Evening star., 1937-10-17

speaks of one of the most popular Eng
nL .D,, lish novelists Of
Death OF fopular her time, who
English Novelist. passed away nifty
ITO the patient toiler against odds
the man or woman who cherishes high
ideal, but finds the world unsympathetic
the career, just ended, of Dinah Null
och Craik must bring infinite comfort.
Miss Muloch had no great gifts, but she
made the best use of those she had and
plodded on with her pen through the
years that most girls give to the pleasures
Of young society, weaving into her work
her own painfully earned experience and
barely keeping herself supplied with the
necessaries Of life by incessant labor.
Her lrst novel, The Ogilvies,' had enough
Of sale to encourage her to try to
do better things; but for nine weary
years thereafter she struggled against
repeated disappointments, some Of them
in the shape of failures, and others in
that of languid activity. Then came her
John Halifax, Gentleman which struck
a popular chord at once, and whose
steady acceptance from that day to this
places it on the plane Of English prose
classics. Mrs. Craik was not genius
in any sense. She was not even a very
good writer of the mother tongue. But
she possessed the power Of easy narra-
tive SO common to her sex and a pure,
gentle, womanly way Of treating the or
dinary topics of everyday life. She al
ways felt a strong attraction toward
children, which shows everywhere in her
books and, though her marriage in mid
die life brought her no little ones Of her
own, chance threw in her way stranger
waif on whom she has lavished the
mother love that had to pour itself out
on some helpless object Her welded
experience has been singularly happy
and the creature comforts for which she
was obliged to toll 50 hard in her bud
ding womanhood have surrounded her
plentifully in her later years in response
to little effort"
President Cleveland and his wife were
on tour through the West at this time
Arx;...; nifty years ago and
a" A"'i'"sAo" were received by
to Washington, great multitudes.
The Star of Octo-
Der Is, 1887, says:
y
that at the Presidents levees in the West
places in the line of citizens who have
turned out to shake his hand command
a good premium. This is waste Of
money. BY spending a little more these
purchasers Of places might pay the ex-
penses of trip to Washington during
the season, where they would find excel
lent hotel accommodations, polite and
we'll instructed guides, city full of the
most interesting sights. chance to study
at close range the workings Of the Gov
ernment for whose support they are
taxed and the behavior of the lawmakers
they have sent here to represent them,
and, at the proper time. the privilege Of
shaking the hand Of the President with
out any Of the disagreeable incidents Of
crush, but In the serene atmosphere
of his own ofncial home. Such a visit
would be infinitely more satisfactory
than a great rough-and- tumble recep-
tion at which q ten hours undertaking
is crowded into sixty minutes. It would
vastly expand their ideas Of the dimen-
sions Of the Union and the necessary
complication Of this Government and
make them more charitable with the
occasional mistakes Of public servants
who want to do right, but cannot always
see clearly in which direction duty leads.
Last, but not least, they would feel a
thrill Of pride when they saw the beauty
Of the Capital City of the Nation-their
own property as truly as that of the
people who live In it-and they would
feel willing to have their representatives
in Congress vote liberal appropriations
for its upbuilding and improvement in
every reasonable way"