Another lady also saddled with an Cox of Chis ard more than enough of people who can't get ser= however, anxious to have a son Settee her stepson, "Then, however: 59,24" get i of them. "But that retain the farm, Yat in my recollection of any she falls in love with him, and, M¥s. Cox's position, She has a thinking thal he doubts her, kills her baby in order to prove her devotion to hi But surely the author breaks down badly in this, There are many rea sons why a woman might Kill her baby, but merely to please its father would never be one of them. How. fever, the great point is to depict country folk as being as beastly as possible, And to deepen the impres-Sion throughout the play (ike the 'Sub-Jub "which lives in perpetual passion") everyone is in an unrelieved state of surly ill-temper with every one else and their Ianguaye is *ac~ cardin'." It ix true that most of the London theatres just now are given tip to revues and farees of a pretty feeble character. But it is dificult to thine that the antidote offered by the Westminster has much to say for itself man servant who has been with her for 14 years and she wants him to 0. Bui he won't. She has disinisshim, she has stopped his pay, she has locked he merely ila door ix opened and comes in again, 1 am quoting from her statement to the Chiswick magistrates to whom, she applied to rid her of her remark-fable stayer. She says he Is perfectly well behaved and respectful, but he has become a perfect Old Man of the Sea. "Ife is driving me frantic," she says, His story is that he likes the house, that he has got used to it, that he hopes to die there and that he knows belter what is good for Mrs, Cox than she does.
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