GODDARDS, 

 SURREY. 



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Wl 1 1 1 .!'. the spirit of kindness aiul sympathy 

 has ever Ixrcn the same among good 

 men and gxl women of every age, 

 the forms and the expression which it 

 takes differ somewhit as the world grows older and 

 life more complex. The quiet precinct of St. Cross 

 compels an instant and involuntary reverence for the 

 founder, no less wise than kind, of so complete and 

 so enduring a contribution to the happiness and solace 

 ot deserving age. The brethren of the Charterhouse 

 still recall the benefaction of Sir Thomas Sutton. 

 But in the beautiful house and true " home " 

 illustrated in these pages, human kindness seems to 

 have advanced swiftly with the river of Time, and, 

 leaving behind it the form, while retaining all the spirit 



of medurval sympathy and kindness, has created a 

 new and striking instaiue of conformity to the 

 precept, " Do unto others as thou wouidst they 

 should do unto thec." 



The beautiful house, beautiful both within and 

 without, built by one of the leaders in the domestii 

 architecture of the day, set round with the loveliest 

 garden an 1 flowers which modern taste in design and 

 planting could secure, is maintained by its owner and 

 builder as a Home of Rest for Ladies. It stands 

 i lose to his own house, is equipjx:d and furnished 

 with like comfort and care, and to it come, at his 

 invitation, those ladies to whom the strain of work or 

 want of private means renders suih a visit in such 

 surroundings a souue of rest and refreshment for 

 mind and body- nurses from the hospitals, ladies of 



THE GARDEN (OCK7 f/tO.V THE WEST. 



