Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-03-25
The PEARL OF SAVOY.
Queen Margarita of Italy the Best-Dressed
Woman in the World.

queen MargarltA OF Italy the BeSt-DreSSeo
Woman in the World.
American women visit Europe for q
variety of purposes. Some go for the
sake of displaying their clothing and
jewelry; others for the purpose of seeur-
ing rich and titled husbands, and others
to spend money. A few go abroad for
the purpose of studying art and music,
and still smaller number to learn
something about the people of foreign
countries. One American woman of
wealth and fashion, it appears, by the
foreign papers, left our shores some two
years ago for the purpose of discovering
who was the best-dressed woman in all
Europe. She visited London, Edin-
burgh. Paris, Berlin. Vienna. Geneva and
st. Petersburg, and mingled in the best
society in those cities She attended
weddings, operas and balls, and numer-
Gus state receptions. She processes to
have seen all the reigning
Queens, Princesses and professional
beauties in Europe. She was not
charmed with the dress of any of the
women she saw. She concluded the
long journey had been made in vain.
So she went to Rome, as many people
have done who We're the victims of
disappointment. There she unexpect-
edly discovered what she had been look
ing for in vain. She found the best
dressed women of Europe, and she be-
lieves the best dressed woman CT all the
world. This woman who has mastered
the art of dressing properly and well on
all occasions is Margharita, wife of
L Is - ~ 1,,I-c
not strange that her subjects delight
Her dresses are always becoming, al
WAYS elegant, always beautiful, but
never very costly. Receiving visitors
at the royal palace, attending opera,
on her way to church, or visiting the
sick in charity hospitals. her dresses
are always becoming the place and the
OCCASION Still the Investigator de
clares that the Queen does not spend as
much on dresses as many a rich woman
in this country or England does.
If the wife of King Humbert has dis
covered the art of dressing well at very
small expense, it is to the credit of
woman of our country that she has made
the fact known to the world. Possibly,
however, there may be some mistake
about it. Queen Margharita is a very
beautiful woman. She had great beau
tv as child, and she has never grown
out of it. Quite likely her beauty height
ems the appearance Of her dress, as her
dress does her personal loneliness. She
is probably one of those women ''who
look well in anything" That she is
very sensible and lovely, as well as a
most beautiful woman, is the unanimous
opinion of her subjects. Some state that
the beauty of her face is but the outward
expression to her soul. When but six
teen, and about to be married to the
heir of the throne of Italy, she expressed
the wish that all her bridal garments
be made by Italian modistes from mater
ials produced on Italian soil. Though she
married Prince, he was poor man,
for his income was not large, and, as
King, he voluntarily undertook to pay all
his fathers debts by instalIments. To do
this required many years, during all of
which time his wife spent very little
money on dressmakers and milliners.
It is stated by some that the dresses of
the Queen of Italy are to be the models
for the fashions. If this is the case,
Italian lace and dress goods will be in
demand 1t is to be hoped that if the
women of this country adopt the style
of dresses worn by Queen Margharita,
they viii copy her sweetness of man.
ner, her habits of economy, and her
practice of caring for the sick and
destitute. They will also do well to re-
member that she affords evidence of the
truth of the old Naturalization is
that handsome does Cor. Chic1qo