The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-18

their wish as to hospital work and sew
eral OF them are at the front.
The Duchess OF Sutherland, who
equipped her own hospital, has been at
Namur and came through the siege
safely and pictures OF her in "'7d Cross
uniform with her stan Of n rises as a
background are popular in England.
The Duchess Of Westminster has had
all her household and friends at work
on bandages. sheets. pillow cases. &C,
for she too has equipped a little hos
ptai
Lady Roxburghe. who has always been
| prominent in political work, equipped
o hospital in Belgium in ten days, and
she spends her time going back and
| forth across the Chann6. Lady Sarah
Wilson and Mrs. George Keppel are di-
/ recting relief work near lie Touquet.
Lady Sarah Wilson has had experience
Of relief work in South Africa. and Mrs.
Keppel il willing helper and con-
! tributor. In fact it 10 at Mrs. KEEP
pel's house that the work has really been
carried out, and her beautiful rose and
gold drawing room is a sort OF storage
place for the garments and surgical
articles collected.
As for the hospitals In London. their
name IL legion, and beautiful houses in
/ Grosvenor Square, Portman Square
/ Mayfair and Selgravia are flying Red
Cross flags outside. while inside are tap
estries covered with linens. empty spaces
where valuable old pictures hung or
rare china and crystal rested. and mar
row beds and straight wooden chairs
where once were Chippendale tables and
Jacobean carved chests.
! AS matter of facy the War Office had
t. call halt here also and has declined
! to accept any more offers of hospitals in
or about London
The American women's hospital i a
particularly fine one. No expense has
been spared and the house kindly given
by Paris Singer Is very claborat ely
equipped. Mrs, Lewis Harcourt. Mrs.
Aston, Mrs. Walter Burns, Lady Henry
and other Anglo Americans meet daily
and sew and plan for their project.
Devonshre House is a Red Cross cen
ire with Queen Alexandra at the heaC
OF It, She has a way of dropping IL
4 there informally TO see her lleutenanti
at work, while Queen Amelie Is a dali,
worker.
One can he enrolled as a war nurs,
there, but one has first to prove that on
lis a trained and experienced nurse
The Red Cross Is adamant about thi
and all the unframed women In ever,
walk of life who yearned to be minister
ing angels have had to return TO thei
vocatlons. And an applicant has to rui
gauntlet at Devonshire House. Firs
there is the building itself to inspir
awe. Great, heavily carved and glide
iron gates to enter; a commissioner Il
awe inspiring uniform 10 face; then tn
wonderful hall and the broad staircas,
all CHASTITY in white linen hangings nov
and finally an array OF titled and stron
minded women and stern visaged hos
pital matrons or Red Cross officials. It
an ordeal
The best day for any one to go
when Queen Alexandra is there, for st
Is the most gracious of royalties and he
smile, even II II is a little tremulou
now tfor she is aged and broken b
! tnf war;, Is as KlnuIy as ever,
But II one can't nurse one can Sc
and knit. and all the feminine world
doing one or the other. or both, at tn
moment Ever since Queen Mar
started her necdlework guild maxim
garments or knitted articles has b,
come the rage. But there was an III
expected result.
For Gods sake don't take the brea
out OF the mouths Of the women
England" was the message sent
Queer Mary as she and her fair hare
daughter and the ladies in waiting we
placdly making shirts and socks,
Following this appeal Miss Mary Ma
Arthur, the head OF the Women Worl
ers' Union, obtained an audience wi
the Queen and explained to her that Il
movement had caused many POI
worker to lose her employment
Queen Mary was Mortified, for she
a very kind woman, and she was prom
to remedy the mistake A message fro
the Queen was published al once, and
r urged women to help and employ 9th
women not TO work on garments then
lselves but TO buy the material and gi'