IN MEMORIAM.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2452, 17 March 1909, Page 2

IN MEMORIAM.

The ladies who met last Wednesday in Wellington decided wisely concerning the memorial of the brave stewardesses of the ill-fated Penguin. The anaintenance of a bed at the hospital strikes "us as being a particularly appropriate method of keeping alive tho memory of their great courage in an hour of terrible trial. It is in the hospitals at the bedside of the sick and wounded that some of woman’s noblest work is done, and we can think of no place being a more appropriate setting for the public to embody in- tangible form its appreciation of two high-soulcd women. Airs Jacobs and Airs Hope died at their posts, eager to the last for tho safety of their charges, and with counsel of encouragement and solace for everyone. They were heroines indeed, and we should suppose that every woman in the community will be eager to contribute to memoralise two such gallant members of their sex. To meet death when in the possession of all the faculties calls for the exercise of great physical courage. To move about the deck of a sinking ship with cheerful mien and steady nerve requires moral resolution" of the highest order, and it is this which exalted these .women in their last hpurs of life. They died with words of good cheer and help on their lips. It- is gratifying to find that their devotion is to have some recognition from the community.—“N.Z. Times.”