WORTH.
TO THE EDITOR^ Sib,—-Seeing in to-day’s Times a sketch of tha great man-milliner, it may not be inappropriate if I ..add slightly thereto. Young * Worth attended the Grammar School at Bourne. My undo, the Eev Walter Scott, was master. Dining tha play hours, whan the other boya (after the manner of boya in general) were comping about and knocking each other over like ninepins, young Worth would invariably retire to a quiet comer cf the playground, and producing pieces of paper, or fabrics, and a pin-cushion well filled with pine, he would sit absorbed, fashioning miniature garments. Tho boya nicknamed him “Molly,” and on more ocoauions than one snatched bis precious paper treasures and flung them to the four winds of heaven with howls of delight. Youth has not tho wisdom to trace coming genius in tha peculiarities o! its contemporaries. This little anecdote I had from my father’s lips; ho was one of Worth’s schoolfellows.—l am, &c., LDCILLA.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10654, 15 May 1895, Page 2
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