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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 22, 1940.

Author Gave Up Writing ALHAMBRA THEATRE

to Bring Up a Girl Dove On Pope's

Sat

· MR. THEODORE F. POWYS, the brilllarat - author'‹ and short-story writer-honoured in the Civil List just published · -told his wife seven years ago: "This is the end of my writ- Ing. I have a more important job to do now."

He said those words on the đáy that his two-months-old adopted daughter Susan was carried into his red-brick cot tage in the village of East Chaldon, near Dorchester. "I shall devote all my time to her," he added. "She shall have all that I can give her."

Mr. Powys kept his word. Publishers besiegel "the natural Buccessor to Hardy," as he was called," -

But the author of Mr. Weston's Good Wine," one of the best-sellers of 1028, wrole but rarely. "I'm too busy with Susan," he always sald.

Then, two years ago, he had n stroke, and has been bed-ridden ever since.

delicate child and it did not sult her. Now she in back at home with us. She is being taught by Miss Muniz, a sculptress in the village, and sho a very happy. She reads to my husband for a little time every day and it cheerr. him up a lot.

"She has started writing stories| and she shows them to bìm. I da not know what we should do with-

Now It is Suson-fair-haired, blue-eyed, laughing child-who de-out Susan.. votes her time to lim. She reads to him every day.

Recently she rushed upstairs to congratulate him on his honour. He receives a supplementary pension of 240 a year in recognition of his

Mrs. Powys said "My husband loved Susan from the Arst moment that he saw her. Welting no longer scemed to matter to him. He always sold that she was far more import- unt."

He Was Her Teacher

She told how he taught Susan to rend and write, how he would take her for walks and play with her for hours.

"When he had the stroke," she said. "Susan said that she would read to him every day and tell him all that was happening outside.

"We sent her to a boarding school, but sho` is "railer nervous.

SERVANT GIRL TO MARRY A BARONET

A SERVANT girl and a 38s.- a-week farm labourer will go to the altar and emerge from the church as Sir John and Lady Fagge.

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TIASED LESLE JANASTASIE

Girls Military Tradition

Keep

Throne Greets Honeymooners

A while, dove,; flying: through' the open window, sotiled on the red velvet hangings of the Pope's Throne while his Holiness was addressing 800 newly-mar- - ried couples.

The Pope had just taken hils place, says Beuter, when the dave, one of many which often enter the Hall of Ilenediction in the Valican, fluttered through one of the great windows open- ing on 8. Foter's square,

It slayed above the Papal Throne throughout the Fope's address and only flow off after the

Benedletion had been given. The honeymoon couples were delighted at such an augury and many recalled, that a white dove figures in the coal of arms of Pope Pius XIL

Following the change of Government, France's chief whose ruthless- Consor, ness has been the subject of much comment, has resigned.. This is what the French Press thinks of censorships. "Col- lecting old tron: Why not start with the Censor's scissors?"-"La Lumièrà,”

Mrs. William Fargher, of Clin-

WHEN the war came Mr. and LATE NEWS ton-place, West Derby. Liver- pool, had a problem. How to

A.A. GUNS ROAR

IN CHANNEL

continue the Fargher tradition They will bear the name of a

for military service with no 309-year-old baronetcy.. The farm labourer, twenty-nine-sons? year-old John William Frederick Mr. Furgher served nineteen and al Fagge, has learned that he is in-half years in the West Lancashire heriting the baronetcy through the Regiment and his father had death of his uncle, Sir John Harry with the West Lancs Volunteers for Lee Farge, of Massachusetts, USA. twenty-nine years, but this time it Intense anti-aircraft gunfire occurred

And the servant he

girl will marry looked as if the West Lancs would twice this afternoon off the south- is Miss Ivy Friar, twenty-seven, of have to do without a Fargher. Church-lane, Newington, Kent.

Holding the solletor's letter which told him the news, Mr. Fagge sat in his humble house in Whitstabic- road, Faversham, Kent, and told u reporter:

"I nearly collapsed when I got this. I never saw my uncle...He never wrote to me.

been

LONDON, May 21 (Reuter).-

east coast.

Mr. and Mrs. Fargher, however, Before and after firing the drone had not

counted on their three of aircraft engines were heard high daughters, Mona, twenty-five, overhead,

librarian: Nara, twenly, a florist The sound seemed to come from and Anita, nineteen, an ort-sho? the Channel and south of the Straits assistant. All three Joined the West of Dover.

Lancs section of the AT.5.-and{

It appeared that anti-aircraft guns Fat that point had been in action.

the Farglier tradition was saved.

In One Camp

"Both my parents are dead, and!

Mona, smallest of the tro, threw up I'm the only Fagge left in the family. When I was a little boy my father her job when Nora and Anita were used to tell me I might one day be in khak!,, saying she was folning up

to look after her two sisters. 'Sir. 1 knew there Was д

All three are now stalloned at a Command camp and are Southern members of the camp concert party. One good turn the war has done the sisters is to bring them in touch

forgot about all that. All my life I've had to get a living as a farm labourer,

"“And I muy go on being one, When I'm a baronet I'll still have with a cousin whom they had not to work.

seen before. He is in the Canadinu

"In fact I haven't had time to tell Air Force and stationed near the girls'

my employers about it all. To-day I camp..

was in the hop fields. I'll be at work

at 8.30 in the morning.

"But Ivy and I are going to marry

at Whitsun. And then I will be a

Sir and she will be a Lady."

haye na moncy."

idien I'll inherit any

"I Wouldn't Draam!"

I

The future wife of a baronet was washing up at the home of her em- ployers, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Bishop, of Borden-lahe, Sitingbourne, Kent, when a press representative went to see her.

This dark-haired and rosy-cheeked country girl sald: "Yes, I'll use my title.

"But even when I'm a 'Lady" 1'll do my own housework.

"I would never dream of having any servants.

"John and I hope to have a nice house. But we wouldn't dream of having a motor-car.**

Ivy, the eldest of a labourer's five children, will be a servant until she marries.

Mrs. Frier, ivy's mother said: "Whatever their title, they will always be just John and Ivy to me.” The Inst baronet, before his suc- cession ten years ago, had for forty years worked in America as a fruit farmer. a newspaper yanman_and_a gardener.

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