BETTER THAN BOOK

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1935, Page 7 (Supplement)

BETTER THAN BOOK

adventures in real life. •SURPRISE AT A WAR COUNCIL. More interesting than many a story book was the life of Mrs. Margaret Fellowes, who has passed on at Lowestoft in her 70th year. A princess in a fairy tale could not have had more gifts bestowed on her, and her beauty, wit and personality charmed all those who crossed her path. As Margie- Chandos-Pole she often stayed as a child with her mother at Homburg, where she was made much of hy King,Edward, who loved the company of children. Queen Alexandra was also devoted to the little girl with com-Hower-clUe eyes and fair ■ hair. It was at Homburg sotpe years later that she met Mr. John Fellowes, rector of 'a. .country church in Norfolk..

Although they always hoped to see each other again and Mr. Fellowes went twice to Homburg he missed her each time. Twenty years passed before they met again at Llandrindod, and within a fortnight they were married. Since those days at Homburg Mrs. Fellowes had become a well-known' traveller and explorer and had written books about her travels. Three times she went round the world. Once during the Russo-Japanese War she and her companion decided to climb Fujiyama. Halfway up they saw a cave. When they went in to explore it they found a group of Japanese generals in uniform holding a conference. The generals were sitting round a table covered with different coloured sweets arranged in sections, and looked round suspiciously at the intruders. In an instant one of the generals had swept every sweet off the table. It was an awkward moment for the travellers, who might have been arrested as spies, but the officers treated them with great politeness and allowed them to continue their climb. - -