The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-11

first verse. eulogistic Of the queen, you
know, like this:
God save our gracious queen,
Long live our noble queen.
God save our queen.
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious
Long to reign over US -
God save our queen!
Then there Is a modulation into a
lower key and the contraltos begin and
sing very uncomplimentary things
about the queens enemies. This they
did very heartily indeed, and it sounded
almost like swear words when they
said: "Confound their politics." and so
on, thus:
o Lord, our God, arise,
Scatter her enemies,
And make them fall!
Confound their politics.!
Frustrate their knavish tricksl
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God save us ALL
Then the whole chorus, audience, ar
lists and all Joined in with a will, and
shouted in this wise to end up with:
Thy choicest gifts in store,
On her be pleased to pour
Long may she reign!
May she defend our laws.
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice
God save our queen!
This ended 1t, and we then had the
Golden Legend in fine style. Helen
Furst sang the soprano part of Elsie,
Marian Mackenzie, the contralto, sang
Ursula, Edward Lloyd took the tenor
part OF Prince Henry and Andrew
Black did Lucifer. They were all very
good, especially the men.
Primrose Day.
/ forgot to tell you a week or so ago,
about Primrose Day. which came on
the 18th of April. 1t Is the celebration
of Lord Beaconsfelds birthday, the old
conservative leader and the queens
favorite parliamentarian in his time.
He was the man, you know who shook
his fist at the house once, as they
laughed at his maiden speech, and told
them that the day would come when
they would be glad to listen to him. OF
course the day did come when he be-
came the conservative leader in parlia-
ment, and the most trusted ally the
queen ever had, and his statue, now in
the square opposite Westminster, is
yearly hung with wreaths of primroses
and strewn at the base with bouquets
and garlands of the same little flowers,
which are said to have been his favor
ties. The Scotch girl here Is a very
stiff conservative and a member of the
Primrose league, and always wears
primroses on Primrose Day, as do hun
dreds of other conservatives.
Apropos of these little flowers, they
are said to be rapidly becoming ex-
tinct as there is such a demand for
them on this day, that they are pulled
up by the very roots and so are really
becoming very scarce.
The Wanc of the Sweep"
My landladies had the chimneys
swept out last week. by the chimney
sweeps. They are compelled by law,
over here, to have this done once every
three months, or pay heavy fine. I
was not at home before when it was
done. but this time / had my inning,
and saw 1t all. / was much surprised
to see only two or three men at work,
and asked where were those cute, dirty.
sooty, little chimney sweeps that /
had read of in Dickens. They thereon
enlightened me by saying that little
sweeps were one Of the things against
which Dickens wrote, and that Lord
Shaftesbury, philanthrophist of today,
and great admirer of Dickens. carried
on the good work by getting a bill
passed in parliament, forbidding any
more chimney sweeps to be apprenticcd
as 1t was long a source of great evil.
people often stealing children and max
ing sweeps of them. A very dangerous
business it was, as sometimes small
sweep would go up on the top of house
and get down the wrong chimney-they
are "all in a row" here-and so get burnt
very seriously, or would get stuck in
narrow one. and suffocate, so that it
really was great abuse of children to
make them sweep. Now there are none
at all employed, but the man who
sweeps out the chimneys uses sort
of jointed pole, on the top of which is
revolving broom, and this brings
down the SCOT in fine style. The house
has to be cleaned after the sweeps have
been here, so we always have them just
before housekeeping time.
Sadie T.. Kaiser.
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