Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-15
QUEEN WITH OWN
HANDS ACTED As.
FOOD DISTRIBUTOR.

LONDON, June 15-While thousands
of dirty-faced ragged children scream
ed applause and berry-faced, frowsy
mothers roared a deeper tone, the
Queen of England and the Princess
Mary drove to North Lambeth to open
a new public kitchen for the Food
Controller The Queen ladled out boil
ed rice with her own doyal 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 neighborhood
church bent himself almost double 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. al ldiked out in
starchy Sunday-school clothes, wriggl-
Ell with childish 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 SOM The Queen
did that"
After the movie man finished shoot
ing" the royal mother and her daugh-
ter the neighborhood began to fil5
past the food counter. Soup-bowls.
pitchers, platters, plates, saucers and
buckets, some washed as they had
never been washed before, others with
their natural democratic coat of grease
were showed into the white-gaoved
hands of the elegant lady in grey. The
lady would smile and ask: What do
you want? Rice? Roast Beef" The
Queen did that. These unwashed.
brown-toothed, yellow-compl
natives of the neighborhood were going
to eat food served by the Queen her
self. 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, Are these your chill
Gren?" 'aThey are. num-" the girl re-
piled, They are; all seven of 'em.
Thank you num- She Strengthened
the little brood into single file 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
1.-THE reference books. is about nineteen.
She would be rated a pippin at any
Junior prom in any American school. A
Ihigh-school senior would notice that
she has pretty blue eyes and the kind
of mouth that was made for nut-sun-
daes at the corner drugstore on these
ihot summer evenings. Standing al
ways close by her mothers side, she
seemed slightly fused" during the
ceremonial presentations. Her hands
shifted somewhat nervously, while her
pink cheeks flushed a deeper pink. At
the doorway of the food kitchen stood
a London Bobby, straight and soldier
| ly. His job was to regulate the flow
CT customers. An inquisitive fox-ter-
rier, dirty in harmony with the neigh
borhood and shifting hopefully the
scent of roast beef, was 'shooed away
by the cop. Undaunted, the pup hid
among the next batch of customers and
sneaked in to have look at the Queen.
And he was such a nervy, persistent
little cuss that the titled ladies clust-
cred her Majesty allowed him to stay.
Good bye" said the Queen to various
people when the neighborhood had
been fed.
Even a Queen can't be expected to
distinguish in crowd between those
who had been presented to her and
those who haven't So Queen Mary
nodded and said goodbye" to an ord
irary American reporter. 1t FUSED"
him little, but he mustered his party
manners and got off goodbye" of
his own. Princess Mary didn't make
the same mistake