Afraid of Microbes.
Queen Alexandra, it is said, has a great horror of the microbes She will in no case accept a piece of money until it has been thoroughly c’eansed. Whenever a check is turned into hard cash
for the Queen's use the coins are plunged into a basin and scrubbed in a lather of spirits of wine, water and soap, to which has been added a few drops of carbolic acid. After this bath the coins are placed in the royal purse, and Iler Majesty is ready to start out on her purchasing tour. But when she tenders a coin in payment for any article on which change is due the change is never on any account handed to the Queen but is turned over instea 1 to her Lady in-Waiting. At the end of the shopping excursion all of the coins received in the way of change from tradesmen are put into the microbe-destroying bath before they get into the Royal purse.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue III, 18 July 1903, Page 191
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165Afraid of Microbes. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue III, 18 July 1903, Page 191
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