HERE AND THERE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2151, 28 March 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

HERE AND THERE.

Tlie Ducliess of Portland is one of the most abstemious of dietet.ists.~She seldom, if ever touches meat. Evep at State banquets and big dinnerparties she will pass by. all meat dishes and take only a little fish and vegetables. 'She never touches wme a tany meal of the day. Her breakfast generally consists - of a- I ojied egg, skim milk, and perhaps a lettuce, 4 while the same Spartan fare makes up the menu at -luncheon, varied by cheese, biscuits, and butter, and again skim milk. The. Duchess can boast -of -a perfect complexion, for which this simple dietary is no doubt- largely accountable. Her only daughter, Ladv Victoria CavendishBentinck, too p's a girl of very simple tastes. A tall and handsome debutante, she will be presented at Court this season.

The following paragraph relating to the- Countess of Dudley, wile of thenow Governor-General, is taken from ‘‘Cassell’s (Magazine” : The Countess of Dudley is known amoir her immediate associates as tho “Quaker Countess,” because of the great interest which, from a child, she has always taken in philanthropic movements. Many an East-end concertroom has echoed to the sound of her beautiful voice. Tho Countess has also worked hard oil behalf of tho women’s employment- question, and associated herself in a thoroughly practical manner with the Central Bureau for the Employment of Women, which is in connection with tho National Union of "Women workers. While her husband was Viceroy of Ireland she played a distinguished part in stimulating the sluggish industries of the sister" isle. Her latest experience was to escape- from tho Jamaica earthquake.