Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-02
Qtaiy,s Queen.

ReaIy7s queen
Marguerite has great passion for the
jewel which her name signifies. In all
her pictures she is almost covered with
pearls. The famous collier de la Refine,
which she wears on almost all occasions,
is composed Of seven rows Of immense
pearls, all of one size and Of matchless
beauty; the clasp is a very large dia-
mond. In her ears she has pearl pen
dants fully two inches long, with a dia-
mond solitaire.
It would take an Italians enthusiastic
pen to describe the Queen herself. Il IS
not an exaggeration to say that she is
the idol Of her subjects. There is a
pretty story afoat, which, if we lived in
the middle ages, would certainly become
q beautiful legend. In the spring time
her subjects go to the green fields to
pluck marguerite, and pull its petals
one by one saying: "Tu m'aimes I'm
peu, boaucoup passionnement; ,. they do
not add the GO Pas du tout" for fear the
last petal Will fall with those last cruel
words. She has one OF the most win
ming and sympathetic Of faces. She Is 3
blonde, has large, blue eyes, q lovely
mouth, and, without the aid OF art, has
fair, fresh complexion. she is not at
all al insipld blonde; she has character
in her face, tempered with gentle and
lively expression. The Italians call her
LILA Gentilezza Italiana." She is 30,
perhaps . little over, but does not look
over %. Royalty does not seem to weigh
very heavy on her mind, and she seems
to have changed the traditional stately,
queenly ar OF bygone Queens for the
happy, cordial, atfable look OF happy
and beautiful woman securely reposing
in the love OF her subjects.
CorniSEa ygo~ESimg- w Omen.
Picking our way through the purplish
mud and stones below Karn, we dis
covered little old woman laborinn over
n pile Of unlnilled copper ore. We had
to look twice before We could assure OFT
selves OF her sex; not only was her
dress perplexing, bat there was an IN
reality and weirdAess IN her person.
She was very small, almost dwartish,
with bent shoulders and Wrinkled hands
and face: her skin had the texture of
parchment, and was cuTiorsly motjled
with blue her hair was thin and WHY
She seemed very old. but her eyes had a
shrewd and penetrating quiclmess, and
her movements were utterly without
decrepitGde. Indeed, she applied her
self TO her work with the willing vigOr
OF o strong young man, and the work
consisted OF shoveling tine heavy blocks
Of ore into asman wagon restingo on q tenn
pOrary tramway. Shovelful after shovel
full was thrown in with aneasy mus
cular swing, and with much more activ-
ity than the average "navvy" ever e.
hihits. Her petticoats ended above the
ankle. and were stained with tbs hue Of
| the copper ore; her shapeless legs were
unified up in wooden wraps, and her
feet incased in substantial brogans. She
iwasnot apparently uncomfortable bod
| ~, but her face had a look of uncon-
| planning suffering, OF unalterable
gravity, OF habituated sorrow
which had e1tinguished eli pos
sibiiby OF a. smile. Not IN
derstanding question which We put
to her, she used the words, ''Please,
| sir?"-a form of Interrogation which we
often heard in the nejg lborhood of Red
ruth. "YOu seem to be old for such
! hard work" we repeated. "'Deed, sir,
J don't know how old [ am, but I've
been at it this forty years. I'm not
young any longer, that's sure" she an
swered, in clear voice, with scarcely
any accent. care You married." ''NO,
sir; nobody would ever have me-" she
continued. without relaxing from her
gravity or delaying her work for n
moment-"n obody would ever have me
or so with me, as L was always subject
to fts--terrible they are. l still have
'em once or twice week som etimes.
always with change in the moon. 5"
Elbow DO Won account for it?' ''Whv,
before my twentY-fourth year was III
the service of lady, who threw me
down stairs, and that changed my blood;
so, when the moon changes, / have the
fits. Little can be done for them when
the hoods changed" This superstition
was matter of profound faith with her,
but otherwise her manner was remark
ably Intelligent. She told us that her
wages were fourteen pence - twenty.
eight cents-a day; and when we IN
necessarily said that she must be tired
of work at such price, she answered,
IN q bitter tone, ''No' use being tired;
when you are tired there's the work
house for you.
She had nearly filled the wagon by
this time, and two younger women,
dressed as she was, but mere vigorous
looking, came to help her, and after
splitting on their hands, which were as
large and as hard as any mans, they ap-
piled themselves to the heap Of ore, fall
ing into machine-like swing Of the
body as they scooped up the heavy
rock. Two men afterward joined them,
and when the wagon was loaded they
propelled it along the track toward the
mill, the women sharing the work
equally with the men, If indeed they cid
not use even greater exertions.
The employment of women under
ground is now forbidden by law, the
degradation resulting from it having
been perceived by English Legislators
when it had become fagitlous but OF
thirteen thousand persons engaged in
the mines, about two thousand are
women, who are employed in various
parts of the process OF dressing the ore.
In the simpler operations very young
girls are useful, and at the mill we found
large number of them-the daughters
of nnners usualiy-some of them pretty
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