The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-06-17

| going to INDEPENDENTLY as a means
| of tification--rather than of those
really royal traits about which there is
no dispute. 1t Is of an auburn hue, in
clining to what woman, if she were
sitting in judgment upon another wo-
man, might maliciously call red"
But I do not so call it; | resent the i'm
putation and call it auburn. Both the
! Queen and the Princess Victoria were
| topped off in this shade--of that l am
| certain, and I'm almost as certain that
the tint favored by the other royal la
dies is the same. 1t is insisted, indeed,
by that American who shares the sor-
rows and observations of your cores
pondent, without partaking of the OBJ
| tuseness of his sex, that most of the
| London women seem to have hair of
| this shade on occacions of ceremony.
This, perhaps is too sweeping a con-
/ clusion. But at any rate it would not
be safe to rely wholly upon this sign as
a means of Identifying royalty. For
this, better trust to the crown on the
| carriage than to the hair on the head.
Now, however, that these playful re-
marks are put down in black and
white, how trifing they seem in COM
parison with that tribute of apprecia-
ton which my American pen is just
burning to pay to queen who is held,
am certain, in as much general re-
spect as that which was felt for the
/ good Victoria herself and who, should
she live as long, will surely be owed as
| we'll How delightful that in the
| years since this writer last saw her
| time has so little changed the lovely,
innocent youthfulness of her sweet
| face. 1t Is indeed a sweet face and a
young looking face. Impossible would
it be to suspect her from either face or
hair or manner, of being several times
over a grandmamma or of approach
| ing in years that habited, grey
bearded and rather bald, but still king
| 1y looking man whose throne she
shares
| After basking once or twice in the
| gracious smiles with which Queen AL
exandra always greets even the most
lowly of her subjects, one reads the
good things that are said Of her in her
personal relations to the needy and af-
flicted with the feeling that they ought
to be true whether they are or not
oLC vi tllC piGttICoI VI lllGSe SlUlleS 10
that in the hall of Marlborough House
a seamstress was sitting, when a lady
passed, who, on learning the girls err
rand, took her aside, and after exam
lining the garments she had brought
discovered in conversation that she
was the support of a widowed mother
and was too poor to buy a sewing ma
chine. The result of this Interview
was that gifts Of delicaces often found
their way to this girls home, and at
Christmas a sewing machine arrived
with card which proclaimed it "a
present from Alexandria" that afford
ing the first knowledge the girl had of
who it was who, upon the occasion of
her visit had shown her so much sym
pathy
Proverbial is it, too, that in all the
traits which betoken kindness of heart
and the disposition to unbend, this
newly exalted queen is fully matched
by her liege lord. Just now the pa
pers are reviewing Henry Broadhurst's
story of his own life, in which he tells
how he rose from a stone masonic
bench to a place in Mr.. Gladstone's last
cabinet. This horny-handed son of
tOll Was HlUre llldll once entertained at
Sandringham. His first visit covered
three days. He was without a dress
coat. The prince knew he did not pos
sess a garment of this kind, and told
him to come just as he was. Mr..
Broadhurst testifies that he was never
entertained more to his liking and
never felt more at home "On my ar
rival" he says Ibis Royal Highness
personally conducted me to my rooms,
made a careful inspection to see that
all was right, stocked the fires. and
then, after satisfying himself that all
my wants We're provided for, withdrew
and left me for the night"
The princess, he tells us, showed him
over her dairy and the prince over his
model cottages To the village club
the prince also took him. This, it ap-
pears, was a sort Of model public
house "The prince invited me- says
Mr.. Broadhurst, "to partake of re-
freshment We had a glass of aleI each
and sat down in the club-room, where
we found several farm laborers enjoy
ing their haf-pints and their pipes
No excitement, no disturbance, no I'M
comfortable feeling was evinced by
those present, and the prince put on no
air of condescension or patronage to-
ward them" Mr., Broadhurst adds
that "the ale was good" but he was
chiefly impressed with the strength of
the chairs and tables. IT remarked to
the prince that the chairs looked as
though they were of the best build"
Yes said the prince, they are firm
seats; many politician wishes his \
was as safe" SO the stories go, and
such little incidents as these, showing |
how human and how free from affecta7
ton are the members of the royal fam
ily,, are the things which keep royalty
solid and make it as the years pass
increasingly popular.
True it is that some would be glad to |
get rid of royalty and all the privileges |
for which it stands.
Those brainy, large-h headed reformers /
would, whose meeting I attended just
before 7 saw the king return from his I
memorial visit to Sir Thomas Upton. /
They We're discussing the chance Of
getting back from the crown and the |
mobiles all the land of these islands, so
that it's products might be shared by |
rich and poor alike and the expenses /
of government be drawn from a single 4
tax on land values. The dream of that .
great and good man Henry George,
and this meeting was one of the re-