The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-21

game. Perhaps he footed up the most Il
his score in the long run. He was Away:
annoyed when l beat him and invariably
wanted to play another game. / shall never
| forget how once at midnight
CHARLES DICKENS FACED NE
across the board at the end of play.
| The game was drawn.
.sWell," said Dickens, somewhat resign.
edly, ''why not. Msn and woman rep
resent an equation after all Discriminate
as you will in favor of either, they are,
when their mutual trails come to be con-
sidered, equals"
THAT is certainly very ingenious way
of defining a draw" said.
"a little of Uncle Hector's choice port
soon put him into loquacious mood and
he chatted over the chess board merriiy.
Dickens moved very deliberately and
only after careful thought. l moved, as a
general rule, quickly. Then when hard
move came, as it often did. l added up all
the spare time to my credit and moved
slowly.
Eyes, continued Dickens, "the woman
who grows up with the idea that she IS
simply to be an amiable animal, to be
caressed and coaxed is invariably bitterly
disappointed woman. A game of chess
will cure such Q conceit forever. The
woman that knows the most thinks the
most feels the most, is the most. Intel
lectual Affection" said Dickens, 'is the
only lasting love. Love that has a game Of
chess in it can checkmate any man and
solve the problem of life"
There was one popularity about Dick
ems as a chess player. He always wanted
me to move first He followed my play and
accepted all my variations. 1t was just so
in his novels. He lets a character take a
lead and then he simply follows it, studies
- Ii fod .ho,.
acter.
"AH NE, WAIT MINUTE"
said the woman, as rising slowly from her
scat and entering the door OF the hut, she
CROPPED her way TO an old chest, and reach
ing her hand down into it, drew out some
thing that visibly affected her as she re-
sumed her place.
Holding it up in her hand as the light
shone on it saw that it was a beautiful
little watch.
THAT was a philopena from Dickens. He
never would eat almonds with me after
that she said. Through those girlish
years of my life from sixteen up he made me
many q kindly little present, though he
was not as q rule in the habit of making
presents to people"
But then,' he said, "s girl who can play
chess with me, Hector, as Vic car, deserves
all the signs of appreciation that man can
give her."
81 have kept that little gold watch, I"
continued the women brokenly, Through
all the agony of my life. / clutched it
from my breast when the bull tossed me
at Brixton. / held il in my mouth when L
was overheard in the British channel in q
shipwreck. / sewed it up in my dress
seams when 1 slept alone in Epping forest.
/ saved it when everything else went to
the pawnshop. / still refused to part with
it when landed at Castle Garden, and was
obliged to sacrifice all had in order to get
my menagerie through the gates, but
shall always keep that dear little Dickens
watch" said the woman, lifting the tiny
gold sphere to her lips with much emotion,
''as a souvenir of other days when 1 was
happy and unsuspecting and-rich-when
l wore clothes that made people look round,
and rode in carriage like countess TO
Buckingham Palace many time, for my
mothers father was ieweler to the royal
family"
Eyes" she added, with sigh, "those
were rare old days in my Uncle Hector's
house, and now here l am in this little
hutn
IA little bit of bread and no cheese"
There was something inexpressibly sad
in it all.
Desiring to change the conversation and
comfort the miserably clad woman the
writer asked: "In your chats with Charles
Dickens did you ever say anythidg that
made him Taught"
DICKENS AS HUMORIsT.
Many and many q time, SIR"
ssTell US some of these things"
81 remember once how late at night / told
him in answer to several inquiries about
e~hool dava If tina old fat lady vho