| Show A STRAIkGE CAREER I An English Woimm of Gentle Blood as Nun Novelist ami linkers Wife Lady Gertrude Stock nun novelist mdrquis daughter and bakers wife has just closed in the shelter of a con I vent a life of strange experiments Had she possessed something more than the i very modest literary capacity that was in fact hers and had her own personality person-ality thus been more salient and interesting inter-esting her story would have been one of the principal romances of the modern mod-ern social world I Lady Gertrude Douglas entered early upon her cloistral life in a convent of the Good Shepherd She spent many years there not as a novice but as I professed nun bound by all the vows From these she was authoritatively and officially released hers being one of the very few cases in which such dispensation is given or indeed desired de-sired Lady Gertrude wrote two or three average novels but a few years after her return to the world she joined her brother the Rev Lord Archibald Douglas Doug-las in his work at a Catholic orphanage orphan-age in the Harrow road She did her work there simply and completely and brother and sister alike made themselves them-selves the servants of the little waifs and strays they sheltered To the orphanage or-phanage was attached a bakery for the partial self support of the charity and the technical teaching of the boys During Lord Archibalds absence in I Canada whither he had traveled in charge of some of his orphans his sister sis-ter took a step of which he had no warning With her baker husband she then set up alittle shop near Brock I Greenwith small success Very recently Lady Gertrude Stock wrote a novel of which a baker was I the hero But her husband was away trying to better his fortunes in South I Africa when she died Commercial Advertiser i Ad-vertiser 1I 1 I |
