A QUEEN INDEED.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 259, 5 December 1914, Page 6

A QUEEN INDEED.

TIRELESS IN HER WORE. Every letter from London brings news of the wonderful way in which her Majesty the Queen has risen to the occasion during these sad days when danger threatens the British Empire. A correspondent writes: '' The Queen is simply marvellous. She has 'come out' in the most unexpected way, and is now more closely in touch and sympathy with the people than she has ever been. Nearly all the most practical things that women are doing to help the nation are from ideas that have emanated from

her Majesty. She is absolutely tireless in her work, and leaves nothing for others to do that she cannot do herself. People about the Court tell me that she is rarely seen without a useful white apron over her dress, provided with large pockets, in which she keeps a supply of string, scissors, and labels for use in the work of packing, sorting, and labelling of special parcels for special purposes. If she is not sending off supplies to the front, she is busy clicking her needles with great rapidity, turning out socks and scarves for the soldiers, while- discussing plans for helping ! women out of work or the Avives and dependents of soldiers at the front. She finds time also to order gifts of fruit and game to be sent to various | hospitals, and, indeed, only lays her work aside in order to accompany his Majesty on a sympathetic visit to the wounded, or to the Belgian refugees

who have been taken into all kinds of public? institutions. She never spares herself in any way, and sets an example in the exquisite simplicity she has inaugurated in the living of the Royal household." We are indeed a fortunate people in knowing that at a time like the present" we have a King and Queen whose splendid qualities of humaneness and sympathy compel the respect and loyalty of their millions of subjects found across seas and in all corners of the earth.