Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-09-03
Mistellamu.
The Queens Lunch.

At the recent demonstration given at
Windsor, by the Queen of England to the
Shah of Persia, Her Majesty. being ia.
teued with the slow delay of the military
eyoIutions, and feeling the cravings of hui
man hunger, seems to have wisel,
anticipated both the uncertainty of hel
troops and the certainty of her appetite
and accordingly, during an interval in the
proceedings, she said to good honest ole
John Brown, her Scotch attendant, MIR
Brown, now bring on the lunch" Anc
the lunch basket was opened, and as the
Queen sat in her barouche she spread &
napkin over her black silk dress to keer
the crumbs off, and under the shade of :
Windsor oak satisfied her healthy English
stomach with frugal repast consisting O
beef-sandwich and bottle of brown
stout.
This simple act of Her Majesty ha.
created great amount of comment in Ger
tain fastidlcus or perhaps we should rather
say critical journals, both in England anc
America
The act was done in public, say thes,
unfrlendIy commentators, and being wit
messed by great multitude of people, i
smacked Of vul garity, and was out o
taste and the manners of royalty hav
suffered much condemnation in conse
quence.
1t is a small matter to allude to, on
way or another; but since the topic is up
let US express our own opinion on it.
We like the Queens act in every par
ticuIar. Indeed it pleases US beyond any
thing which she has done of late, excep
the occasional notices which we see of he
charities to some hospital or orphan asy
lum. 1t was good example. She spok
thereby as follows:
4" 1t is an impossible thing for queen o
peasant to go through days public per
tormances in the open air without gettin
very hungry, and if everybody who come
out to such fete champetre would onl
take the precaution to bring to it a littl
lunch, and to eat it at the right time
there would be fewer sick headaches th
next day, par tcularly among the femal
spectators. ], as the Queen, who may
as | choose without beng trammeled b
custom, and who am the author of custor
and the settler Of fashion, will now institut
the good custom and fashion of breakin
up the inevitable sick headache before
gets days start of the hide-bou an
ceremonious victim Of etiquette. | wi
accordingly take my lunch on highway
and holidays Just as [ do on other days
and [ will not hide away in a corner t
sip my bottle of porter, but will do
openly, like one of those good workswhicF
ought to be done before the eyes of tn
children of men,"
And thus reasoning, the Queen took he
beef-sandw ich and her brown stout; aftt
which she rose like a giantess refreshe'
and gave the Shah a salute that made hi
feel glad that he had visited England.
We take for granted that the Quee
who is a single minded and honest woman
and who despises indirection and STATE
craft, was animated by no dextrous an
cunning motive in publicly partaking {
beef-sandwiches and brown stout but
she were given to the art of the demagogr
we might have suspected that this was
trick to catch the groundlings.
Every workingman in England cou
on that evening, as he sat at his ow
frugal table, say to his wife:
Well, Mary, We have seen what tt
Queen eats and drinks she eats bee
sandwiches and drinks brown stout that
what we eat and drink ourselves; we fal
as well as the Queen does let US
content"
1t may possibly be--who knows-th
the Queens beef-sandwich and bottle
brown stout have silently erected ther
selves in the many breasts often thousar
sturdy British coal miners and hod ca
riers as barricade against the fort
coming revolution. 1t is pretty hard
the working g-class to cry down boat
aristocracy Of sandwiches and brown sto
1t is rather difficult to point to the r
and extravaganza Of a sovereign who
public lunches cost only shilling ape
1t makes the task of Sir Charles Dill
henceforth all the harder for him
pursue to victory. 1t sets the Brit
lion squarely across the path of n
Bradlaugh, ready to roar back at h
word for word.
In our opinion, the Queen, guild
either by her own good sense or prompt
by discerning Providence, resorts
sandwiches and brown stout, first beca,
the relish is wholesome, homelike a
English, and next because the time /
come in Englan when the throne mi
partake of the same sacrament with t
people; and in view of this obvious
quirement Of craftsmanship, the ro,
stateswOman finds in the sandwiches a
brown stout the elements of new a
true communion with the masses of
subjects.
Straws show the way the wind bio,
and the Prince of Wales, if he righ
consults the straws through which he S
his habtual punches and juIeps will lea
useful lesson from his mothers examp
and seek to build up his throne on I
beef sandwiches and brown stout VIII
constitute the bone and muscle of
English people.-Golden Age.
One Old Maid.