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Show WHY HIS ''SECOND BEST BED"? Writer Feels Called On to Criticize Shakespeare for Provision Made ' In His Will. We are Indebted to an English publication pub-lication for a copy of the last will and testament of the late William Shakespeare. Shake-speare. In the course of this document, docu-ment, we observe the following sentence: sen-tence: "I gyve onto my wlef my second best bed with the furniture." " We have no desire to find fault with the successful poet and dramatist of Stratford for this apparent discrimination discrimina-tion against the Widow Shakespeare. What disposition he made of Ids first best bed is a matter that Is not revealed re-vealed by the copy of the will of t tie versatile author whose last testament Is reported lu the columns of our alert London contemporary. However, we don't think Mr. S. showed just the right spirit In gyvelng onlo ills wlef his second best bed. O, why did be not gyve onto her his first bed, or his tee pottc or his punche bole with the gilt butterflyes, or his favorytte wlgge. or bis safetle razure, or fountain penne, or bicycle anything, In fact, but Ids second sec-ond beRt bed? No doubt Mr. Shakespeare had gone to bed with his boots on many a Saturday Satur-day night In (hat very second best bed, and yef, hallowed as It was by such memories, one cannot but feel that the widow was treated unfairly. Perhaps Will's folks Influenced him. As a co-writer co-writer we have only the highest regard and esteem for. him. Ilul we don't think he acted right about friend wlef. Thrift Magazine. |