People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — BUSY QUEEN VICTORIA. [ARTICLE]

BUSY QUEEN VICTORIA.

t«*T CooMtenttovia Ahoot Latter How Sh* Gotta tho DsOr Ram. Queen Victoria's private tetters comber many hundreds every yeas She writes to her numerous relatfTeA forgetting do annhmreary or oooaaicn on which a letter might beweiooma The London Chronicle says that to tbe younger members of the royal family she never fails to send birthday gifts, aonompwnted by a few loving wards of greeting. Every day the birthday booh Is consulted—not that birthday book fit which singers, actors and otfrerr personages are asked to bat that smaller volume reserved far relatives and inthnotok then there are numerous letters of a semiprivate nature which a» written by the queen bereatl—letters of oandateooe, letters of congratulation bo brides who hare been connected with the court, fetters to foreign monarch* Besides oQ these qpisttes, written In the blackest of ink on paper slightly edged with block; there are thousands which are penned by the private secretary and bfa —iSMta Tho queen’s day begins early and soda fete. After breakfast a meal which she still enjoys eating in tbe open ahr whan possible- -there are the newspapers and private correspondence defining attention. With regard to the formes; portions of Tbe Times and other Journals are read aloud to the queen by a lady apeafeOy appointed tor this purpose, very sorely does the queen nomroent on tbe news, except In the ease of a calamity. when her sympathy is quickly exnrcaoad tn « telegram. Inaccuracy tn an important newspaper as toscyul matters rises tbe quern grove aszoayama, and The Cfcronicto'S writer bos known on official to osU and cnruptoln at tbs misstatement and demand a reotUtaotioo. long ago an Utatemtad London paper gave a ptoture tn which her majesty was represented as holding tbe ana of her Indian attendant Within a Short «paoe at time a member of tbs royal household called on tbe editor to state the absurdity at each an error. “The queen la much annoyed at tikis mistake on Che part of your artist; as it might give onovobo offense to important persona to India She oould never take the arm at a servant ” This will show bow closely she watebes oven the pictorial press. When a good illustration appears of any state function, it Is a common incident tor tbe artist to be requested to visit tbe queen, very likely to wnsive a commission.