NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1923, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

QUEEN ALEXANDRA. LONDON, Feb. 8. To the childhood ol Queen Alexandra—to whom the nation's heart turns always on these occasions ol national joy—wo may look lor allot h„r lesson in those old principles ol simple upbringing that have been so carefully observed as a family Dailit imi in the home lib" "I the Ln\u! Fondly. The household of Queen Alcxnn lira's j.itl.er. the late King Christian IX of Denmark, was happy, well dis eipliited, and necessarily economical, lor the young couples were by no means well oil. "Only think oi it. cried Queen Alexandra in girlish astonishment years afterwards, "that niv trousseau alone has cost more than inv father s whole veil l ly income.'’ Queen Alexandra's early lile, though passed in extreme simplicity, was a very happy one. Her parents’ home in the (Tide I’nlnis at Copenhagen approached the ideal of cultured domesticity. ".Mamma," said the Rrinee*s .Alexandra one day, "why may not Dagtnrr and I walk out in muslin dresses like tile Countess M ——'i "Because." replied her mother, "your lather is not a licit man, and muslin dresses i o*t so iiiudi In b" got up." U.S. GOLD GLUT. XKVT YORK. Fell. 12 The t iliiiitroller oi American ( urreilcy, Mr I). li. Crissiugi r. in bis annual re port issued to-day. i rankly states that possession hv (bis rouniry of half the total gold supplies oi llm world is an economic misfortune. It is, he says, as lmriiifnl to the United Brates8 rates as to the coiinries which lack an adequate supply of gold. 11l illustration el the effects ol too niuch gold on American trade, Mr (Yissjnger calls attention to the decline in its export balance.-. He suggests i:i> remedy, but savs the cessation of gold imports by this country is I’cessary lor the restoration of the economic equilibrium ul the world.