SEAMEN’S FAIRY GODMOTHER
Baroness and Her Shelter
A little Swedish baroness, who came to London as a runaway bride in a windjammer, recently celebrated her fortieth anniversary as fairy godmother to Loudon seamen. She is the Baroness Emma Leitonhjclm and since 1893 she has kept “open house” for homeless sailors. More than half-a-milliori have found shelter beneath her roof. The romance began in Gottenberg. Denmark, in 1888, when she first met Baron Erie Leitonhjelm, captain of a windjammer. Her parents forbade her to marry
him, so the couple ran away to England. They intended to return to Sweden, but when the little baroness saw the appalling conditions that obtained for sailors near the docks she refused to leave London. Each of the seamen visiting the Baroness receives supper and breakfast. The little Baroness is something of a martinet. Every night she gives the men ij “good-night lecture,” trying, as she puts it, “to knock some sense into their silly heads."
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 18
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