The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-02-08
QUEEN ALEXANDRA
is LOVED BY ALL
Has Lived at Court for Many Years
aud Has Always Been a
Popular Fayorite.
FAsclNATEs BY HER GENTLENEss

~ SPAVo Oh f16r flfCy 1e0rB anu Cne reCG
That She Has Six Grandchildren
She Remains Youthful ii,
Appearance.
Alexandra of Denmark who now be-
comes queen of England and empress
of India, is one of the most fascinating
and popular women in the whole of
her husbands vast dominions, which
embrace one-quartcr Of the entire pop
ulation of the known world, writes
":ix-Attache" in the Chicago Tribune.
True, there are many women in Eng
lish society who are infinitely more
beautiful, whose figures conform far
more closely to the ideal Of the artist,
and above all, there are many. who
possess greater degree of brilliancy,
of dash and OF wit. Notwithstanding
all of this, wherever the gracious Wo-
man, who has now become queen, ap-
pears, not only does she become the
cynosure of all eyes, but more than
that. The lovelineSs of every other
woman present seems to pale, this,
too in spite of the fact that she is the
grandmother of six little ones, and
nearer 60 years of age than SO.
True, she remains amazingly youth
full in appearance thanks not so much
to those vulgar devices known as
making up" as to those judicious
cares that are entirely legitimate. For
instance. daily massage has been em-
ployed to help nature In warding off
wrinkles from the face, while the elas
ticity and elegance of the figure have
been retained by means of exercise,
moderation and diet to the same phe-
nomenal degree as in the case of the
1ato of a tho time r,f
her assassination.
Fascinates by Gentleness.
The hair is dressed in precisely the
same quiet and characteristic manner
Of twenty-five years ago, the head re-
tains the same dainty poise Of a neck
SO graceful that it conveys tire impress
sion of a slender stalk supporting a
flower, while the eyes assuredly have
neither dimmed nor changed, flashing
as in days of yore with fun or mis-
chief or else sweetly appealing in that
sort of pathetic manner peculiar to
people who are hard Of hearing. But 1t
is not this that makes the new queen
Of England so fascinating-that rem
ders her SO much more attractive than
people of immeasurable superior beau
ty. Nor can it be described as mag
netism. For magnetism implies some
thing that is violent and against which
one would be inclined to resist. But
1t is the sweet, gracious and kindly
manner that converts every man who
sets his eyes upon her into her sworn
admirer, and that even disarms the
jealousy Of women, Transforming them
into her devoted friends.
1t has sometimes been alleged that
the consort of Great Britain's new king
| 4: deficient in cleverness In fact,
ave seen it stated in print--manifestly
| ~ people who have never been brought
within the radius of her charms-that
she Is actually dull. True, she is not
! Intellectual in the sense of her sister
in-law, Empress Frederick, and it is
difficult to imagine her in the role of a
politician. But from the time Of her
marriage, eight and thirty years ago,
she has lived almost increasingly ex-
posed to that full glare Of publicity
which beats upon thrones, occupying.
by reason Of the seclusion of the late
queen, the role of first lady in the land,
at any rate in a social sense.
Has Made No Mistake.
! And throughout that entire period
she has not made one single mistake.
| She has known in her own friendly and
| calm manner the people whom 1t was
desirable that she should know. She
| has steered clear of all those acquaint-
| ances who might have given rise to ILL
natured comment. She has never lost
her head, never been guilty of anything
| that could be construed as partaking
| of faux pas and has by means OF
! the atmosphere Of ideal refinement
which she seems to diffuse around her
kept within bounds the tendency OF
| modern society to exuberance and vul-
garity, and, perfect in tact, has pre-
l se1lted through her married life q pic
| ture of the most unruffled domestic
happiness
Finally, in an age where calunlny Is
| 50 rife and all-preyalent that not ever
an angel descended from heaven woulc
/ be permitted to retain the celestial gar
| ments unsullied and the wings unruf.
I fled, no breath of scandal has ever tar.
1 nished the name of England's new
| queen. Surely when one considers al
! the temptations of one kind and an
other to which woman in the position
OF this one, who has until now borne
4 the title of Princess of Wales. Is ex
/ posed averyone intent on hatterint
her and many endeavoring In vain tt
| poison her mind against those whom
1 they wish to oust from her favor, tn,
] fact that she could be without singl,
4 mistake to her record indicates that IA
i from being a dull or foolish person sh,
must be possessed of extraordinar.
cleverness-the most delightful! con
trast that 1t is possible to conceive t,
her immediate predecessor as princes
OF Wales, the infamous and, above ali
the appallingly gross and vulgar con
sort of King George ~.
Z. Many Deeds of Charity.
Equally mistaken 10 the impressio