The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-07
QUEEN WILHEINIINA
 E. CELEBRATES TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY OF MARRIAGE

Queen WiIheImina of Holland will celebrate. to-day the twelfth anniver- sary of her marriage to Prince Henry of Meck1enburg- -Schwerin. The Dutch ruler has lately been afflicted by aiI-
 ments which-or so it is alleged by one of her physicians-ar due. to gluttony. The royal surgeon, Dr. Leds, declared that the Queens ap
 petite is more than 5Gargantuan." It is alleged that she consumes six meals a day. This is the physicians account.
 ''She begins the day with coffee and five pieces of dark rye bread and but ter, At ten o'clock she partakes of hot cakes and some cream cheese, with a glass of wine. Then at two comes a dejeuner of several courses. Russian tea and sandwiches are serv- ed at four. At eight o'clock she sits down to dinner with a, good appetite, and makes it the most important meal of the day. Finally, before retiring, the Queen has some wine and bis cuits.''
 The physician adds that her majes- tvs favorite dishes are roast beef and lamb, and that her favorite wines are tokay and champagne
 The Queen of the Netherlands was born in 1880. the daughter ofNthe late ter of Prince George Victor of Wal deck-Pyrmont. She married Prince Henry of scklenberg-Schwerin on Feb. ', 1901. and eight years passed before che stork visited the royal cas- tie and brought little Princess Ju- Hana, who, in the absence of male off, spring, will succeed .her mother. The Datch royal family, known as the house of Orange, is descended from the Princes of Orange, Stockholders during the Dutch republic.
 Lord and Lady Decfes will observe their paper-wedding anniversary to- the young and beautiful Helen Vivian Gould to: the altar on Feb. z. 1911. Lady Decies became the mother of daughter last year. Since the we'd ding and the subsequent honeymoon trip to Egypt, the Decfes have been living principally at Sefton Park, the best known of the several English es- tates of Lord Decies, but one of the smallest of them. Lady Decies was the second daughter of George J. Gould, head of the multi-nni1lionaire Gould dynasty. Since the ceremony of two years ago four of the brides maids who attended Lady Decies have married, and Lady deeiesa bachelor aunt, Helen Miller Gould, has also succumbed to Cupid's wi1es.
 It is not generally known that Charles Dickens, the novelist whose birthday is celebrated to-day, was the owner at one time of the worlds big gest bed. This was the very ancient Great Bed of Ware" in Herts. The eminent novelist, always fond of the novel and grotesQue, bought the bed when it was sold at auction in 1864. It is now in a museum. The Great Bed" was of a size to comfortably ac- commodate twelve people, and for centuries was an object of curiosity in Ware. Many tales have been told of the origin of the piece of furniture. One of them is to the effect that it was built a dozen centuries ago by a nobleman of a thrifty turn of mind who believed that it would be saw ing of bedclothes to have his family of ten children sleep in the same bed with himself and his spouse. Anoth- CT tradition relates that the bed was originally the property of a bigamous lord. #