Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-09-11
WHOLE. III! NO. ] us.
BNTgRrArHIHG A QUEEN,

'tLonuon Correspondence OF the GapitAIs1s
Our fashionable readers will remsm-
ber the beautifnl Mrs. Hicks. whose
wealth and attractions cauaed 90 much
gossip at the national capital one Win
ter. Well, this lady Is to-day distin-
guished feature IN the fashionable
world of london, and sisfollowed, fiat
tered, sought and sued ina way, TO
startle one, for it is seldom an American
lady, however accomplished, rich and
beautiful, wins such success. iss ~
| IL happened In this way MRS. Hicks
arrived in London few dayss in ad.
vance of the Queen of the Netherlands.
She took for herself all the best rooms.
did Mrs. Hicks, of the Clarridge Hotel,
the aristocratic resort of this great
social center. Shortly after the Gov
ernment notified the landlord that some
apartments had been selected for the
Queen. The landlord informed Mrs.
Hicks that he must have the rooms for
royalty. Mrs. Hicks respectfully but
firmly declined. She had engaged the
rooms; she was in them; they made her
castle, and as an American woman she,
too, was a sovereign. The vexed land
lord was disturbed; he was excited.
He would have torn bis hair had he
possessed any. As he was quite bald
he appealed to the Government. Mrs,
Hicks appealed to our Minister, her
cousin. The vexed question became d
question Of State, and no end of Dip
lomatic correspondence passed before q
compromise was effected. 1t was ar
ranged at last that the Queen should oc-
cupy rooms as the guest of Mrs. Hicks.
The Queen did so, and she was de-
lighted with our fair country-woman.l
Mrs. Hicks received with her guest;
wac invited to court and court balls,
with her royal visitor, and now she, is
dined and wined and entertained in d
way to endanger her constitution, and
many male member of the nobility
with an income and acres somewhat
embarrassed looks longingly at the
beautiful, accomplished and wealthy
American widow. aSki Has tls4
APARoxYsMAL KIoK.--A curly-headed
seven year-old boy of the second ward
come dashing into the kitchen yester-i
day, where his mother was mixing
bread, and blurted out: II ,a,s iss M NJ
Ma, who's Beecher?'' . ~
s'Beecher? You must say Mr.. Beech
er, Willie. Why, bo is famous di-
vine of Brooklyn, New York. Why do
you ask that?'' M I'll
so, nothing, only while ago / was
playing out by the gate and heard pa
say to Mr.. Smith that if the truth were
known there were good many Beech
ers about, and he said they had both
been in the Beecher business consider i
ably themselves, and had been lucky
at it. No one. had found them ont.
Mr.. Smith laughed and winked at pa.
and he said, you bet' Then pa said
there'd be hurricane if you suspected
anything; pa looked down then and see
me, and slapped me, and told me to So
into the house" *.
The mother scratched the dough
from beT arwa and gave Williea dough-
nut and sent him out 10 play, Snsst
then stepped to the door and crooked
her finger at her faithless husband, who
came in as unsuspecting as q lamb.
When he was fairly inside the house,
she laid him quietlytos rest behind the 4
kitchen store with potato InasherssA
and then she packed up and went homer
to her mother. The benedict has hired
a cook, and the, doctor is treating him
for kick which be says he received
from his off MULE Dubuque Times. gosos
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JAPANESE BRIcKs. - A correspondents !
of the London Builder says: g The !.
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