Arizona republican., 1919-12-02
QUEEN MARY SHARES ALL OF
 THE PROBLEMS OF EVERY WOMAN
BY ZOE BECKLEY N. E. A. Staff Correspondent
 LONDON, England, "The King Was in the Countinq house


 "The King was in the
 Counting house
 Counting out his money;
 The Queen was in the
 kitchen"
 l mean Queen Mary, of course And what brought the old nursery jingle into my head was a glimpse I recently had of her majesty, in Birmingham, England. To be sure, the crowned queen of the greatest empire upon earth was on dress parade. But it was precisely something in her dress something in her face despite the regal tilt of chin, that made me think not Of tiaras and ermine. of thrones and sceptres and pearls, but of such women as Mrs. Bill Smith of Joplin. Mo-, with problems of mother in-law. cost of living, a husband to henneck of sons to jack up a bit and a daugh- ter to marry-and a lot of taxing so- cial problems on top of all the rest
 I believe it was her nat. sitting full two inches above the dead line" of the eyebrows, that gave me that first impression of house se-motherishness, rather than regality.
 Here, said I, is a woman who may not read the fashion advertisements, but undoubtedly looks after her chill dren's health and checks her butchers bills. In nothing sartorial does the queen conform to passing modes. She has lovely gray hair. quantities of it. which she waves and frizzes in the style of twenty years ago. It is drawn we'll above her ears and pinned in many coils and puffs atop her head in way to discourage any modern hat from fulfilling it's artistic mission.
 In her ears sparkled huge solitaire diamonds of the drop variety and at her throat was a gorgeous brooch an oblong diamond an inch long by half as wide, surrounded with pearls. This was the sole touch of splendor about her costume.
 As ALWAYS. she carried an umbrella-a nice, short handled rather fat little umbrella. l liked that umbrella. It was just such a one as Mrs Bill Smith of Joplin would have carried as her third best-the one she loaned out when folks called and it rained. There is something frugal and efficient about it, especially when carried by a queen walking down a red carpet from the doorway of a town hall to an automobile waiting at the curb.
 To prove that my thought of Queen Marys kinship with Mrs Bill Smith of Joplin is not mere fancy, let me quote a lady who resided for many years at Hampton Court-one of the royal residences which has been dedi- cated to the use of impecunious mem bers of royalty or those who have been attached to the court and met financial reverses:
 "The queen," says this lady, "is little understood. People think she is cold and stern. She is merely shy They call her hard and unsympathetic. She is merely characterful and averse 10 useless, meaningless frivolity and waste, warm-hearted and conscienti- Ous, house -motherly human being who has all the problems of the average wife and mother. and solves them in her own way, by patience, tolerance and yet firmness.'
 It is common talk in London that Queen Mary 'is the man of the household" Yet she has one of the commonest of all human problems to deal with-being the wife of very much such batter -familias as is com mon to Joplin, Missouri, or Montclair New Jersey. And the daughter in-laW of well, a mother-in law
 Everyone knows that the DowageI Queen Alexandra, mother of King George. is a dear. sweet lady. kind ot heart and of the type sometimes de- scribed as emotional or "tempera- mental" The king is devoted to his