PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 127, 31 December 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

MEN AND WOMEN OF TO-DAY

Sir Cecil Spring Rice, the British Ambassador in America, began life by entering the War Office as a clerk.

Mr. McKenna is a master of English, and his sentences never require the finishing touches of the skilled journalist.

Mr. Asquith uses a quill pen when writing private letters and a steel one when signing official documents and papers

Mr. Balfour's only recreation is tennis, and he can play four or lfve sets of tennis off the reel without any signs of fatigue.

Miss Freda Shawe, eldest daughter of Mr. Richard Shawe, J.P., is taking the place of. a postman, who has enlisteo, in the Kendal district.

Lady Sjbil Grant, daughter of Lord Rosebery, is running .* newspaper lor her husband's (Major Glint's- men at the Front, which tells them news end tidings ot their wives and families at home. Lady Sybil collects the "copy" herself.

Among her many accomplishments, Mrs. Winston Churchill numbers that of being able to write shorthand. She frequently acts as shorthand-writer to her husband, the notes being afterwards handed to a secretary to copy into, longhand.

Queen Eleonore of Bulgaria, in her younger days, underwent a complete course of hospital training, with the approval of her father, Prince Henry I\. "of Reuss, who was himself skilled in medical lore. This training served her in good stead at the time of tho Russo-Japanese War. * * * *

The sons of Mrs. Drummond (Mrs. Marshall Field) are both millionaires in their own right. They share a fortune, estimated at £50,000,000, with their sister. The founder of this huge wealth was their grandfather, Marshall Field, who started the huge dry goods store in America bearing his name.

The Queen of the Belgians was under lire recently. She walked six miles along the Front. At one point a liveIv cannonade came from the German linos. The Queen, without losing for a moment her sang-froid, was conducted to a shelter covered with earth and faggots, where sho waited, chatting ga'lv, until the rain of shells had ceased.