EDNA LVALL.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11545, 30 March 1903, Page 5

EDNA LVALL.

It -was for many years tho practice of tho late Miss Bayly (Edna Lyall) to hold an informal class at her pretty homo in Eastbourne every Sunday afternoon—her visitors coneistting meetly of shop assistants in tho town. "Many of these girla hay.i their homes quite tar away," said " Edna Lyall," "and they come to me here, and we chat, and I try'to rouse their interest in such things as foreign missions, the peace manifesto, or other questions of the day. We also read and sing, ending up with afternoon tea. My gkls have oft<m helped the poor in the west of Ireland, and'are interested in the Armenians." This, of course, is only ft fc-amp'e of the many good works in which tho novelist ■was wont to engage. In politics, too, Miss Bayly took a keen interest ac a Liberal (she "was secretary to tho local Women's Liberal Association), and was an enthusiastic gupporter, too, of the -women's suffrage movement. In appearance the deceased was slight and fragile, with ft quiet, reetfnl face full of expression, kindly, thoughtful eyes, firm mouth, ft high, intellectual forehead', and an abundance of dark brown hair. To strangers she was rather ehy and reserved, but to thoee who were fortunate crouch to know her personally, and who went to her in a time of troub'e or anxiety, she was kindliness and tenderness personified MiJ« UayW left in her will a rerucst tlv.it her "body might be cremated, and that no flowers might be sent.