MISS NELLIE STEWART.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2549, 9 July 1909, Page 3

MISS NELLIE STEWART.

A YEAR IN SWITZERLAND. Miss Nellie Stewart, Avhosc Ncav Zealand Season opens at Auckland, on July 26, has, says an Australian paper, wandered far and Avide since her last season in Sydney, having toured the United States Avith “SAveet Nell of Olcl Drury,” and snent.upwards of a year of recuperative rest between Lausanne and the neighboring village of Grimentz, high above, amidst pepetual snow. The Swis mountaineers are not unite as picturesque at close quarters as on the stage! Miss Stewart describes the dress of tho women as consisting of a skimpy, rough brown lirulsey skirt and a liolland blouse, topped by unblushing!- visible braces over the shoulders. They roll their sleeves up high, and Avear a highcrowned hat tied.under the chin. As they dig in the fields all day long, their faces become wrinkled and dried as a pippin T and it is really difficult to distinguish a young Avoman from an old one. Miss Stewart remarks further,: “Wo stayed at a pension, which Avould have been dull hut for the presence of several girls’ schools up from Lausanne for the summer, amongst them was my young daughter. avlio became quite tall and strong, besides developing remarkable talent at a pianist. Grimentz is not a fashionable water-ing-place, but a real health resort, and it is so high up that only the simplest -food avas supplied. Even of that, Avith so many goats about, we dared not ask tlie nature, and as avo thankfully devoured our chops avc used to say to each other, ‘They must be “kidding” us!’ The surpassing charih and solemnity of sunrise in these regions bring travellers to it from all parts of tho 'world. Frequent visits to London, 22 hours distant, made me acquainted Avith manv fashionable pieces of the hour, such as ‘Penelope,’ in-which Miss Marie Tempest avsis draAving all the toAvn, which, .lasting from about 9 o’clock to 10.45; "would not suit the ‘mixed’ audiences of this country.”