By Pruve London.
How many are the Queen's interests and what a lively curiosity is hers about á 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. I? they cannot visit the Fair themselves, they can learn a good deal about it from her comments on this and that article. For her taste and judgment can be trusted, 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 a Belfast firm specializing in linen and damask, the Queen was told that the damask trade had recently been passing through difficult times owing to the fashion for using mats instead Of table cloths, Her sympathy, here, was expressed in a practical fashion. "Please send a damask table cloth to the Palace," she said at once.
At the East Africa stall the Queen spoke to Major C. H. Dale who asked if she still used Kenya coffee at the Palace. Again her response was very much to the point. "Oh, yes, we do," she said, "because we like it very much.". At another stand, she was told that some eye-veils displayed had formerly been a French monopoly, but were now manufactured at Nottingham. "I am very glad to hear of this initiative" was her apt compliment.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.