ADMIRAL AND BLIND GIRL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1393, 4 May 1915, Page 4

ADMIRAL AND BLIND GIRL.

SIR J. JELUCOE’S SCARF

There is a charming story of Admiral Jellicoe and a little blind girl. Her name is Kathleen Torr, and she lives at York. She knitted a woollen scarf, and sent it to the Admiral, together with a letter in Braille, asking him to make her “the happiest little girl in England” by accepting the gift. Now she has received the following letter from the Com-mander-in-Chief’s secretary ; “H.M.S. Iron Duke, Grand Fleet, Feb., 1915.

“Dear Kathleen, —Admiral Sir John Jellicoe has told me to answer your nice letter to him, and to thank you very much indeed for the beautiful scarf which you have sent him. The admiral thinks it very clever of you to knit so splendidly when you cannot see what you are doing, and he thinks it very kind of you to do it all for him. Directly the Admiral saw your scarf be put it on and said : T shall put on dear little Kathleen’s scarf when I am very cold.’ “Of course, it is very cold in the North Sea, and very stormy too. Sometimes the snow falls so heavily that we cannot see at all where we are going, and very often the great seas sweep right over the ship. “While we feel that by God’s help our ships are keeping the Germans from landing in England, and being very cruel to all our boys and girls, it is a very great comfort to us to know that dear little girls like you are thinking of us and giving up your spare time to work for us. The Admiral loves little girls very much, and has four little daughters of bis own. —I remain, yours affectionately, Victor H, T. Weekes, Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief.’’