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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 411, 4 November 1911, Page 6

Mr F. E. Kitchener, of Oulton Old j Hall, Stone, chairman of the StafTor- j shire Education Committee, speaking \ at the annual distribution of prizes to the evening school students at Stone recently, recalled some incidents of the youth of Vicsount Kitchener, his cousin. He asid that he had something to do with his cousin's early education, Lord Kitchener's father being then out of England. Lord Kitchener managed somehow to I scramble into Woolwich. He was not | high in the lists and no one thought ! anything about him. After leaving ' Woolwich he got his commission in (he . Engineers, and still no one was think- \ ing much about him. He got his first j "shove up" in the world when he was appointee! on the Palestine Survey, and here he learnt how to manage native soldiers and acquired a great deal of that command over men which 1 to-day distinguished him. He got | that, his first appointment, because | he knew how to photograph. They at that time wanted some one to go to Palestine and take photographs, and j it was this knowledge that gave Lord j Kitchener the lift up. j The possession of a beautiful voice ! entails many sacrifices and constant i care. Madame Patti tittributes here usual immunity from illness to her ; careful dieting and her love of fresh air. In winter and summer she is out three hours daily, no matter what the : weather is like. She sleeps nine hours ; a day with her window wide open. She has not lasted meat for twenty- : five years, and she drinks only chain- j nagne or white wine and soda water. | It has baen computed that Madame atti's income at one period was £70,000 a year. At one concert in America a millionaire paid £2OO to hear her sing, the boxes being disposed of by auction.