THE GUINEA POEM.

Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 72

THE GUINEA POEM.

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proof in support of her condemnation of tight lacing. When I mention that the Queen is a clever and charming conversationalist, has been a devoted wife and mother, a born nurse, a splendid and fearless horsewoman, has perfect taste in dress, and is most loyal in her family affections, I shall only have enumerated a part of those gifts and qualities which render the now sorrowful and widowed Queen of an unfortunate country admirable as a woman no less than exceptional as a royal personage. She is, as you know, of the Bourbon family, and it has been 6aid of her, not once, but often, that had she been the heiress to the French throne instead of her brother, the Duke of Orleans, the French Republic would long ago have been a thing of the past and the line of Orleans be firmly seated on the French throne. As a girl the Queen spent much of her time in England, where she received part of her education, and the friendship between her family and our own Royal Family has always been a very warm one. Therefore, there is more than the usual conventional meaning in the cablegrams which describe the English royalties as shocked ami horrified. Surely all over the world wives and mothers will send sweet and pitiful thoughts again and yet again to that sorestricken royal wife and mother, who«e baptism of blood leaves her Queen-Regent of Portugal. EMMELINE.