MENDING OF HEARTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 245, 17 October 1932, Page 8

MENDING OF HEARTS

BETHNAL GREEN "ANGEL.'’ .Iu a tiny flat in Bethnal Green lives a charming woman who makes it her pleasant hobby in life to patch up lovers’ quarrels. More than one romance which threatened to go awry has been brought to a successful conclusion through her kindly offices. This friend of lovers is Aliss Elizabeth Helen Alartin. who. because of her charitable works, is known as “The Comforting Angel” for miles around tho district where she lives. "When lovers fall out she makes it her custom to invito each of the pair, unknown io each other, and arrange for them to meet iu ther room to talk things over. When they meet their surprise often Igoes far to bridge the difference. “Only last week,” Miss Martin said in an interview, 4< two people who had been sulking apart for about a month rushed into each other’s arms as soon as they met. and I hadn't to say a sin gio word.” In other cases, after a chat, Miss Martin makes some pretence to leave the pair alone. “You are occupying two chairs.” she says as she departs “but I expe t to see you using onlv one when I return.” Her expectations, she says, are invariably fulfilled. While the patching up of lovers’ quarrels takes up a great deal of Miss Martin’s time, she does not confine the whole of her practical sympathy and benevolent disposition to this. She almost as constant a visitor to the eiek and bedridden as the doctor or the offi eial district visitor, while she make* light of sitting up all night to succour a stranger. Miss Martin has brought many bus bands and wives together after the run* turn between them seemed complete an<i linal. while, tiny and frail of build s* she is, she is a positive terror to men whn nrn Irnntvn tn ill-treat their wives