Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1931, Page 34

1S SHPBEACHED INFOE REFLONTED American Trader Goes Aground Just Before Start- ing Up Channel for London. By the Assoclated Press. DEAL, England, November 30.—The American steamer American Trader, which went agriund near Dungeness in a dense fog early today was re- floated after a short while and pro- ceeded to London. ‘The steamer American Trader, bound HE KEviuawsnG Cowper’s Bicentenary | | 200th Year of English Poet’s Birth Thursday—Life | Crowded With Sorrow and Tragedy Recalled by Event. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. ‘The bicentenary of Willlam Cowper, English poet and perhaps the greatest letter-writer that ever lived, occurred | on Thursday last, and the date passed almost unnoticed in America. Born in the old rectory at Great Berhamsted, Hertfordshire, November 26, 1781, Cowper was the son of a country clergyman of aristocratic line- ‘fi' the Rev. John Cowper, sometime cl ain to King George II. The pocr 's mother was Anne Donne, a mem- Dr. Pitman at Markyate. There he re- mained through four bitter years, an experience about which he later wrote with passionate indignation. famous Westminster School, and this was the happiest period of his career. He was attached to one of the masters, Vincent Bourne, a master, whose Latin English. His classmates included Rob- e | €Tt Southey and Sir Willlam Russell. In 1749 he entered a solicitor's office Prom 1741 to 1748 he was at the| verses he afterwards translated into| S1TAR. WAN 1ivG'TON, D. C. MuuspaY. {of Lords. The nomination prompted bis third tragedy. “It involved a pre- 1im appearance at the bar of the House. The propect ¢rove him in- sane;- he attempted suicide and all but succeeded.” For 18 months he was in a private | asylum at St. Albans. Upon being dis- charged he settled at Huntingdon in | order to be near his brother John, a| fellow of St. Benet's College, Cam- bridge. His cousin, Lady Hesketh, Theodora's sister, loyally helped him back to an approximation of mental | health. He met and subsequently be- | came & guest member of the family of the Rev. Morley Unwin. For more than 20 years he remained with these good friends. The house in which they dwelt is now the Cowper Museum. At Olney the poet wrote with his friend, the Rev. John Newton, the “Olney Hymns,” pub- | lished in 1779. 1782 the “Poems of illiam Cowper” appeared. The book was a failure, | Inspired by Lady. For several years at Olney the poet | was blessed with the friendship of Lady | child, with a child’s winsomeness and & child's helplessness. The publication of “The Task: A Poem in Six Books" in If he fell far, he also rose high. Al- ther, he was and he will remain one of the most 1785 convinced a wider public, It was an | poets. instan us success and marked an epoch in literary history. In 1784 Cowper began his translation of Homer. This work hs completed at xemr; Underwood where he settled Meets the Inevitable. But the inevitable darkness was clos- | ing over him. Mrs. Unwin suffered a paralytic stroke in 1792 and died in 1796. Meanwhile in 1794 Cowper had experienced another collapse. His working life was over. He died of dropsy, April 25, 1800. Cowper’s importance in British litera- | ture is that of an authentic innovator. He wrote as he was, not as his pred- ecessors were or pretended to be. He introduced a new spirit into English verse—a human spirit, very natural and simple in character. “With him " eays a modern ecritiz, “began the enthusiasm for humanity that was afterward to become so He sleeps in the East Dereham, have made the He has a monument Iud-Mkl Portraits New Fad. Life .casts in mud constitute London society's latest art fancy. The mud is applied in a pack much like it is in a beauty shop, so that the subject not only gets a portrait but also a_skin treatment, wgflm to Angus McBean, Welded ] Welded| X" BUMPERS Taken OF and Put On, 50c |in Ely Place, Holborn, where the future s .m. | mer of the family to which John Donr~. s aeivel e Lord Chancellor Thurlow was a_ f2llow The weather was calm, but a lifeb-at' eccentric master of verse and dean of St Paul's, London, belong:d. clerk. It was while reading law that :cnf(:\rm“ R T T Cowper's childhood was a tragedy.|the second great tragedy of his life is mother died when he was but six | developed. He fell in love with his most widely famous humorous poems in | sympathy with nature and love of ani- lng: t;‘;?gnke;p'é‘ho:xfifgt l.osr :hh: v‘{yy‘! ;'em old. ‘The pain of losing her re- | cousin, Theodora Cowper, but his suit | the English tongue. | mal life which was to characterize the age up the channel and into London.