Show who was who by louise A M comstock aysies ay sees CO I 1 TF F wasten MASTER the well known beetle of co seems seema discouragingly clever ind and unreasonably lucky in getting out of scrapes to modern tittle little boys reading this childrens classic they have only to realize that the beetle grew up to be none other than rudyard kipling to understand why ills his two classmates in no 5 study however G 0 beresford the of the story and maj gen lionel 0 Dunst erville himself both have testified that kippings Kip lings picture of his youthful school days Is a bit overdrawn horn born in india kipling was sent to be educated to the united services college at westward hal 1101 in england here cr at the age of twelve the future author of the light that failed and the barrack room boom ballads a 1 in d s showed little of the talent in con coating real boy escapades with which he later credits himself instead he spent much of his time reading at a prodigious rate though the king of stnley and co a mr air crofts crafts in real life predicted for this queer little boy an Ign ignominious ominous death in an attic a scurrilous pamphleteer others recognized his ats genius among these were the head master and the padre who gave him the run of their libraries arles a very special privilege SIc Turk who describes him as a sizzling fizzling literary impulse with a small boy tacked on behind and who finds promise in the youthful kippings Kip lings contributions contribution 3 to the college chronicle of which lie he was also editor PET MARJORIE sir walt walter e r scott 1 called her little marjori marjoree Marj orle e fleming who lived near him in ed edinburgh whose whimsical personality and astonishing toni shing bing liter literary ari career begun when she was six and ended by her death just before she was nine won her unusual friends in her day and a peculiar sort of tame fame ever since A statue to pet Marjo irle was set up just last year in her birthplace nar caldy scotland and she Is mentioned in the dictionary of national biography as one whose life Is probably a bly the shortest to be recorded in th these ese volumes yet one of the most charming characters marjoree Marj orle Fi leming was born in 1803 when she was just turning six the family moved to edinburgh and mar borle took up writing and commenced her famous friendship with scott part pan of the waverly novels were written with pet marjorie on the authors knee sometimes she would amuse him by reciting long passages from shakespeare at others they would tramp across the fields while scotts dog malda maida scampered joyously about them i 1 marjorie Marj orle has left us a number ot of letters recording her childish observations and philosophy an epic in verse concerning mary queen of 0 scots whose royalty she upheld even while she condemned her morals and a journal written between the ages of six and eight containing more observations on life and a number ot of poems all of them recently republished for the modern reader pet marjorie Marj orle died of measles in 1811 REBECCA cc H OW do you uke like your rebecca wrote sir walter scott to washington irving in the letter accompanying his gift of one of the first copies of ivanhoe off the press does the rebecca I 1 have pictured here compare well with the pattern given the pattern from which scott fashioned the handsome jewess who figures so heroically in the familiar novel was a real woman rebee rebecca a gratz whose lovely person and lovelier c deeds were well known to early philadelphians ians and whose grave may be seen today in the israel cemetery on spruce street hers was a story of star crossed love born of an aristocratic and influential jewish family well educated a beauty she was the center of one of the most distinguished social groups of the p post 0 st revolutionary period when she fe tell 11 in love with a man of another falth faith than her own she made a costly decision casion in favor of her fam ilys religion and devoted her life thereafter to philanthropy and deeds of goodness that doubly endeared her to all who knew her thus it was in the arms of rebecca gratz that died matilda hoff man beloved of washington irving on a subsequent visit to scott in england trying irving poured out his sorrow sorro v to his friend relating in connection with matildaa Mat ildas death the heroic story of rebecca gratz all who know and love the rebecca of ivanhoe pay unconscious tribute to this heroic girl Z 1932 castern W astern newspaper union |