A KINDLEY HEART
DAME NELLIE MELBA HELPS WIDOW IN DISTRESS Press Association—By Telegraph--Copyright LONDON. October 20. A great kindly heart in London, the loneliest place in the world, was touchingly revealed to-day at Paddington. A widow, aged sixty-eight, appeared in court for failure to pay her rent of 3s a week, the arrears of which amounted to £l2. It was revealed that her room was spotlessly clean, and that she was living on 8s a week, which she earned by scrubbing floors. “ One of the saddest cases of my experience,” said the magistrate. Today the scene is transformed The rent has been paid, the spare room is full of food, and the fire is alight, while there is plenty of coal available. There is one hug© hamper packed with food. The widow said “ A lady in a motor car brought it. She gave me this lovely letter, too, with £5 inside.” The letter read: “ Dear Mrs Towers, will you please accept this hamper, with good wishes from Nellie Melba?” “I do not know the lady,” said the widow, “ but isn’t she kind?”,—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20312, 22 October 1929, Page 9
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184A KINDLEY HEART Evening Star, Issue 20312, 22 October 1929, Page 9
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