A Cheerful Example
A Cheerful Example is an article published in The Eastbourne Gazette on 16 july 1930.
A Cheerful Example
Dame Ellen Terry set us a cheerful example with the instructions she left behind for "no mourning for me." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — an outstanding figure of our modern life — has been laid to rest with the most unconventional service that has ever been performed. Lady Doyle bore herself with remarkable courage. She is of the same belief as her husband that there is no death, and when she betrayed signs of being overcome, it was no more than any of us would feel in saying farewell to a dear one who was setting out on a long journey. It would be less than human not to feel the loss of the earthly, familiar presence, the loved voice and the protecting care. But with her abundant faith and her clear vision Lady Doyle will have comfort that less advanced students know very little about.
Mrs. Albert Chevalier. wife — she dislikes being called "widow" — of the famous coster comedian, is so convinced that Albert Chevalier is still living and near her, that when someone suggested she might one day marry again, she said: "I should feel as if I were committing bigamy!" Mrs. Chevalier, who lives quietly in her pretty little country home. "Ann's Cottage," near East Grinstead, shares with Lady Doyle and many others, the faith of the prophet expressed in Ecclesiastes: "Or ever the silver cord be loosed or the golden bowl be broken... then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."
