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Show A Pair of Queens England looks askance, says the cables, at some of the phenomena attendant upon the visit to America of Her Majesty the Queen of Rumania. The fact that Qiieui Maria herself is English does not at ;iil dolor John Hull from making caustic remarks in the premises. prem-ises. Rather dots it spur him on, perhaps, in this particular i-i.re, for Marie is the granddaughter of Victoria the same Virloria who, to the English mind, is time's most shining e::etnil.'tr of queenly comportment. If ires .John 'straordii.ariiy, one easily can imagine, to to the Victorian traditions of queenliness tossed into the discard by royalty of her own blood. Records one biographer of Victoria one of her own day: "If the quern is loved at home, she is admired abroad. In America there exists a more profound and shining respect tor Victoria than perhaps for any other living person. "She has imparted dignity to her court; she has been I he model of female royalty." Writes another; "Her subjects were proud of a royalty v. hich involved none of the mischiefs of caprice or ostentation, but set an example alike of motherly sympathy and queenly dignity." VVe recommend to John Bull, however, the thought that querns are but human beings after all and that few indeed are the granddaughters of today who give evidence of having been cast in the same mold its were their grandmothers. |