The Queen’s High Courage And Resolute Will-Power

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18763, 20 July 1935, Page 10

The Queen’s High Courage And Resolute Will-Power

DESEM BE A WES between the character of Queen Victoria, and Queen Mary, who celebrated her sixty-eigluh birthday on May 29, ate cited by Sir George Arthur—an old friend of the Queen’s family (the Tecks) in a book recently published: ‘‘Queen Alary.” •‘lt is easy to detect,” lie says. ‘‘The same, conduct of life based on broad and sound principles. ‘•The same high courage and resolute will-power. •‘The. same indexible uprightness mated to the most courteous manners. ‘‘The same dislike of anything sensational or outre (of which the noisy suffragette demonstrations were a type). Prodigious Memory. ‘‘The same prodigious memory wiL everything docketed and available fot reference at a moment's notice. .‘‘The same rather.faint interest, in those human yearnings and strivings which find their issue in poetry and music. ‘‘The same sound common sense so developed as to reach almost to the edeg of genius. ‘‘The same sincere, reverent religion, with little reference u> 1 neology and less to liturgy. ‘•The same belief that children should be leaded with affection and brought up in the fear of God ami only in slightly lesser degree, of their parents. ” Heart and Brain. Sir George Arthur recalls the deep interest which Queen Alary, then a girl, took in the revelations made before a committee on •*sweating,” anil her sustained and practical interest in the provision and arrangement of houses for workers. •‘One has only to read the newspapers,’’ he says, “to realise that. Queen Alary penetrates with heart no less than brain into the pitiful conditions which still cry aloud for remedy, and those who live in anything like an inner circle arc forward ro sav that, apart from her wide charities, scarcely a day passes without I some individual, well-eertilied want being promptly relieved by her.”