SHE LITTLE KNEW.
Queen -Maud, whoj by. the way, celebrated her birthday the ' other' day, is almost as . democratic as her. husband, and is an ardent : '< believer in" tho. simple life. In the daye when sho, was i'rincess Charles; of Denmark she- . was rioted: for her .unaffected ; manhers..' "I .. sometimes get. tired of being royal," she once remarked,especially' when I am 'looked at and wondered. at likoione of Tussaud's wax-. 1 works." One day, sorthe. storv goes,' she was-bidding good-bye to a relative on; a 'rail-' ' way; station- platform, , when■,she -noticed a . newspaper reporter.- scribbling: away in his notebook. Taking a' notebook from her own . ; pocket',- the, Princess, wrote; something in it with pencilf'tpre tho leaf out, : and lot it fall casually .upon the ground. Seizing his opf pprtnnity, the repor&r, picked up the piece of paper, no doubt hoping to find some valuable piece of news.upon it. Jsut his surprise may •bo imagined when this is what ho read: " I wish T were a xejjorter."
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 405, 14 January 1909, Page 3
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166SHE LITTLE KNEW. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 405, 14 January 1909, Page 3
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