Queen or Housewife?

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 4308, 20 April 1907, Page 2

Queen or Housewife?

an exhibition incident. Yesterday, as I looked down fro™ the little gallery of the Hoticultural Hall King Edward and Queen Al ex an*J inspecting the exhibits m the Bouth African Product! Exhibition says a writer in a Home paper, I saw the Queen in the amiable role of housewife Captain Bam,the Cope Colony Pf 1 ®"'.?...,. , manager of exhibition, who had just been made a knight by the King, was calling her Majesty’s attenion to the collecti ~ of samples of fruit and superior vegetables g from Cape Colony. . ... v,,„ n Vi The Queen’s eye caught sight of a reap N of finely-developed carrots. gWfiJU-£ in terra-cotta, in the brilliant that fell from the roof of glass apove. - - She lifted one, exaimed it with loving care, seemed to weigh in her mind its dietary utilities, then asked if she mignt takeaway a specimen. “To be surej, m One could be sent. No, sbe woffid carry || it home herself. And she took it up* showed it to the ladies groped around _|g gaping with wonderment, then pushed 1 ::; j inside her muff and passed on* . Queen Alexandra, I reflected, is at - heart the house wife still, with an eve tor the organic links between the kitchen and ... the market!