GOOD STORIES.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11287, 22 March 1905, Page 4

GOOD STORIES.

Smart society in New York has been chuckling over an amusing Story which has just been revealed by the newspapers. In 1899 a quantity of jewels belonging to Mrs ' Phyllis Dodge were seized by the Customs officers on her return here from Europe, and these have just been sold at auction. Among the lots was a beautiful pearl necklace, ! appraised at over 56,000d01., and this was purchased on behalf of Mrs Dodge for 21,000d01., with the result ' that the lady has secured it for 1 36,000 dollars less than the duty as- • sessed on it. Thacke.ay was never happier than Wh_n he had children about him, 1 and his love for them is pleasantly ' illustrated by a story which Miss Alice Corkran tells in the New York : " Outlook." On one occasion, when Thackeray was visiting Miss Corkran's home in Paris he took her on his knee and told her a story of a boy named Peter ; but before the end came the child was carried off to bed crying, because Peter's story had reached an unhappy stage. ' 'As I iay weeping on my pillow, ' ' says the writer, " thinking of poor little Peter's fate, of his innocence of his 1 bravery, a shadow bent over me. It was Mr Thakeray, who had come in to comfort the weeping child; and he told me that Peter was saved, and that he had been adopted by a rich lady, and that he rode in a coach to school. I was comforted. I sat up in bed and kissed Mr Thackeray. ' '