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NOVEMBER s‘. 1921 /_,,._.

School Hill's“ sayslWorking With i glIlS should i Queen Mary

know this V v - (Toronto Mail and Empire.)

l This is the time of year when a; igreat many people in Toronto are‘ thinking about Queen Mary's Needle- work Guild, at least about the needs ;of the branch in this city.‘ So this larticle, written specially for me by! Meriel Hathaway, a close friend of _the Queen, will have a particularin- ‘terest. Miss Hathaway says:

"The Queen, attended by the Lady Cynthia Colville, visited the Imperi- al Institute, South Kensington, m_ day. and was present at the unpack- ing and arranging of‘ the garments of the London Needlework Guild,'. °Y W111?“ He!” Mﬂiesty is patronessx‘! , This 1S the simple statement made! by the Court Circular as to the movements of Queen Miirycn lwQ consecutive days every November, but behind those few words 1195 much that would. l know. interest women whose sense of public scr. vice rouscs them to work in activc and practical form for those whgge "one of the basic rules of health for lures are hnrd and strui-iltlintl- 11'

girls is to keep the system functionmggou aic onc of the world's bestbut- iiaturallyatall times. Normal OXGICISGWf-‘lflICS or slack snails. don't read Ind dict habits should be encouraged. this. you will be bored to dislrac.

l Lgmowo o roomful of high} Tihool girls on personal hygiene, an experienced. district nurse said:

But when necessary there's no hiirm in l tioii! “king nujol, since _it works mechani-l and can’? dl-‘itllfb the ﬂflfmill-l N0 Weather for Butterﬂies. functions of any organ ho! the- bPdY- p Particularly Wlt Emit t "e “P9911195 Picture to yourself one of the gal-

when nuiol should always be taken. . lcries of a lurgc bllllfllllgM-tllill. L ll- Tskealjltoilnlul 9V‘)??? m ht fir}? few don building whose tall towucrs days. 1H8 th°l°llB l Y s“ e a“ arm‘ should be the beacon of every visit- _0l' to England from Overseas, the

_ - .- gaspiuns or griping. . . ' Imperial Institute. built as a link Not Llke Medunne ‘~ bctwcilecn lithe MToltlici- Country and

_ _ . ' a 101‘ augi er‘. ii l; N b Nuyol is iliﬁerent from any other sub- . Sun smlggle to ieuililgiiv iitigenliaelg

‘lmﬂﬁ{zrflilrgimﬁnxﬁzggllfilgrnqfiigr through the high windows (not the lll? you are feeling because it is s0 ‘vellum. m" bMtLTHiPSIV "V"?

re and harmless, and works ggtwherc are trestle tables, all empty away. Every woman should keep a till the work begins. The great pile lmttleonhantl.Everydruggigthasghis‘(.1 packing-cases, sacks and brovrnl remarkuhlcsubstance.Gettlicgenuinc.jlldllvi DIIPCOIS 21W‘ It tlic look of a Perfected by thc famous Chcmicqljuuieliouse; lint tlic workers who Products Division of the Standard Oil ' 11""! 11-“ mblvd m1‘ not exactly 1'ac-~ Company of New Jerse . Look for the ‘ IQPY i111‘ i2 they are licrsonal friend» Nujol hottlewith thela Jel on the back 01 the Queen. Whooyvvm‘ by yvori that you can read right; through the she summons to Join her in tlii ' bomm , labor oi lovc, to whom these day of work bring some of their happiestl moments; there are a few old and trusted Royal servants. and two or three men carry tlic heavy packages and open the cases.

It is not quite eleven o'clock, and the Queen has not yet arrived. We shall not have long to wait, for she is always very punctual.

Before the bustle begins let inc tell you what is the London Needle- work Guild. ‘ -

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Sprung from Small Beginnings.

It is now an extremely large and carefully rim organization. but it sprang from small beginnings. The late Lady Wolvcrtoii. it was who realized what an immense amount might be done by single individuals

tcmzitically distributcd-‘ftlie power of the United Llttles," slic called it. There are many thousands of wo- men of more or less leisure, who can l at lenst provide tuo gariiicntsayein" by work in their spare hours for those 1ioorer than themselves. The point was to gct the clothes to tlic

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if their work was collected and sys-i

imaginary lists from iniaginar o- pic. till chased away as nolmlgss mddlers- unworthy to be admitted among the serious workers!

Those days seem far away, but the “mrk b88011 then had the seeds of greater things.

There are now hundreds of cen- ‘

tres scattered all over England and Wales. Thus there sprang into be- 1T18_ an unseetarlan organization which, as someone aptly said, is feu- dal in its method. but completely twentieth century in its application.

The Queen is at the head of it all (and no mere ﬁgurehead. as I will go on to show you); there are 126 presidents ‘for London, and the rule is that each president should have at least ﬁve vice-presidents, each vice-president at least ten associ- ates. each of whom must send at least two garments. But no one is ever content with this minimum.

Thus- is.tlie pile built up; and what a pile it ls, you must see with yirouruown eyes before you can real-

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"The Queen! The Queen!"

