The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-02-12
Anecdotes of Victoria.

thority of her former tutor, Davys,
bishop of Peterborough. 1t describes
vividiy one of the most conspicuous
and honorable features in the nature
o. the woman and the queen, her
straightforward, answering honesty
The child had, childlike, been trif
ling over her lessons, which she was
| saying to her tutor in the presence
of her governess, when the Duchess
| OF Kent entered the room and asked
how the pupil was behaving.
She was a little troublesome
| once answered the governess.
No, Lehzen. twice Don't you
| remember" the small offender made
the conscientious amendment
The other story is told by Baroness
LchZen when she describes the
| means which were taken to enlighten
| the carefully guarded ignorance of the
girl in her twelfth year as to the de
gree of nearness in which she stood
to the throne.
The scene was the sunny upper
| room used for the princess school
| room, having the pleasant prospect
over the open gardens" with their
straight walks and round pond The
crisis was when Princess Victoria dis
covered the genealogical paper which
had been purposely slipped into her
book of history and expressed her
surprise at finding the table there
and was told that it had been judged
time she should study it.
Then with wide open blue eyes she
took in its meaning and sa.u eagerly
what she thought. The next words
| were the simple, heartfelt pledge, 'I
will be good" followed by the inno-
cent application of the knowledge
which had come to ner of the neces-
sity for learning Latin, which had
hitherto puzzled her, and again the
earnest promise, II will be good"
One autumn afternoon many years
ago her majesty was going out to sit
on a hillside and watch some of her
relatives fishing IN lne river below
her, when she found that she had no
thimble in her pocket so could not
work as she had intended at the
sewing she was carrying. Turning out
of her way to Mrs. Symonds shop,
| she bought the smallest thimble there
which was, however, many sizes too
big for her There was an old Scotch
dame at the counter, impatiently wait
ing to make her own purchases. Not
| recognizing the queen she broke into
| the conversation with "Hoots, but
| it S a rare fuss an faddle you're maxim.
Blow intae it weel, and it'll stick
That phrase the latter part of the
sentence, amused her majesty i'm
/ mensely, and became quite provero
! in the royal family.
Some years ago, when the queen
visited a certain sisterhood, she de-
sired the superior 10 show her the
place just as an ordinary visitor and
not to treat her as queen. The super
iOr agreed, and proceeded to conduct
her majesty all over the building. The
| served with veXatlon that wherever
| they went the sisters courtesied. At
last she remarked to her guide: Il
thought ! made you understand that
| wished to be treated as an ordinary
| visitor? Why, then, is every one
courtesying?" Pardon me, ma
dame replied the mother, you have
been Obeyed. The reverence shown
by the sisters was not intended for the
queen, but for me, their superior"
Queen Victoria had a great dislike
of smoking, and would not tolerate
the use of tobacco in her immediate
neighborhOod. And yet the cigar bill
for her guests was a very heavy one.
The principal item was the brand
of the finest Havana cigars, which are
specially made for her and sent to
Windsor in glass tubes hermetically
sealed. Queen Victorias cigars
could not be had even in Cuba at
wholesale prices under 81 each.
| The men who make them received
80 cents for each cigar, and none but
the oldest and most skillful wOrkmen
are intrusted with their manufacture.
At this rate they can earn quite Il
small fortune, for 300 cigars a day
can be turned out by the most expert.
| Queen Victoria was an excellent
Judge of music and in her youth was
no mean performer upon the piano,
though the story of her indifference
and nervousness while playing before
MendelssOhn on one occasion is we'll
known.
| Once when Jenny Lind was singing
before her the accompanist, who had
quarreled with the songstress, tried.
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