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THE
WOMAN
"The Simplest Way Out Was to Marry Her"
THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
BEHIND
MONDAY, JULY
BERNARD
"She Carried Me Off
To the Country
FINDS ROMANCE AT 40
TO-DAY, Bernard Shaw is 81. Frank Harris, his intimate friend, here reveals the story of the woman who is behind Shaw, who sits in the background, never interviewed, rarely photo- graphed.
By FRANK HARRIS THIS is the story of Shaw's marriage.
It is, perhaps, the most neglected incident in his whole career.
I do not think any passage in his plays is as humorous as his description of how he finally was brought from green pastures io the harness-room of life's sinble.
There are many versions of this. I recently ran into a French one recounted. by Maurice Verne.
that
According to Verne, Shaw was in nunt Introduced her to Mrs. Sidney
were at 'nineties, Webb. The Webbs Florence in the middle travelling with some friends. He moment trying to establish the Lon- fell ill, and his friends had to go on, don School of Economics (as it after- but one of them refused to leave him, wards beesme) with an inadequate Webb by an sim bequeathed to ercentile town clerk. "You Are Lost !"
Miss Townshend reinforced the that the This friend nursed him thath bequest to much purpose
10 the line and, by the time Saw Webbs were able to the Adelphi-terrace as
provisional could s up and take notice,
preeerinda home for the school, the lady casing situation had become so
situation further by making the two top floors her residential nat
Tough the friendly relations this established with the Webb,
Was Invited
"
that he grew adormed.
**Leav**** what
have
w!!
done?" he exclaimed
to
amateur nurse.
She looked at him, surprised,
will
this.
Townshend
take No.
to
Do you realise what your friends spend the autumn holiday with them
think:
Shaw continued, at a rectory Sutton for the purpose
SI. Stratford
Andrews, hear "Nobody would believe that you did at Strattere
simply onl of disinterested Saxmundham in Suffolk. devotion. In the eyes of the world
There he met Shaw,
The result was fairly ineyh- you are lost
able. 112 find Shaw B0011 writing to Ellen Terry that he love thought he would Tall in. with M184 P. T. He was at this time a bran of '0.
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99
a
had had to find a way nut. and the irresistible force only a man, "Go out and buy a ring and
within licence," he said."
And werk Show wa anuried man.
1. in my innocence, believed that people married cither for love or money. Shaw witld not allow that he had married for either.
ne said, "breast We married," we had become indispensable to one another." And that appears to be the plain truth.
He was still very ill when they were married by the West Strand
GET
26,
1937.
SHAW
"We Married Neither for Love Nor Money"
G. B. S. IS 81 TO-DAY
BOILER-SUIT
OR
BLACK-COAT?
Am
HAVE worked in a factory and in a lice. have worked among bupiness men us a commercial_tru- veller. I
graduate of one Univerally and a student of another. Experience gained jostling with men of all classes prompts me to add to thoughts of those who have con- ributed to these columus on the question of whether our sons should seek a trade or join the ranks of business and professional men.
The dilemma in many minds seems to be this business spells insecurity, and a trade, to some, spells a lower- The questions anding of social status.
are sought ure, to which awers Which of these is the lesser evil? Which le
better start for my
still
crutchca wearing a jacket which, he swears, registrar, his crutches and worn to rags in the armpits.
Mrs. Shaw has a proprietary alr about Shaw-the "Iy
1 luusband" complex. when isn't "the Gratus"-bul she
has not his appetite for pat Telty.
Their country place Ayo: 91 Lawrence, Hertfordshire, where they are well liked as gentlefoil contribute to the Church.
whs
Seventy-Five Years Of Saving
bey?
the
The dilemma exists partly because forgotten that excellent we have principle that there is diguity in ail labour. How often have we heard a Tond middle-class parent say with a sigh, Of course, John's Just in a
a lad Bus But if trade."
be forced, fur aptitude, unless it business, or
if he has no burning desire for a profession, he is much a trade". In the belter "put to erention of useful things, be they wall-trinned
ditches or migleY machines, he will find a satisfaction that the office stool or the polished shop counter cannot give him.
of
trata
The lady wanted to know what they had better do about it: poseably
pursue. the safest course to
THE Post Clee Savings Bank has A scheme for a nation-wide Pod
But that reward of a trade can thought, wold be fu remain the red
been celebratin, the 75th an- Gfice Savings Bank had been pro- of her fem Italy; but Shaw, know-
bur 75 pout by ene Whitbrod, as far back come only to those who put away ing how easily the canons of
iversary of te formolim.
*1346, but dropped as unpreticante all unhealthy notions pectability, can be satisfied, decided
years it has served the public, and d'1
over- Bay gang Soles had energy and out low-trade socially, who can that the simplest way out would be his disenga tedd evenings a shadowed by municipal saving hank nrpose, and we next hear of him look the world in the face and lk- Heve that their labour, however Townshend's flat: and, as the Terry d
paper on the sub-humble, is just as full of value 19 correspondence show, he was taken by the large joint-stock bonks, in 1859, reading ing part n his work on a volenter with their mall ravings accuimits, jeet to the Social Science Contre-humanity as that of the black-cont
to
mitry
14.-
This Shaw, according to Vene. saved the honour of a lady.
