Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-15 | Page 13 | Plague Fighter was Well Known

PLAGUE FIGHTER WAS WELL KNOWN Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Aug. 14. The death of Mrs. Percy I'earmf-r In Serbia calls attention atten-tion to the numbT of well-known English Eng-lish wonion working among the plague-Htricken plague-Htricken people of that land. Mrs. Deariner Is not the first to succumb to tho malignant epidemic she was fighting, hut of those who have fallen victims none haH been more widely lamented. She was known in literary and artistic 3-.onclon first as an Illustrator of books, then as a novelist and writer of children's stories and more recently as a writer and producer pro-ducer of plays. The children's theater was her Idea and she was a leader of the Morality Play society. Professor Geddf.s'H "Masque of Learning" was put on liTe under her direction with a groat success. Her husband. Dr. Percy Dear-mer, Dear-mer, Is a vicar of a London parish and. a leading high churchman.