Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1897 — How It Came to Be Victoria. [ARTICLE]

How It Came to Be Victoria.

The primate had been told by the prince that he liked good historical English names that every one could understand. What better name, he thought, than Queen Elizabeth’s. He mildly suggested “Elizabeth.” “On no account,” said the prince regent “Charlotte, after your royal mother and the child’s royal aunt.” “Certainly not.” The Duchess of Kent relieved her feelings by a flood of tears. The Princess Mary kissed her and the baby cried. This spurred the mild archbishop. ‘What name is it your royal highness’ pleasure to command?” “What’s her toother's name?” “Victoria,” answered the Duke of Kent. But his InterveHtion was met by an irate look from the regent. The Duke of York, seeing that the christening must be hastened forward if it was to be got through with at all, took on himself to say, “Alexandria Victoria.” And so the Queen misled being known in history as Georgiana, a fitting name for the last of the Georgian dynasty, but less suitable for a glorious reign of sixty years than Victoria. —Contemporary Review. To restore scorched linen take two onions, peel and .slice them and extract the juice by squeezing or pounding. Then cut up half an ounce of white soap and add two ounces of fuller’s earth; mix with them the onion juice and half a pint of vinegar. Boil this composition well and spread it when cool over the scorched part of the linen, leaving it to dry thereon. Afterward wash out the linen.