How. many are the Queen's interests and what a lively curiosity. is hhers about a number of things, It was perhaps this about Her Majesty which most impressed those who toured with her the British Industries Fair at Olympia and. Earl's Court this week. Women, in particular, will want to know what the Queen thought about various exhibits. they cannot visit the Fair themselves, they can earn a good deal about! it from her comments on. this Women all over the Empire would have shown the interest which the Queen showed in the advance made during the past' year by British trade. They would have offered sympathy, as she did, on hearing that some branches of it were in a bad way. For instance, at the stand of Belfast firm specializing in linen and damask, the Queen was told that the damask' trade had recently been Passing through dimeult times owing. to the fashion for using mats instead, of table cloths. Her sympathy, here, ras expressed in a practical fashion.
lease send a damask table cloth the Palace." she said at once.
At the Est Africa stall the Queen spoke to Major C. H. Dale who asked she still used Kenya coffee at the Palace. Again her response was! very much {0 the point. "Oh, yes, we do," she said, "because we like it very much." At another " stand, she was told that some eye-vells dis played had formerly' been a French, monopoly, but were now manufac tured "at Nottingham. "Iam. very. glad to hear of this Initiative" was her apt. compliment.
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