LONDON’S LONELY HEART
POOR WIDOW WHO DIDN’T KNOW MELBA HAMPER AND A “FIVER” Australian and N.Z. Press Association Reed. 2 p.m. LONDON, Sunday. That tlie great, kindly heart of London is the loneliest place in the world was touchingly revealed today. 011 Friday, a Paddington widow, aged 68, appeared in court for failure to pay her rent of three shillings weekly and arrears of £l2. The room was spotlessly clean and the widow was living on eight shillings weekly, earned by scrubbing floors. It was one of the saddest cases in his experience, said the magistrate. Today the scene was transformed. The rent had been paid, with popnds to spare. The room was full of food, a fire alight, and tons of coal available. There was one huge hamper, peked with food. “ Alady in a motor-car brought it,” said the widow, “and gave me this lovly letter, too, with a ‘fiver’ inside.”
The letter read: —“Dear Mrs. Towers, will you please accept this hamper, with good wishes—from Nellie Melba.” I do not know the lady,” said the widow, “but isn’t she kind.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 799, 21 October 1929, Page 11
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182LONDON’S LONELY HEART Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 799, 21 October 1929, Page 11
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