Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-07-14

the short shrifts necessary, and lasted
through all the after years unbroken,
save where death intervened. This
is In part demonstrated by Alexan-
dra's recently establishing her sum-
mer home near Copenhagen with her
sister, the dowager empress of Rus
sia. Here, 1t is said, she will retire,
in companionship with her sister.
Edward and Alexandra were mar
ried in 1863, when she was but nine
teen. In all the years since then,
during which she has had to pass
through the ordeal of getting ac-
quainted with the English people, and
has had to maintain a tremendously
diff social role as princess and
queen, not one single social blunder
has been charged against her.
She has shown herself to be "a
woman of singularly blameless life,
loving and lovable," as one chronicler
puts it. You cannot review her life
without getting the impression that
generally prevails about her in Eng
land, that she is a woman of superla.
tive goodness of character. And not
without keen intelligence, or she
could never have picked her steps so
carefully as neither to give offense
nor seem to be offended.
For 81 years the wife of prince
whose scope, both by inclination and
circumstance, was entirely social, a
good fellow" in the widest sense of
the word, a man of boundless energy,
euperlative good nature and eager ad-
miration for brilliance and wit in
either man or woman, Alexandra main
tanned a character SO self-contained,
so truly pure and good, that, as one
writer says, q veil seems to have
fallen between herself and the rest or
the world, so that not even her most
spontaneous act brings her near to
common human nature.
Tasks Ahead of King George.
About King Georges past there
hangs a romantic rumor of a NOR
ganatic marriage with the daughter
of Admiral Seymour. He has made
a good husband, however, being with
out any good fellowship or club no.
tions whatever He is no mixer" in
the sense that King Edward was.
They say that while many members
of his fathers court did not know
him by sight when he succeeded King
Edward, his was a familiar figure in
the councils of the workngmen of the
East End. However that may be, it
certainly listens good" in the pass
in which King George finds himself
today, called upon to stem the tide Of
one of the greatest political reyolts
that Great Britain has ever known.
In her pictures Queen Mary has the
face of little puritan, which she is
said to be. Her training has not been
such as to liberalize her views social
ly. at any rate in the way that Queen
Alexandras have been--or shall we
say that Queen Alexandra has allowed
it to appear? Queen Mary was born
to a great position. Her mother was
a favorite English princess and the
English people have never concealed
that of all women she would be the
choice for Englands queen.
Married to man sharing her quiet
tastes, her lack of particular care
for fashion and the ostentation of
wealth-in fact, of everything that
King Edward stood for, including un-
paralleled popularity-it is but natural
to believe those who predict start
ling reversal to the manners of Queen
Victoria's court in England; chiefly in
the rigid exclusion from royal circles
of all persons who cannot back up
brilliancy, beauty or richness with
blue blood and unspotted escutcheons.
Already Queen Mary takes out a
piece of needlework or a bit of GRO
cheting for the poor after dinner in
the drawing-room and works at 1t
standing up, for she believes that it is
good for the health to stand up after
dinner.
OF course, the only thing for the
ladies of the court to do is to follow
suit So they, many of whom gathered
around the pleasant bridge tables or
evenings heretofore, stand also ana
teach their stiff, unaccustomed fingers
the gentle art of welding the ladylike
needle again.
1t is probably going to be n thor
oughly well-bred court at St James
hereafter, with blue-blooded attend !
ance. There will be no surprises in
the way of introductions therein of |
celebrities in arts not commonly rec !
ognized as polite For which reason |
by many It is feared that It will be a !
much duller court. too, Which, of |
course. remains to be seen
An Amazlnn People.