A GREAT WAR WORKER.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1073, 28 March 1917, Page 8

A GREAT WAR WORKER.

Lady's Cowdray's Remarkable Record

A "short time ago Queen Mary expressed the wish that the historic Star and Garter Hotel, at the top of Richmand Hill, London, should be purchased for the use'of the Red Cross. Lady Oowdray, one 'of society's most famous hostesses, at once set to work to help in the task of collecting the money required, although she was already strenuously working in connection with five other big war-charity schemes, the aggregate appeal of which was for close upon a million pounds. . Thanks to the strenuous efforts of enthusiastic war workers like Lady Cowdray, hundreds of our brave soldiers and sailors, whose constitutions have been badly wrecked by the war, will be able to spend the remainder of their lives in the Star and Garter home.

A clever, practical-minded woman, Lady Oowdray is a fitting wife for the man who is regarded as the greatest contractor in the world. Raised to the peerage eight years ago, Lord Cowdray, formerly Sir Weetman Pearson, is president of the firm of S. Pearson and Son, the great firm of contractors, which employs something like 30,000 hands. Engineer, dock, tunnel, railway, and bridge builder, his lordship has carried out some gigantic contracts. Indeed, it has been said that he seldom undertakes anything less than a million-pound job. Before the war Lady Cowdray took great interest in the "Women's Suffrage movement, speaking occasionally at meetings. She is a delightful speaker, and always very frank in expressing her views. The writer remembers some interesting remarks which she made a short time ago on business men as [overs. - . '■' "A man with a great business," she said, "entailing large responsibilities, may not have much time for demonstrating affection. An idle man, with no ambitions, has. But the affection of such a man would in time become somewhat tedious, whereas the less monotonous affection of the strong, hardworking man of business would remain one of the things to be treasured in a woman's life. After all," she concluded, "love-making is not the only interest in life." _ A charming romance was that of her youngest son, the Hon. Geoffrey Pearson, who in 1909 married that clever singer and actress, Miss Ethel Lewis, who made quite a name for herself with the D'Oyley Carte company. But the war has left her a widow, for her young husband was killed in the early clays of the war. He was "a very gallant gentleman."

Why is an impudent fellow like a case of ketchup?— Because he is full of sauce.

Where did Charles .the First's executioner dine, and what did he take?—-He took a chop at the King's Head.

is that which, is often brought' to table, always cut, and never eaten?—A pack of cards. -