MISSION OF PEER'S SISTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15169, 7 December 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

MISSION OF PEER'S SISTER.

FOR IRELAND'S POOR.

Among the second-class passengers in the Baltic, which arrived at New York from England recently, was the Hon. Albinia Brodrick, a sister of Lord Midleton. She was dressed in a nurse's plain uniform, and said she was going to attend a course of advanced hygiene and the chemistry of sanitation at the teachers' college at Columbia University. She also desired to raise funds, by means of a series of lectures, for the installation of twenty more beds in the hospital she had founded at Ballincoona, County Kerry.

"I felt happier in the second-class cabin," said Miss Brodrick, " because I could com© into touch thore with the people whose, wants I am studying. Moreover, the difference of price between a first and second ticket may help to lift a mortgage from some poor family s home."

Ono interviewer asked Miss Brodrick, " You have sold your furniture and many family heirlooms to raise funds for the peasantry?" "Why should I not?" was the quick answer. "It simply means forsaking a little pleasure by one person for the happiness of many. No one with a heart could see the poverty I hav% seen in Ireland and do otherwise."