A Heroine

The pliiRky conduct of an English girl a fortnight ago is oí the sort that makes the whole world kin. Miss Marie Louise Evana belongs as much to America as to England, arid as much to South África as to both. It was on Sunday and at Southampton that Miss Evans and a friend were walking on Hythe Pier after church. As they approached one of the landing places they noticed a boat holding one man and two girls nearing the stairs. They had been out for a row, and were evidently all inexperienced water traveiers, for as the boat came alongside the three stood upon one side, and naturally the craft promptly tlpped over, and in less time than the wrlting of it the three were stmggling in the water. Instantly Miss Evans threw down the prayer book she was carrying, and pulling oft one glove as she went, ran down the stairs, and, leaning over, pulled in one of the women, who was near. The other was cünging to the man and Struggling desperately thua preventing him, although a good swimmer, from rescuing her, and both were being rapidly carried away on a strong tide. Seeing the crisis, Miss Evans hesitated not a moment, hut jumped in and swam rapidly to the aid of the pair. The girl was nearly insensible when she reached her, and, seizing her with one hand, she swam back to the pier. "Not for an instapt," writes a correspondent, deseribing the scène, "did Miss Evans lose her head, and yet there were sonie twenty men looking on, who did absolutely nothing, with one exception. An old gentleman threw a rope and, after the rescue, rushed off for brandy for the girl who had been in the water longest. Miss Evans went ir. with all her clothes on, removing only one glove, and she laughinly told me she did exactly what she would have done if she had had years to contémplate the actlon, except that she should have worn a bathing dress for her exploit." The young heroïne in only 20, and is the daughter of an enthusiastic yachtsman, an Irish gentleman of high social position. She was graduated from Oriel College, Belfast, and is evidently one of the new women the world wants, for she is as femiitrne as she Is plucky a.id ss moJest as she is brave.