WAY TO HEALTH
EMBROIDERY FOR SOLDIERS. London doctors are today prescribingembroidery for soldiers with nervous trouble. Knitting, explains Lady Smith-Dor-rien. 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 up the entire attention. To all of them Lady Smith-Dorrien recommends fine embroidery, intricate and difficult work which wholly occupies the mind. The same principle is now being applied to the new methods in Britain’s war-time hospitals. Mere amusement is not enough; the patient must be given an occupation that is difficult. Thus the needle, so long employed for putting something into him, is now being used, and with excellent results, in getting his vzorries 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 work.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1942, Page 4
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171WAY TO HEALTH Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1942, Page 4
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