A WOMAN HONOURED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 908, 30 August 1910, Page 9

A WOMAN HONOURED.

Events, no matter how great or how terrible they may bv, have.a way-of tadinc from our minds in :tho, course, of .time.Wo cannot always live at a high' pitch of. emotion. Nevertheless, although it is now some mouths since the great earthquake happened in Calabria and Sicily, many women will be interested to know that tho Italian Bed Cross Society baa awarded the silver medal for those who did service to Calabria and Sicily during the recent earthquake, to Dr. Caroline Matthews..- Dr., Alatthows went out as » volunteer, and saw service with the Italian Army, sharing the hardships of tne soldiers in a country under martial law, coming fuco to fact- with, horrors>uiisceakable, toiling amid gruesome sights iii the endeavour to cave human lite, bhe was at ltcgio when it was an Inferno worse than that depicted by Dante. Dr. MatthewsMvas also at Scilla, under Gon••ral Cerri, at 'Villa San Giovanni, with the Grenadiers, and for many -weeks far sway in tho interior of Calabna, at Cinquefronde, a quaint, old-world township, where she worked with her Italian military colleagues under tho dreaded V'llow flag. There she took her share of duty, the only woman, and the only Eng-lish-speaking person, in the camp. Duty ■at the Red Cross Tent alternated with marches into the surrounding country, relieving outposts, seeing to the wounded, and so on. Daily one or other of these duties foil to the lot of the English lady doctor, while the commandant remained at the hastily-constructed lazaretto, and tho civilian doctor atended to tho sniiitary arrangements of the little township. Some weeks, ago Dr. Matthews arrived .in England, after a very serious illness in Home.