The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-11-24
Two LIME FRANCHISES.
Victoria nj RamsEate and Louise nj BRlmo-
rai-tnnHd1's Royal Lady.


fricnd OF mine once told me how ha first
came 10 sea the present Queen Of England. then
~ pale aud pretty child. known simply NJ the
daughter Of the Duke Of Kent and affection
niey called tho little Princess II WIS on
summer day. she was sporting on tho sands
~ the Londoncr's paradise by the sea. Old
Ramssate Her dress WAS simple-a plain
straw bonnet. with white ribbon round the
crown. a bright muslin frock. pretty pair OF
shoes on rs pretty pair Of feet as
could be seen from Canton TO Colorado.
Not the galleries OF tho Louvre or Versailles
or David's aielier could show prrttier pair
thar were those Of the lule Victoria. as she
played with the pebbles and the tides on Rams
gate sands. Her mother was with her. accom-
panied boy n venerable gentleman. and. IN she
horkoncd signal Of return. the child ran back
and placed her little fingers lovingly in his hand
-thNt hand which had struck with giant blow nj
tho chains whcl, mound the limbs Of the slave
the hand Of william WHEREFORE. II was
touching scene to see thnt little Queen Of the fu-
turc looking up with earnest and delighted
smile into tho noble face which beaued down
with parental interest upon her. She was then
5 years old and fatherleNs.
Nearly twenty yeas a'ssr on aslmilar sum
mcr day. by the banks and bracs OF tho Dec in
bonnie scotland. saw another child OF years
at play. She had the same sweet. pretty face
and wore the same childish dress She too
ran back at her mothers call and took the
hand Of noble looking man. She also was af-
fectionatcly chilled tho little Princess" Her
mother was TINT former little Princesa Of Rams
gate. now the Queen OF England; tho man WINS
her father Albert the Good: she WINS the Prln-
ccss Louise. who on Thursday last. almost n
Queen herself. sailed from England for the
Cnnndns.
Ii was Ia the autumn Of 1853 that saw this
second little princess Tho Queen Prince Con
sort 4nd family w.re at th1,r mountain home
aiterwnrd wrote when she had lost him, own
creation. own work. own building, own laying
ont and the impress OF his denr hand stamped
everywhere" Tho Princess Louise had even
then; as a ch,d NIL her mother shining IN
her face; Smoking 81 her Ghl, n the Queen IN
mind Of myself when was the little Princess 4;
and he observed II VAS always sad that parents
lived their lives over again ia their children
And she has lived much OF hers over agnin in
Ii was in August. 1912. that Queen Yictoria
and her husband ret sailed from Woowlch FOR
the Forth. MS Louise and her husband sailed
from Liverpool in the good ship Royal George,
Tor the little monitor had not then pitched into
the poetry Of the sen. nor had steam crumhled
the wooden wills II England. md II would have
been deemed inconsistent with the dignity OF
tho crown TO 60 70 sea in n steamer like ~" Sar-
NATHAN, In little volume entitled Leaves
from the journal OF Our Lie In the High,
lands" which possesses that rare charm Of
saying common things well. and in n way 10
Impress the memory and touch tho heart the
Queen Of England gives the record Of this
Journey and of her Scottish lifc; how she pur-
sued the simple ayocations and found the do
nestle delight ot other women : lives; now she
taught her children. controlled her servants.
with whose history from childhood up she II
familiar. In this book she sketches wild High
land sconos, enters with Joyous sympnhy
into all the pursuits aud sports of her husband,
and, in TACT, gives the daily current OF a lllr
max" II complete md hnppy. or to win for hor
the tito of the good victoria