The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-09-23
QUEEN VICTORIA.
How h Appears, Dresses and Acts When
On Ofhcial Dress Parade.

How She Appears, Dresses and Acts When
On Onacial Dress Parade.
As We looked down this wonderful
gallery from u point of vantage, there
came slowly along toward us a little
group consisting of ten or twelve gen.
tlemen and two ladies walking in this
wise: in the center was a low-sized:
stout, red-faced old lady, apparently
sixty-odd years of age. This was Queen
Victoria. She wore q black silk dress
made short enough to escape the floor.
The skirt was full the front being COW
cred with six or eight vandyked founces.
The back of the skirt hung full and
plain. Over this vas worn a simple
little black cloth dolman wrap. A close,
large, black bonnet, from which hung a
short, black, round net, or grenadlne
veil, was on her head. Her face was
rosy to the point of redness, her hair
very gray and brushed simply behind
her ears; the cheeks were not red all
over, but a sort of notified red and
white. Once she smiled as some gentle
man of the party was presented to her,
cious but aristocratic sort of way, and
cApOScu Ill uCI tCCeu do ShC o"iAOof
they were very white, and so even and
perfect as to look suspiciously false.
The Queen carried a gold-headed
ebony walking-stick, and made good
use Of it, leaning on it as she stopped to
look in the cases, or to talk, with her
elbow akimbo, in a comfortable fashion
that did my heart good. She walked
rapidly along, moving in a booming,
ship-under-full-sale sort of fashion, an
idea borne out by her ample skirts and
fat, dumpy body.
Sir Philip Cunliff Owen, Secretary of
the exhibition, walked On one side Of
her and a Lord Somebody or t'other on
the other. They did not walk up along
side of her in an equal sort of way, but
off about foul feet from her, prancin g
sideways toward her with their bodies,
their hats in their hands, and their
backs constantly curving as they courte-
sled and bowed in a fashion that re-
called ones ideas of the days of Queen
Elizabeth.
Behind the Queen came the Princess
| Beatrice and her husband, Prince
| Henry. He is a tall, rather nlce-look-
ing man, with brown hair and mustache,
and dressed in a dark frock coat and
| trousers. The Princess had on a blue
foulard that probably cost fifty cents 8
| yard. 1t was covered with white polka
.ots, and the long draped overdres'
was edged with that white lace known
as ''vaI antique" Her bonnet was 8
| little Frenchy affair of white lace an(
dark-blue velvet, and the waist of tine
dress had a V shaped arrangement o.
white lace let into it, front and back
She did not walk up alongside of he
mother in a daughterly sort of a way
but came on behind her Majesty ant
politely waited until the Queen had ex
amined each ease before she v~enturet
to look herself. The Princess is plump
very unlike a princess in her manner
and not handsome. She has not tn
extreme, almost ultra-graciousness O
demeanor to the public that character
yes her sister-in-law, the Princess o
Wales.
When the Queen got to the end of tn
galleries nearest US she came a few fee
forward in the open space beyond tn
exhibits so that the hundreds collected
might have a good view of her, ant
then, without looking at them or with
out any demonstration on their part, sh'
slowly turned, and, like the King O
France, went back again. l observes
the crowds of her subjects gathere'
about, and there vas not an atom o
enthusiasm, only the most searching
and grave and sombre curiosity, AM
when she had gone a quiet turning
away, as if that were all. l talked tn
other day with an intelligent middle
class gentleman on this question of tn
royal family. He said: ''When tn
Queen dies we will have the Prince Q
Wales for King; but after him there wi
be no more Kings nor Queens for oil
England. We are on the eve of a gres
revolution that will come quietly and j
order. and surprise no one."-Londo
Cor. ~ o. Picayune.