The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-01-23

So reigned nearly slAtF-threo
IA seven months-a longer reign
!, ~ any other monarch in an
veil as modern history.
10 IS the story of a little princess
,hont hope of throne, but early
:, her prospects. From the hour
eatpess dawned every moment was
,reparation for the high honor
,arsard came to her.
heautiful June morning Ia 1851
l-ina Victoria. only child OF the
Kent fourth son of George III
princess Victoria Mara Louisa
-ronurg- Saalicld. was notified OF
asslon to the throne of England,
S,rlhood OF this princess WITS like
cher royal children and WAS
,,th her dolls and her lessons.
Taught painting. cmbroidety and
~ be.ng graceful. She studied
snd shorrid mathematics" like
children. She was courted ana
hnt never spoiled. she grew into
.sessed, thoughtful and gracious
| yomanhood-
she was made a queen, WIN all
Imo and imperial snow oil medleVal
in Westminster AOnes Inc III
y. slender and willowy as she WIS
Hi. took her seat upon tne stone
II EDWARD, the Confcssor, assumed
&,ilgations of the greatest dignty
knoyn to earth. proceeded TO the
kltar, was crowned and her future
was blessed by the archplsiop OF
rbury, vicegerent OF the Ensilsh
she being its mead
began career OF Imperial sway
heycr has hhd It's equal.
tora chose for herself a huspnnd III
Prince Albert, who had niue TO
imend him besides his iiuo looks and
ted blood. The match wds NOT al
Her satisfactory to the ADVISERS OF
hrone but the young queen nau
| Of her own and had her way Inc
ne was an affair of nomentouG
As an event 1t shaped the career
4 queen Of England. While never
hating the mind of victoria, Prince
n certainly did on several lnemora-
jccaslons. by persuasion, steady the
II Of ,he queen.
history of the reign of Victoria |
most glorious in British annals.
Feat wars such as those of the time
or Wellington and Nell
Ii SET down. but the confines of the
Il have been vastly extended east
/ and southeastward. Her reign has,
|theless, been signalized by large
Ter Of wars. none of them against
European power save that against
Ia in the Crimea.
kinning as queen, she became
hpress Her government has exer-
Il potential part IN every reairanGe-
Of the m Up of Europe. Since her
klou the area of the British empire
becn doubled. Unlike her grand
i, George III, she has not snTrn-
any territory once officially made
In soil. So vast Is her imperial do
THAT on It "the sun never sets"
is the woman whose span OF life
been so broad that it encompasses
h three entire genera lions of living
Bnd women; this is the woman whose
did example as wife, mother AMI
eigp is worthy the study OF eVN-"
wAman. Married In 1910, widowed
lS6l she survived her husband
than thirtyeight years. OF her
children two have died, as well as
Of her sons-in-law. Her grand
rem include some of the monarchs
urope, among them the emperor OF
amy, the empress of Russia and the
ing grand duke and grand duchess
esse. The widowed empress Of Ger
and the reignlng duke OF Sake
rg and Gotha are her own children
crown prince and crown princess ot
e. the crown prince and crown
ess of Roumania and tho crown
g and crown princess of Sake Mein,
are her grandchldren,
snnlng I'm poverty, through the
OF her husband, and despite the
gatty OF her eldest son, she. by
economy accumulated fortune OF
'o'OOO' which Includes castles, coun-
mo town houses and much real es-
inc lady owned more than a hun
lots In the o'ty of New York! Sha
9 hrst English sovereign who has
Tree from debt throughout her
, u Is said that she saved money on
iNil lisl Whlch amounts to S3,VOO'Ooo.
was presbyterian in Scotland and
pscopailan In England, while on the
Deht she occasionally attended SER
at Catholic churches.
zen altogether, Victoria was the
English girl, the model English
ana the adored English mother The
~ term she applied to herself wds
o. Mother of Ny People"
're are nearly fifty grandchildren
'reat grandchildren of the queen liv-
.s sne may be truly said to have been
my great queen and empress, but
s. No other rnvsl san,,iy os ,no5.
mes has ever held within the circle
"a memnership so many crowns and
res. The descendants of Queen We
s s%''' Of m6 Great D, Britain nraba 3I
b S.sn'n twenty years the crowns Of
fNN SWAT tIlplIGS or Hflflln. ter