CHILD AND THE QUEEN

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1928, Page 3

CHILD AND THE QUEEN

THE INCUBATOR INFANT. LONDON, May 14. “If you please, your Majesty ” Tho Queen, visiting the Queen Mary Hospital for the East End yesterday, turned at tiie entrance to a ward to see who had addressed her. A little golden-haired girl came forward and smiled lip to her. 'The Queen smiled too. “Yes, my dear, what is it?’’ she asked. “I’lcase, your Majesty, when you see little Princess Elizabeth again will you give her my love?” “But I’m afraid I don’t know who you arc,” the Queen pointed out. “Oil, I’m Daphne Edwardia Wadeson,” answered the child promptly. “Well, Daphne,” said the Queen, “I will certainly give Princess Efizaibeth your • love—but I cannot promise that my little granddaughter will understand your message. She is only two, you know I” “SHE TS SO- SWEET.” “Yes, I know, your Majesty—but she is so sweet!” “Yes, she is,” the Queen agreed. “ And now, good-bye, Daphne.” And tho Queen and Daphne shook hands. “ Good-bye, your Majesty,” said Daphne. Daphne’s mother told a reporter that the request made by her daughter, who is 10, was quite spontaneous. Tlio Queen made a complete inspection of the hospital, to which she was welcomed by tho Duke of Gloucester, the president of it. Hearing that a premature baby was in the hospital’s incubator the Queen asked to see it. It, was only a few hours old and was being fed on humanised milk from a fountain-pen filler. “It is wonderful what can he done nowadays,” the Queen commented. THE PAIN AND THE GLASS. In one of the men’s wards the Queen was greatly amused by a joke which a patient named Arthur Stares cracked while she was chatting to him. Having told her that he had lacerated the muscles of an arm in falling through a window, Stares remarked: “I tried to bend a pane of glass, vour Majesty, and I got the pain hut lost the glass! ” The Queen's chief object in visiting the hospital was to open a wing which has been added as a memorial to the late Dr. Nicoll, who for many years worked at the hospital. A special feature of tiie wing is a solarium, equipped with the most up-to-date artificial sun I mbt apparatus. The new building cost £35.000. of which £II,OOO has still to he raised.