[English] LADY M.P. AS ATHLETE. LEAP WHICH AMAZED BOY SCOUTS.

LADY M.P. AS ATHLETE.

LEAP WHICH AMAZED BOY SCOUTS.

Lady Astor, M.P., accomplished an amazing feat recently at the Washington Inn, the well-known hospitality centre for Americans in St. James's-square, London. She was a guest at a reception to the American Branch of the International Boy Scouts' Jamboree, and had been given "three cheers and a tiger," as well as having the song, "Way Down in Ole Virginie" (Virginia is her native State), played in her honour.

Her ladyship was leaving the inn, escorted by members of the committee, when it was found that the big side gate in the six foot fence was locked.

"You will have to go round," said a member of the committee, but Lady Astor exclaimed: "I will now teach you how to vault or climb over a fence in case we have another war."

Gathering her skirts together she leaped lightly and cleared the gate, a feat of which any of the youthful Scouts present would have been proud. The approving howl that went up from those present was heard all over the neighbourhood.

The 300 American Boy Scouts attending the Jamboree were entertained to dinner, and Lady Astor urged them not to lend themselves when they went back to partisan efforts perpetuating bitter feelings between Britain and the U.S.A. If the Anglo-Saxon races stuck together, she declared, we should set up so high a standard that all the world would have to follow it.

Source:

1. Page 4, "Hongkong Telegraph", Monday, 11th October, 9th Year of the Republic of China

   • 30th Day, 8th Lunar Month, Geng-shen Year

   • Monday, 11th October, 1920 Common Era