The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-07


always a pleasure to meet. Inns 10 .n'
~oman who. by no means young-indeed.
+bo world would call her old-has ye'
lived every day Of her life, and VINO IL
nor old DAVIS remembers with pleasure
tbe delights Of her eventful career
AS know her, she is seventy-se.en
years old, the childess widow or an ini !.
n,ensely rich Southerner who Weh'
abroad long before the war, hved the!e
ali through it and only came back Wltnin
the last five years, bringing her ueao
husband that he might rest WIN Ills
ancestors.
Dipnifed in manner, handsome in APP
pearance. witty in speech, this gentle
woman makes me wonder whether any
woman Of to-day will be like her wheh
she is old. | fear not. Ihey take
Ife too sadly and fail to find the proper
interest in people. Always this Ola
friend of mine tells me something that
interests ne. To-day it is of the time
when the Empress Eugene ruled not
enIv Paris. but all the world; when the
women dressed their hair after the
fashion she affected: when mysterious
stories went about Paris of the attempts
to tkiduap the little Prince Imperial,
that poor Prince Imperial whose death
was so tragic. Tomorrow | am hearing
of AntonclE, that wonderful man to
whom the world was a book which he
read with case; of his schemes, of his
public manner, and then of the trust
that he lepoSed in his American friends
because he thought them so natural and
so true. OF the little girl who was TAX
en- by the great Cardinal to see the
Pope; how. with the dignity of six years,
she said, Holy Father, bless these ro-
saries so it will no wear off, for they IL
have to go way across the ocean to
America" and of the mirth that the in
nocent speech excited in Plus TX.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S JEALOUSY.
Sometimes l hear stories of the great
Queen-she who celebrated her jubilee
but a few weeks ago-and these stories
tell of her when she was young, and OF
some of the mistakes that she made.
Perhaps you know this one; it is old, but
Il is new to me: When the Queen Of
England was first married she was in
tensely jealous of her husband. She
was by no means a beauty, and when
ever she saw him talking to a prettier
woman she not only suffered herself,
but she made that woman suffer. No
matter how innocent she was, no matter
tf the good Prince had only inquired
% to her health or her father, or given
the ordinary salutation of the day, IL
she seemed extremely beautiful in the
Queens eyes, then she had absolutely
10 excuse for her existence.
Among her ladies-those ladies who
take their turn in being beside the
Queen-was Lady Flora Hastings, the
beautiful daughter Of an aristocratic
Scotch family. Everywhere her beauty
was talked of, and everybody who knew
her, after speaking of her beauty, told
about her kindness of heart, her sweet
ness of manner, and the gentleneSs of
her spirit. One day, passing through
the corridor, the Queen saw her husband
laughing and talking with her lady in
waiting. That was enough. The Queen
accused her Of want of maidenly mo-
desty. The girl, in a dead faint, was
carried from the palace into the city.
The horror Of the implication brought on
her death, and to-day when the Queen
drives to her Highland home she is OBJ
iged to go past the grave of the girl
whose life she ruined How?
Instead Of burying her in the great
vault where her honored ancestors slept,
her sisters insisted on her being laid to
lands in Scotland which they knew the
Queen must pass by. And to mark the
spot and to call attention to it is an
enormous white marble hand with the
forefnger pointing to heaven. while en-
graved on the wrist are the words. ~
bide my time" None of that family ever
60 to court or speak to a member Of the
royal family. And the sisters, women
~ old as the Queen now. are satisfied,
because they know that God judges rich
and poor alike, and, biding their time,
Queen and gentlewomen will stand equal
before that Judge who can read the
heart Of each.
ROYAL AUTOGRAPH ALBUM.
We are all inclined to think, we who
only know of Kings and Queens far from
their thrones, that 20 them and to all
OF their blood there comes piety of
everything, and yet, my dear, gentlewo-
man possesses an autograph book which
bears upon it the monogram of Princess
Alice and the English coat-of-arms. 1t
had been one among many other presents
given at Christmas to the Princess
Alice. and she, standing before her
governess, said, Madame, am so poor
that haven't a sixpence with which TO
Ouy yOu a SuIiStudS gilt, Dut VIII you
take this book. which was presented TO
meY The Queen. entering and hearing
her daughters speech, said, "That's
right, my dear; give madame the sovenir,
and under your name / will put mine."
Years afterward, when the governess
taught the little American girl, she gave
her this percious volume to remind her
that although people might occupy high
places they did not always have the
most love- the most money, or the most
power. The ink is faded that was used
to write the name Of the gentle Princess
and her great mother. and the book is
1lled with the names of the great on this
earth. and oh, what lesson it is to look
at them and remember them!
Here's the name Of the great banker,
. Rothschild: his wealth could not keep
death from his door. Here's the name
Of the great Cardinal, whose name is