The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 2, 1928, Page 8

d TT “oATVMMUNETEU Ur UTUeseentcnnenrUerintnen TMM TOM cA ffl Joe Made Charles Dicketis By ANTHONY PRAGA a am S orthand I T HAS been well said of Dickens that %§ » what he cared for in life was “sad tales of good lovers and pleasant tales cf good livers.” His friendly and colossal laughter, his easy and unashamed tears, his almost limitless creativeness, all these, manifesting them- selves through an intensely national genius, made him—or rather make him, for he is immortal— one of the greatest literary figures Engiand has produced. He was not simply a genius among English writers. He was England written. We know all his characters better than our neighbors. But the man who made all those imperishable i — => = = = = = — = = HOVOUUUANEUAOGOAUAYAROEAENEEOU A Inspired by Passion at Eighteen, : ae He Became Ambitious and Studied . i To Be the World's Best Stenographer mime nape oc MLN DARA oN LMM persons we do not know so well, nor what griefs were hidden behind his gigantic humor. Charles Dickens owed much to a woman, 4 : if ‘ £ f = & : Pe ‘ E demand- down outside the house where Maria lay -sh » He was the mostread and - re Lie luisa ire th — Jesu - on ed life and obsessed by his passion for the girl, and the:final breach was felt most-talked-about man nd all his life he retained her in his mem- ‘ ce s . 4 - hig ‘atherine, Dic wife... une andl i able to work. emed to prom 6¢7\7OBODY can ever know with what a sad heart I E Catherine, Dickens’ wi} ory, even through the disillusion of re- Maria Bead. es ise tt. he signed you, or after what struggles and what a con- Ccilas He. able to -understand her husband a encounter in middle age. Fa wa magic of first “.., flict,” he wrote, many years later. rine | Elo «+ « jealous of her sister. Ve (ev Wahic Was Mata Bendnelicediie. fell... “a love was his, My entire devotion to you and the wasted: tenderness of » , eldest : met her when he was 18, She was his tard -hearted 4 ' and he became those hard years which Ihave ever since half-loved, half-dreaded da of George __ a : first love and the only woman who in- little woman” at once an in- to recall, made so deep an impression on me that I refer to it big with whom Dickens-was associated. % P 4 spired him with genuine passion. -.. for whom itiate and a pris- a habit of suppression which now to me, which ; tever of romance there may have ‘been in the marriage Ms Dickens would have oner. is no-part of my original nature, but which makes me chary of did not last. Cath’ ‘ne’ was uhable fully to understand her bus- ; F MARIA and her influence on him dicd. They met showing my affections, even to my chi a0)", band, and theres lary, Catherine’ he wrote after many years, when, in full maturity, he had the necessary i detachment to write with the head as well as with the heart. He had desired marriage; and all his struggles and ambition: * facult; on jet $f, again and again, leh ir riage; II his st nd ambitions Mary was bea. i, and she had a faculty for qui metimes happily, had been inspired ia. i preciation which made an irresistible appeal to Dickens. e 4 oh : : prily, h : en say ree ey But bie no sr ea for him, Id listen to him talking about his work and his ai i : ‘What he wrote was a love letter to a woman who had long been after a lovers’ quar- on the other. take in both an intelligent interest. Soon ‘she occupied the * out of his reach. It was also a confession of faith: 4 rel. Mischiefmakers Dickens was an idealist, and never lost.the memory ‘of his ™4 place in his life and Catherine grew jealous. ct “Whatever of ‘fancy, romance, energy, passion, aspiration, Were not wanting— first love; but he was also a realist, and he came to vee Maria, at life co , nevertheless, for twenty years, dur- be and determination belong to me, I never have separated, and notably one in the in a different light, though the carlier vision remained untouched. ee wrpvcertd ale for Catherine's j never shall separate [them] from the hard-hearted little woman person of Mary ., 40, the meeting of Arthur Clennam with Flora Finching in ra he be wee She cause for Catherine's jealousy, ‘ —you—whom it is nothing to say I would have died for with Anne Leigh, herself “Little Dorrit.” he has given us a vividly personal account of the it had burned nd os bps and estranged her from a man ‘ the greatest alacrity. in ones List aii as he eee + ie! years: be ae - ay half 7 wri Loan ee eee “It is a matter of perfect certainty to me that I began to and therefore Jeal- “Flora, always tall, had grown to be very |. too, a : ad fight my way out of pore and Buea with one erga out. She told petty short of breath but that was not much. Flora, whom he had "4d her loss was a shattering blow to him. He suffered 0 in- : ites of you.” t tales, represented left a lily, had become a peony; but'that was not much. ‘Flora, te0#ely as to be unable to work, and. the famous “Pickwick a Maria he turned into Dora of “David Copperfield’’—the herself to Maria as who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was Papers, ra Ps 1 ly, were —— j for two months, ; child-wife, so helpless in the management of affairs, so powerfu! Dickens’ confidante, diffuse and silly. “That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled Homapbbrnceh ted ee 0 — hick teres ase “ to capture and hold the heart. But the Dora of fiction had and caused all