The age-herald., 1901-01-27
The Qualities That Made Vic-
 tOrias Life Notable LOCAL GOLF ENTHUSIASTS
The Society Woman and Her Char- ties The Bachelors Dinner and Many Other Brilliant Events
 in the Social World
BY ANNIE kENDRICk WALKER.

It Is notable that the millions of tributes to the Queen and expressions of condoence for England, indeed in the entire review of the Victorian era, wherever an English heart has given expression to its ad- oration or its grief, that it Is the life of the woman linked with that of the sovereign that is acknowledged today as making lu- minous the unparalleled reign of Englands Queen-conceded now, unaided by histori- ans and undimmed by years, to have been pre-eminently the greatest in England's history, this reign upon which young wo- man entered Queen and left it an Elm press. Through all it's fascinating history with which historians will deal, the depths into which they will plunge in their records of the British Empire during the nineteenth century, all the agitatons of the tme there will live in England's history the memory of the woman whom all England loved, and in whom all men and women whether or not they had sworn allegiance, have recognized the qualities that are rever- enced Tn woman be she Queen or subject.
 It is this recognition that causes the pass ing of the Queen to appeal with deeper sadness to the hearts of American women, who mourn with England in the loss of her beloved sovereign. The American women, in adding their voices to the sympathetic note that Is echoing around the world, will place the whitest emblem upon the bier of the Queen, a circlet that gleams more ra- diant than the jeweled one that rested up- on her fair brow that memorable morning when she stepped upon Englands throne. This white circlet will represent the unbro- ken esteem and reverence in which the Queen was held by American women, the unity with which American women have acknowledged the ideal attributes of the wife, the mother, the woman The tribute of American women should essentially be of the womanly side of the Queen and In American households today it will be the personal events in the life of the Queen that will be recalled rather than the re- markabe episodes in the mighty empire over which she ruled. The coronation, the romance, the personal sorrows, the great jubilees of her reign, and at it's close the grief of the woman over the disasters of the Boer war.
 Americans discussing London when the Queen drove through it's streets on the occasion of her jubilees, when anthems and te deums were sung for her in cathedrals and village chapels; when the throngs that choked London's streets added their shouts to those of the "jackies'' and Tommy At kns;" when from the whole civilized world the cry went up, "God save the Queen," cry which was sung brokenly a night or two ago in the London clubs. American women too, will speak of the London draw ing rooms-of their presentations to Eng lands Queen.
 But the personal side of this greatest of all English women, her affection for her household, her intense devotion to the memory of the Prince Consort, her gener- osity to the poor, her beautiful piety her entire domestic relations-it is these char acteristics that appeal to American women. It is said that the Queen was as much the mother of her children as any laborers wife, and that where the houses of nobility were overrun with professional nurses. that England's Queen nursed her own chill dren and knew all that was taking place in her household. She personally super vised the education of her children. Ameri- can women will recall today another strong trait of the Queen. The friendship of wo- men is a great test of character, and that which existed between the Queen and Eu- genie of France was of such a nature as to impress the most frivolous court beauty of either France. or England. The Queen