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THE HONGKONG BAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30TH, 1909.
THE EMPEROR MENELIK.
HIS POWER AND STATESMANSHIP:
Few mightier monarchs than Menelik II. of Abyssinia over swayed the destinies of a people Throughout the vast territory of the Abyssinian Highlands his individual will is law to some millions of subjects, law also to hordes of a Mahometan and pagan tribesmen without the confines of his kingdom. His court includes ze councillors. Alone throughout the long years of his reign Menelik has dealt with all domestic and foreign affairs of state.
Bat (ays Mr. E. B. Bronson, writing in the New York Tribune, this last splendid sur vival of the feudal absolutism exercised and on- joyed by medieval rulers is about to disappear bonentli encroaching waves of civilisation, which long spare nothing picturesque. He has now formed a abinet, and published the appoint ment of War, Finance, Justice, Foreign affairs, and Commerce. nd this change has come not from the pressure of any party or faction within his Kingdom for sach do not exist but out of the tous of his own wisdom. If, indeed, more proofs were necessary than the statesman like way in which he has doolt with jealous diplomats, and the martial skill with which, at Adun in 1896, he defeated the flower of the Italian rmy and won from Italy an honour" able truce.
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boards gröre; surrounding them, a quarter of "söpörding to the rank of their employers, and an sore of ground, for the cultivation of fruit and 'j a heated discussion occurred lately between two Tegetable, with an outhouse for o al and Wood ladies-maids as to the superior claims of an storage, which also serves as a wash-house for honourable miss over a baronet's wife. Although the women and workshop for the men.. the upper servants join their inferiors in the nearly every cottage, evidences of former | servants" hall for the first course of the mid-day wyal visits and favours are plentiful: perhaps sizes, migration to the steward's-room · or marriage present, or little gifts bestowed upon the padding can be discussed. The entrée into service which the Queen hoa given as a housekeeper's room always takes place before special occasions, either connected with the royal the housekeeper's room is always a thorny family or that of the cottager. Should there be subject. illness in any of these homes, the Queen in always ready with her sympathetic help and kindness. Many a time has she sat by the bedside of an invalid and quietly read or chatted brightly-in accordance with the condition of the patient and often with her own hands bad administered little delicacies which she herself has provided, and generally taken with her, too
It is not only in the bestowal of gifts that the Queen has so much endeared herself to the people surrounding hor gates, for she has entered very truly into their joys and afflictions the common fat of all. And the Queen's fondness for children is proverbial. Her Majesty bas often taken a child upon her knee to nurse and
house use it, and has been known to eater and take a crying infant from its cradle and soothe and hush it until its mother's return.
Her Majesty's birthday is a day of high festival for the children, for in celebration of it she sanda cut invitations to tos to all of them. It is a red-letter day, one of the landmarks of ohild's life.
BOTAL PRESENCE.
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Time was when the Queen made it a point to be present throughout, handing round plates of cake and replenishing cups with a basiness-like air Now, however, her Majesty looks in," taking due thought in the midst of her press ing duties of the fact that her presence gives an added zast to the children's enjoyment.
OLDEST LINEAGE OF ALL MONARCHS. No existing Royal house owns lineage so ancient sa Menelik II., Negus Negusti," King of the Kings of Ethiopia and Conquering Lion of Judah, claims his to be. Old Abyssinian tra dition has it that his lineage dates back to the tenth century B.C. Makeda when the Queen of Sheba, early in her reign paid a ceremonial visit to the Court of King Solomon. According to Abyssinian legand, after the Queen of Sheba had returned to her native country she gave birth to
No one needs to be told that her Majesty is ason and called him Menelik, so the legend runs. Later, as a lad, the bay was twitted by playmates among the friendliest and homeliost ladies in the had no father. In this dilemma the land, and while, paturally, she has not now the that Queen sent an embassy to Solomon, asking some time ate formerly had for visiting the cottages, sot that should establish their son's Royal yet the inhabitants are by no means lost sight paternity. Promptly Solomon returned the of. Many have been knowu from their birth embassy, bearing to Sheba's court in far South-up; the Queen has watched their education in wost Arabia a Royal decree declaring Menelik the splendid schools which she and the King his son, and accompanied by a son of each of the have been instrumental in providing where leadore of the twelve tribes of Israel, enjoined to technical training succeeds the elementary and serve as a sort of juvenile Royal court to Menelik. the scholars are turned out properly and suit
ably equipped for the battle of life.
