Connecticut western news., 1921-02-24

.THIs story opens in the gloomy
 mansion of Mir. Dombey, head of the house of Dombey & Son, who is exulting in the birth of little Paul. heir to his name and wealth.
 This great event is followed by the death of Mrs. Dombey, who breathes her last, clasping her little daughter, Florence, to her heart. This child, neglected by her proud, cold father, tries vainly to win his love, but he, with all his hopes and his affection centered upon his son. finds no place in his heart for Florence.
 All the advantages that wealth can offer are heaped on little Paul. who is a delicate child. old far beyond his years, and totally united to fulril bis fathers expectations. While gentle and loving to those about him, Paul's adoration for his sister. Florence, sur passes all his other interests, fact which rankles in the breast of his father who would be first in the af- lection of his son.
 Wishing to hasten Paul's education, MT. Dombey sends him to Dr. Blim- Iber's school, famed for its method of crushing out each boyish trait and making learned prigs of all its pu- pills. Here the boy finds friend and champion in Toots, the head boy of the school, who falls victim to the charms of. Florence, but in the end consoles himself by marrying her faithful maid, the sprightly Susan Nipper.
 The story of Paul's life at Dr. Blim- ber's, where his weak frame is tried beyond endurance, and finally breaks down. is pathetic one, although 1t is enlivened by much that Is anus ing and absurd in the descriptions of the school and of the Blimber fam fly.
 Fatally i'll, the boy Is carried home to the big house, where all the skill in London, coupled with his sisters devotion, cannot save him, and after lingering awhile, he slips away from the grand future his father has so carefully arranged.' The deathbed scene where little Paul leaves the big house forever, is one of the most fa- nous in fiction.
 Clasped in his sisters arms, the dy- river runs it's very near the sea. I hear the waves" "And now there was shore before him Who stood on the bank" He sees his mother there awaiting him and whis- pers: "The light about her head is shining on me as I go."
 The bereaved father, in an agony of grief and blasted hopes, turns coldly from the heart-breaking appeal of his sorrowing daughter who pleads for some response in this dark hour. Bid ding her seek her own apartments, he shuts himself up in his rooms alone.
 Beside the dark threads in this story, are woven many bright ones which center in the humble dwelling of old Solomon Gills, maker of ships instruments, and his devoted nephew, Walter Gay, who with their good friend. Captain Cuttle, form a delight ful trio. The captain, who wears a hook in place of his right hand, and suffers patiently under the insults and abuses of his landlady, the terrible Mrs. MacStinger, is one of Dickens best beloved characters.
 Walter, who has a modest position in the great house of Dombey, watch es with sympathy and admiration the career of the neglected daughter of his employer, and upon one occasion has the joy of rescuing her when she is lost in London. From the night when the frightened child is warmed and cOmforted at the sign of the "WoOden Midshipman." Florence holds Uncle Sol and Walter in warmest re- gard. When later, during Paul's ill., ness, Walter comes to plead for loan to save his uncle's pronerty, the sym pathetic boy at once becomes his cham piOn and secures the money from his father. From this time on Paul takes a special interest in Walter and on his death-hed begs that he shall be re- membered. This message Florence brings to Walter, pledging to him thenceforth her sistnlly affection.
 The fOI uncs of 1..-o house of Dom oey are guided principally by the clev- ar and sc like" mana"7r, James Car