MISS DOROTHY DREW.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 480, 13 April 1909, Page 3

MISS DOROTHY DREW.

:■ GLADSTONE'S GRAND-DAUGHTER; ' Qf course, everyone 'knew .that Miss 'Dorothy Drew/must grow.upj but those who .were in."love.with!the,little girl, as she used .to .be•'Been : in a■ famous photograoh,•sitting "beside. Mr. W. E." Gladstone, the 'grandfather who adored her, her, shrewd little childish ■ face full of an eager interest in the world in general, .and her head crowned with a,mop pi curls,; liked to'think -of her 'as 'always'just-about four years"old, and disliked 'to; know , that. some, day Miss Dorothy Drew would grow lip. The deed isidone, and according to :]at«st 'English • papers,"- Miss .Dorothy' Drew.-has been- presented-: at: Court. •;It«'is" of- little, comfort to hear 'that .she-was the ''most , interesting' debutante- there, that ehe/wore-a,simple girlish , frock, , or'that their. ■Majesties greeted herVith.specially.friendly Bmilas as she'passed the .presence.', Dorothy ■Drew is grown up.'.:During,the last-years'of his .life;. Doivthy Drew, , daughter .of! his ■ daughter,, was..one-of Mr. ■ Gladstone's greatest delightsj She'was.constantly'with him, •atd/one read.-all-sortsv-of:little'stories about 'her. When the writer of ■ "Hawarded Horace" published, those-■translations of .Horace, which for : a .time were believed by many people to be . really the work of the old statesman himself, one of the most charming translations '■ was of Horace's ddo : to Phyllis, , 'which .was' .translated -as ■ "To Dorothy." It■ began , something;like this:— ■ V. '.;"• I' know', where there .is honey,in : a .jar -.- '. -.' ""; '.-Meet'fora certain little,friend"ol: niine, ; ',-■- ' : VAnd, r Dofothy, I know. wher'e'daisies.'aije ' ;, • ■' i That;pnly'want, small hands'to : intertwine '.., , ir.'A'wreath-fpr'such-.a'gblden-.headas.thine'.".' • '^.'M.A'.P: ,, - recalls some, of "the 'tales 'that : were itold; of -Miss; Dorothy ;Drew.,-' It.' seenls rather .unkind, , ( bub^- ( .. , ; .-.-V' !'■'"'■■ - ';Miss'-D6TdthyJDreVß ,pfesenta'tipn. at: Cour.t (sayi_ ; ;M. ; A,P.)j' i ,reminds-a correspondent of the,tiine,' and that not so.long ago,.when-sh,e was "bidden Windspr.' .Castlei--,to ■ a-private diawing-room, ; -.at:;whioh..'.sEe: was-the- only debutante-j-the youngest, probably,.'who' was ever presented to' Queen Victoria. But,, so from being ov-erawed-at the idea of being presented, she was as complacently happy as ! she' was 'when .paying, a visit 'to any- of ; the neighbours near -Tlawarden. As Windsor Castle came into view, her mother'asked her, '.'ls it not. very:glorious'?".. Aftef.a moment's , consideration, -she replied,. "Just'as nice as Hawarden Castle.!' -The preseiitation over, tho little girl was interest-ed in a thousand otherihingsj but of the'actual ceremony her account was.scanty.in-the'extr'eme. . ■ '. • . -Thifereis a.story told of how one morning Dorothy Drew refused to get ;up. When all other.means-had failed to coax her out of bed Mr. Gladstone was.called. "Why don't you get up, my child?!'.he asked. "Why, grandfather, didn't you tell mo to-do what the Bible says?" "Yes, certainly."' "Well/it disapproves of early rising; says it's waste of tune.". ,The-G:Q.M. knew his Bible better than most ■ men, but he was not I equal 'to Dorothy. For. once in his lifo. he was ■nonplussed. .--.' "You- .listen, then," went on Dorothy,! m reply to his exclamation 'of astonishment; and turning up her Bible she read the second verse of the 127 th Psalm laying great: emphasis on the first words 'It is vain for you to rise up' early."..No, less a person than Mr.' Kipling omx had.an encounter with Miss Dorothy Drew lhey-had been walking in the grounds oi Hawarden together for some'.time, and Mr Kipling had been .telling the child someo' Ins most delightful animal stories'. - Whei they, went back to thehouse-Mrs: Drew-said -Now, Dorothy, _I-'hope, you -have not beer wearymg. Mr. Kipling?" <!oh,". said. th< little-celebrity, frankly; "not a bit, mother but you can't think how. Mr.'Kipliug has beet wearyiiig'me." '..'," '..■■■