300000000ODE. JOOK
ZA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1925.
QUEEN MOTHER.
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and uncomplaining. she went about always, in the same simple little black dress, doing her errands of mercy while the Lon- don streets were blazing, with jewellery and furs, and the sounds of revelry at night were mingled with the booming of the Zeppelin bombs.
"Once only the Queen murmur- ed, and that was when she was toid she must give up her beloved: horses and doga. Only the very smallest minimum was left to her, as her much-straitened income was not sufficient to keep so many pets. It was a bitter sacrifice, for
lic affection for Queen Alexandra ing spectators were perch has" uninterruptedly grown, in every available ps times of sunshine, of real spien-roats!
•
that
are
Welcome her, thunders of fort
and fleet!
of the street!
ful and sweet,
Scatter the blossom under her
feet.
The sea-king's daughter as
happy as fair, Blissful bride of a blissful heir, Bride of the heir of the kings
of the sea.
It was midnight when the Royal yacht rested in Margate roads
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so has environment.
that she reigned in a Court con fined by no palace, walls and mark- od by no boundaries of ses or land, wherever the British fing, la nne
A Danish Tribute."
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wife, and to gain in her ows sympathy with the dour during her brief tenure of The journey was continued
ring and unfortunate gave an the Throne, and in the sorrow of via the Mansion House, up impetus to a crusade which has furled city, united to grace and dignity bereavement. The Royal lady, Cheapside, round St. Paul's, and gradually enlisted volunteers of There was never anything ex-whose interest and active concern onwards through Fleet Street and every station. Her public spirit. Speaking in London on the treme in design, shape, or colour." In all good works has marked the the Strand to Hyde Park. Here in association with her womanh- occasion of the sixtieth anniver During the war der great power whole course of her life, received the guards were the Volunteers, ness, was an inspiration, as she sary of her arrival in England, exerted in on each successive birthday the 1,000 of them, spick and span. herself was a model to the modern, the Danish Minister referred to favour of self-sacrifice and simple most heartfelt good wishes from And the roar which welcomed the woman who endeavours to bear Queen Alexandra in the following was us resolutely
carriages-1. The Adelity to duty: "Through all the every class in the community on approaching
the responsibilities of citizenship terms: terrible years of the great strug the diamond jubilee which the day Princess wore a gown of Irish without shirking those of the "When, sixty years ago, Princess poplin manufactured by a Dublin gle Queen Alexandre remained brings.
home.
Alexandra of Denmark came to, The Poet Laureate, Lord Tenny firm, very full, with a cinoline, of faithfully and courageously inj
course. Her coat was of purple that the Princess of sixty years beautiful lady in Europe who set It is no exaggeration to say England to be the future Queen of London, helping and consoling.son, gave expression to the
Great Britain, it was the most velvet Bordered with sable, her Her physical courage was sustain-joicings in lines
high poke bonnet with its broad ago would have reigned in any foot on British soil. ed by her steadfast soul. Gentle famillar:
bow and strings was decorated born. It was her good fortune to were conquered by her charm and station to which she had been
All the new compatriots of Queen Alexandra with rosebuds.
The crush on leaving the Park be the offspring of Royal parents, beauty, but they soon realised that Welcome her, thandering cheer is not likely to be forgotten by whose home life was simple and it was, not by outward beauty!
anyone then present. The gates sincere; but if it had been other-alone but by her character Welcome her, all things youth-had to be left open the night be-wise this young girl would to-day personality that she unconscious- fore and the night after to prevent have been receiving the con- made everybody love her. accidents, and Hungerford Bridge gratulations of those with whom These qualities was closed for fear it should her lot had been cast. There is, brought with her from Denmark, Majesty cast. There TEA CUPS break down.
London Illuminated.
equality, however some men and she had grown up. The dowries women may protest in these days which her parants, King Christian wonderful; the dome of St. Paul's Some are? dentined to fule and daughter were loyalty and sense At night the illuminations were against the unalterable decree. IX and Queen Louise, gave their was decorated with a limelight some to serve. No two individuals of duty an infinite sympathy for lamps lent by the Admiralty character, or in aptitude, though found love of her mother country. coronet surrounded by brilliant are exactly alike in appearance, in the poor and suffering, and a pro- Buildings everywhere were ablaze we range the whole world in This love of the country of her Queens are often lonely, and dog after a propitious crossing. "The with lights: To effect this. "the search. Heredity has its influence, birth she has also given in full
night was as calm and lovely as are their sincerest frienda."
The sea was Her greatest joy in her later one in June.
as
measure to Great Britain, and no days was the love and care which smooth as a mirror, and there was
An Attractive Figure.
nobler British woman has lived in the members of her family bestowcely a breath of wind stir
the United Kingdom. But even There are some men and women though her Majesty became Br iring."
