The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-07-23
MISCELLANY.
A GLIMPSE AT ROYALTY.

tious carriage with servants in red livery
goes slowly by. There arc two ladies only
in it, and there are two little curly-haired
dogs on the scat before them.
The ladies' arc attlred very nearly alike,
in black and white stri ped silks, the one in
a pink, the other in a blue bonnet. They
are not so beautiful as rulnor would make
us believe. They are oval-faced, highbred
looking women, the one whom the English
call ''our princess being older looking,
less blooming than her sister Dagnar.
The Czarovina is like girlish edition of
her sister, but though her brown eyes have
deeper lustrc, her cheek a ripper bloom,
and her mouth and pretty chin a more pi-
quaint air, there is sweetness, gentle
dignity, a grace about Alexandra which
makes her loneliness more perfect, yet it's
charm impossible to describe. She leans
forward as the carriage passes, bows and
smiles cordially. "Ah,'' said lady of
the Queens household to us one evening,
''Shc is such reul Princess And this
mention of royalty brings me back to a
twilight hour when from terrace on the
High street of old Kensington We watched
the royal family returning from Chiswick.
1t was tete day; the streets were gaily
decorated, q crowd assembled in the ter.
raced gardens, shop windows, and on the
pavement. The carriages containing roy
atty rode by with unusual state; outridcrs,
in gay liverics, preceding them. First the
''Christians' (as We might say nee Prin.
cess Helena) a fair, rlacid1ooking young
woman in white tullc hat, and middle
aged, soldierly man in uniform; then a
strap driven tandem by handsome
young man with full brown beard, rose
bud in his buttonhole, a gay debonair man
ner (''the Duke he is called, just as his
elder brother is always ''thc Prince'') !;
and then a second park carriage, with a
bonny young Scotch chieftain in Highland
dress, and a very pretty, pale, brown hair
cd young woman in pink dress; with
some sprays Of white blossoms, gathered
doubtless at the fete, in her hands. A
shout goes up as they drive by, the good
looking young Highlander dof1ing his
Scotch cap airily, the young princes with
the wistful eyes smiling gently. These are
the Lorncs, about whose domestic life ru-
NOR is very busy. But it is said on good
authority they are fairly we'll content with
their somewhat unequal marriage. The
princess is very intellectual and accom-
plished, and is by far the handsomcst of
the Queen daughters. Her husband has
many friends he is young and has fine
disposition,and after all his family is near
enough to the throne to silence contempt.
uous gossip.
JUS: as the patience Of the crowd is CIV
ing out there goes up cry Of 'sThe
Prince An what a passport to favor is
this divine right of kings and princes !!
When these people say 1.-The Prince it
is with an air Of ''Long live the King -
Here come the Marlborough House liv.
cries, and such carriage load of ROYALTY ::
the Princess of Wales and her sis.cr Dag
mar, their white dresses and pink hats
looking pretty in the evening light; op.
posite them the Prince of Wales, who,
inspitc Of rumor and incrca sing weight, is
yet tine'lroking, and the tall, broad
shouldercd, good.looking Czarovitch !;
and then comes last carriage, out of
which little sleepy-looking children in
brown holland cloaks and straw hats,
with tluttering white ribbons, appear to
be rolling. There arc in truth three of
them upon one seat, and opposite, stout,
gracious looking lady, of whom we re-
member chiefly her brilliant smile and
pleasant salutation. Her husband,
handsomer in his dark, grand way than
any of the Guelphs, sits beside her.
'rhose are the Tccks,' says somebody
earnestly; they are so kind and simple. -
Their home is in Kensington palace,
where the Queen was born, where she
held her first council. The Duke of
Cambridge, the Queens uncle, rides by
unattended in severely simple wav.
1t is said that the simplicity of the Cam.
bridges annoys her Majesty Immensely.
The old Duke detests formality. He is
greatly beloved by all the people, cspec-
tally by the army, which he commands.
And thus royalty rides by in gay cav
alcade. The bunting in the crooked High
street waves airily in the evening light :
the crowd slowly dispcrscs; to American
eyes and ears it is so strange and like q
fairy tale A princess with a gracious
demeanor, with dark eyes and a sweet,
sad smile; prince all decorations and
good nature; outridcrs, heralds, horse.
men: a red brick palace flushed with
sunset lights in the distance, with gar.
dcns like stage effect beyond; is il
really to-day, or is it long ago, when
Prince Charming woocd his ladye fair
over the sea; when princesses Dricked
their fingers on a spinning wheel and
slept q hundred years 1.-THE GALAXY
for August,
Brown, the wife murderer, IN Moyan.