The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-13


day, Dec. /, is celebrated by tea party
to the 500 school children on the estate
On this occasion the queen and her
( daughters wait upon the children and
play games with them. AT Christmas
there is gorgeous tree, thirty. feet high,
with presents for everybody, and on the
kings birthday there is dinner. to the
laborers.
This anniversary comes on Nov. 9, and
there is always a shooting party. with
luncheon served in a tent where all the
guests of the house come together OF
course, there is the inevitable o'clock
tea, which the queen herself pours Din
ner is at o'clock. Everybody who has
stayed at Sandringham, says Mrs. Tooley
pronounces it the pleasantest and most
homely of country houses. The queen
personally visits the rooms of her guests
to see that nothing is wanting. At least
she did SO when she was princess or
Wales.
For years it was family custom to
walk around the estate onSSunday after
moons.
The queen petted her horses and fed
them carrots and other equine da.hties
The family party went to the kennels.
The head-keeper's wife always had two
| dainty baskets ready, filled with pieces
| of bread. The queen put on a large
| white apron, opened the kennel doors and
| distributed the contents of said dainty
baskets. And the authority adds that
while the dogs won't touch bread when
! offered by a mere keeper they will scru-
/ pulously devodr every crumb coming
! from the hands of. their mistress.
After the dog episode the family party
goes to the pleasantly the bantam
rearing ground, the dove house, and
! SO on. winding up at the dairy tea room
| for the Indispensable o'clock
| Apropos of bread there is story Of
days gone by which Mrs, Tooley- tells
to illustrate the queens ready sympa-
! thy. Lord Beaconsfield was once cutting,
or trying to cut, refractory dinner roll,
! but the act, difficult enough anyway, was
| further aggravated by his turning to
] make some cour.ly remark to the Prin-
I cess of Wales, who sat beside him. The
knife slipped and he cut his finger. The
princess instantly devoted herself to Civ
/ Ing first aid to the injured by binding
! up the statesmans wound. During the
process he bowed and said:
when I asked for bread they gave me
stone, but had princess to bind my
wounds
Another story was about Tennyson. who
had written an ode at the time of the
prlEceSs arrival in England. The ode
left nothing to be desired in the way of
praise and Qualification 1t was several
years before the princess met Tennyson
and then wanting to be gracious and
having forgotten just how laudatory the
ode had been. she asked him to read it to
her. The poet started in all right but
as he Waded deeper and deeper through
the honeyed verses, the praised and
pra1ser went from embarrassment to hi
larity and ended with a burst of laugh
ter
Countless stories are told of the kind
ness and thoughtfulness of Queen Alex
aEdra- Charity begins at home and 1t is
worth noting thatttlfe Sandringham peo-
pie adore their mistress who is also
their queen AT one, little. cottage, a. WON.
an says:
Yes. I've been unable to get about all
winter, and soon as the queen heard /
was too i'll to attend to myself she sent a
| nurse to stay with me- She's been here
four months and her majesty has been
several times to see me-
The only child of the keeper of the
kennels was lying-at the point of death.
but the man seemed to be cheered by a
telegram from the queen at Windsor
telling of her anxiety and her sympathy
The queen thought a lot of our little
| girl, he said, and somehow the queen
seems to have that rare gift of making
| everybody feel that She thinks a lot of
/ them. Mrs. Tooley visited a neighboring
| hospital one day and found the place
! bubbling with excitement because the
/ queen had just been there in her motor
car.
ct was most specially to see me,
| ma am, that the queen came remarked
an old lady who had burned her face by
accidentally setting fire to her cap. You