The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-03 00:00:00

AN ENGLISH PRINCESS AMONG THE

WOUNDED.

A Darmstadt letter to a contemporary, dated the
27th inst., has the following :
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The Darmstadt Division 01 10000 men ha. lost 1,200 hi
killed and wounded, but the hospitality here, as every where
else, is cosnropolitain There are six or eight lazarettos, or
hospitals, in D srmstatit alone—one or two specially superin-
tended by members of the Grand Ducal family, others by
private mmnu Wes, and one by the Catholic Sisters of
Charity. There are, I believe, only 2 010 Cetholies among
the 3.5.000 inhabitants. To-day I had the privilege of visiting
the principal one which her It lel thinness the Princess
of Beam takes under her own especial wing. Certainly,
nothing can be more admirably managed. It genitalia charm-
ing gardens, with their dower-liens, and shunberle., and
fountain., which as the PC41011.18) a, the Frenchmen gallantly
tell,herremind them of the waterworks of Ver.aillee The Prin.
c ts. says, he French strongly protest against the resh air while
! the Germans, on the contrary, very sensinly welcome It as
the ;Aat of speellim. Mite onght to las mistress of the inward
sentiments of the patients, for they all stem to take her into
I their 11111/014 confidence. It w. worth • journey from
Eug:ard alms tone the faces of the sufferers lighten up as
thty retie let the sisterly smiles on her. AB she passed
Mug and stopped and spoke to each the ieVAII.I laid
himself beck on Ms pillow with an exprmskin of absolute
bier, di..., and for the moment seemed to find som,
thing more than an anodyne for his pain. tier panel,*
along the surds applied the most infallible of testa to
the cases. If her presence did not atumith the pain
wrinkle. out of • flint's Ice, or brlng something like
tranquility to his drawn mouth, and cause a fi
of ligut into /1,4 eye, you were quite sure to bear he was
in an extremely bad way. Nor was it with the wounded
alone she scented the animating spirit of the place. Nur..es
and doctors and crusade... Tits stalking shout all addreased
her with the sante own ial familiarity —only tempered by their
evident reverence and Eve. The theatre at Slayton. I. given
iiv,v to preparations for the hospital Service. Here at
Darmstadt no small portion of the Palace is devoted
to the Mlle purpom. •1111. the WorkrielllS communicate
directly wilt the Prlnce,s'is apartments. This after-
noon the Prii cess's ph Won hat the back 'eat piled
high with cushions *aided for Immediate use. Every
one works, every one give., and, what is more, every one
end even the Eghest, retrench. The G,rman laiba, In the
extreme of their good feels g, and in their exalted sense of
generosity, h-ap coals of hire on the 13, ane of their enemies.
It is • most amiable weakne”, and we in England should
sympathlie with it. lit my idei, the Germans hove fought
an English battle, and it is el ter j idlest that we should come
forward with our mite to de fray the expenses of the war. A
Mite it will be at best, compared to what Germany has spent
In money, to say nothing of i,erninr ble blood And, for
Goers sake, lotus not be content with merely giving of our
soperfluity, but turn everything int 1 necessaries tn aid of the
holy cause.