The Queen And Her Cousin

-TIe boloTcd oYcrcign of England lias, after all, lier sharo of family'pride. No living monarch ia more tenacious of legal etiquette, and hor power extenda over the disposal of the hands of otLer members of the royal family - one of the Goorgcp, during a family squabble, haring got Pnrliaroent to paas such an act, Some time ago the Princess Mary of Cambridge, cousin to til o Quecn, took it info her liead to fall in love with the Duke of Hamilton, and would have married him. had not the Quccn, they say, got on the rampago. A rormber of the royal family to marry a subject ! The idea ! So the Princess Mary was obliged to forego the opportuuity of getting a husbaud, and Hamilton, going to Gcrmanv, married a Priucess of the Grand Ducal faraily of Baden, phile the uolucky cousiu to a Queen, now fat, fair, and not far from forty, interrests herself in charitable institutions, and takes frequent drives in Hyde Park, with her aged mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, the bystanders removing their bats as she passes.