LOST ILLUSIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 April 1938, Page 9

LOST ILLUSIONS

EX-RECTOR’S WIDOW. Mrs Moyra (Harold) Davidson, small, "permed” and sprightly, told me as we stood among the flowers of her neat little house in Exeter road, South Harrow, how she had found comfort through adversity, says a writer in a London paper. "I used to be an awful snob.” said the 59-years-old widow of the former Rector of Stiffkey. “A large rectory, servants, a gardener. £9OO a year, and all that .... But now’ I know that only the man who regards every other as a brother, and the woman who regards every other as a sister, have the right view’ of life. I am without illusions, but not angry-. Mrs Davidson, said she had not received tiny compensation for her husband’s death, from the injuries inflicted by a lion in whose cage he appeared at a. Skegness side show, although legal proceedings had been contemplated. Dressed in her yellow jumper, grey "gardening” skirt, and soil-caked shoes, she explained that her 17-years-old daughter Pamela, and- the profussion, of autumn blooms in her garden ("I planted it all myself!”) were the comforts of her life. "Pamela is dancing in the show’ at the Windmill Theatre, and was recently given a speaking part. ’ "One. dignitary of the Church of England has remained a friend —the Bishop of London, Dr. Winnington Ingram—who married my husband and me. He lias sent me gifts, and 1 am grateful.”