The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-22

challenged comparison WITH tatnarlne
of Russia, Margaret Of Nalois and tho
other man women of history. Her king
dom and reign had plenty OF literary
ornaments - rscorgc Eliot. Charlotte
Bronte, Harriet Martinean. The queen
portrayed TO every English home the
tender, affectionate, child bearing wom-
an, and thus her example upon the conn
try has been Of the greatest influence
upon It's domestic civilization. The high
est figure there is still like the Madonna
che who evasled no responsibility or M
ture's and by her fruitful wifehood pro-
lonsed her years and lived to see her
children's grandchildren.
Indeed tbs compensations for being
queen of England are not such as a friy-
olous woman anywhere would long en-
JOY. She cannot nirt - the kingdom
watches her. A widow at 49, she made
no overtarcs to marry anybody Even
her confidence in her old BOBBY, John
Brown, was liable 20 be misinterpreted by
low plans Of English criticism. Every
vote of money to her sons-in-law was
hailed with 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. aud there
fore hies to the sparse parts of Scotland
often, where the climates 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 oil 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 il 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 stone palace,
with hard, treeless stone yard, but re-
lieved by the appendage of fine forest.
Her London palace was an old, stilted
thing Her drawing rooms were held in
an old, low, brick palace. like stable.
The best the queen possessed, 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 cnnoble any man of the
art or literary fields whose private life
was tainted. A spotless walk. q 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 braEen and cunning and those
made prosp ous by low ways were turn
ed back VIII the lists were scanned.
She liked o Germans because they
were of her lineage, the Americans be-
cause they were of her race, and she be-
friended the French empress when abe
had nothing ambitious to hope for.
Victoria's reign has been great in her
subjects, in Bessemer, Bulwcr, Foley,
Faradsy. Darwin, Tennyson. She stands
above galaxy Of great gentleman like
their tutelsr saint. Her kingdom has
had unexampled prosperity, and she had
been opposed to war.
We are to mention that Victoria never
was born to the crown and never was
married to king,
Her father was ruined younger son
of king; her husband the younger son
of q poor German duke. The vices Of
her uncles emptied the throne OF good POS
terity and let her up. She married be-
fore she was spoiled, and her husband
was her own cousin. How many private
lives are there demure and acquiescent2
She has proved that "the meek shall in
herit ths earth"
The woman who paid her deceased
fathers debts in spirit Of honor he did
not have became empress of 100000. 900
of the oldest people and princes in the
world.
Had Victoria disdained her friend Leo
pold's advice to marry his nephew Al
bert, tho perils and batteries Of court So
ciety might have made her another Eliz-
abetb, but she hearkened TO advice and
blessed the poor young man with her
hand and awoke TO the blessings or ma
ture in smiling babes and the dignity Of
large motherhood. Eugene with one
babe mourns his barbarous death. Queen
Isabella of Spain loses her crown and is
an exile from her son. Victoria, nodded
by the hand of love and husbandry, sur
vived devery contemporary of hor corona
tion and takes precedence of the women
of all the world. Three queens" say
the English, Elizabeth, Anne, Victoria,
have given us cur greatest reigns."
1t is high treason In the queen to be
unchaste She would be tried by the
peers. She pays no toll, is relieved from
amercement in any court. Her husband,
however, does not commit high treason
IL unfaithful
Victoria surrendered at the commence
ment Of her reign her hereditary revenues
for the sum Of nearly g., ,000, 900 per an
mum. OF this hor purse received direct
$500, 900, her house and household ST.
5000; for aims, the court, ETC., the re-
inainder. Her probable personal income
was $500, 900 year clear, 10 times our
presidents, not including her own prop
erty. The Prince Of Wales receives
5000, 900, his wife $4,000, and each OF