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 ujp the entire attention. To all of them Lady Smith-Dor-rien recommends fine embroidery, Intricate and difficult Avork which wholly occupies the mind. The same principle is noAV being applied to the neAV methods in Britain's Avar-time hospitals. Mere amusement is not enough: the patient must be given an occupation that is diffcult. Thus the needle, so long employed for putting something into him, is noAV being used, and with excellent results, in getting his AA'orries out. The Queen is so interested in the departure that when she found a soldier embroidering his regimental badge in a Red Cross hospital; she asked for a sample of his Avork.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 7, 23 January 1942, Page 5
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173SOLDIERS EMBROIDER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 7, 23 January 1942, Page 5
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