St Joseph Academy - Sajoscript Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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SANDALPHON Mr. Micawber WINIFRED NIADIGAN Second Rhetoric R. WILKINS MICAWBER, an extraordinary man of middle age, was tall and stout, and wore black tights and shoes, a brown overcoat, and a high black silk hat. When the latter was not fulfilling its purpose, his large bald head looked like a shining egg reposing on the immaculate rim of his shirt collar. To add to the effect, an eye glass, used merely as an orna- ment, was fastened on his coat. lle carried a jaunty stick, which he swung as he talked, or lacking thc cane, hc placed his thumbs in his waistcoat pockets. llis appearance and dress were that of a shabby actor, in fact, he was some- thing of an actor. lVhen he went into a store to establish his credit, he spoke in long, rambling sentences, full of remarkable words, with a condescending roll in his voice. llc even assumed a certain indescribable air of doing something genteel. These characteristics generally gave the proprietor the impression that M r. Micawber was a highly educated, refined, cultured gentleman, and he would advance him credit. Before long, however, his many creditors realized that this suave gentleman did not pay his bills. They pursued him. They called at all hours of the day. As soon as they departed he was filled with mortiiication and grief, but half an hour later he left the house humming a tune. When credit was refused him in one place he moved to another, therefore, he moved many times during his life. Ile was a failure. He owed everybody. To him, making an I. O. U. was the same as paying the debt. Ile was always either on the point of doing some- thing remarkable, which he never did, or waiting for something to turn up. At last his affairs came to a crisis, and he was sent to the debt0r's prison, where with his family he lived more comfortably than he had in his own home. He exerted a great deal of infiuence on the other prisoners and held a place of high authority in a club which they had formed. Ile filed a petition for his re- lease and left the prison at the end of six weeks. It was at this time that he gave to David Copperfield that much quoted piece of advice: Never do tomor- row what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him! and also, Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nine- teen six, result-happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expendi- ture twenty pounds ought and six, result-misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and- and i11 short you are forever iioored. As I am! llis welcome and frequent visitors thought him an ideal host. llc invari- ably made punch, always planned entertaining amusements, and made his guests merry the entire evening. Ile was good-natured, genial, grateful and loyal to his friends. Later, good fortune befell him when he discovered and exposed the fraud of the Humble Uriah Heep. Consequently, Mr. Wickfield's business was straightened out, and as Mr. Micawber was instrumental in restoring most of Miss Betsy Trotwood's'fortune, she advanced him money sutiicient to pay his way and that of his family to Australia. There something did turn up. The following extract from the Port Middlebay Times showed how Mr. Micawber seized an opportunity and made success of failure: The public dinner to our distinguished fellow colonist and townsman, NVil- kins Mieawber, Esquire, Port Middlebay District Magistrate, came off yesterday in the large room of the Hotel, which was crowded to sutfocation. It is esti- mated that not fewer than forty-seven 'persons must have been accommodated page fifty-four