Show KITCHENER AS A PET I 1 ROLE WOULD COME AS SURPRISE TO HIS subordinates nevertheless graphic picture I 1 has ha been drawn of hla his friendship with two elderly ladies unique use of gift many ot of the best friends of lord kitchener the great english soldier administrator and secretary ot of war are women despite the popular belief that ho he Is a grimly uncompromising woman hater in a recent brief biography of K of 0 K harold begbie draws a most winning picture of 0 his friendship with two ot of his elderly relatives two to dear diminutive old scotch ladies who lived in gardens kensington by name ot of the tha misses hutchinson and kitchener was no dearer to these charming spinsters spin than they to him he wrote to them brightly and boyishly by almost every mail before he went to egypt for his advance on khartum khartun Khar tum these dear old ladies presented him with a gold headed swagger cane and when the advance was accomplished and the photographer e r arrived to make a picture of the general 9 beneral and his staff kitchener seated himself in the center of the group with this stick held so ostentatiously tuat that the old ladles ladies in kensington could not tail fall to recognize it when the appeared in the illustrated papers ile he sent them roses from gor dons grave at khartum khartun Khar tum and coats ol of the caliph from froin the sudan their house was always his goal in ills his return from distant service and la in it he was like a schoolboy running up the stairs two at a time iu his bedroom going and coming as he pleased and telling them such stories ol of liis his campaigns as no one ona else in london ever heard they called him herbert pronouncing it hair burrt in the broadest scotch and w would sit on either side of him study ing his bronzed face ace with their small smiling shrewd eyes teasing him chaffing him him and giving him sound advice later on in his triumphal career their Hair burrt orce once wished to make maka the little old ladles ladies a gift so valuable and unusual that they felt called upon to pause and consider before accepting it it was a gold casket ono one of 0 the many sold gold caskets presented to K of K by the grateful crateful corporations 40 ot of provincial cities do we need it propounded ther first old lady pointedly no we certainly dont need it reflectively roll rell ll 11 e avely I 1 I 1 acquiesced her sister W what h at could we do with it pursued the first old lady but the second had had bad time to think I 1 hum she suggested contemplatively perhaps we could use it as a i tea caddy youths companion |