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MRS. TRAVERS LEWIS DEAD.

LONELY GIRLS' FRIEND.

Mrs. Ada Travers Lewis, the philanthropist, who was a friend of Queen Alexandra, died at her home in London recently at the age of 91. She had been ill since Decomber.

SAFETY LINES FOR WALKERS.

EXPERTS' SCHEMES SOON.

Safety zonea for walkers, in right of way at the crossing, and which they will have the definite the onus of avoiding accident will be on the motor driver, are now being considered.

British traffic control experts have the scheme in hand in many To the present generation Mrs. parts of the country, regarding It Ada Travers Lewin was affection- as being the only means of redue-) ately known as the "Grand Olding the number of street accidents, Dame of Kensington," a kindly and the first steps towards the pro- vision of such zones are aspected woman whom sante knew as the to be taken within the not six widow of Dr. John Travera Lewis, months. Archbishop Ontario and Primate. of Canada, and others as the foun- dor of the Ada Leigh homes and hostels in Parls for British and Amerlean girls.

Ofein suggestions have ben made to the Westminster City Council for the construction of an experimental zone possibly in Whitehall, Scotland Yard will be invited to watch the experiment for three months.

As an art student at the Louvre in her twenties, Ada Leigh was:

Two-way Great West Road. surprised once on being answer-

Several large provincial towns, ed in English by a shop-girl in Paris. She found that the assia-including Leeds, are taking great tant and many other English girls Interest in the Manchester system in Parin were very lonely, so she of traffic stop-signuts-worked by invited them to lunch with her walkers from the pavement-with every Sunday and formed an Enga view to its adoption.

A committee of the Middlesex County Council has considered a This led Miss Leigh to take up suggestion to convert the entire crusading #mong the artists length of the Great West Rond intol models, governesses.

stage girls a two-way thoroughfare by

of and shop assistants, who formed a construction a line of clonguted large part of the British and "refuges" down the centre,

lish circle.

| American population,

the

I is probable the suggestion will be adopted by the Council in

the near future. Oikeial opinion is strongly in favour of walkers"

Her first home in the Avenue de Warran in the Seventies was the result of the gist of n franc safety zones.

by an English girl, who slipped Road officials of the boution inan Mizs Leigh's hand an en-Vounty Council hold much Bhu (velupe with the pencilled note: une opinion. When the Great "A gift of love and faith The West Road is extended further giel's home in Puels."

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A system of compulsory safety for walkers has been in Min Leigh met her future hus-force in Paris for a little more band. Dr. John Travers Lewis.

than a year, and has worked so at unn of her London meetings.

well that, whereas before the zones modelled on our

Our

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in later years, Bishop Lewis scheme Paris was a night-mare justice, and and his wife visited Paris every for walkers, it is now one of the justice on human justice, and the year. She took her old work safest cities. Accidents to walk-modern revolt against pictures of again after his death. In addi-ers have dropped 20 per cent. in hell which we have inherited is not tien to five homes in Paris, whethe year.

only inevitable but justified. founded a church at Neully.

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Tests have proved that the zones)

"I don't think that we have any

go to Heaven. We have met many people who would be much out of place there at any time. But that

slo ang hold up traile even in the right to assume that all will at last Mra. Lewin was fond of telling busiest hours. a story of King George, then a boy of 12, when King Edward and Thuren. Alexauden opened Neuilly Church. After the cere ihony, the Royal party visited the

the DEAN INGE and Hell.God is a torturer is a thing that we

Ada Leigh hunues, but the present LAKE OF FIRE" NOT MEANT | King and his brother. the late

| Duke of Clarence, hung hack.

LITERALLY.

"I'm not gning in there." object-| The belief that hell is a "lake of ed the future King.to his brother, fire" was reluted by Dean Inge in "that's a piner for girta." Soja sermon at All Saints', Ennismore- while they walled for their pir-gardens, S. W.

untu to view the homes, the boys || "Such as men themselves are, yo sat on a window-sill and dangled they will imagine God to be," he their toes and whistled.

said. "Human justice is partly

Sure of a perfect reception

cannot believe

Our any longer. Lord never meant the fire to be taken literally."

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