The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-06-13
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LONDON. June 13.---While thou
sands OF dirty-faced ragged children
screamed applause and beery-faeed.
frowsy mothers roared o deeper
tone, the Queen OF England and the
Princess Mary drove 10 North Lam
beth to open new public kitchen
for the Food Controller. The queen
|lsdied ont boiled rice with her own
royal hands and the princess col
iectei the food tickets and speared
them ON the files until over a.oou
meals had been served,
London's great extremes Of riches
and squaior were never shown IN
more decisive contrast
The little vicar Of the neighbor-
hood church bent himself almost
double end his face was red as the
mayors scarlet robe when Queen
Mary shook his hand and said how
do you doe" His little son of three
years. all diked out in starchy sun
eay-school clothes. wriggled with
I ehildish diffidence at the touch OF
the queens hand on his baby cheek.
| The queen" said the vicar after
! ward. THE queen; she shook hands
With me and she gave my little boy
a pat on the cheek. The queen
asked me is this your little son..
The queen did that.
| After the movie men finisned
shooting the royal mother and her
daughter the neighborhood began
to file past the food counter. Soup
bowls, pitchers. platters. plates.
saucers and buckets. some washed
as they had never been washed be-
fore, others with their natural dem
ocratie coat OF grease were showed
into the white-gloved hands OF the
| elegant lady in gray. The lady
/ would smile and ask. What do you
want? Rice9 Roast Beef" The
queen did that These unwashed.
Thrown toothed, yellow-complexioned
ratiyes OF the neighhorhood were
going to eat food served by the
queen herself.
Some were SO overcome by the
| event that they tilted their plates
and spattered the floor with rice
pudding. Said Queen Mary TO one
cairk-haired young womtn. Are
these your children" They are,
mum" the girl replied. They
are, all seven of 'em. Thank you
num- She Strengthened the little
brood into single file and marched
cut at the head of her own pro-
l eession, carrying plates of boiled
rice. geIatine pudding and roast
heel
Princess Mary without looking at
the reference books, is about nine
teen. She would be rated a pippin
AT any junior prom in any Ameri-
can school. A high school senior
would notice that she has pretty
tlue eyes and the kind Of mouth
that was made for tut-sundaes at
The corner drug store on these hot
summer evenings. Standing always
close to her mothers side, sic seem
cd slightly fused" during the cere-
monial presentations. Her hands
shifted somewhat neryously, while
her pink cheeks flushed deeper
rink. At the doorway of the food
kitchen stood London Bobby,
straight and soldierly. His job was
to regulate the flow of customers.
An inguisitive fox-terrier, dirty in
harmony with the neighborhood and
sniffing hopefully the scent of roast
reef, was shooed away by the cop.
tndaunted. the purp hid among the
Lext batch of customers and sneak
ed in to have look at the queen.
And he was such a neryy, persistent
little euss that the titled ladies clus-
tered her majesty allowed him TO
stay. Good bye" said the queen
TIC the various people when the
neighborhood has been fed.
Even a queen can't be expected
TO distinguish in a crowd between
those who have been presented to
her aud those who haven't. So
Queen Mary nodded and said good
hye' 10 an ordinary American re-
porter. 1t fused" him little,
but he mustered his party manners
and got off a goodbye" OF his
own. Princess Mary didn't MAKE
the same mistake.
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