The times., 1898-02-20

brush, and declared that really she
| couldn't paint another stroke that day.
| and off she went to the Queens room to
| read the kilograms which had been re-
! ceived giving an account of the we'd
| ding.
Her Majesty Victoria has a decided
preference for water colors. and among
| her pictures are several of America n
scenery. She also has liking for il
Illumination, and as the Princess Beatrice
had delicate touch. the Queen suggest
ed that she try Illuminated texts, copy
! ing some old medieval ones. After hav-
! ing become somewhat accomplished in
! this art, Princess Beatrice illuminated
the copy of Thomas Kempis's Imita-
| tion,' which the Queen keeps with her
Bible for daily reading.
The princess's next work was fan
making, and she made for the Queen
| two pretty fans, one red geraniums on
white satin, the other blackberies on
pearl-colored satin, which were beauti-
fully mounted.
A Observation-Disclosures autograph
album is one of the Queens pet treas
ures; it was made at the time Of the last
jubilee but one, and all of the queens
royal guests Inscribed their names
therein. The book is bound in Italian
vellum and was painted by Princess
Beatrice, teacher. The cover has the
royal coat of arms. done in much gold
and royal purple, with the Queens four
| Observation-Disclosures Windsor, Os-
| borne and Balmoral--on the four sides.
| The border is of roSes-or was. When
| the cover was finished her ajesty re-
| gretted that she had not proposed the
| lotus. as symbolic of her Indian posses
| sions; accordingly the roses were
painted out and the lotus substituted,
| much to the queens satisfaction. The
fa II Al,
| and when examined with the magnify
| ing glass reveals, among other things,
800 windows divided up among the four
| palaces.
| The Queen and all the royal family
! have weakness for autograph books.
and never refuse their autographs to
| their friends, and the Queen, at her
| own suggestion, was the first to in
scribe her name In the autograph book
which the Princess Beatrice gave to
| her painting teacher. The English coy-
alties are most gracious in acknowledge
| ing gifts, whoever the giver may be- and
! Princess Beatrice took thought while
on her wedding journey to send her
| teacher thanks for decorating the sap
| phire blue curtains which Prince Henry
| had given her for her boudoir as a
wedding gift, enclosing at the same
time a photograph of Prince Henry.
| n
| ment with $500 a year. was the Prince
! of Wales's summing up of his brother
| in-law, who was never considered quite
good enough for the princess, but whom
| she adored.
Young Prince Alexander, the eldest
child Of Princess Beatrice, promises to
| be quite as handsome as his father; he
| is a privileged youngster with his
grandmamma, and often in his babyish
days used to be invited to take an air.
ing with the Queen in her pony carriage.
| The Queen promptly went to sleep, as
a rule, before she had taken many turns
about the palace grounds. Upon one oc-
casion, when little Prince Alexander had
been devoting much time to a lengthy
! tale, and at last discovered that his
grandmother had been sweetly slumber-
| ing, he put up one finger, and shaking 1t
| almost In her majestys' face, said: Fly,
fly, gran. you haven't heard word I've
| said