition, I remember gazing spell-bound on the glitter- ing cortege which attended Napo- leon III. and the Empress Eugenie as it wound from the Mill Pond to the top of Red Post Hill In..a. manner which would "Brive a modern tax-drivor to distraction.. thon. Yet it seemed fast to me

Charles Dickens was, perhaps, the acutest observer of the age. The traffic problem is always at He probed far beneath the un-crisis.

important externals by which so By comparison with to-day, many people judge their neigh- "slow and stately" was the motto bours, and, although only a child, of aeventy years back. I have

I was deeply impressed with his vivid memories of the stately ar- astuteness and insight.

rivals and 'departures of the great

Iron Duke's son.

Dickens was a slight man, long-people who visited my old school.. haired with pointed whiskers and with eyes that seemed for ever searching. Many an evening be- fore I was packed off to bed, as was the custom in those days when the family had guests, He drew me to his side, chatting to me and asking me questions about my life at school.

For many years I fully believed that it was these talks which had Kiven the great. novelist his Idea for the character of "Squeers" in "Nicholas Nickleby."

At my college we had a master whose habit it was to prolong thrashings for half an hour or more. He seemed to take a de light in spinning out the agony, Pausing to take snuff, he would carry on with his lecture, and then turn to the thrashing again when his arm was rested.

The Duke of Wellington, son of the Iron Duke, was chairman of the governors. He came », on horseback, and was far too pom- pous a figure for the king of the boys, for he lacked utterly his father's magnetic attraction for youth. Watching his approach with little interest, my companions refused to greet him as they did Mr. Rogers, a favourite master, by scrambling to hold his bridla while he dismounted.

The Rev. William Rogers was a man of considerable note. Chap- lain to Queen Victoria, he was an intimate friend of Prince Albert, in whose company he was usually to be found.

Officially, he acted as the Prince's English Instructor, and. Questioning me closely upon this the excellence of his teaching is pedagogue's latest exploits, Dic-attested by the fact that from very kens was especially amused at the early days it was next to Impop- plans I devised to be revenged onsible to recognise his pupil as 4 the hard-hearted old sinner. At foreigner.

the end of class the doctor" was

in the habit of giving me a coin, with instructions to buy a fresh stock of snuff and refill his box.

ม

Prince Albert Fined.

I remember as if it were yester- day the merriment caused when This gave me my opportunity. the Prince inadvertently crossed a Stealing back into the classroom lawn sacred to the use of masters- when he had disappeared, down when on a visit to, Dulwich the passage, I used to sweep up College..

the grains with which his desk

He was dully fined sixpence, was liberally strewn, refill the and his popularity was assured bok, and pocket the money...

Long-ago

Wembley."

Rogers certainly charming pup!).

had "a most

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when he paid up readily, laugh- These littlowindfalls were ingly apologising for his unwitt specially welcome,for in those ing breach of the rules. Mr. days schoolboys had not risch to the luxury of pocket-money, It was regarded as demoralieing,

Although life has speeded up in On the rarest occasions only was nyoungator given anything to most respects during the past half-century, I cannot help smil- spend on his own account

ing at the modern conception of hard work,. The trade unionist would gasp at. the mere Idea of a I well remember the joy with twelve-hour day, but when appren- which I received a present of half ticed to a manufacturing chemist a crown to spend on sideshows on

my hours wore from eight o'clock The occasion of the great Exhibi- in the morning to ten at night. Hon in Kensington Palaco Gar- During five years my only holl- dona in 1851. We had our Wem- bleys oven in those days, and then, day was a week-end trip to Mar- as now, traffe problems were re-happy in my work. Sixty years gate. And yet I was thoroughly garded as alarmingly acute

back men were not afraid to dis It is amusing to recall that when

the Exhibition was transferred to cover for themselves the joy to be the Crystal Palace, the presence found in having far more work to of a decrepit old toll gate created do then one can easily accom

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