Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-08-13

The following Is from "A London June"
in TIE GALAXY for August There is a gen
eral movement among the loungers in the
Park, and an unostentatious carriage with
servants in red livery goes slowly by. The
ladies are attired very nearly alike, in black
and white striped silks, the one in pink,
the other in blue bonnet. They are not
so beautiful as runner would make Us be
lieve. They are oval-faced, high-bred look
ing women, the one whom the English call
"Our Princess" being older looking, less
blooming than her sister Dagmar. The
Czaroyna is like 4 girlish edition of her sis
ter, but though her brown eyes have a deeper
lustre, her cheek riper bloom, and her
mouth and pretty chin more piquant air,
there Is sweetness. Il gentle dignity,
grace about Alexandra which makes her
loveliness more perfect. yet its charm i'm
possible to describe. She leans forward as
the carriage passes, bows AMI smiles cor
daily. "Ah," said lady of the Queens
hous ehold to us one evening, "she is such
real princess. And this mention of royalty
brings me back to a twilight hour VIXEN,
from a terrace on the High street of old
kensington, we watched the Royal family
returning from Chiswick. 1t was a fete
day, the streets were gaily decorated a
crowd assembled in the terraced gardens,
shop windows. and on the pavement. The
carriages containing royalty rode by with
unusual state, outriders in gay iiveries pre-
padlpr fhqTn Etr-t Tho ssfbrfefiav,.s'' lac
We might say nee Princess Helena), a fair,
placid-looking young woman in a white
tulle hat, and middle-aged, soldierly man
in uniform then a trap" driven tandem
by handsome young man with full,
brown beard, "A rosebud in his button-hole,
a gay, de50nar manner (''the Duke" he Is
called Just as his elder brother is always
1.-The Prince ; and then a second park
earriage, with a bonny young Scotch chief
tain 10 Highland dress, and very pretty,
pale, brown-halred young woman in pink
dress, with some sprays of white blossoms,
gathered doubtless at the fete, in her hands.
\ shout goes up as they drive by. the good
looking young Highlander doffing his Scotch
cap, airily, the young Princess with the
wlstiul eyes smiling gently. These are the
LOrneS, about whose domestic life runor Is
very busy. But it is said on good author
ity they are fairly well content with their
somewhat unequal marriage. The Princess
is very intellectual and accomplished, and is
b. far the hand,omest Of the Queens daugh-
tiers. Her husband has many friends; he Is
young and has a fine disposition, and after
all his family is near enough to the throne
TO silence contemptuous gossip.
just as the patience of the crowd Is Civ
ing out there goes up cry of 'The Prince
All what 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 liveries. and such
carriage load of royalty; the Princess Of
Wales and her sister Dagmar, their white
dresses and pink hats looking pretty in the
evening light; opposite them the Prince of
Wales, who, in spite Of rumor and increas-
ing weight, is yet fine-looking, and the tall,
broad-should cred, good-looking Czarevitch !;
and then comes last carriage. out Of which
little sleepy-locking children in brown hol-
land cloaks tsnd straw hats, with flo altering
white ribhor S, appear to be rolling. There