All through the War she toiled unceasingly, visiting the wounded every day, as well as organizing and directing the War work of women fall over the Empire. She gave a great lead, not sentimental, but instructed and wise, sane yet inspiring. His this which the women of England should never, and T think will never, forget.
There is another side of the Queen's work which T cannot leave cut of this brief sketch. She has always studied history and art; there sno amateur in the country who Knows more about the treasures in Jour museums and galleries and royal palaces. It is an education to be shown the miniatures, or the prints or the drawings at Windsor, by her personally, for she knows ihe technical points as well as the historical Ones. She has made all the collections her special care and fin consultation with the best advisers has seen fo the rearrange-
Few plants in pots can stand the hot sun of tate June, July and" August. Therefore' you Should prepare, about now sha 32. The simplest. form is @ shed roofed with matting with reed blinds, to pull up and down, on the East and West unless trees or buildings provide sugicient protection "on theee slides. ment and the cataloguing of countess works of art; some she has actually discovered hidden away what, the. Chinese call "go-downs." Quite recently Holyrood she found some" fine furniture in. attics and cellars, and thoroughly enjoyed the explorations which she undertook. The nation owes her a great debt for the expert supervision she has given to the care of its art treasures, Domestic Details This is not the time or place 40 speak to Her Majesty's private life everyone knows of its domestic happiness and the high example of jeonduct which is set; yet it may be {permissible to remind people of her devotion to duty and of her ceaseless work. She has hardly ever been known to have even her breakfast. in bed: her correspondence—and hun-reds of letters reach her from all over. the Empire—is dealt with personally each' morning. She has, fof course, several secretaries; answers are dictated, and when it is possible, a personal touch is. given. In other words, her letters are not treated Ina perfunctory way.
She has naturally a quantity of engagements and public functions to fattend and endless kindnesses to people of all classes claim her per sonal attention. She has never eared for outdoor games, but walks every day with the King, and her hobbies and reading, knitting, "and happiest of all, hunting in curiosity shop. Merchants of works of art, modern and ancient, have reason 40 bbe grateful. She visits them whenever and wherever she can and buys brie-a-brae in the most discriminating way. Her memory wonderful: almost everything she picks up" has its ina Christmas or birthday present for special individual, and she remembers to ask for 'a particular object the appropriate moment. Present giving is a gracious hobby for a Queen, and besides the artistic gifts she sends many a sufferer just the ight thing which will be "helpful Tt'is part of her constant thought and' consideration for others, from her servants to her friends.
A Gracious Appearance Queen Mary's strenuous work hi not affected her vitality, for she thas superb health and her natural dignity and poise, and her breadth fof vision are represented the in mature beauty of her app She does not follow the clothes, nor does. she to ead if! she only transmulates it into perfectly appropriate, shapes and colours, and wears hei jewels with difference.
It is perhaps her own fault that Inet great public service is not always, sufficiently recognized. She has all her Ife suffered from shyness never been able to conquer socially, though when it comes, to question of organizing or directing Jone of her own projects she is no Yonger diffident. She has also never interfered with polities, and has been too discreet and too wise to display [the influence which she must hi with the King. The devotion that exists Between them is patent to everyone who comes into contact with their daily lives.
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