CONCERNING WOMEN.
Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, says a writer in the Strand, has a taste which is little known. It is a taste for roast beef and plum pudding, eaten from the same dish. A facsimile of the menu of the Queen’s dinner on the 3rd of Feb., 1896, bears testimony to the truth of this statement. The Princess of Wales has had a singular distinction paid her by England’s oldest colony. On the Ist of August Newfoundland issued a new three cent stamp, which beats the effigy of Her Royal Highness. This is the first time the Princess of Wales has been pourtrayed on a postage stamp. Every collector in the British Empire, says the Chronicle, must secure this addition for his album. In the English Illustrated Madame Melba is described thus : Half English, half Spanish looking, with blue-black hair and brown-black eyes, shaded with the richest lashes, of medium height, with a vigorous physique, a merry laugh, and a smile rarely absent from her lips, a vivacity all her own, and a spirit that never flags—That’s Melba ! It is related of the last Duchess of
Somerset that, being asked in a draper’s shop whether she had been served by a ‘ young gentleman with fair hair,’ she replied meditatively, ‘ No, I rather think it was by an elderly nobleman with a bald head.’
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Southern Cross, Volume 7, Issue 26, 8 October 1898, Page 11
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224CONCERNING WOMEN. Southern Cross, Volume 7, Issue 26, 8 October 1898, Page 11
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