The Baroness Burdette-Coutts inherited from her grandfather, of
the Coutts Bank, a fortune of about $20,000,000. She managed it
ably, but devoted it to great works of charity during her long
and busy life. Not long before her death she said:
“I seem to be living in a transitional age. Every one is in such
a hurry nowadays, and I don’t ever remember being in a hurry.
The weather never depresses me. I don’t mind noise and rather
enjoy the rush of the motor-busses past Holly Lodge. I don’t
myself know what nerves are, and yet I’ve had to send Tip, my
fox-terrier, to a restcure.” (Text.)
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=Carefulness=--See HEADWORK.
=Careless Work=--See ANYHOW, THE LAND OF.