SICK SOLDIERS EMBROIDER
THEIR WAY BACK TO HEALTH London doctors are to-day prescribing embroidery for soldiers with nervous trouble. Knitting. explains Lady SmithDorrien, head of the Royal School of Needlework, is not enough to take the mind off worry. Many women have written to her complaining that they have knitted and knitted until they can knit no longer and asking her for the best work to take up the entire attention. To all of them Lady Smith-Dornen recommends fine embroidery, intricate and difficult work which wholly occupies the mind. The same principle is now being applied to the new methods in Britain’s war-time hospitals. Mere amusement is not enough: the patient must be given an occupation that is difficult. Thus the needle, so long employed for puttin? something into him, is now being used, and with excellent results, in getting his worries out. The Queen is so interested in the do parture that when she found a soldierembroidering his regimental badge in a Red Cross hospital she asked for a sample of his work.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 21 January 1942, Page 5
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