QUEEN'S BOUDOIR.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 129, 24 February 1908, Page 3

QUEEN'S BOUDOIR.

, ;;The:;bbudbir: jn: "which} tho Queen spends'a good "'deal - when'at Sandringham is 'a;.p,retty;>'sMnV,,; apartment,' theVgen'eral schemo or colour/beiiig iri.that'shado of .pink rose which Her Majesty prefers .to' all others, ; and: which is to be' found in her rooms both at Windsor and at Buckingham Palaeo. On the walls'hang many ' water-colour sketches, some of which aro:thp. r Quecn's own work, and, needless to say, tlitf photographs which crowd every- availablo nook and conior ire .as the • sands';' ; 6f...!.'ftlieT, ; 'sea ■ : 'in •?'number.— "Madame."' ".-'is.iiJ'bi'-*<■-"T' <>LOOK- ON ■ TUB "BRIGHT- SIDE.' ■Here,is' a pretty story about some school •children who were, .'recently! ..entertained at Marlborough Ho'usb, ' th6'home of the Prince and Princess of Wales. ' . . Oiio of of the. Court, noticed a' little boy who was wearing several i medals he had gained-at|school." ■; j , "You .havo'iio/ medals,',' she -added, turning to' a tiny'girl'.beside hii)i.- <,;' v°' i »,Vt r ®l > l■: thp little, thing, quitq.cheer-, - fully j',i ,L. have',,'no medals; but lodk at my new'gloves 1" . .. . : BRIDE'S UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE; : . While a"wcddi!ig breakfast was in.progress in the villago of Nov.cry--'in Savoy,-the floor' gave way, and the 'guests,, fell through: into a .,cowhouse .below.'. ..Thy, bride' dropped on' the -neck of a cow,- which :took fright and dashed; out into tho - fieldwith the'' bride clinging to'its/horns.' , Tho bridegroom went off - in pursuit; and'.found the b'rido' hanging by. her hair from a branch beneath which thexow,had passed.' Sho was.rescued in a badly'bruised'condition;' "*■?'■ . That' mpdichl iilipetfc'ion of school-children IB very' 'far fr'oiri unnecessary is evidenced by a London County Council report for 1006,' which shows that, in some schools'more than a quarter of' the children are suffering from some physical defect, or'unhealthy condition..' In some East End schools a third of the ohildren aro sub-normal, and have defccts °f h ea jing, whilo out of 700 infants at tho timo-.of .admission . only twenty had no obvious decay of their teeth, 357 had two or moro teeth;badly decayed, and some children of' five -years old had hardly anything but unwhoWoffr' in their gum • ■