New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-24
QUEEN VICTORIA'S BIRTHDAY.
TT Will. RE CELEBRATED BY THE BRITISH
SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES CLUB.

TT Will, RE CELEBRATED Bf bfNil iofi
SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES CLUB
Queen victo1a's birthday is to be celebrated
this evening by tho British Schools and Universe
ties Club AZ their third annual dinner 10 be given
n, the Holland House The Queen" and Tho
President" arc 10 be the chief toasts Bishop Pot
ter Rear-Aimiral Henry Erben and other promi-
nent speakers will respond 10 tho toasts. What
We owe 20 the Schools and Universities mo
United States Navy" and Great Britain ana the
United states: Peacs and Universal Civilization.
To-day in hundreds OF English homes the world
over the same toast that greeted tho young Queen
On her accession Is again Loyalty responded TO In
The Queen! God Bless Her.
From the American woman's standpoint. how
ever I, IA no, 20 much the Queen-rnonarch who ap-
p.ais ~ her heart as the Queen-wornan' WIFE ana
mother and sympathetic friend
Into affair. OF state the complexities OF treaties
IN. mysteries OF diplomacy and tho 'ntrisue' OF
factions all may not enter. but we all nave 70
l,v. our lives" 10 quote an English writer ana
70 make our homes and Il is because tho queen
has livet her NE and made her home for fno'e
than ,hre>-cor~ year. before the gaze Of all her
.ubiec;r who doing the same thing IN their
cottages and villas that she IS known and loved
and r.vercd throughout the world"
Tho Queen by nature not keen politician
She would have preferred the simple round. tho
common task but destiny chained her 70 the
oar O, state as we'll. and wisely has she carried
Queen as tru. 70 wornanhood queenhood.
In sories Of her people.
S,rrowng with the sorrovs o! The lowest
When Queen victoria assembled TO the throne the
roval family had dwiniled down 70 mensre proper
ton. tho drec, line OF succession being centred
IN horsolr an only child To-day the reigning SOW
erelgn can count AZ least eighty descendants
and has lived 20 see the third generation OF her
dire; heirs 10 the British crown But OF her
earlv friends and advisers none are left DirrAeu
Nncaulay Wordsworth Tennyson, DICKENS
Tharkrray Melbourne. Russell sherorooke' Dean
e,nnl.v and now Gladstone have all passed on pc
fore - O...,. oor. Tor
Nor soldlers Is OF especial interest. A writer IN
.-rhe Woman NJ Home" gays that tho nrst puOhc
Mace visited by her after her husbands death was
Getlev Uosuitnl and she greatly touched oy "a
d,Jng soldier lf,ing his eyes 10 her ana Saying
,i,nk cod that He has allowed me 10 i've lonR
enough 10 sec Your Majesty with my own eyes
Ys,riSr another visit she talked with n man VINO
had been shot through the lungs al Lucknow A.
Ter the Egyptian campaign she dehgghtea M IN
mates by the gift ~ hvc knitted quilts one pelnS
entirely her own work and bearing me roya.
crown and the initials ~. r., In tho corner a,
NO limo she proved her regard for the noble oah1
- ntirses by establishing the order OF me re!
Cross ,or Ladies' The installation 'ooK plhce as
windsor Castle when tho Princess or WIS anu
,,a Princess Beatrice were me nrst names IN
,niled and ten women nurses receiver ne ho,u'
for their services IN the Zulu and Egyptian cam
pniCue.