Life — July 22, 1897 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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* LIFE: AN ODE TO BLINONESS. [‘' Zhe New York Sun,” under its assertive motto, “If you see it in The Sun it's so," has recently published numerous cable-dispatches contending that England's Queen ts totally blind. Such imaginative Journalism, while not worthy of emulation, at least merits recognition in some way. Perhaps it deserves no worse fate than to be immortalized ina poem.| “y! E Prince he bared his noble head and knelt before the Queen. He gazed into her downcast eyes, with melancholy mien. “Oh! mother mine,” the Prince began, “‘ Victoria, the Great"— (He paused, ‘twas on his lips to say: ‘*Why don't you ab- dicate ?")— “*Our cousins from across the pond they say your cyes are dim.” Her Majesty said not a word, but sternly looked at him. “They say I'm blind?—it cannot be; but ho! the guards, away! Fetch me Zhe Sun, the morning Sun, the Sun that came to-day. And straightway Wales he scampered off, and straightway he returned, He made such haste that all the folks were very much concerned. The Queen she grabbed the paper up—the Prince he cried: “But hold! Dear mother, you have not your specs; I pray thee, not so bold.” Disdainfully she shook her head, ‘I cannot wait,” she cried, And then her Uncle Dana’s sheet she critically eyed. When suddenly she gave a sob, and bowed her head quite low, “T'see itin Zhe Stes she said, ‘alas! I fear ‘it's so." HOBON. HOLDING HER ROAN. AN 7 PEARLS OF ETIQUETTE. IT IS THE CORRECT THING TO DE PERFECTLY AT YOUR EASE, WHATEVER LITTLE ACCIDENT MAY HAPPEN,