The Tupelo journal., 1910-07-15

thing not woven in British realms.
| She is no s-portSwoman. She likes to
| skate, but will skate on nothing but
natural ice. She is a gentlewoman,
and will have none but gentlewomen
about her, so freak dinners" and
cotillon presents running into four or
five figures are about as likely to win
her sufferance as murder or arson. I
Queen Mary is very good to the
poor, literally aiding bazars, etc. She
has guarded her privacy jealousy, has
reared five splendid children, one of
whom is a girl, and has allowed her
self to be photographed in an enga-
ging picture with the young prince Of
| Wales riding ~pickaback on her shout
ders.
Queen Mary was brought up in a
straight-laced, rigid fashion by her
mother, who SEM her to bed instead
of to parties. Mary is a cousin, twice
removed, of King George. She was
engaged to the duke of Clarence, the
heir apparent, who died in 1892.
Against Alexandra's will, but greatly
to the Joy of Queen Victoria and the
English people, who longed to see an
England princess on the throne. be-
ing against any more German alliances
for the reigning house, she was o
owe to al engagement with her for
mer betrothed's younger brother,
George. They were married on July
6, 1898, when Mary was about twenty
six years old.
Their Realm the Home.
1t is a curious fact from this point
of view that there is no part of such
a role not open for emulation to the
poorest wife and mother among all the
subjects Of these queens.
Both Queen Alexandra and Queen
Mary are famous throughout Great
Britain as splendid h~ousekeepers, ex-
quisite needlewomen, practical moth
ers, with thorough understanding OF
the care of nurseries, and educators
of their young children. AS house
wives and mothers they have lived
with a single-minded devotion, not
| surpassed by the most rigid of British
matrons.
To be sure no evidence appears
that either of these women is highly
| endowed intellectually, or could by
force of her brilliancy and wit reign
over salons. But they might have
tried. That their natural promptings
have been to devote themselves to
home and children indicates much,
however, and the force of example has
been something tremendous.
Helen Vacaresco, the Roumanian
writer, tells of seeing Alexandra in her
youth. She pictures her as of fairy
like beauty, with the loveliest of blue
| eyes, the sunshiniest Of golden hair,
and the walk of a goddess.
Lady Randolph Churchilrs "Remin-
! iscences" bring her nearer, for Lady
| Churchill is too brilliant a woman to
be satisfied with drawing merely a
lay figure of royalty. She spent some
time at Sandringham with the prince
and princess of Wales, and her de-
lineation of the woman whose dress
ing table was so crowded with pic
lures of her children and bibelOts that
Suc udu III place vi SOlhU VI toAASe
articles, has the human touch. An
aged white parrot occupied the stand
of honor in the middle of Alexandra's
| dressing-room, where he was as
cross as only an old parro, a be.
Lady Churchill tells how the prin-
cess used to rap unexpectedly on the
door of a guests room at night ,os-
tensibly to ask if the guest was COM
Portable, but really to speak a little
word of sympathy, advice or encour-
| agement, according to what had oc-
Cured during the day to necessitate
it. The princess had abnormally keen
| eyes for sorrow and trouble, she says,
and won all hearts by her unfailing
sympathy.
Has Known Sorrow.
In 1871 Princess Alexandra lost q
| child. Later in the year Edward lay
almost at the point of death with ty-
phoid. During his sickness a stable