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Show ' H ruen "Victoria Smiled. Queen Victoria recently went to a pho- ; I tograph gallery at Newport, isle of Wight, "to be taken." Just as she was posed the local mayor entered with a j bouquet, which he was about to present in a prepared speech. He got stuck in his lines became so amazingly flustered i t that her royal highness laughed, and . just then the photographer snapped his j camera. The portrait, with the face lighted up with a smile, gives altogether a different impression of the queen. Her 1 laughs are so rare that events have been reckoned from them heretofore. This is eaid to be the only picture taken of the queen when she was smiling or laughing. laugh-ing. New York Press. |