Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-01-23

ness, to the sober and often hard aspect
of the realm.
That she possessed any exceptional
mentality was never probable. She took
rather than gave advice and illustrated
the wifes vow, wherein lies the secret Of
a wife's happiness, to ''love, honor and
obey" Il am glad | am not descended
from Elizabeth, but from the queen Of
Scots" shows her respect for the abused
wife over the abusing virago. She was
not a descendant of Henry VIII, who ex.
ecuted his wives, but of Henry VII and
of Edward " Far back in her origin
was the bastard sonship Of Duke William
of Normandy, and before him of Role
and nameless Norman pirates.
The extracts l have given from the
| queens book are such as any young miss
might have entered or any plain wife
expressed. She did not challenge liter
airy criticism nor pose for member Of
| SOrosis. In that case she would have
challenged comparison with Catharine
| of Russia, Margaret of Valois and the
other man-women of history. Her king
! dom and reign had plenty of literary
ornaments - George Eliot, Charlotte
Bronte, Harriet Martineau. The queen
| portrayed to every English home the
| tender, affectionate, child bearing wom-
| an, and thus her example upon the coun-
| try has been of the greatest influence
| upon it's domestic civilization. The high.
est figure there is still like the Madonna,
she who evaded no responsibility of ma
/ aY,1
longed her years and lived to see her
children's grandchildren.
| Indeed the compensations for being
queen of England are not such as a friv
olous woman anywhere would long en-
| Joy. She cannot firt the kingdom
watches her. A widow at ~, she made
no overtures to marry anybody, Even
her confidence in her old BOBBY, John
Brown, was liable to be misinterpreted by
a low plane of English criticism. Every
vote of money to her sons-in-law was
hailed with a cry in the socialistic prints
of another German eating our bread.
AS has been shown, several attempts had
been made to assassinate her. Privacy she
can only have after fashion, and there
fore HES to the sparse parts of Scotland
often, where the climate is cold and show
cry. She cannot leave the realm at viii
any more than the queen bee can leave
the hive. Sometimes she went abroad in.
cognito, well watched well begged from
Her girls were her treasures. Her boys
went off and got their wives. Her eldest
son was fond of free and vivacious com
pany, and she saw most of him when he
was sick. Her length Of life she knew
must awaken hard thoughts in them who
would reign in her stead.
She loved glass of beer, but it made
her fat. Her real home was Windsor
castle, an hour from London, among the
bones of her predecessors dull little
village dominated by an old stonypalace
with a hard treeless stone yard, but re
ieved by the appendage Of a fine forest
Her London palace was an old, stilted
thing. Her drawing rooms We're held in
an old, low, brick palace, like stable
The best the queen possesseS next to
her family and her education, was the
society of her distinguished subjects.
who had sometimes read to her Tenny
son, Dickens, Norman Mcleod, Dean
Stanley.
She refused to ennoble any man of the
art or literary fields whose private life
was tainted. A spotless walk, domes.
tic diploma, she demanded from these
Her receptions were not scanned like
those of some of our senatorial parve-
nues, to see if an obscure person got in,
but the brazen and cunning and those
made prosperous by low ways were turn
ed back when the lists were scanned.
She liked the Germans because they
were of her lineage, the Americans be.
cause they were Of her race, and she be-
friended the French empress when she
had nothing ambitious to hope for
Victoria's reign has been great in her
subjects, in Bessemer, Bulwer, Foley
Faraday Darwin, Tennyson. She stands
above a galaxy of great gentleman like
their tutelar saint. Her kingdom has
had rnevamnled prosperitv. ard she had