To the aged around Sandringham the Queen has always been a special friend, and many a time han she sat and listened to an sold wife's tales, doing a bit of the old soul's knitting to occupy the time for if there is one thing the Queen cannot endure, it is idleness.
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PROHIBITIVE, CAPÉ, It has been ruled that, as regards the fair sex, the wearing of a cap is prohibitive. This seoras at first might's little arbitrary, for while a "young ladies maid barely out of her teene might take her place at the higher table, the veteran housemaid is condemned in perpetuity
society of underlings.
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Tho soldier servant or batman has often given rise to hasted controversy as to his precise rank in the domestic hierarchy, while the modern chauffeur has boldly claimed precedence over all his fellow-empl yes, and, indeed, has sometimes insisted on taking his meals altogether apart. The claim was occasionally conceded whils the community of chauffeurs consisted of a select number of highly-trained mechanics, but now that their ranks have been swellen by the advent of hundreds of ex-grooms and coschinen a revolt, has been made against-their airs and and ;
graces.
Another sign of the times is to be found in the strict water-tight compartments of work to which the modern domestic rigidly adheres, with the result of a multiplication of attendants who have practically nothing to do, A lady gentleman of great wealth but plebeian extrac tion arrived on a country-house visit last year with the following nite-A aid,
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THE ABYSSINIAN RELIGION. And this notwithstanding that the Abyssinians have been Christians since the fourth century of this ore, when, only eight years after one great Constantine decreed the recognition of Christianity by the State, a proselytising moak carce among them with faith so strong. heart so pure, and eloquenos-so irresistible, that single- handed he accomplished the conversion of the Abyssinian race, Throughout the centuries the Abyssinians have hold fast to their faith as it was fret taught them. The great wave of me, and do you kaft his stockings? Well, well, JOHN J. M. BULT, Mahometanism that swept up the Nile and Boross to the Indian Ocean, broke and parted the moment it struck the Abyssinian platesu, fowed all about, and completely surrounded but never could mount i it
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"I rather pride myself on the way I knit;" said her Majesty one day to one such old woman; I have just made a pair for my husband, and here the Queen was interrupted with a "Detry ma'am, it's only me and you who makes the things as knows the 'orrible 'oles the man do make in the "eels."
Tales-grave and gay of the Queen among her people might be multiplied; and her Majesty's real womanly kindness expatiated upon for a limitless space.
In joy and in sorrow she has been, and is, one with them all and not only at Sandringham, bat throughout the dominions.
GENTLEMEN AND LADIES.
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Thus out off for centuries from all other Christians, and their ritual older than that of either Rome or Moscow, the Abyssinian religion has changed little from its form in the days of the Apostles. And remembering the Abyssinian folkloro tale of the twelve sons of the chiefa of to the twelve tribes of Israel sent by Solomon Makeda as attendants on Menelik I., it is most curious and interesting to know that the heads of twelve certain Abyssinian families (none of GROWING LOVE OF TITLES AND PRECEDENCE. whom is longer a notable; some even the rudest. of ignorant herdsmen), and their forebears from timo immemorial, have had and still possess the inadiensley may sakit, eran taking pre- of audience with their monarch at any time cedence over royalty itself.
Many of Menelik's judgments at mister. pieces. Recently two brothe a came before him, the younger complaining that the elder sought. It is considered now old-fashioned, or even the larger and the better part of property they worse, to give the prefix. "his Grace," when had to divide. Menelik promptly ordered the
wearer of the strawberry leaves. elder to describe fully the entire property, and addressing a
The younger children of
peers agree to the state what part he wanted for himself. It was
suppression of honourable un their visiting. done." And this." questioned Menelik," consider a just division of the property into two cards. Foeresses have allowed to fall inte desuetude the long-established custom that they parts of equal value "Yes. Negus, auswar should sign with their initial and not with ed the older. "Then," decreed Menslik, "give their full hristian name, thus distinguishing your brother first choice!
themselves from their lords on the one hand and from the rest of womanhood on the other.
Over wide territory beyond the Abyssinian border, Menelik's power is as much feared and his will as much respected as among his own objects.
AMONG HER OWN PEOPLE.