manner of trouble. mM ~and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless feParation precipitated by strange, affair which forms, per- qualities lacking in the Maria of fact. She was generous- The man, entirely sincere, made honorable, if slightly sen- now. That was a fatal blow... .” Ls e the of reser a2 hearted, and had none of that feminine calculation which, when _sentious, protests, but Maria would not give up her scheming Yet he could also write: “I mein Piper whee may not 1. se oe Niuacheise ‘ 1855, of Maria Terman, whom it is discovered, brings such icy surprise to a lover. friend, and there was a breach. have thought in the old time how manfully I t Mant, fr. in ‘s of considerable j Maria was the youngest daughter of George Beadnell, a Almost from the first’ Dickens, who, at that time’ was you may have seen in one of my books a faithful ion of geil ersan Aaa eee sioner A a hand- f j bank official, who lived, as was the prevailing custom of the day, earning only fifteen shillings a week, sct himself to the improving the passion I had for you, and may have thought that it was Some @! brilliant. fi ickens, If . Wed with mem- H over his business premises in Lombard street. of his condition. He took up with intensity the study of short- something to have been loved 20 well hee oN preg —— beri nf the — it with her. Dickens had been introduced to the family by two of his hand, and learned it so rapidly and so well that he soon became **, . . Perhaps you have once or twice laid down the book. mAisiere of the relationship, beyond th friends, and so soon as he set eyes on Maria he fell in love — expert—he ae into the best shorthand writer “in the and thought, “How dearly that boy-must have loved me, and fact that it was intimate. - Whether Dickens became Mana u with her. She was beautiful, unusual, capricious. She was in world,” he has tol hew vividly the man remembers it!’ Ternan's lover is a mystery, but ao a beste oe — every way suited to his age and mood. She meant romance to He obtained a post in the reporters’ gallery at the House of And now fame was coming to him. He had written success- ame the youth in whose mind were already stirring the dreams and = Commons, where he did well, and night after night, or in the fully for various periodicals, “Sketches by Boz” had created a The romance of another fanious lover will be published in an * images of his later greatness. small hours after a late session, he would wander up and sensation, and the “Pickwick Papers” were about to make him early issue. i ‘ N inety Per Cent of All Flying Acciden Are Caused by the P hysical -Unfitness Of the Aviator, Say Health Experts Whirled around . . . to sce if he can weather nose dives, barrel rolls, tail spins. By MORRIS FISHBEIN M. D. (Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association.) Orientalars « .. “Flight surgeons" " will roll their paiients FCIDENTS in flying are not always the result of faults anthem » .« tet Bises Ser “heeh oS. Nae seas iS 345 H in or of unusual conditions in the air. apparently ready i ES ~ An assembling of the evidence arising from the fyi i dot still wi i i Lol eg ap lie Pedhse cree lly od opening oy = service prasad ibe war Teadh to the opinio jon that about Pp pe, Core gags “Bathe ee - pe a esight eri Char nt pay ik ; rt ee ie = : per cent of flyers incapacitated were rendered breaks even momentarily,” says the Air Service bulletin, “‘noth- diseases ot the : * considered by Gat contens peed ad = + unserviceable because of mechanical shortcomings of the plane ing is left to direct the Hight; and the plane or the engine, no Siete Certain forme of dk pif feo sod for an pag ig woesaneg = or the somes, about two per cent were incapacitated by the matter how well they have been cared forr-crasts ated are lost.” with thé j of da ind ci Ghettice sf, coca = Se timer Siem: vee 3 ? ‘Aviaté . ee ‘ BPs rome, § i sete ra otis deetine tee ees are best for the = Sete wae,” The spd" he dovclrmnnt o logty ce fas dl enen bangs ty tats no re ote ee ar eee 2 pendent on the assurance of safety through the building of betier _fession and it is therefore imperati hesai : " sad = 2 Foachines and through t te devo of en ‘fo ate periodically to fauenainn asa bi Be at the k un! ant meet be ie from cleanse sad te cer Phi ages tee oxi a = Constitutes an efficient flyer. (Aiea Seman Deiegs, they, da smust be in. perfect condition, “This is important since paratus. == The fiyers or pilots of airplanes are human beings. Few Indeed, itis for this reason thatthe fala ~ these organs patcalarly are concerned wittte'moase ef bolt Satetes as == human are physically perfect. As has been pointed out '° reagstrnad he importance of periodic. physical. fon "ance in the air. : well over 5000 == ae k peat laleie f by the medical department of the 2nd. to submit their locomotive engineers to regular. examing- ‘sana Chaar 2: Air Service, the pilot of the ai is the heart and brain of | "ons : {YQUILIBRIUM which, of course, plays a most: im- passed, After = a Bey Steed PTR wali ig ence Spr bom th hel chin oh TH, poet i eam a rane Se coe ze ol » le to brin; viator e to : most ious orga i . is = anfely back to earth. "A carelessly inspected wire may snap in only to the commanding oftcer in the trainiig apd cate of any sense of valor. the mecheaiun ie te tere ar the eS == Ay oo! ACOPHFIBRE, 1928, REA’ Magazine) a wie: a a a gv pie MAC uu tH