HAPPIEST LITTLE GIRL IN ENGLAND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2462, 15 May 1915, Page 9

HAPPIEST LITTLE GIRL IN ENGLAND

BLIND CHILD'S GIFT TO r ADMIRAti JELLICOE. If Kathleen Torr was a happy girl when she sent the scarf, she had knitted herself to Sir John Jellicoe, hor cup of happiness must have been full' on receiving the dolightful sympathetic letter of thanks which the Admiral sent her.' Kathleen is a little blind girl living at York, and sho knitted a woollen scarf, which sho sent to Sir John Jellicoe. She accompanied it with a letter in Braille, in which she \ said sho would be "the happiest little girl, in England" if ha would accept the gift, adding that all the other blind girls thank you and all the brave sailors and soldiers for defending us." ; "■ , Admiral Jellicoe s scoretary. sent the following reply;— Iron Dufco, "Grand Fie#, "February, 191?;' i "Dear Kathleen, — i 4 'Admiral Si{ John. Jolhco© has told i mo to answer your nice letter to hiin, and to thank you very much indeed for I the beautiful scarf which you have sent him. Tho Admiral thinks it very clever of you to knit so splendidly when you cannot see what you are doing, and na thinks it very kind of you to do it all' for him. , . , _j "Directly tiio Admiral saw your scar! bo put it on, and said: 'I shall put on dear little Kathleen's, scarf when I aw very cola.' . . . ~ "Of oourso, it is . very cold in fclw North Sea, and very stormy too. Sometimes tho snow falls so heavily that w« cannot see at all whero we are going; and very often', tho great seas sweej right over tho ship. , "Whilo wo feel that by God's help our ships are keeping the Germans from landing in England, and being very cruel to all our girls and boys, it is a very great comfort to us to know that dear little girls liko you are thinking- of us, and giving up your spate time to work for us. The Admiral lores littlo girls very much, and has four Uttlo daughters of his own. . "I remain, • "Yours affectionately, "Victor H. T. Weekes. "SecMTarv to tho Commander in Chief."-