THE LIFE OF QUEEN ALEXANDEÀ AT SANDRINGHAM.
[BY MARY SPENCER WARREN:}
Titles, appellations, privileges, and precedence aristocracy; in fect, there are not wanting signs are not a special privilege or prorogative of the that the upper classes are by no means tenacious of certain titular forms which usage has consecrated to them.
Even with the most illustrious personages there is seemingly a tendency to waive certain precise formalities which were rigidly prescribed in the heat century. The King allows himself to be addressed in writing as his Majesty the King," while formerly the Sovereign regnant was designated simply as "The King" or "The Queen."
FINGER-BOWLS.
Almost extinct is that delightful, but of course now wholly unreasonable, etiquette which, in The Queen in London is a beautiful and view of Jacobita allegiance, decided that at a gracious lady, who inparts an indescribable dinner party, when royal personages should be charm to royal and society functions; who thinkspresent, they alone were to be supplied with the and works for the benefit of the people; and Anger-bowls, thus precluding a silent toast to who, when need exists, grapples with that need the King across the water.
with unerring test and true womanly sympathy. Whereas, too, it used to be the rigid rule Dill not the Queen give har help when distress that when a Princess of the blood expressed was rampant in the East End, and so set an her intention of dancing at a ball, the other example to the many who gladly followed! And guests would remain stationary until her turn has not her Majesty again come forward in the was finished, it is now the constant experience hour of the people's distress, and thought out of a royal lady to receive one of those unpleasant and szoented her beautiful photographie scheme,jars" for which a crowded room and an whereby as a result of the work of her own unskilful partner are jointly responsible. hands-multitudes of poor and afflicted persons will receive material bezefit ?
These are but two incidents called from a large number spreading away over the forty odd years since Queen Alexandra left the country of her birth for the country of her adoption; they are merely indicativeof the loving kindness which has dominated the Queen's whole life and prompted deeds which have made her universally popular and beloved.
LADY BOUNTIFUL,
While one social section is apparently loosen- ing its hold on certain appanages of rank and station, it is evident that people of humble origin. are great sticklers for their titular claims. The well-gowned and elaberately cofffee attendant at shop or restaurant must never be spoken of other than as the “lady managereka **
" or "young lady.
It happened the other day that the daughter of a very distinguished statesman ostered a large millinery establishment and inquired for some article. She was referred to the young lady a little farther on, who was thus summoned by her colleague: "Miss So-and-so, this young porsen requires some black velvet."
IN THE SHOг;
In Landon, the Queen thinks for the people more or less collectively; at Sandringham more or less individually; for as far as possible her Majesty doffe her queenly state, dispenses with its inseparable formality, and becomes--one says, it with all respect-the wife of a country gentle. man, the lady bountiful of a handful of villages, every self respecting tradesman, owning, or in the houses of which she is a familiar and in a position of trust in, a sucessful welcome figure, and where her presence ever de- business is a gentleman.” A well-known
notes the kindliest interest in the doings and happenings of the occupants.
The same rule applies to the opposite sax;
peeress not long ago, calling for the second time at a furniture shop, asked if she might see the That these are well cared for goes without person who had attended to her on the saring, and this is partly due to her Majesty's previous occasion. Is it the gentleman over fair moustache ?" was the bland womanly instinct of wonnaly requirements. there with Who does not remember the prompt inquiry for inquiry, "No," replied the irritated aristocrat, cupboards when the Queen visited some ounty.it is the nobleman next to him with s bald Conneil dwellings and found these useful fix head." tures altogether omitted? The necessity of The affixesquire," once the guerdon of blue detail is a strong point in her Majesty's plans blood, is now the property of any male with s for the comfort of others, and when the cottages balance at his bank. An impecunious younger on the Sandringham estate were rebuilt she had
son enunciated the ether day his system of a large share in the suggestions which were addressing tradesmen whose accounts he bad carried out with such happy effect.
discharged with the prefix." Mr. reserving the dignity of Esquire" for those who ware pri vileged to be his creditors, as he considered it á sort of sap for overdue debts.
Be it said, moreover, that this rebuilding took place before even that of Sandringhams House, for when the Queen came here as a young bride, she was most earnest in here efforts and most anxious to hurry forward the wishes of her me band, that all the old cottages should be lemo lished and model dwellings take the place of thatch, badventilation, and general inconvenince and discomfort.
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