| Show kwis khit Y T I OS ON QUEEN IA AM AND THE vii rih u royas FAMILY AT TUB ACADEMY or OF MUSIC musio rhina rhyna philadelphia DELPHtA after the concert by hasslers Hass lers or orchestra ches and hasslers Hass lers new quintette club miss faith eaith faithfull full fuli stepped upon the stage and spoke in substance as aa follows I 1 am an english woman and I 1 am fully faily aware that you are an audience of americans ana and ans and in the interests of liberty and humanity may you yon long iong continue to be so BO applause my em barras barra vanishes however when I 1 think that our opinions on essential points points are one and anci the same I 1 believe oth both in monarchies and republics but while I 1 believe in monarchy as depre dented in england I 1 cannot deny that it is stained with the worst phases of some subjects worship the throne merely because of their love of vulgar display E even ven clergymen had generally toadied to the monarchy though there was one who had gone so far as to talie talle for the text of a funeral sermon on one of the georges and the beggar died in speaking of this same principle of loyalty I 1 hope that I 1 will not be accused of encouraging the which had prompted english ladies ladles to scramble tor for the cherry stones left on the plate this was not noh true loyalty why the very same people who had been most persistent in trying to hunt victoria out of her sorrowful retirement to which she had bad fled after her sorrowful bereavement had been the noisiest nois iest in their professions of loyalty to the court there were just now many kinds of loyalty in england En gand there was the old tory loyalty with a delicate port wine flavor but of that there was not much left libere there was the tino nine old loyalty that thackeray might have admired there was the philosophic loyalty there was also the loyalty of the Carly lebe leae and Rus rua kinese schools with a historical foundation there was the temperate loyalty too of tennyson or arthur helps welp 9 the loyalty of republicans who thought that the c crown ra w n would would do very well for the present presen t a and n d finally the loyalty of a bumptious nationality tiona lity that looked upon the queen as a paid servant of theirs who reflected a certain amount of dignity upon them I 1 mu must st confess that the dislike of paying so much for so little is on the increase 11 ll in england but still I 1 can say bay that to the country at large the display of royal splendor is agreeable we know very well that the country will go goon on just as well weli without a crown as with it it is evident however that while the royal family is really in the full fuli measure of political right without as much power as the president owing to the admirable conduct of the queen it is genuinely strong in the affection of the english people the essence of loyalty is not affected afflec teL tol the republicans are faithful to the queen and the throne and even sir charles dilke thinks that the reforms he favors can be achieved without detriment to the monarchy there is ia a principle of love among the democrats of kag kug ladd lard to wards the queen and her chi dren the sight of the widowed queen bowed down in her sorrow has invariably impressed my countrymen 1 I have frequently seen them affected to tears by that saddened face in widows weeds miss faith eaith faithfull rull nuli then described some of the traits of the queen and gave in a quiet pleasant manner details of her marriage with prince albert her actual life had begun with her marriage there was something very touching in the devotion of the queen to her husband her whole reign was bound up ill in the prince consort who was one of of the best and purest men who had ever filled his place in history under their double guard the english court became a spectacle of virtue whence immorality and corruption fled abashed the queens life has been such a one as the english people love to contemplate she is a model of the sturdy english virtues as maid as wife wis fe and as widow people did not generally know that even while her regrets for her hen dead husband had bad kept her from courts and ceremonies victoria was also aiso the model of a busy queen thoroughly acquainted with the complicated problem of the poor laws and showing a grasp of certain questions that denoted a most careful and systematic study of them the queens benevolence standa stands out too xo prominently in i hundred bundred different ways in kindness to all ali her ber adherents and this thia royat ruyal bvm sym a sympathy pathy extended beyond the broyal household lo jo all who wherever her gracious and womanly presence cresence might be needed it tha kindness rind tind kindness ness this tenderness this true womanliness has made her the mother of her people before I 1 had been at work for one year ear trying to develop the education ani ang and industrial employments of women I 1 received evidences of the active sympathy of the woman couched in the graciousness of the queen it was only the other day none of you have forgotten it that she did not hesitate to testify her appreciation of american enterprise by expressing her satisfaction at the discovery of livingstone by ana auA an merlean meridan journalist applause when that sad day came that victoria lost the husband of her youth the people sympathized with her but when the queen with more than a common grief kept ot onn from levees and ou on crown occasions did not in her own person fill those splendid and luminous duties that seem to belong in the eyes cf many people to royalty the country began to murmur and even the press took the matter up aking a king the queen if she doubted that they were right to seek the advice of if her nearest friends but the queen in her splendid isolation has no friend and can have none indeed this queen who reigns in england is so true so good and shall I 1 not say so BO womanly that in these days she has shown that human nature is above outside show and that womanhood is greater than victoria has redeemed the english throne in these days day a she has revived and given a new lease of life to that loyalty which had slumbered since the stuart days and which some have supposed departed altogether when you yon see the tho affectionate interest which is shown in the queen whenever she makes her appearance in public you would be able to understand the alfter alfier difference I 1 make between loyalty to the queen and loyalty to the throne in england our loyalty is to the the abstract idea of royalty but with queen victoria there is that special loyalty which is in more easily understood when seen than when described state occasions are always stilted it is when she appears simply dressed wl with th her children around her thab that thab that the hearts of the people go out to her the most remarkable exhibition of enthusiasm toward the queen was vas recently on the occasion of the anniversary sary of the recovery of the prince from his almost mortal sickness it was wag simply awful in its intensity when I 1 saw the enthusiasm there no doubt was left on my mind as to the strength of the loyalty and love of her people once again did the queen give an evidence of the deep appreciation which she entertained of them these kindly feelings her letter of thanks to her people touched the english heart everywhere A few days after came the li bellous attack upon her which ahe resisted or rather endured dured with her usual bravery there is real courage in victoria and her people know it like elizabeth victoria has impressed herself upon her people and her court but unlike elizabeth who consumed by two fierce ambitions bit ions lons sacrificed much of her womanliness Vic victoria torla toria happy as b a wife and mother aye any appy as a peaceful laceful e widow has as a maze maxe made herself the model of all the womanly virtues her children are on the whole not unworthy of her her daughters are good women her sons are somewhat dif dlf merent different if in their attributes while the prince of wales has just succeeded in getting through an aften after attard inner dinner speech with some little credit to himself prince arthur has already published a book the marriage of the princess louise and the marquis of lorne lome produced a great excitement with us in england but the queen has sho wn great tact in having broken the strong chain that has hitherto fettered the royal family on the score of marriages the princess louise is an industrious and energetic woman and I 1 know that the marquis of lorne lome her husband huband has expressed himself as the firm supporter su porter of woman suffrage applause J r there is only left farine for me to speak of the prince consort denied a natural throne he devoted himself to an intellectual throne filled with noble projects he was always active and resolute in carrying them out what the word DUTY was to alfred the great the word was to albert the good the poets oets instinct was wag right and indeed ge he seemed to me like ilke the poets own ideal knight miss mias faithfull closed her lecture by a extract from Tenny sons t r famada lines iines or 0 dedication to the queen the a applause p whenever the virtues of vict viet victoria r a were referred to was throughout 9 h hearty pres oct oc 26 |
