Article April 6, 1899 Issue

Miscellany

Queen Victoria has recently given two additional instances of her womanly feeling which have made a very pleasing impression in southern France. While driving at the beginning of the week, she overtook a peasant's walking funeral and had no room to pass: the mourners stopped and stood aside, but the Queen requested the cortege to proceed, and her own carriage followed respectfully, at a walking pace, for half a mile, until the roads diverged.

Again, while driving through Nice on Wednesday, the Queen passed a child which was crying bitterly. She ordered her carriage to be stopped and sent a member of her suite to inquire the cause of the child's distress, and to give it a few coins, which had a magical effect. The little face brightened up and the Queen drove on, smilingly remarking: "As long as nothing serious is the matter, I thought a few sous would make the little one happy."

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