Show HER MAJESTY When Englands Queen looks back along the track of her life how marvelous mar-velous It must all seem lo her Those who hailed her birth who prayed above her cradle that alto might be blessed had no premonition of the blessings thai awaited her At that time no mortal could have painted a future In words of half thai was lo be Many Q comparatively poor man Is i now better housed and better fed than was royalty then The world wis commonplace common-place when she was bom 1 > The comforts com-forts of the modern home wore unknown un-known the comforts of modern travel were unlhought of there had been no locomotive then no perfecting press to say nothing of the magnotli telegraph the telephone the olectrlc light and the multifold other wonders that since then have advanced from the land of dreams to magnificent realities Then too the little conveniences of life were few and rude The world had no cook stove no sewing machine no I matches no clotheswringer and caM c-aM not a porcelain bathtub in the kingdom Then too save In a little horizon of tholr I own all the rest t of the world was to mens eyes far away And the United Kingdom was not prosperous when Victoria was born There wan trouble at home trouble abroad the world was filled with heartburnings and the ignorance of even the civilized nitions was appalling But she was given heilth and happiness a love match awaited her children were given to her the gold of the world began to flow Into English coffers one Invention followed another so swiftly that the industrial I world was revolutionized Great Britain I took on more and morel poer more-l with every Incoming year the Queens court was changed until it became an honor for a virtuous woman to be attached to it all the time she was surrounded by a nations affection and the knew every day that in all lands native Englishmen were praying for her So the years drifted on and age came so slowly Hint almost before she even began to feel old the fiftieth year of her reign came around Then the love of her countrymen deepened into a mighty reverence as they gaLl ered around her to do her honor Th > n the years swept on until the sixtieth year of hot reign drew near and then with deeper reverence her countrymen hailed the day and renewed re-newed their exultations that she was still spared to them And now though pnst the fourscore limit she goes on a lark as It wore to Ireland to be hailed there with all honors And she knows that on each morning the world reads eagerly what she did the previous day She realizes that the empire which she Is I Queen and Empress of exceeds In pOwer any other empire that ever existed ex-isted and that of all the queens o the world not une was ever loved as she has been loved to not one ever came half the glory that has come to her It has been a marvelous century this last one and the reign of Victoria Is one of the most marvelous events of It I From a throne I she saw the world transformed and the power In the I scepter thai she wields has been strengthened unlll now It dominates onefifth of the earths solid ground and stretches in splendor her flag over every sea Hers of nil the world should be the most humble and grateful I grate-ful of human hearts I |