QUEEN MARY GAVE DAFFODILS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 190, 8 May 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)

QUEEN MARY GAVE DAFFODILS

♦ Gesture Of Friendship To Social Worker A radiant sheaf of daffodils, which had adorned a Royal drawing-room, gleamed on e night recently under the lights of a room shared by some of the poorest women in London. | They were a gift from Queen Mary, and the giving was a spontaneous ges- | tore of friendship toward a woman I who has devoted a lifetime to the care of the poor. It happened when Mrs. Commissioner Lamb, who has just completed fiftyfive years as a Salvation Army officer, had an audience with Queen Mary. The Royal hostess and her visitor had much to say to each other on those topics of social welfare in which they have so much in common. As she was leaving, Queen Mary stopped her. “Wait a moment,” she said, gathering the daffodils from the vase. “Take these lo Hie home, with my best wishes for your people there.” Mrs. Lamb, describing her interview wilh Queen Mary to a "Sunday Express” representative, said : "I saw a regal woman, a cheerful woman, whose soul is in the welfare of her people. There was no hint in Queen Mary’s demeanour of the troubles she has gone through. She instantly put me at my ease. "When I related stories showing the humorous side of my work. Queen Mary laughed. "A wonderful exjierienee was brought lo a wonderful close when Queen Mary gave me the flowers that decorated her room. It was a gesture that moved me more deeply than I can