The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-14
QUEEN SERVES RICE
In SLUM KITCHEN
Thousands of Unwashed Eat
From Royal Hands.
PRINCESS MARY GIVES AID
North Lambeth Section of London
Overcome by the Honor.

LONDON, June 14-while thou.
sands OF dirty-fsced ragged children
screamed applause, and beery-faced,
frowsy mothers roared a deeper tone,
the Queen OF England and the Prin-
cess Mary drove to North Lambeth
to open a new public kitchen for the
food controller. The Queen lAdled
out boiled rice with her own royal
hands, and the princess collected the
food tickets and speared them on the
files until over 1000 meals had been
served.
London's great extremes OF riches
and squalor were never shown in
more decisive contrast
The little vicar OF the neighbor-
hood church bent himself almost
couble, and his face was red as the
mayors scarlet robe when Queen
Mary shook his hand and said How
DO you do?" His little son OF three
years. all decked out in starchy Sun
day school clothes, wriggled with
childish dinidence 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
pat on the cheek. The Queen asked
me Is this your little SOM The
Queen did that"
Queen Serves Them ALL
After the movie men finished
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
they had -.
Tore, others with their natural demo
cratic 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?
Rice? Roast beef?" The Queen did
that These unwashed, brown tooth
ed, yellow compleXioned natives of
the neighborhood 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 dark haired
young woman: "Ahe these your chill
oren7' They are, num-" the girl
replied. They are; all seven Of. EN-
Thank you, mum" She straiEhtened
the little brood into single fiie and
marched out at the head Of her own
procession, carrying plates Of boiled
rice, gelatine, pudding, and roast beef.
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 blue
eyes and the kind Of a mouth that
was made for sundaes at the corner
drug store on these hot summer even
ings. Standing always close by her
mothers side, she seemed slightly
"fussed" during the ceremonial pres
eptations. Her hands shifted some
what nervously. while her pink
cheeks flushed a deeper pink.
Pup Has Look At Queen.
At the doorway OF the food kitchen
stood a London bobby, straight and
soldierly. His job was to regulate
the flow Of customers. An inquisitive
fox terrier, dirty in harmony with the
neighborhood and shifting hopefully
the scent of roast beef, was shooed
away by the cop. Undaunted, the
purp hid among the next batch Of
customers and sneaked in to have a
look at the Queen. And he was such
q nervy, persistent little cuss that the
titled ladies clustering her majesty
allowed him to stay. ''Good-by," said
the Queen to various people when the
neIghborhood had been fed.
Even a Queen can't be expected to
distinguish in q crowd between those
who have been presented to her and
those who haven't So Queen Mary
nodded and said good by" 10 an ordi-
nary American reporter. II fused"
him 4 little, but he mustered his party
manners and got on q "good-by" OF
his own. Princess Mary didn't make
the same mistake.