Rear-Admiral Smart's upon her. Rarely a day passed
who win respect and love withouttish with life and soul, she never when both were in London that weather eye had foreseen the
effort; it is just laid as willingforgot her old country. You know the King did not visit his mother coming south-westerly gale, and
tribute at their feet. he had hastened departure- at Marlborough House. asually re-
Such the old. French proverb: "One masaing to lunch, while both the auspiciously, as by daybreak a
Mr. Trowbridge, in his life of recognised
happily-constituted people may be always returns to one's first love," Queen and the Prince of Wales Prince and Princess Christian of Queen-Mother's sorrows and joys and the highest. The homage Every Dane who has made his
Estrong breeze was
blowingQueen Alexandra. dealt with the stratum of society-the humblest first love.
in almost every and Denmark was her Majesty's were almost equally as regulär in
Denmark accompanied their visits.
their in her own domestic circle; the which is tendered to them excites home in England or has been con- daughter to England recently quite good, and distinctly Sheerness the next night, when winter of 1872 and again the re Divine order of things which no gratitude for all the love and in- went round to the Nore, lying off of her husband during the anxious nised as their due, as part of the try of ours has a feeling of deep The ship story of her vigil by the sick bedno jealousy or envy. It is recognected with this neighbour coun- better than was the case twelve large bonfires lighted up the cord of the death of the Duke of laws or regulations can affect. terest her Majesty has shown months earlier when her eyes beach. "Welcome" ahone out in Clarence twenty years later, when "were commencing to give her con blue lights, the letters ten feet in the bitterness of grief, she Queen Alexandra was one of those towards Danes and Danish enter-
siderable trouble. Naturally she was beginning to assume a rather torch-bearers paced for hours up buried my angel to-day, and with the sweetness of the existence of to her Majesty in vain. Out of a long procession of wrote to her own mother: "I have attractive figures so necessary to prise. Never has a Dane applied frail appearance, and she was not and down the sea wall. capable of the same amount of
In the him my happiness.".. The sym
others. She came among the her big generous heart she has exertion as she was able to under-morning of March 7 the yacht pathy which the people of Eng-British people as a stranger, in helped and supported us.
I do take with ense
processed up Thames,.
amid land offered her ten years 80% salutes from every fort, and at days she has returned a hundred of her girlhood, but she could saying that the position of the in those dark all the freshness and winsomeness not think I am exaggerating in while she saved her eyes on alk possible occasions, having books noon was off Gravesend, where fold at every hour of national never have known what loneliness would not have been what it is Danish colony in Great Britain. and newspaper read to her intravelled from Windsor went on nightly danger from bombard has been her knight and every
the Prince of Wales, who had trouble. When London was in is bike; for every man in the land were it not for its gracious pro- place of reading them for herself. London has always had a very
ment she remained faithfully atwoman has been her serving-maid. "In a. train of which even the her post in the very centre of As the years Have passed, public corner in its heart for engine was profusely decorated, peril, determined to share every tastes Queen Alexandra as its wonderful the Royal bride came to the old risk with the people that she democracy has gained in strength; have changed and demonstration as she drove to Westminster Abbey recently Bricklayer's Arms Station The loved Her interest in every nothing is as it was when she . amply proved. She reciprocated Procession of six carriages, escort- philanthropic movement has been landed in England. But she
the feeling to the full, as she had ed by the 60th Rifles, the Royal unwearying: she is the friend of shown or many occasions in the Guards, started thence on its way of every appeal for the relief of Horse Guards, and the Life every hospital, and the supporter past. "London is, my home." she declared, on a memorable occa-
to Paddington.
sickness and pain. sion years ago, and she greatly enjoyed the almost daily drives that she took through its streets.
Queen Alexandra's health was
warm
high, and
board.
gas companies had, for a week. previous, been economizing their gas, gending out circulars asking people to burn as little as possible: So brightly commenced the life of Queen Alexandra among us. -E. A. LAWRENCE. Shared London's Danger.
!!
had, without striving, continued to not of the people of England hold her gentie sway in the hearta
only, but of those other countries A Great Procession.
Set the Fashion.
overseas which had grown to the Princess Alexandra was accom-
Au. Princess, as mother, as status of nations within the spaz panied in the carriage by her queen, and later in her sunset "Sea-King's Daughter.
of her memory. Her venerable father, mother, and her betrothed, It would have been sixty-one and in the next carriage were her years as Queen-Mother, Queenage was no secret; it was known years on December 1 that as the brother and the two sisters, who Alexandra always had laid at her far and wide. But the savour of Royal bride of the Prince of Wales had accompanied her on her try those among whorn she descended in white, never departed from her. feet the admiration and love of her coming as a bride, dressed all (afterwards King Edward VII) ing journey. As the procession Queen Alexandra arrived in the passed along the Old Kent Road it sixty years ago. She radiated a It was still as the Princess of 1863 country, and was received by the was rather roars than shouts that gracious influence at every stage British public with demonstrations of affection and but when they came to London the Princess of Wales set the greeted the gracious young lady in her varied life. Time was when welcome that through all the Bridge the spectacle which at- fashion for every woman in the years have been borne in the tracted attention was the masses land; what she wore was the mode memory of those who participated of the people. Every ship in the " of the moment. Her solicitude as In those years the pub-port was covered; on every build wife and mother became the hall-
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