THE SIMPLE LIFE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8333, 3 June 1905, Page 3

THE SIMPLE LIFE.

There is at least one man in London who acts on the maxim that increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow, and who resolutely casts away the unnecesSflrv. ■ He is an. elderly man, and he gave evidence in a police court case at Lam* beth. .. „ , . " No, I cannot give my address/ h« said, politely regretful, when questioned oh that point. " All I know is thart I live at Peckham. I am not a scholar. " It does not," pointed out Mr Francis, the magistrate, " require^a Solomon to know where he lives and the name of the street he lives in." m ■„,_.-■■ "No" agreed the witness, "but I didn't 'make particular Jipquiry about the name of the street. Where's no occasion to, as long as I eaCh find my way home." ■ , . .-.. ■ .'•■ People in court looked enviously at the man without ah address, who has at one stroke rid himself of duns, rent collectors, tax collectors' and begging letters on which the postage has not been paid. ;