Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-22

then comes the only personal intercourse
that takes place between guest and the
host, as Her Majesty remains in the corri-
dor for perhaps half an hour, and converses
for few minutes with each visitor in sue.
cession, after which she bows to the circle
and retires. The guests and household
then adjourn into the crimson or green
drawing-room There is some wonderful
Chippendale work in this room, which
would be the despair of ordinary dilettanti
if they could see it, and the evening closes
with music and whist. These rooms con.
tain numerous cabinets of
PRICELESS CHINA.
The Qaeen passes the evening in converse.
ton with Princess Beatrice, or in reading
or writing, or in listening to a reader,
either in her own sitting room or in the
adjoining one, which was formerly used by
Prince Albert. Both are invariably
lighted up. Candles are used for the illu.
mination of her Majesty's private rooms.
There is an excellent billiard room, where
smoking is allowed and cooling drinks are
to be obtained. The idea that the regula-
tions as to smoking are of inconvenient
stringency is quite illusory. There are
smoking rooms not merely for the house.
hold and guests, but for the upper and
ordinary servants.
RESTRICTIONS.
1t is impossible to grant liberty to guests
to smoke in their rooms, as the next per.
son might dislike the smell, and after a
nights occupation by some of the German
visitors one would find an atmosphere capa.
bic of curing Westphalia ham. In the
morning there is daily service at o'clock
in the private chapel, conducted by the
Dean of Windsor, but as visitors are ex-
pected to leave by the ii o'clock train they
have quite enough to do to get their break.
fast comfortably unless they are very
early. There are two breakfast tables 60
ing on, and the meal can be obtained in
ones own room if wished. 1t is etiquette
that the Queen invariably breakfasts il
private, and either alone or only with per-
sons of the blood royal.
SHE DRIVES.
Her Majesty rarely appears before 9.
If it is fine then the Queen drives to Frog
more in an open carriage, and there break
fasts in the house, unless the weather is
very hot, when her Majesty takes the meal
in tent on the lawn, and reads her private
letters and newspapers. The Queen never
takes up a newspaper that has not pre-.
viously been perused by lady in waiting,
who marks all the passages which she
thinks would interest her Majesty, who is
supposed to look at nothing that is not
marked. Afterward the Queen goes to
another room or to another tent, and pro.
ceeds to the business of the day.
BUSINESS.
There are seldom less than twenty, and
often more than thirty, boxes to be gone
through, and groom is kept constantly
riding between the Queen at Frogmore and
Sir Henry Ponsonby at the castle. There
are dispatches, State papers, letters from
Ministers, and, what are quite as trouble
some, ten thousand tiresome trifes, each
one of which must be carefully gone into
and decided upon, to gay nothing of private
business of every description. After about
three hours of incessant work, her Majesty
drives back to the castle with the boxes in
the carriage, and they are then carried up
stairs on tray, and sorted and dispatched
by Sir Henry Ponsonby.
SHE LUNCHES.
linen her Majesty lunches with frlncess
Beatrice and any other members of her
family who are at the castle and, unless
there is any ceremony of state appointed
for the day, they afterward take walk in
the sunk garden or on the slopes, and later
go out for drive. On their return they
retire for little necessary rest before pre-
pairing for dinner, which brings the days
visitors. The only part of the Queens
daily routine which never varies is the
morning work, which comes as regularly as
that of any clerk in the city, and every
thing is done by her Majesty with con-
scientious thoroughness.
SUPERVISION.
The Queen looks into everything herself,
and the public have little idea of the pro-
digious number and variety OF the subjects
which come before her for decision. 1t is
an axiom among all who have served the
Queen that if they can only get their case
looked into by her Majesty strict justice is
assured. At Windsor her life is more la.
borious than elsewhere, from the iucessant
visitors and ceremonies, and the impossi-
bility OF getting away from the pomp and
pageantry of court. There is nothing