There ls a sound of footsteps on tlic stone floor . . . . the Queen is coming. She has taken ofl’ her furs and has put on a. pair of ivorking gloves. A pair of scissors hangs from o chain round her waist. That will show you tif you didn't. know it before) that Her Majesty isaniost practical business woman. She greets us with the dear smile we know so well, and when the brief handshak- ing and curtseying is clone. we all set to “'0l‘l(. ,

The men bring three or four par- cels and put them on o. table. We workers, likewise aimed with aprons and scissors. attack them. rip up tlic sacking, cut the string or tear oil the paper.

The ﬁrst thing the worker anxi- ously looks for is the printed list which should be. like Joseph's cup. in the mouth of the sack. If it is tlicre well and good. we check the contents at once, and hand the list to the Queen, wliqis by this time sitting at her writing table with a captive pencil at her right hand and a growing pile of papers at her left. But if there is no list, a sigh, not to say a wail, rises from the lips of tlic unfortunate worker. For that list has to be made out before the garinenh are distributed to their respective departments, and it means the classiﬁcation of two, perhaps three or four hundred articles of clothing. Imagine the cheek to the work. You practical housewives who read this, and know what a time it. takes to, go through a list, say, of linen, or a school-boy's out- ﬁt, will realize what it means to make a list of several hundred things, and “should this meet the eye." as the advertisements in the Agony column say, should this meet the eye of a president, let inc beg her to see that her list is in her par- cel, and that it is correct! Blessings will be showered on her head.

Meanwhile, Miss Liiwlcy. Maid of Honorf who is Her Majesty's right hand at Guild time. is sitting at an- other table behind the Queen's, ac- knowledging parcels. adding up to- tiils, answering inquiries, writing la- bels f0!‘ returnable sacks, ilie‘inde- fatigiiblc secretary of Her Majesty's own branch.

place where they were most needed, to the teeming London parishes where tlicrc are no rich parishion- ‘lers. to the struggling district visit- .ors in tlic slums; who know the‘

EYE STRAIN

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vlsedly. girls who nccd a few clothes tohelp them to get into service; of the men S"ll°"°" "'9'" EY"t"a'“ who will lose their jobs as clerks

may have perfect vlslcn and therefore do not suspect the presence of any eye defect.

unless they can keep themselves llidy; of women who cannot go away ito n convalescent lioine for lack of la decent change of clothes.

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Domestic Details.

The tables are gctlng covered now. Quietly but busily we go round with arms full of things, and stack thcni in their proper pliiccs. Tlic Queen's footman is niucli ‘in re- quest. It is a relief to hand over to hiui a very large sheaf of heavy garments. “Petticoatsﬂ we say bricily. and straightaway to tlic women's department he goes with

Th" “Wm” P°w°r _ °l m” l There are nursing sisters whose °"*|!'° "W03" "WNW" i! work is half undone if they cannot N6"!!! EHBPQY. send out their patients with sonic-j thing to keep them warm. something

.N°rmal eye!’ R l“ ‘mmputed [which will savc them from another "ml" 3mm 20% °l m“ liittiu-k of bronchitis or rheumatism Nerve Energy. but when Eye- i strain is present, a much larger proportion ls required. Hence defective eyes, through ihelrconsumptlon of an ex- cessive amount of Nerve En- "WY may seriously affect the functioning of other organs of the body and produce lll health.

’I'licsc arc tlic people one wuntslu‘

llielp. and so many of tlicin iirc out‘,

of sight away over tlic river, and in‘

distant parts of London. r

Many Branches.

Of course. oiic recognizes lllt‘. fact that. there. is bitter poverty in the other great cities of England, and you must not run away with tlic idea that the London Needlework Guild

HAVE v YOUR EYE’ is the only one of its sort. Far from

EXAMINED it., Liidy Wolvcrtoii claimed Dorset-

sliirc as tlic parent county, but Sui‘-

‘ , rcy was one of the ﬁrst to follow the h‘ F‘ Hutchewn load. ‘flic Princess Mary Adelaide. tlic mother of the Queen, threw

ommnﬂﬂ" licrsclf into the work with all the

ciicrgy of her warm, sympathetic heart: and licr dentli in i897 would have been an irreparable loss to the cause, had not her daughter taken up us an inheritance her mother's tradition of personal. loving ser- vice, and carried on the work to the point it has now reached.

In the early days of. U10 Guild. when the Queen was still a girl, the unpacking and sorting went on in

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again.“ she wrote toafriend; “h0W| hard we shall have to work mid how tired we shall nil be!" But it was

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fun. even if it was tiring; nothing was ever dull if tlic Princess Mary Adelaide was there. with her high spirits and infectious laugh. ,

Unhii ndy Brothers. ,

The Queen's brothers, at home on‘ leave from their regiments. .01‘ from school. would pretend to help. and: carry about piles of clothes. llciicr- ally to the wrong place. or write out

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stately tread and deposits his biir- dcn, there to be arranged by the “slackei” in charge.

"I should say it was a bed jacket."

