BRAVE WOMEN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 18, 15 July 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

BRAVE WOMEN.

It becomes almost impossible even to catalogue the many instances of bravery and endurance published each week winch give the lie to the physical force argument. One of the most striking cases of unselfish heroism is that of Lily Boltwood, a domestic servant at Cheshnnt, who, when the house was on fire, rescued three children and a woman from a flaming room, and was herself b«dly burned. At Camberwell a woman has received the thanks of the Borough Council Jot stopping a horse, and thus preventing a fatal accident. In Southwest London it was stated that a woman pushed her way through a hostile crowd of 200 people and blew a policeman's whistle for assistance. Recently, too, people have been deeply moved by the story of a widow who walked from Dundee to Chatham, over 400 miles, in order to see her son, In Russia a woman is riding on horseback from Harbin to St. Petersburg. Mrs. Ellen Collins, of Lancaster, was latelv the means of saving the life of a would-be suicide. While walking along the canal bank, she told the magistrate, she saw a man put his coat over his head and jump into the water. She immediately dived in after him, dragged him to the bank, and took him to a farmhouse.