BADEN-POWELL AS AN ARTIST.

North Otago Times, 3 September 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

BADEN-POWELL AS AN ARTIST.

It is not generally known that General E.SiS. Baden-Powell, whose Boy Scouts are,causing so must interest, just now, is a very clever artist, and he has a fine collection of pictures which he has painted and drawn himself. Many of these are studies of South African life, and one of the quaintest depicts a native woman, with a baby strapped to her back and her head almost bent to the ground, who is supposed to be washing clothes in a pool of water while Lyddite shells are bursting all around her. j This clever picture has the follow-'! ing superscription :- "Extract from the diary of a baby in Mafeking,' 1900: . 'lt isn't so much the shells that. I object to,- as this everlasting standing v on ono's head yrhito mother does the washW'V ■:>■-,;■■■* .■■■■'!