New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-10-06
How Oueen Victoria Appears
When ON Dress Parade.

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AS We looked down this wonderful
valley from our point ofvantage there
came slowly along towards us little
group consisting of ten or twelve gen
tlemen and two ladies walking IN this
wise: in the center was low-slzed,
stout, red-faced old lady, apparently
sixty-odd years OF age. This was
Queen Victoria. She wore a blacks'lk
dress made short enough to escape the
floor. The skirt was full, the front be
ing covered with six or eight vandyk.
ed hounces. The back OF the skirt
hung full and plain. Over this was
worn a simple little black cloth dol
man wrap A close, large, black
bonnet, from which hung a short,
black round net, or grenadine veil,
was on her head. Her face was rosy
to the point of rednsss, her hair very
gray and brushed simply behind her
ears; the cheeks were not red ali over,
but a sort of notified red and white.
Once she smiled as some gentleman. OF
the party was presented to her, IN.
clined her head toward him IN gra-
cious but autocratic sort OF way, and
exposed all her teeth as she smiled,
they were very white, and so even and
perfect as to look suspiciously false.
The queen carried a gold-handled
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
II, II, rfsa hlp ia Sh-
ion that did my heart good. She
walked rapidly along, moving IN a
booming. ship-under-tull-sail sort OF
fashion, an idea borne out by her am
pie skirts and fat, dumpy body.
Sir Philip Cunliff Owen, secretary Of
the exhibition, walked on one side OF
her and a Lord Somebody or tother
on the other. They did not walk up
alongside OF her in an equal sort OF
way, but off about four feet from her,
prancing sideways toward her with
| their bodies, their hats in their hands,
and their backs constantly curvlng as
they courtesied and bowed in a fash
ion that recalled ones ideas OF the
days of Queen Elizabeth.
| Behind the queen came the Princess
Beatrice. and her husband, Prince
Henry. He is tall, rather nice-look-
ing man, with brown hair and mus
| tache, and dressed in a dark trock
coat and trousers. The princess had
on blue foulard that probably
cost so cents a yard. 1t was COW
cred with white polka dots, and the
long draped overdress was edged with
that whitelace known as "val anti
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affair of white lace and dark-blue vel
vet, and the waist of her dress had
Y shaped arrangements OF white lace
let into it, front and back. She did
not walk up alon y-side of her mother
in daughterly sort Of way, but came
on behind her majesty, and politely
waited until the queen had examined
each case before she ventured to look
herself. The princess is plump, very
unlike princess in her manner, and
not handsome. She not the eX-
IRENE, almost ultra-graciousness Of
demeanor to the public that character
ICES her sister in-law, the Princess OF
Wales.
When the queen got to the end
OF the galleries nearest us
she came few feet forward
in the open space beyond the exhibits
SO that the hundreds collected might
have good view of her, and then,
without looking at them OF without
any demonstration on their part she
slowly turned and like the King of
France, went back again. observed
the crowds of her subjects gathered
about, and there was not an atom of
enthusiasm, only the most searching,
and grave and sombre curiosity, and
when she had gone away quiet turn
ing away, as if that were ALL talked
the other day with an intelligent
middle-class gentleman on this ques-
ton of the royal family. He said:
"When the queen dies we will have the
Prince Of Wales for King; but after
him there will be no more kings nor
Queens for old England. We are on
the eve of great revolution that will
come quietly and IN order, and sur
prise no one"
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