Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30
GREENWOOD CLUB MEETS.
DICKENS "a TALE OF TWO CITIES,
CONSIDERED LAST NIGHT.
Able Paper on the French Revolution
Read-ProfessOr John T. Buch-
anan and DIR. j. II. Jones Par
ticipnted in Discussion.

There is a story of boy who had re-
| turned home from an unsuccessful search
for the family cow. He was evasive in his
| answers to his mother, and she suspected
| that he had dallied along the way. She
ross-questioned him closely.
John" she said. where did you go?"
well, mother" said John, II went clear
down to the lane by the meadow, and 1
looked for the COW everywhere. but she
couldn't be found"
We'll, where else did you so, john"
81 went down to the end of the lane
mother, but the cow wasn't there"
Then where did you go, John?"
'Then-oh, then scattered"
The Greenwood Club last night went
down to the end of the lane by the meadow
chanting the praises of Dickens Tale of
Two Cities"-then it scattered. The Green
wood Club is made up largely of teachers
and it has for its object the study of liter
ature. An eloquent paper on the English
mans sublime story of the French revolu-
tion had been read, and Professor Buchan-
an arose to discuss it. Generally a pretty
free and full discussion of all papers that
come before the Cub is indulged in. The
paper last night was no exception, except
that the club members united in declaring
it to be of exceptional value from a lit
erary standpoint, one speaker going so far
as to say that lit sounded like a chapter
: from the pen of Dickens himself"
Professor Buchanan said the paper car
ried him back to our own civil war, when
dtIotitieS ocCuFEeu tLldt many people now
do not believe could have occurred He
said the novelistS story gave a better de-
SCriptiou of theL French revolution than
Carlyie's history 1t portrayed the exact
relation between the nobility and the peas
antry. Above the grim old walls of the
baStile 1t revealed the deaths head leering
in the uncertain light of failing day. He
noted a similarity between Dickens story
and Harriet Beecher Stoves Uncle Toms
Cabin. Professor buchanan closed his re-
marks by saying that the novel ended un-
satisfactorily. What became of the people
in the plot? At the end of the last chap
ter Lucy was still looking over the hills"
Il wish said the professor, that some
modern Dickens would arise to finish the
story. / want TO know the real ending"
Mrs Wood said she thoLght Nine. De
Fargo was typical French woman of the
period in which the story was told and
that she was the feminine expression OF a
feeling of revolt over the wrongs of CEN
turtles to the sex.
A lady asked DR.. ]. Brummeli Jones why
he didn't talk" and he gave that as his
excuse for participating in the discussion
He discussed the divergence of the Greeks
and the PhOenicians as groundwork plan
upon which he later constructed an elab-
He said il was the common people who had
made the French revolution. 1T seems to
me we have among uS-now, / don't intend
to make a political speech." he said apol-
ogetically. and then he continued, "a new
estate 1t made a demonstration at Chi
cago a few years ago and every once in
a while we hear of this class We think
they are bad; so did the French. The
French revolution was the result of con
tinual efforts of the rats to get to the
fore.
There was n short wait for a speaker
when DR.. Jones sat down. and Professor
Buchanan came to the rescue. The pro-
lessor Is a ready talker and was soon tell