| mained with him til the end of his|was so violently opposed by her father| For months Cowper's mind would work of the romantic school. days, and he celebrated her memory in | that the young couple separated with | function normally. Then for months hel His verse is thoroughly sane; there s PEA SOUP FOG IN LONDON. one of the most beautiful of his com- | hearts permanently bruised. | would be deranged. He was, neverthe- | nothing in it to suggest the pitiful positions. Hi as called to the bar in 1754, |less, a man—gentle. kindly, courteous, | plight of its author. “Cowper had ‘A sickly child, cursed with a chronic | He was eppointed a commissioner of | easily loved, deeply pitied. ‘Some critics | what is a rare quality among English inflammation of the eyes, he was con- | bankrupts in 1759. Finally he was have represented him as an extravagant | poets, the gift of humor.” A tragic signed to a boarding school kept by one nominated to a clerkship in the House 'maniac He was rather a grown-up 'clown, he was likewise a mighty spirit. | published some of her 2,000 poems, in a e never parched, never toasted spelling, entitled “Unholy » CAMELS are KEPT Fresh! P T e e "Wl‘lk;x:'g onwards with a soldierly step Remembering her love vows when she spys a couple fiirt, methods for getting the benefits of heat treatments and still avoiding ever parching or toasting. With every assurance we tell you, Ca;ll_nels are truly fresh. They’re mgde fresh — not parched ‘or toasted — and then they’re kept fresh in the Camel Humidor Pack. | Austen. It was she who inspired “The | marked in the poetry of Burns and Task,” “The Royal George” and “John | Shelley, Wordsworth and Byron, and Gilpin,” the latter being one of the | With him began the renewal of the deep Other Metals Welded WELDIT CO. 516 lctSt. NW.,Bet. E& F ME. 2416 Experienced Advertisers Prefer The Star City Enveloped, but Traffic Is Only Moderately Affected. LONDON, November 30 (#).—A yel- Jow fog of the real soup” variety enveloped London on the heels of a gray one yesterday, which blotted out virtually all of England from York- shire to the South coast and was still prevalent today along the shore where the steamer American Trader Wwas grounded on a sand bank while trying to_enter the Thames Estuary. In London, fortunately, it hung well above the rcof tops and, although the city was in almost midnight darknéss, traffic was only moderately affected, as lights of motor cars and blazing street lamps enabled drivers and pecestrians to find their way. Yesterday's fog reduced traffic to & snail’s pace and tied up air liners and coastal shipping to a great extent. CHARWOMAN POETESS GIVES LONDON A BOOK Plea for Skirted Police Among 2,000 Specimens of Lucy Watkin’s Output. LONDON (N.AN.A).—Lucy Watkin, ‘who lives over a garage in Soho and is & charwoman by day and a pillar of fire in Hyde Park at night, gn Just wm}u:smmm eye at the street corner Bhe prays for the lovers’ married union— 1 human wish.” ‘The poem ends with this plea: “Police commiss: er, give us more women ; 'ts the cry far and near.” In & poem about George Shillibeer, who invented the omnibus 100 years ago, Lucy says: “All thro his life poor George had no luck, But he stuck to the omnebus with sheer pluck, And every belief in his inventionary star, The advent of the buss was a funreal car, YOU probably know that heat is used in the treatment of all cigarette tobaccos. (Copyright. 1931, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) . FOG FILTERS VANISHED Tondon Custom of 30 Years Ago Recalled by Season’s Return. to:fmm“ tN.AbN.A.).—’me season of upon us, but nowadays, perha; because we have grown hardier, &’re mo= likely, because the “London particular” s not what it was, we do not wake the geuuuom of our grandfathers. In the s and 905 it was a common sight to find whiskered old gentlemen in top hats wearing a curious pad over their mouths, which acted as a fog respirator. ‘The use of these respirators went out sbout 30 years ago, but the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum has some curious specimens of these appliances, Which were usually composed of a pad of cotton wool or other material sprin- kled with an antiseptic. They were, in fact, filters to prevent the solid matter in the fog from reaching the lungs. and sometimes they covered the nose s well as the mouth. “Zopyright. 1931, by the North Newspaper Alliance, inc.) But you know too that excessive heat can destroy fresh- ness and fragrance. 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