LADY WARD IN LONDON.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3249, 20 June 1911, Page 3

LADY WARD IN LONDON.

IMPRESSIONS ON TOUR

CANADIAN v. AMERICAN WOMEN

LONDON, May 5. 111-luck has dogged the footsteps of the ladies of the Premier’s party since their arrival in this country and, though Lady Ward has now practically recovered from the serious cold that laid her low all last week, and Mrs James Hislop, wife of Sir Joseph s private secretary, is about again after an attack of tonsilitis, Mrs Findlay, wire of the Attorney-General, is still too ill (also with tonsilitis) to see visitors, and has been unable to fulfil any of her engagements. though it is hoped that she’ll be about again in a few days from At the Hotel Cecil this morning Lady Ward gave me some impressions of their hasty trip across Canada. . . “This was the third time Id visited the country,” she said, “but I’d never before seen it clad in snow as it was this time, and Canada alters immensely with the seasons, so that I actually couldn’t recognise some of the places again. We passed cottages embedded in snow right up to the windows, and saw dear little children running about in warm- scarlet cloaks. The women, who, one noticed dressed a great deal in furs and velvets, reminded me, with their beautiful bright complexions, of New Zealanders, and are very different from the American women wlio don't resemble us in any way. “The hospitality of the Canadians we can’t say enough' for —it was so warmhearted' and delightful that we have most grateful recollections of our visit. “This was our second visit to Niagara, and this time it was very different, since parts of it were frozen. All the same it was a perfectly beautiful sight, and I think no one who has the opportunity should ever lose a chance of seeing it. “On going the journey _ under the Falls as we did again, looking like rows of monks in onr great capes and hoods, we found everything altered —the outlets where one can usually get out were frozen and too slippery’ to walk on. Nevertheless we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

“In Toronto where we only had a day, we went for a motor drive. It is a fine city, well built and l with beautiful streets tb"t are remarkably well kept. The cold, however, was intense, and, over There, the hotels are so tremendously heated that one undoubtedly feels the keen air all the more.

“In New York, that city of hustle and bustle, we stayed five days and there —from these same extremes of heat and cold —I fancy we all laid the foundations of our various ailments. We had done a good deal of sight-seeing before in New York, and this time took things more quietlv, going only once to the theatre and spending most of our time with friends, who have left us with verv happy remembrances of their thoughtfulness. AMERICAN WOMEN. “At the theatre we were all greatly struck by the magnificent gowns and costly-looking apparel of the American women and, in the street too, one cannot but remark on the American woman’s smart and extraordinary wellgroomed appearance. “The displays in the shop' windows are very fine, but are not as attrac : tive, I think, as those in London. “In New York we motored a, good deal, and one Sunday bad a delightful spin of forty miles out into the <x untry around New York, an experience that astonished me. Everything was just getting green—we were there a month too soon to see the trees in all their verdure —and we passed beautiful country houses and grounds and great open spaces that seemed countryfied and restful indeed after New York.

“It was so delightful, too, to see unfenced' gardens and grounds surrounding, the houses, so that it was like passing through one big park.” From New York Sir Joseph and his party came _to England by the Lusitania, and since they’ve been here, and she has been well enough, Lady Ward’s and Miss Eileen Ward’s time has been occupied in attending receptions, dinners, and other social engagements.