Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-10-02
Old Friend of Hero of Khartoum
Depicts Little Known Side
of His Character
HAS A GENEROUS HEART
AND is ABS6LUTEL JUST
Little Acts of Graciousness
Threw Pleasing SMeIight
on a Big Man
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tached to the staff OF Lord Kitchener
now English War Secretary, has giyeI
10 The World an interview in which
she discusses the chief of the Englisl
war department at short range.
Long before Mrs. .srskine met tho
army officer who eventually became
her husband she knew Kitchener-ai
that time attached TO the engineering
corps land has contiEaed the aequain
lance since. At the first meeting she
was a lass or four in short skirts and
blouse. Today she Is in the neighbor
hood OF 40 and Is res:sing temporarily
in New York.
rYou have seen great deal print
ed showing the austere side of this
great mans character, but little relat
inc to the human side, and the human
side is very strongly developed in
Lord Kitchener" she said. Then, you
have seen him described as woman
hater, hut he is far from that, although
he has. never married He holds that
an army officer cai pest serve his
country by remaining single; that his
chief duty is to his king.
y was at the engineering depot at
Woolwich with ng parents when
first saw the then engineer, Kitchen
er. He was most shy and diffident,
but wasn't, In truth | was just the
opposite, and probably that Is the rea-
son we became fast friends Even
now / can remember now he started
when asked him TO please fasten my
po,-fo,s IT.. s7f1 a. f,,,f r., hlnc1,zd Afof
long after that when he was called to
EGYPT he gave me a doll, and | treas
ured il many years
Mrs Erskiiie told how, when she
was eight or nine, Kitchener returned
on leave and renewed the acquain.
lance. telling her all about the Sou
dan and teaching her French. Next
time she saw him she had reached
tho mature age OF 10 and was In love
with Capt Erskine OF his staff. II
was then that she learned of his OBJ.
lection to the marriage CT army off
GERS He WAS SifdSr of the Anglo.
Egyptian army then, and England was
beginning TO take some notice Of him.
Hehuke for His Government.
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