QUEEN'S CHARITY

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 83, 4 October 1930, Page 19

QUEEN'S CHARITY

Her Love ""of Children

Whatever the splendour and glamour, of Her Majesty's public or. Eoyal activities, the domestic' part—the.woman part—of her lifo.makes as strong if not stronger^ appeal to the* affection' of her subjects.' - It is tho human side of her personality that grips'the people, states a London-writer. - , .

Her Majesty's love of-children is well., known. •' "A- hundred.1' acts: —which never come to the knowledge of-the public—can bo recorded of her, and her sympathy with suffering little ones, and her own-self-denial of ease, if by such act she can give comfort or encouragement. ■ There" came'to her one day that magnificent: . gift ■ of '.-' the Queen's doll's - house. Some might havo taken it .as ,a ■ thing/ of beauty,. .: and

lodged- it in-; some secluded"'room to be shown to favoured guests; but Her Majesty's" consideration for. others, and' her. desire to lessen- distress - in every .■■form,-not. only .-induced., her ■ to send the gift-to the/Wembley Exhibition, b,ut also_ made her set, apart a special room in Windsor Castle, where the gil't-could'be;inspected. ~ < ■

By .making; a- small charge ' to ' the thousands who are ..anxious to, see it, she devotes the whole;of the proceeds to charities in which she .is , specially interested. -A, great sum, of money, thus finds its way to , needy institutions, especially those, which concern, the welfare of the children. . Her Majesty is-catholic in her sympathies.. She is ready to help in any good cause. Many-

have been' the- gifts—the work ;of her own-; hands—seilt 'to "charitable bazaars and ' Church ' enterprises.'.' ;-Many.. a neighbourhood,, and notably "the parts where' life" is so drab and the discouragements so many, has felt the touch of tho Queen's kind' hand.

Clergy -and ministers—regardless; of denomination—who are in daily-touch with penury and suffering, are. made to feel that the-Queen- sympathises with them in their, efforts to bring sunshine into tho lives, of -the ; less ■ fortunate. Flowers, < clothing, and money, are", sent without ostentation, but'the finest asset of all is- her real sympathy. ■' Nor-'does she merely send1 these, gifts and so discharge' a 'duty which makes her "the lady bountiful. "■ She-goes, into these places and-with her.own.eyos.sees'.what need1 there is of a 'helping hand. .■ "The traditional-and., splendid activity. of r tho Press is . not always-; equal. . to. Her Majesty's movements and; doings. Many a -kindness -is • done^of ■ which- the world knows nothing.'Only, the Queen herself and the anxious workers in the. by-streets are aware, of 'it.'-' «.' '■■;'.'■•