Show OTHER QUEEN IS F EXPERT WAR VAR WARi i b NURSE SP Special I Dispatch h hW W YORK YORI Oct 10 Sitting Sitting bethe be- be Khe the cot of a tiny little child holding her herI I while she gently drew from the I Ie the e story of its miserable life lUe Ig the tho German occupation is the last picture I hold in my minds mind's eye fye of the queen of Belgium It was the Louise waiting lady to her majesty Queen Elizabeth of Belgium who gave this picture of Belgium's queen mother as her people affectionately know herThe her The young oung who is now visiting this country is isa a member of ol one of Belgium's oldest families ol of nobility She holds the position of honorary attendant to her majesty a position that called for her appearance at court on state occasions before the great war came and abolished all state functions LOVES CHILDREN i During the war the had I occasion frequently to meet the queen In hospital work And nd when the armistice was signed the queen devoted devoted de devoted de- de voted herself to the children of Belgium Belgium Bel- Bel gium glum who vho had suffered from the German German German Ger Ger- man occupation For some time said the I have hare been helping w with th the children's childrens childrens children's chil chil- drens dren's country home established about forty miles from Brussels The children children children chil chil- dren of Belgium who lived through the miseries of German occupation are being restored to health hundreds health hundreds of them A few months ago the queen came to visit us Before she left she must have known the tragic little story of every ery child The children children children chil chil- dren loved her and would talk with her fearlessly I Belgium's queen was a mother to I the wounded Belgian soldiers too ac according according ac ac- cording to 10 the I NURSED HER SOLDIERS I On a visit to the queen at La LaPanne LaPanne Panne early in 1915 said the com com- tesse her majesty told me of her grief at the great loss of life For Tor her own personal safety she gave no thought What a general is to his army the queen was to h her r people In those dark darl hours She personally cared for hundreds of wounded soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers at La Panne I J have heard hundreds of discharged discharged discharged dis dis- charged soldiers refer to the queens queen's nursing She w was wis is the best nurse we ever e had they would say During the first days davs of the war the queen Im Immediately Immediately immediately Im- Im mediately fitted up a wing of the palace palace palace pal pal- ace for the wounded Belgian soldiers and all during the war many sick and wounded Belgians were cared for thereA there A GREAT WOMAN The queens queen's Interest in her people is a real one She has a great nature for no woman who has been delicately reared as her majesty had been could have stood the trials of war war war- could have seen her people perishing their homes and hearts broken with every day death visiting her hospital hospital- I i ill all this human misery she could not have lavo withstood if she had not been a a woman of the very finest texture of character The queen is intensely Interested In n all the tho plans for the reconstruction of Belgium continued the She is not a woman of many words but all who know her are impressed with her extreme modesty and rare good common sense As long as Belgium Belgium Bel Del gium glum shall exist the name of Queen ElIza Elizabeth eth will be spoken of with ad ad- ad She was the Little Mother of the Belgian people through the war |