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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 213, 13 September 1904, Page 4

At least one person in Kerry has followed Lord Kitchener's! career with interest since he was a wee baby and of no particular importance outside a small family circle. This is no other than his godmother, Mrs Mary Cook (nee Elliot), who still lives, hale in mind and body, at tho ripe age of 78 years. She is descended from a Cromwellkin planter, and at tho tiime of Lord Kitchener's birtli is saiid to have .been regarded as the handsomest woman in Kerry. Mrs Cook resides in an old-fashioned houso in tlhe romantic valley of tho Feal, where the old lady, who is credited with masculine sitrcngth of character, devotes herself mainly to agriculture. In earlier days, when the dreajded ''Whdteboys" mode the settlers' lives ~ burden to tlwsm, she had aome exciting experiences, and the tradition still lingers in the locality that when sho was iji her teens Miss Elliot took a courageous part in repelling an attack made on her father's house. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, for Coughs and Colds never fails. Is 6d> a