WOULD DR. TRUBY KING APPROVE?
In her devotion to Alfonso XIII, nothing dolights Queon Victoria more than to be considered Spanish. < Sho moves about in public ; with entire freedom, and has become a familiar figure in tho streets of her capital and in the surrounding villages.' Quito recently, when out driving, her Majesty called at the Convent of San Leandro, which has a reputation for tho confecfcionory named yemas niado by tho nuns, and asked for a box of the sweets "to take home to my baby." The nun at tho wickot-gato looked askanco at the visitor, and pointed out that "foreigners" were not adi'nitted without a permit previously obtained by application in writing to the Mother Superior. Queen Victoria asked to see that lady, who immediately recognised her visitor, and prepared a hugo box of sweets, sufficient to keep his youthful Royal Highness for weeks ahead.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 225, 16 June 1908, Page 5
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147WOULD DR. TRUBY KING APPROVE? Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 225, 16 June 1908, Page 5
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