Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1913 — SIGNS DECEIVED THE QUEEN [ARTICLE]

SIGNS DECEIVED THE QUEEN

King Edward Labeled Bmoklng Rooms in Palace "Bathrooms," and Ruse Succeeded. London. —It is well known that Queen Victoria had an insurmountable objection to the “weed” and the smoking room wps always relegated to very distant part of her various residences. So great was her majesty’s diiapproval of the habit that when she fiset proposed to visit Sandringham after King Edward, who did’ not share his royal mother’s objection to tobacco, to say the least of It, had practically rebuilt the house a good deal of alarm was felt as to what she would say to the number of smoking rooms. At last some one hit upon the plan , of labeling them “bathrooms,” and the ruse succeeded admirably in dispelling her majesty’s suspicions.