What really occured" respectable and presang an every thire:
would- happens revolutionist Shaw.
that
11
But to understand it, it is ILES. ury to hark back to Bha's dunest cation with his mother.
At all events won Shaw returned to Fitzrogesture, he began of ning
never new problem to Misa
Though it is How as what
brother.
Another fact should be consider d by the paren! with qualing abones
રૂં છું putting
to a trade. The trades need good middle-class youth: for the dignity of life they can bring The works and the factories.
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Crecht for its inception is given to imoderni Post Office. Webba, went off for a veure round
absence a thoughtful bank chart employed enough to consider the views of This extraordinary pair, though in the yogid, During their such complete accord that no un- Show's healthy suddenly broke down. by the Huddersfield Banding Co., unknown bank clerk, and with
As an invalid, Shaw presented Charles Sikes by name to un-for-sighted mind saw. The immes kind word ever passed between them,
Townshend, expected name to be connected with psibilities of the scheme, both never, hat a mest together, discussed anything with one another. She had for the first time to visit front dour ut a saving bank.) binging in money to the Post Onter
He in the enure of his cally toil auf for helping the modest saver.
ds degraded in many ways to They feed their own lives and him in Fitzroy-square
boked around him ant saw the
make a forennon or lunch hour sport The mather-and-son menage went their own ways without a m10-
homitted ben.
for older men. Soine come out of inculties that feed pourer Gladstone's Approval. ment's friction.
it coarsened, their lives and decency tate alnost no acenusit of her son's People when they tried to purs
He turned it over to his depart- broken. They submit because it has illness.
The Insecure Stocking ment for polishing up, and presented always been done. Decent you'ls from decent homes can end it all. they take dignity of life to the trades, decency they have learned trom their childhoud, it they can stand up and speak up against de- gradation of youth, they add thereby
and to citizenship.
Enter Miss Townshend When Beatrice Putter icine Mrs. Sidney Webbs she found her self load- ed up with Sidney's felend Shawn
She tried him during one holidays and
and apart from his tarianism he was no trouble,
of his
veste-
Mrs, Shaw seemed to
Miss Townshral look prompt
uf shape mesures in the house en Bladhead in Surrey. 10 wiket ralubrious alt she proposed Immediately to carry eff Shaw. His mother had not the smallest abjectlon.
it to the Chancellor
of the Ex-
and
trained
Agents,
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to
True, trustee savings bands had chequer, at that time Mr. Gladstone. int soute of the H also saw that it was good, gave bren established
this backing, and in 1861 it re- mare enterprising town, I were very few. Large townsus erived Royal assent. It came into and whole countic, had nothing to operation on September 17: before But Mix Townshen reckoned encourage the small over the big December 31 of that year facilities big quota to the life of their city The experiment was a
side of banks looked down on all zuch; they were in use at 1620 offices. andi thenceforth Show spent his without the eonventional
to be bollured whi, Shaw. He had always serupulously had ur time
Today 15,550 branches негче autumn holidays with the Webbs.
To write thus does not imply that customers, 10,000,000 Such was the pre-markal avoided doing anything that could people who wanted to pay in just about
nearly a mu Char- domesticity into which
compromise her.
a million home safes are sent slices are havens of purity, or Uni- Townshend would have
the savings banks were not tred over the country. Miss
Humbic Versities temples of holiness, but lotte Payne Townshend bursi.
the trades especially need the dignity nonsense. Come to very convenient, only open few savers are encouraged to secure more She, too, was a revoltre, having neue of this rocinl compunctions and religious Hindhead he must, and be properly hairs on certam days, and the poor permanent Investments by buying and decency which these youths can
people had to resurt to the traditional National Savings Certificates, and bring who have been scepticisms and general intellectual nursed and fed and taken care of.
manly honour, But even if put by even to join the capitalist ranks by #0 The irresistible force had met an stocking-fool. interests which finally ted her
heart v But it and sets his Government securities inmovable obstacle; and 15 the in a safe place, the money was all resting in inquire Into Socialism.
business or profession, he ought to She consulted an aunt; and the immovable obstacle was a woman duo easily spent again; lesses by fire through its agency.
and thefi were frequent; and ulit age
be ungrudgingly aided to realise that The idea of Sikes has been
desire. In these days the while- with no savings and no pension was realised. Every little clachian nu a dismal prospect.
village which has a Post Office trans- tollar Joh does not mean security; This bank clerk had an ideal of acting money order business bus but neither dues a trade guarantee giving saving fuellities to every per- provision for the humblest depositor. that. In difficult times both must son in the land, and looked for some The Pust Office still preserves the suffer, in prosperity both sides of e stand to gain. Business and pro~ means of carrying it out, Ile saw earliest ledger, and at the bend of the the Past. Ofee, energetic, expanding, first account is the name of Charles fessions are not altogether a "risk"
for youth. already with a network of oflees Sikes, the man who thought for the in towns and villages, as the in- pour.
G. V. G. chinery to carry through his plan.
MY WORD: AN ACTOR!—That widely known Irish dramatist. George Bernard Shaw, has agreed to take part in John Drink- water's now screen play, "The King's People, now in preparation In London, which shows British celebrities of the day. Here in Mr. Shaw adjusting, his glasses before the cameras click off a special rool in which he appears.
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# Concerning.
The sallors for transports? 18 Recess
Part of a light?
1414
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