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Show HEROIC MRS; PAT Mrs. Pat Campbell Cornwallis-West is of the heroic mold. She is animated "by the stern patriotism that made the Mother of the Gracchi immortal. Had she lived in 'ancient Greece she would have been a Spartan mother, bidding her son go forth to battle and return with his shield or on it. Mrs. Pat's son Allen Campbell was in New York when Great Britain declared war. Patrick 'Campbell, Mrs. Pat's first husband, was killed in the Boer war, dying the death of a hero. That did not prevent Mrs. Pat from telling tell-ing her son his duty. Allen Campbell received a cable from his mother. It was peremptory, like ' a bugle call or a long roll on the drum of war. It read: "Come at once. England needs you. Take first boat." Allen Campbell left New York the next day on the Cedric, and Is now in a trench on tne rainswept banks of Aisne. Town Talk. |