A WOMAN'S BRAVERY.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1044, 8 June 1883, Page 3

A WOMAN'S BRAVERY.

In a w.prld where! moral danger ever threatens,,and physical often, 1 examples of courage,of either kind,;nrging men as they they do to like acts, can never be made too publipr:THcn'ce tlig'£oj|p||iring£o999r.tih'odg:b it occurred .some,,little time., ago, deserves C/hiha.from the United States, when a little bby, of, whom she was very: fond, fell oyer tjieside pf the steamer. The passengers anjl crew were at dinner, so ; that-; the only persons on,the poop at the time were herself fand the helmsman. Pausing only to warn the latter,not to alarm :the'. child’s . iriother,'she sprang from the ’bulwarks, Swam to the sinking boy, and supported him, tilli' being reversed, a boat from the steamer'picked .them, up,. Aribhifd landßKisl rescuer had welLnigh; recovered from their immersion, before the mother, owing "to - a little justifiable' deception; practised oh her, was aware that her boy had been in peril. This is not a singular instance of bravery in the eventful career of the herione' of -this occurrence ; but she has always modestly avoided, publicity,—