,onc hears liim remark to a worker

puzzled as to tlic identiﬁcation of a certain garment, “but it "might be considered a blouse." Or lic may be seen solemnly measuring a petti- coat along his long length of leg and pronouncing it to be "woman's-mot girl's!" ,

'l‘hc moriiiiig wciirs on.

"Have r. Williams‘ blankets come yeti!" tli Queen is asking. "Bcsure and lci. me know. What should we do without. them?" For a. gift of sixty blankets cunic regularly from tlic late Sir George Williams. und is generously continued by his son.

And that. reminds inc to tell you that lll(‘l1 needn't think they can't take their share in this work. King Edward always sent a special con- tribution. The King sends some hundreds. many of them made by the wives ‘ of soldiers and sailors, grateful for the work. The Prince oi‘ Wales. who began as a little fel- low contributing woolly comforters made on a Ironic, went on sending garments bought with_ his pocket money, and still sends his quota. Men can always send boots- one can't have too many of these. Hus- bands and brothers, sweethearts and sons, please note!

A Princess‘ Probation.

I remember when Princess Mary's contribution consisted of a couple of garments knitted by herself.

"This pair of cuffs must have taken the little Princess a long time, Makim," someone said to the Queen, then Princess of Wales, “the needles were very ﬁne."

"Yes!" said the Queen. "I am afraid they cost some tears. for

lstitches had to be picked up and

mistakes made good." _ I believe the little Princess coaxed

[cheques out of her men friends. and

then went with happy importance to lay out the money on shirts and pettlcoats.

Last year her contribution was 1.013.

The Queen is walking round now,

i watching the unpacking.

"There seems a great many small

s ‘things in that parcel." she says.

"What! Seventeen pairs of cuffs out of a total of slxty—very tiresome!" Turning to her Lady-ln-Waltlng), "Make a note of that, will you?" For, As a president once said in a report: "Once we were grateful for inuﬂeuaes, and gathered the humble plnafore in gladly: now we expects man's shirt in the place of a cufl’: we demand boots and shoes. and we do not hesitate t0 prefer the best Welsh ﬂannel to the despised flan- nelette. We are right in great mea-

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contain the principle of growth, and conscience should expand until the garment is big enough to fit "it." Yes! We workers are severe critics. A bundle containing twenty-ﬁve ﬂimsy muslin plnafores is not look- ed on with favor. We sigh over the large proportion of very small cliil-l dren's petticoiits. and the unpracti- _ calness of some really quite unsuit- good to unpack the splendid gifts able contribution is discussed with of well-made. strong, sensible wonder. One report expresses a clothes.

“hope that associates will not. bes- You may ask who settles the des- tow upon the Guild muslin aprons tlnation of these thousands of gar- or opera hoods!" merits. The question of distribu- tion is approached in a very respon- sible and conscientious frame of . mind by the committee appointed And oh, dear readers! you would to settle the question of grants. be surprised at some people's con - Presidents are reminded of their rei-

minds one of the colloquy once over- heard at a working part:

"How sad to be so poor as to need such garments!"

“Yes! but much sadder to be so warped that they will fit!" ‘

But foolish contributions are the exception, and it does one's heart

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ceptlon of the human form. It re-

sponsibility in recommending chari- ties, of their duty to refuse to ask for a grant if there is any reason to doubt whether it will be wisely dis- tributed, whether by a hospital, home, or the clergyman of a parish. i “There are charities in London 'whicli are a real curse instead of a blessing . . . . hence the necessity for every president to know as much as possible about the administration of any charity for which she asks for a grant."

Some of us are beginning to be a little tired, when towards 2 o'clock the stately footman, who has disap- peared from the scene, reappears and murmurs a conﬁdential coni- niuiiication to the Queen.

“Lunchf says Her Majesty, lays down her pen and pushes back her chair.

The word “lunch" has a welcome sound. and we take off our aprons and gloves, and sit down, very glad to be oil our feet for a bit.

We have time to talk. of plays and politics. of the latest escapades of [the Queen's grandsons. of the Doiii- inloii Premiers, of pictures. of the ‘fashions tfrom whose excesses the Queen holds aloof in dignity), and of all the many things which go to make up the llfe of the vminan of today.

Changed Menus.

Luncheon as served on these 0c- casions is quite different to those we, had in pre-war days. Then we had! a choice of hot dishes iind sweets; wine was there if anyone wanted it. but hardly anyone did. But during the war everything was cut down. and we have never gone back totlie some scale. We enjoy an excellent and well-appointed lunch. and when it ls over and we put down our cof- fee cups, mlghtllyretreslied. we set to work again and go on till the light fades.

No use here for slack snails. ls you perceive!

Next morning we begin again. Th

Several boxes of hats arrive. contri- buted by a. ﬂrm honored by Her Ma- jesty's custom. We spend a little (just a very little) time in trying them on. One pretty lady-ln-wait- ing looks charming in whichey/er slic puts on. while some of us hastily re- move what we know to be “tryingf

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to our looks. and put our own hats on ngain. Vlihen talking about con- tributions of firms, I should add that some sends lengths of material to . Her Majesty, which she has made The London Shoe Company sends a supply of shoes; some send (Continued on page 12)

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