It was extraordinarily hard luck on Miss Wigram, the daughter of the fermer secretary of King George V ord now Lord Wigram, Deputy Con-table of Windsor Castle, that her wedding should have taken place on the mewlest day remembered for many years, Tuesday was an ideal winter's day, crisp and alm and with cloudless pale blue sky. Next day, that of the wedding, it' snowed un-creasingly from 4 a.m, to 10 p.m. Miss Wigram was married in St. George's Chapel and the reception was held at the Castle in St. George's Hall, hung round with all. the shields of the Garter Knights, with the presents displayed in the Waterloo Chamber. Tt'ls the first time there has been sucha wedding at Windsor for over years and over 1,300 guests had been Invited. Many of them driving from a distance got stuck in the snow and never arrived. Those who got through did not look much Jike wedding guests xe they stumbled across the courtyard in thick coats, umbrellas, galoshes and even Russian high, 'But at any rate snow is better than seasonable, of course, and add. ing inmensely to, the gramleur of the great castle. "It is noticeable that the highly "Imaginative picture of the burial of Charles 1, which forms tone of the panels in' the corridor Tending to the House of Lords, and in which Bishop Juxon is depicted haughtily brushing on one side Puritan soldier, all the surroundings ore thickly covered in snow. Actual-the burial took place late at night in frightened secrecy, lighted by only one or two Indispensable candles and the party dispersed afterwards. as quickly as they could. But as the Unhappy King was beheaded in January the snow may have been all right and it Tooks well, as it did at Miss Wigram's wedding, though uncomfortable to all. concerned, T forgot to say that she inorried a Mr. John Leslie Harvey of Norfolk, that she is Queen Mary's goddaughter and, of course, properly the Hon, Anne Wigram, and that she wore a golden wedding gown, a style which is much in favour. Tt makes brides look like the Blessed Damozel, though one can hardly suppose that they Want to be like her otherwise, at Toast not just yet.
The King and Queen attended the Afterwards witnessed a march past picture shows Thei Majesties excorte the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, of which he is Cotonel-in-Chief Sappho, as Beatrice, a perfect called "The Angel at the ' Sepulchre' with a sheaf of lilies In her hand, and three or four "mother and child' studies which are the height of feel-Ing and. restraint combined.
T have simply never seen such pictures made with a camera. There {s, of used to be, a controversy as whether photography, which involves so much that is purely mechtunleal, can be called art." The answer might' be, "Go and look at Mrs. Cameron's portraits Nurses' Hard Case At inst it seems as it something night be done for the nursing profession at least (though this is not quite the same thing) a report has Been issued by the Departmental Committee, with the Earl of Athlone chairman, sot up to inquire into the nurses' grievances 19 months ago, which is wholly in their favour and fully explains why girls begin to be 0 disinclined to become nurses. In general the Committee find that Durses are underpaid and overworked, that their prospects when they gel past working are nil, that in nian instances their personal liberty intolerably restricted, and they live under almost Prussian discipline.
One hospital was found in which, by one of the regulations, nurses and probationers must give unquestioning submission to sisters, not answering back no matter what the provocation. Tu another largo hospital, says the report, "nurses are still liable to have their chests of drawers'and cupboards inspected, at any -moment without warning." Salaries range from £150 year for a fully trained nurse (but this appears exceptional, the highest pay given by the LEC. being £125)
as low as £17. 108
'The Committee's recommendations include abolition of merely vexatious rules, better pay, belter food, four weeks' holiday annually on full pay, and pensions. How far these will be carried out remains to be seen. The Ast reaction of the hospitals will probably be that they cannot afford Them, Alternatively they won't get the probationers. So In the end the reforms will be passed on as usual for "the public to pay. But I don't think the public would grudge doing se, for a hospital nurse stands in a special position and deserves well.
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