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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 191, 22 November 1910, Page 6

KING- GEORGE'S FOSTER-MOTHER. AN OLD LADY WITH A UNIQUE HISTORY. There appears to be little doubt or 11a doubt as to the bona fides of the Pittsburg woman, Mrs. Ann Roberts, who claims to be the foster-mother of King George, and there is reason to believe that his Majesty is taking steps to secure her future happiness and comfort. The King has received a letter from Mrs. Roberts setting forth iher remarkable history, and asking for some recognition of what she did for him as a child.

His Majesty is not only satisfied with her credentials, but is arranging for her return to her native Wales, where she may end her days in peace.

Mrs. Ann Roberts declared that she lost one of her own babies through her attendance on the infant Prince. She says that her child died in the night while she was occupied with her duties in the Royal household, without her knowing that it had even been ill. "Mrs. Roberts is in her seventy-third year, and she was a member of King Edward's household for ten months. She had a dream, she says, in which lierfortlicomirig appointment was foretold. Two days later the Royal couriers appeared at her home in Bethesda to claim her services on behalf of the expected Prince.

"The cruel news of the death of my own darling child," says Mrs. Roberts, "brought me on my knees on the floor of the llova'l nursery. The splendor of my surroundings appeared to me as so much dross. It seemed to me that I had been turned into a block of cold marble. The loss had the effect upon me, regarding the little Prince, that I grew almost to believe that he was my own child.

."When my services were no longer required, King Edward, then Prince of Wales, sent for me from the nursery to tell me that I had not only won his own esteem and that of his beautiful Queen Alexandra, but that I was also esteemed and respected by the Royal household." Mrs. Roberts 'laid out the money she had earned in the Royal service in a course of nursing. In due time she won her diploma, and nursed among the nobility of Great Britain for thirty-five years . She had nursed the first-born of the Princess Christian at Cumberland Lodge, and served at Windsor Castle, Marlborough House, Balmoral Castle, Buckingham Palace, Osborne, Sandringham, and numerous great houses. In old age she went to the United States, where she has been living in penury.

HOME TRUTHS FOR MARRIED PEOPLE.

The best part of love is Once married, make the best of it. There is consolation in the word inevitable.

There is only one valid reason for marrying. It is this: Because you cannot help it. ' Our grandmothers expected little from their iluisbands and got it. We are in danger of flying to the other extreme. There is only one difference between men and women. Men don't care about cupboards, and women .couldn't exist without them.

Don't forget the little courtesies and delicacies of married life. They count for more than many purple raptures. If you don't ask your husband questions lie is sure to tell you everything you wish to know. Therefore, wait patiently. Don't love a man because he happens to be yours. Love him for what lie is, and even more for what you hope he may become.

Don't be always the same. It is tiresome. A change may prove wholesome, even for the worse, provided it is merely temporary. If you once grasp the fact that while physically different, men and women are alike in character and mentality, you will solve many problems with ease.