MISS NELLIE STEWART.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 548, 1 July 1909, Page 3

MISS NELLIE STEWART.

Miss .Nellie Stewart, whoso New .Zealand . . . season.'opens at Auckland on July • 26, has, , ,i Bays an Australian'paper, Pandered and > wide sinoe her last N season in Sydney, having ;toured tho United- ."Sweet 'Noll of Old. Drury," and spent upwards of a . yeas,of recuperative. rest between -Lausanno ; x ..-.and.'.,the..neighbouring. viMago of Grimehtx, high above, amidst ,-porpetual: snow. The . . v _ Swiss mountaineers ' are- not'.quite as pic- .. tu resque at close quarters as on the stage 1 : Miss Stewart describes the dress of tho wo•r men as consisting of a skimpy,; rough'brown lindsoy skirt (and-a holland blouse, topped by' unblushingly visible • braces over:-' the shoulders.', Tney-roll; their sleeves up high, " -and wear a high-browned hat tied under the chin.. As.they dig in the fields all day long, ■ their faces become as wrinkled and dried •as a_ pippin, and -it., is roally difficult to .; dis- . tingmsh .a young .woman from an .old one.Miss Stowart remarks .further: "Wo staved <. at. a pension, which • would have; been dull - but for.the presence .of-several .girls'; Bchoola ' up from Lausanne /or the summer, amongst ■ .■ them . was my • young ; daugliter,* who l has be- .. come quite tall , and strong, besides developing remarkable talent as a pianist. Grimentz ;• is not a fashionable .watering-place; but a ; real -health resort, and it is so high up that r only the. simplest food; was supplied. . Even , of.that, with so many, goats about, we dared .not, ask the nature, and as, vo thankfully devoured out chopi we used to say to oacn other, 'They/ must, bd "kidding'' us I'v The ~i: surpassing: charm and solemnity of sunrise < in these regions .brings 1 travellers todt from ;■ afl-parta of .the world, i 'Frequent .visits' - to London, .22 - hpurs distant,; made me • ;ac- ' quainted 'with many fashionable' pieces of the hour, 'sufih ;aa 'Penelope,', in . ' which Miss . Mario Tempest was drawing -'alls'the town, which, lasting, from about 9 o'clock to 10.45, would not .suit tho' 'pixed' audiences of tbis'country." ' '