THE HEART OF WOMAN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 89, 8 January 1918, Page 2

THE HEART OF WOMAN

The following article by a writer in an Australian paper will bo of great interest to Wellington people to-day. Mrs. Abbott,, the lady referred to, ( is at present staying in' Wellington, and will lecture here to-morrow on the subject of the Scottish Women's Hospitals

"'The heart of woman is a treasury out of which God draws all that is best in humanity.' Ho wroto Queen Natalio of Serbia, after paving a visit to tho Scottish Women's Hospital at Itoyaumont, .France. Woman is traditionally supposed to he ruled by heart. But what of the brain belijnd a movement which, starting withj,the simple desire of a few Scottish women to be useful somehow and * somewhere, has developed into a world-wide organisation, with hospitals 011 every Allied battle-front;, ain numbering on their staffs women, not only from Scotland, but from America, India, England, Cauadu, and Australia? Brain and heart working together. Herein lies the wonderful success of that triumph of women's organisation, known as tho Scottish Women's Hospitals. To-day there aro four units instead of one, in Serbia, and a largo camp hospital and motor transport column, which until recently, was in tho charge of Dr. Agnes Bennett, of Now Zealand (recently returned 011 furlough), and Dr. Lillian Cooper and Miss Bedford, of Brisbane. Instead of 100 beds in France, there are 600, including a 200bed hospital in the French firing-line, and three canteens where worn-out poilus are cared for. In Rumania there aro two field hospitals and motor transport columns; at. Salonica a model camp hospital, with 500 beds, officially attached to tho French expeditionary force; in Corsica a. main hospital for the en re of sick Serbian refugees; and also an isolation hospital tubercular lazaret, and., outpatients' dispensaries.

"Mrs. Elizabeth Abbott, wife of tho. well-known scholar and journalist, writer of 'Songs of Modern Greece,' 'Macedonian Folklore,' and 'Through India with the Prince," is appealing to Netf_ South Wales to raise. £20,000 to help in carrying on this heroic work. She is now well known to Sydney audiences as an eloquent lecturer, with a. moving story to tell, and it is hoped that on her return from New Zealand, where she is paying a hurried visit in the interests of . the hospitals, slio will again be-heard n Sydney. In the meantime the work for which she appeals should commend itself to every true woman, and should lead, wherever possible, to giving and working in its behalf. The various women's clubs of Sydney have, already done much, hut much remains to bo done before the £20,000 is raised."