AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 47, 25 February 1929, Page 11

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Queen Marie of Yugoslavia figured in ; ian entertaininz little incident recenMy ;_ ! While driving her car from th° royaij' 'domain to Belzrad" 'h>' was hail»d by a . '.countrywoman heavily laden with has-' , kets. The Queen pulled up and granted ; a request for a lift, but the woman, after , ' pilinz the baskets in the car. hesitated.! '"How much?" she asked, extracting a; I few coppers from handkerchief. "V" ! i : I needn't worry about that." said Queen I Marie. But the country woman was; I worrying, and it was not till she learned i who the motoris- was that she would : accept the ride. j * • v" I To become a treeman or Vienna h; - i ■ i always been a hizh distinction. But j ' ! this distinction wa ; formerly bestowed ; ' j onlv on men. The first woman to w.t 'in • '. I this honour was given if the vener--I and celebrated actress Auzuste Wu-i ; i brandt-Baudius. N"ow two other worr.e-i . ? ' have followed :n the receipt of ths • exceptional honour. One of them 's ' I Rosa Mayreder. to whom the distim•-:■ -n | ? j was ziven as a bi-thday present : n i of her work as a femur-:. and the other woman is also an actre-s > " and a member of th- Burg Theatre. P Frau Anna Kallina. » • • • The Queen ha- been greatly toucied ! I durinz the past anxious weeks isjys | -\a. •'Oueen"i bv the devotion that .".is .. | v, n shown to her the members of . ■ '■■■-~\i her own ao'i-eh-"":d and that of -he

: R'n', Riine of whom 2.1= et'irevi rr.m-e.' ,-,- in order to render any r-o--j s ;'b:e :■■> Her Majesty. The"Queen 1 has tha: this i- somethin z that : t'r.o •.an never forzet. and is very de-r'v ' >he n** had her v»ry id ; f r >" r .d-. the Dowager C->un:*= of A"-' -■• ar.d Lady Bertha Dawkln; in - 'r. 1 attendance upon her. and they I ha"e taken many duties over from h* Y to wh:?h Her Majesty usually atter-i---lin person. Amon? these ha= wen the I greater part of her torrespondenee. Thi--1 :<? always of a very neavy nature. I -it 1 just now is rendered more so than ever • i owincr to the 'on'tant inqu'.ne ; tnat ! are beinz received at the Palate :-:<:\- . i oerninz the '-ndit:'on ■->:' th- 1 King. Th~- ' hav* .tome iitera'Jy :■: m a:i j-art; ■■•' th-