Word: empresse
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...Queen-Empress there have been born no children for 21 years.* Yet as Her Majesty re- tired at Buckingham Palace one evening last week, she was pleasantly conscious that a room adjoining her bedchamber sheltered an infant princess. Her Majesty and the rest of the royal family had partaken of an unusually frugal meal. No soup was served, and everything was cooked with as little grease as possible. Such a dinner is Her Majesty's invariable precaution against queasiness of the stomach when she is in expectancy of taking a sea voyage. The soupless royal meal was served...
Naturally no comparison can be drawn between the Laundress-Empress and Mrs. Rosa Lewis.* The Seventh Edward, though jovial, was no such humorist as Peter the Great. He merely liked his tidbits well prepared. When Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented her cook, Mrs. Rosa Lewis,± to Edward VII (the Prince of Wales) and told him she was a good cook he never doubted it. "Damme," said Edward, "She takes more pains with a cabbage than with a chicken. . . . She gives me nothing sloppy, nothing colored up to dribble...
...Jacobs has always painted celebrities. She used to paint familiar celebrities; her picture of Mrs. Coolidge hangs in the White House. Recently Mrs. Leonebel Jacobs went to China; last week in Manhattan she exhibited the faces of certain ladies and gentlemen few westerners have looked upon. The deposed Empress of the Manchus looks out under a headdress of cultured, decadent and nameless flowers. Prince Pu, with European hair, has the clear intelligent gaze of a Pekinese. There is Hsuan Tung, a petal-faced youth, the deposed Emperor; others, in stiff silk, noblemen, princes, knights. Mrs. Jacobs, a clever and sophisticated...
...Most Excellent Majesty, the Queen-Empress Victoria Mary, became intrigued last week at one of the great London shops by a child's game known as "Spilliwobble...
...some moments Her Majesty vainly and publicly manipulated the wobbling magnet of the "spilliwobble" in an effort to make its little balls run into their cups and stay there. Suddenly the Queen-Empress noted that a small crowd, respectful but amused, had collected to watch her unsuccessful efforts. Lest the dignity of the Throne be impaired Her Majesty popped the "spilliwobble" into her purse, paid a penny for it, departed to experiment further in private...