LADIES' GOSSIP.
Mrs F. W. Parish gave birth to a daughter at Burton Manor, Chester, on a recent Sunday. Mrs Parish was before her marriage Miss Dorothy Drew, and her child is Mr Gladstone's first great-grand-daughter. Her two elder children aro boys, one born in 1913, and the other in 1914.
Dady Frances Balfour, writing in the Daily Chronicle, urges the appointment of a woman as Minister of Health. It is women, 6he says, who aro "experts" on food values, and the necessity of pure foods in crowded and ill-housed districts. The Minister of Health will need to be the cricket on every hearth, chirping his household doctrine. He will need to be guardian, doctor, nurse, cook, and sanitary inspector. He will need a co-ordinat-ing" brain, for out of many departments must he pull the things which belong to the health of the people. ' No "mere man" is sufficient for these things.' If appointed, he will need a Cabinet of his own, composed entirely of women experts. Details have just come to light of a romantic story of a poor Irish fisherman's "catch of a packet of diamonds worth about £3009/ which was washed out of the Lusitania after she w T as torpedoed on the Old Plead .of Kinsale (writes the Cork correspondent of the Daily Chronicle). The gems were consigned to a London firm, and were insured for 13,000 dollars with the Union Insurance Company. The company paid the claim in full, and believed they had heard the last of the matter, but a month or two ago they received a letter, stating that the diamonds had been recovered, and that tho owners had much pleasure in refunding the 13,000 dollars. It seems that an Irishman had found the packet of gems among a quantity of fish he had hauled up in his net, and had thus made the most valuable catch of. his life. Without telling anyone of his lucky find, he sent the diamonds to London as an ordinary postal packet, where inquiries w er ® made, and their ownership traced. The honesty of the fisherman has been rewarded by a gift of some hundreds of pounds.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3330, 9 January 1918, Page 51
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