The herald., 1897-06-20
AS WOMAN
AND QUEEN
Victoria Has Won World
Wide Fame
4 CORRESPONDENTS TRIBUTE
KIND WORDS BESTOWED BY
BRITAIN'S RULER
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Knows by Name Every Member of
Her Household From Drawing
Room to Kitchen
Special Correspondence to The Herald.

Special Correspondence to The Herald.
LONDON, June 6-Only those to
her majesty has been accorded can ade-
quately realize how great in her good
ness, how commanding is her intellect,
and, with all her simplicity Of heart and
sweetness of manner. how immeasurably
superior is our beloved queen. That she
herself is the last to know this but makes
her power the more complete, for her
majesty is the essence of an unaffected
and natural warmth of feeling which
reaches all hearts. and Of which she her
self is the least conscious. Many an eve
has moistened at the queens kind words,
when am sure her majesty has felt sur
prised why those before her were go
much touched. Those who are await
ing an interview for the first time often
speak of their nervousness, and express
q wish that the ordeal Gas some are too
apt to call iD were over; but it needs a
very few minutes only to dispel their
who have ever left the queens presence
without regret that the interview could
not be prolonged and also with a warm
desire to be received again.
The moment her majesty enters the
room those who are awaiting her feel
that, beyond the presence of great SOW
ereign, true friend has come to them
one in whom they can trust; one whose
kindness of heart and sense of Justice
will never fail them, and further and
more intimate knowledge of the queen
and of her life but intensifles and justi-
fies their first impression.
There is natural dignity in her man
ner which probably has never been
equaled, and it has nothing of that chill
ing influence too often diffused by those
whose dignity is a mere assumption.
and not as with our queen, the outward
and visible sign Of inward grace. She has
heart which never forgets; no matter
how long the interval may be, she re-
members and inquiries after all connected
with those to whom she is speaking.
There is not servant in her several
households of whom she does not know
something, and in whom she is not, on
occasion, quickly and sincerely inter-
ested.
The sympathy of her majesty in all ac-
cidents, misfortunes and personal griefs
is too widely known to need remark here,
but l may add that the solicitude of the
queen which Is made public bears no
proportion to the ever-active sympathy
she feels and testifies to in private, and
which is of daily, almost hourly, occur
renee.
Amid affairs of state, family interests
and the numberless and incessant calls
upon her time and attention, the quee;,
always has a kind thought and a kind
word for those who need either, anS
in all the domestic relations of her life
as daughter wife and mother-she has
set the most touching as we'll as the
most exemplary of examples.
BY this train of thought am brough.
to the queen as mother, and surely
there cannot be mothers, heart among
US that will not warm up towards her
who has SO truly been a mother to he-
people, as she has indeed been a be-
loved and honored mother to her own
children.
From the outset our queen recognized
English family life and in the CARRYING
out of this principle the prince consort
and herself devoted themselves to the
personal superintendence of their chill
dren, making of their palace simple
"home"-in many ways far simpler than
those of numbers OF her subjects-and
spending in the nursery what spare mo-
ments they could steal from their royal
duties, to play with their children, some
times like children themselves, and to
show an interest as real as it was help
ful, In all the pursuits and occupations
OF the young princes and princesses.
More than one story has been told OF
Prince Albert being surprised on "all-
fours," with one or two children on his
back, for whom he was turning himself
into a horse; of the others running TO
the queen, as to the poorest and sim
plest of cottage mothers, as indeed her
grandchildren and great-granchildren
do now.
The published photographs of the
queen, with the infant princes and prin-
cesses, speak for themselves to those
who have eyes to see, for there is
mother" in every line of her face and
near the little child.
No poor person, no hospital, no char
ity, no suffering soul, where the appli-
cation was deserving one, ever ap-
pealed to the Queen in vain.
The world at large is tempted occa.
sionally to think in a vague manner thai
royal charity IS one of the easiest of
acts, that princes and princesses can
"give anything they please" by stroke
of the pen; that, in fact, they "ought
always to give" and these opinions are
repeated with many varia tions.
Verify, in this case do fools rush in
where angels fear to tread" for those
who speak in this manner have no
knowledge, and not the slightest con-
ception. Of the manifold difficulties
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