Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-02

who Is relative Of Thackeray
has been living for the last five
years in "a dingy back kitchen
in the basement Of house at wal
ham Green. she Is SO, refined and
delicate, yet for some Monday nights
she has been walking the streets Ina or
Ger to avoid meeting the gentleman
who calls weekly for the rents. All
the work she could get for the day
was the cleaning OF one doorstep. for
six cents. and she owed the landlord
81. II II had not been for the kind
ness of the poor families who occupy
the same house. Miss ThackgraN's
plight would have been sim more
grave.
My father" she said to me, "was
william Makopeaco ThaCkeray s.
| cousin. lie was lawyers clerk in
Doctors Commons. and when ho was
alive We lived I'm Westminster Yos,
my father knew ThaCkeray but I never
met him. / was a girl Of IS when my
father died and he left us poor. rye
always had "a hard struggle. The guard
fans stopped my out-rcllef about six
months ago. They said ! must come
into the workhouse.'
II was case Of genuine distress and
one which fortunately has been alleyi-
ated.
In an amusing letter I'm The Times
shaw puts a beautiful puzzle to SomcI-
set House and Lloyd George. Shaw
has been ordered 60 pay income tax on
his own and his wlfe's income. Fur
thermore, he has no power over her In
come and does not know its amount,
or course she refuses to say what IL
Is (thc suffrage question Is here in
volved). He contends that the state
has no power 10 force him 20 find out
the amount Of her income. and that
II Il has power 10 force her TO make
a declaration II must not disclose the
secret 90 him, which II would do II IL
tells him the total tax no must pay
on both incomes.
There H. mo- domestic grievance I'm tho
Shaw menaEe, but the dramatist and
his wife are Cup against" two oh
staClcs-an oversight On the finance act
and tho sufrrogist movement
PAUL BOURGETs LETTER
Paul Bourgpt has written the follow
ing letter to The Echo dc Paris:
you tell me that you are going 20
publish. with the permission Of the
English Review, the few pages I wrote
for u on the entente cordialo ON the
occasion Of tho kings death. / have
no objection % this, provided that You
make II clear 10 your readers that the
conclusion of the article is wanting Tho
English Review suppressed 10 without
asking my consent This conclusion,
developed I'm the third part 0f the arr
ticle. was 90 tho effect that the entente
cordialo could not endure unless the
two nations made Of IL an Instrument
of national preservation. We ourselves
by checking our experiments I'm state
Socialism. the end Of which means the
ruin Of public finance ana tho suppre7-
sion OF the army; the English people by
maintaining the time houorcd founda-
tiou OF it, political system, {. g.. in the
FIRST place the hereditary principle and
the house Of lords. Mutilatcd by the
omission OF this conclusion, tho article
is deprived of its fun meaning BE
good enough % restore IT,"
Naturally one supposcs that Tho CUn-
clusion OF the article does not coincide
with the political opinions ~ the Eng
lIsh Reviews hnaucials hackers. hut
to my mind the editor OF the Review
has thoroughly Vindioatcd the um.a-
sion. Bourgeois article was sout 700
late and the latter part was ihegib'c.
Now, the editor who S. 80 unfortuu1l'
ms 10 have to dec,phcr the microscopic
handwriting ON tissue paper which
Parisians affect deserves NOT only for
rIycness for partial failure hut the keen
est pity NJ Paul Bourgot. who was
paid "a high price for the article. sent
II -FOUR DAYS ldltI l'ltN |I' AIl' Ni''.i-
fled lie was Informed therefore, that
ne could not possibly sc" proof of tho
article and tho sole reason for nm'tt.ug
either a single word ur % single para
graph was due TO the uler'b.Hty ~ his
own writing
FLOwERDEW's CONFESSION.
Novellsts are sometimes profoundly
native. Yesterday Herbert tlNWerdcN
author ~ 'The Ways of Men. ana
other. somewhat popular books. made
the dcIcctable confession that Doc Was
tired of writing novels 10 Dos not "a
dignjncd trade
There are three brands u. artists.
Thosc who can stand alone W.ll-l!kH
T1lstoi-those who lean juli'ioIsIY. 90.
shaw does, on elf-advertis-Uert qua
those who collapse occasionally INTO 1
recumbent posture a. All Fi.r'. a'H
evidently has done We have 4.l known
FIowcrdcws: parsons that lament 90"
fact Of having 10 preach down On tnei.
congregation. painters that foo. forced
TO paint pot-boilers. and chorus lal.e
who complain ~ having Co inv-ialH
their managers
In order to appear convinc ue Nj
Flowerdow offers the following yinti-