The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-15

ease and died. Alexandra visited his
mother, attended the funeral. and gave
the stone erected over his grave. It
bears this legend, which shows how
gracious her tact "One was
taken, and the other was left"
There are numberless stories of her
simple goodness of heart and lavish
generosity.
When she came to England her
bountifulness of spirit made difficult
ties for her. She gave to all who
sought and could not believe, until
time demonstrated. that people were
preying on her well-known kindness.
The story of her betrothal to Ed
ward, debonair prince Of Wales, has a
tender touch of romance, for he fell
in love with her picture. She was the
daughter of a Danish prince, whose
house gave an empress to Russia and
a king to Greece, but her youth was
spent quietly in domestic pursuits.
Her father was not then king of Den
mark. The home was a simple one,
in which frugality and simple living
prevailed. There was a remarkable
bond of love between parents and
children, however, that sweetened all
the short shrifts necessary, and lasted
through all the. after years unbroken.
save where death interviewed. 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
STA. Here, it is said, she will retire.
in companionship with her sister.
Edward and Alexandra were mar
ried in 1868, 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
difficult 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 a 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,
superlative good nature and eager adj,
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 M
writer says, a veil seems to AVE
fallen between herself and the rest or
the world, SO that not ever 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
lions whatever. He Is no mixer" IN
the sense that King Edward a
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 workingmen OF the
East End. However that may be, 1t
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 a little puritan, which h 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
Alexandra's have been-or shall we
say that Queen Alexandra has allowed
it to appear? Queen Mary was born
to a great position.
Married to a nan 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 I'M
paralIeled popularity-it is but natural
to believe those who predict a 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 e~scutcheons.
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 1t 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 a thor
oughly well-bred court at st. James
hereafter, with a blue-blooded attend
ance. There will be no surprises IN
the way CT in~troductions therein OF
celebrities in arts not commonly rec
ognized as polite. For which reason
by many it is feared that it will be q
much duller court, too.