Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-14
"Didn't Victoria ever get angry?"

finger on the hot stove OF something
like that, and once she told me if I
didn't keep my face clean she would
have one of the gardeners turn the hose
on me-"
"Would she talk to the servants
freely?"
eyes, sir. like any o.her lady. She
used to ask us about our homes and our
families, and all that, but she wouldn't
let us talk any gossip, like American
ladies. She was very quiet and gentle
while l was at the castle, but l have
heard she is not so now. She is get
ting pretty old, and old folks are all
more or less cranky
elbow did the folks live at Windsor?"
"You mean the royal family?' .
"Yes..'
"Well, its a real nice, quiet house.
hold. OF course, there are always lots
of visitors and the royal household is
large, but the Queen steps off to her
immediate family, and they read and
talk and play whist OF sing. Ordinarily
she goes to bed at ten OF eleven o clock,
and rises about eight. A family break
fast is laid about nine, lunch at 1880,
and dinner at seven. The breakfast
and lunch are plain and without any
extras, but the dinner is quite elaborate
and there was always some extra
guests. The Queen likes nice roast beef
according to tradition. and prefers a
nice, light soda-biscuit to any other
kind OF bread. She is fond of Ken
lucky corn-bread also, which she can
make herself by a recipe found in an
American cookbook. She doesn't adj
mire French dishes, and [ have heard
her say it was not right for English
speaking people to print bills of fare in
French. She seldom drinks coffee. Tea
is her favorite beverage, and it makes
her have neuralgia, I'm sure"
"Does she have neuralgia"
"Yes, sometimes. I've heard her
complain on several occasions, and once
l took = bottle Of arnica to her ROOM"
"Did she have a nice room?"
"Not very. 1t was big and had nice
windows, but it was not like q Queens
bed chamber. The bedstead was one
of those old carved ones, very ancient,
with a canopy, q valance, and all that
kind Of thing. The covering was of
silk and worsted. and the quilts she and
Beatrice had made with their own hands.
They were very pretty, but no nicer
than lots you see in other people S
houses"
ESQ the Queen handles the needle,
too?'
"Oh. yes. She is quite handy with
it, and her daughters embroidery work
takes the prizes when on exhibition.
Why, would you believe it, one day the
Queen saw my apron-string pull out,
and she sewed it on for me, and told me
it was not every young woman who had
an Empress and a Queen for her seam
stress"
"Did you ever hear her laugh?"
"No, sir; never all the time [ was at
the castle, which was six months. She
smiled sometimes, but a laugh-well,
there never was anything like a laugh
came from her lips, and [ used to Won
der if she would be very sorry when she
came to die. She used to remind me
sometimes of a Sister of Charity, she
was SO quiet like, and when l saw the
young princess all the time with her
solemn mother fused to think [ wouldn't
trade places with her."
'.Wht about the Queens Familiarity
with her family?"
"She is not as friendly as she Nigh
be, but usually she is no more digni-
fled than plenty of American ladies'"
"What about the John Brown sto-
RESP"
Il don't believe anything like those
I hesr. The Queen had him near her
all the time, but just as a ia thful ser
want, and he was very good to her, and
useful to her, too, for she has not been
strong for a long time"
81 thought you said she was all O..
X"
"She is in most everything, but she is
big, and fat. and old, and she can't get
around at all gracefully OF easily; SO
Brown used to help her,"
''Did the Prince of Wales come to see
her?"
Eyes; both he and his wife and the
other children used to call, but the
daughter-in-law was not much in love
with the old lady. l think she wanted
them to understand who she was.'
'.l)id you ever see the Prince of
Wales?"
"Once only, and then for just a mo-
ment as he passed me in the hall. His
mother was watching him all the time,
and one day when he was expected she
told me to 60 home for a holiday. l
overheard her say one day something
about her bad boy Albert"
"How long We're you at the castle?"
"Only six months. You see my faith
er wanted me to go to school, and so he
took me away and intended me to 90
back again when 1 was twenty, but be-
fore that L was married and was in
America"
"Were you paid much wages?"
"Not much: 1 got twelve shillings a
week and a home in the castle. Some
Of the servants received much more,
and some much less, but the Queen al
ways gave us a little pin-money in those
days"
"Would you have returned if you
hadn't married?'
EYES, sir; because it was quite a good
place at the castle. We were sure of q
good home always, forthey never break
up housekeeping and the wages never
fail.-Clncinnati News Journal.
The editor OF the Berryville Uar1ou
is tempted to forsake the tiowery fields
Of bucolic journalism. He was sick and
unable to write the usual editorial mat