The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-26
Oueen yictoria,s Yacht.

delighted with the luxurious
dalton of the Victoria and Albert, and he
intends to build a new yacht for himself,
as the Hohenzollern, although her cabins
are very comfortable, is q mere despatch
boat. The Victoria and Albert was built
at Pembroke in 1854. She is constructed
of wood, sheathed with copper. and cost
9133, al at the outset, and about e3l0, 600
has since been expended on her. The in
ternal arrangement n the decorations
were designed by Prince Albert, who dis
played his true artistic taste in ordering
that everything was to be pretty but also
scrupulously plain, for he did not approve
of the Neutrality-suspicious. style of yacht
which is now so popular.
The exquisite cleanliness of everything
strikes one forcibly on board the Victoria
and Albert. The deck is laid with cork
floor cloth, over which, When the Queen
is on board, a carpet is placed, and every
thing else that is to be seen is of pure
white, with gilded relief work and silver
mountings. There are very comfortable
little sitting rooms on the promenade
deck and behind the paddle wings, and
there is also q dining saloon on the prom
enade deck which has three big windows
and q skylight. 1t is furnished in green
morocco and the ceiling is painted in
white and gold.
The State apartments below are placed
on either side of q corridor, and they are
furnished with a very pretty chintz,
which Prince Albert designed. The
Queens cabins are on the starboard side,
and her sleeping apartment contains a
large and old fashioned but very COM
Portable looking bedstead, with pillars
and q canopy, ana next Is the dressing
room, which was formerly Prince AlDert's
cabin, and it remains as he leit it, his
little writing table and wardrobe never
having been moved. Large maps hang
on the walls. The cabins occupied by
Princess Beatrice Cor any Princess who
happens to be travelling with the Queen
are aft of Her Majesty's quarters, and
on the other side of tue corridor are the
cabins of the Princes n a large bath
room.
The breakfast-room is in the afterpart
of the vessel, and it has very large win
lows and is hung with the portraits of all
the officers who nave commanded the
royal yacht. The d-rawing-room is for
ward on the port side, and it is furnished
in bird's-eye maple, with a piano and sew
eral beautifully carved side tables. 1t is
hung with portraits of members of the
royal family, and in this room is q small
library, The yacht is now lighted with
electricity, except in the Queens own
cabins. -Londoa Truth.
Literary Women's Dress.
The old theory that literary ONE
must be long haired, unkempt in appear
ance and eccentric in dress, is rapidly
dying out. The modern authoress has
greater social obligations than her sister
who preceded her, and she must dress ac-
cordingly. Eecentricities in dress, even
with the most talented, are not so gener-
ally overlooked as in the past. And a
glance at the costumes at o literary re-
ception of a coterie of literary women
shows the present tendency. The short
skirt that formerly characterized the
literary woman has given way to the
more dignitied train. Grace has sue
ceeded awkwardness in toilets and man
ners. Julia Ward Howe, Mary Mapes
Harriet Prescott SpofIord, Margaret Sang
ster, Mrs. Lew Wallace, Anna Katherine
G~reen--these and many more Of our liter