The Indianapolis journal., 1889-01-25
Barred BOsOMS ABOLISHED.
Victoria Grants that Her Lady Guests Ma
Wear Clothes on Their Upper Halves.

Victoria Grants that Her Lady Guests May
Wear Clothes on Their Upper Halves.
NEW YORK, Jan. A.-The Worlds copy
right cable, dated London, says: The
Queen has intimated her intention of relax
ing the strict rules about the low-cut
dresses of the ladies attending the drawing
rooms so far as the early spring functions
are concerned. So they will not be re-
quired to expose themselves when half
naked to the bleak air of a February day.
Even, however, if little more clothing is
PIN ittzd, delicate omer run great risk
in attending the early drawing-rooms
The betrothal'of Prince Frederick Leo
pold, of Prussia, to Princess Louisa, of Au-
gustenburg, is nasty blow to the royal
family of England. Several years ago
there was tacit understanding that Prince
Frederick Leopold should seek bride in
England, and the jurney of the Duke and
Duchess of COnnaught in Germany in the
summer of 1887 was connected with this
matter.
Several erroneous statements have re-
Gently. appeared i'll the papers about the
Queens Will. The real truth is that her
Maiesty's will was made in 1876. 1t is a
document of protentous length, being en-
crossed on vellum of quartO size, is bound
up together in huge volume, which is Sc
cured by lock. and at the end are several
blank pages of cOdicils. of which, up to the
present, the Queen has made three-one
early in 1879, after the death of Princess
Alice; another in the summer of 1884, after
the death of the Duke of Albany, and an
other recently, which deals exclusively
with the Jubilee gifts.
1 gave an account a fortnight ago of the
Queens celebrated Sevres dessert service,
which, is kept in the Green drawing room
at Windsor Castle. Mr.. Goode, who is the
most eminent expert in such matters, in
formed me that no fewer than twenty-eight
pieces of the service were lost or stolen
during the reign of George the Fourth,
when it was in daily use at Carlton House
for his Majesty's private table. Mr.. Goode,
during the last fifteen years, has managed
to buy back nineteen OF these pieces, which
are identical in every respect with those in
the cabinets in the Green drawing-Toom.
Mr. Goode values the service, which belongs
to the crown and is not the private proper
ty of the Queen, at fully S500,0Oo, and one
piece alone, the famous .punch-bOwl was
valued few. years ago by. a well-known
auctioneer at $4,000, while Mr.. Goode him.
self vainly offered $500 to the present
owner of one of the missing plates. The
late Lord Dddley's superb vase, which. was
china, was originally piece of this service,
and had probably been removed from
Windsor Castle at the time of the confusion
which prevailed there during the last
mouths of the life of George the Fourth,
when, as one of the pages told Charles
Greville, loaded wagons were sent away
nearly every night. understand that Mr..
Goode offered the pieces which he had re-
covered to the Queen in order that the
Windsor Castle service might be completed,
but presumably her Majesty did not care
to expend $4,000 in making a present of
china to the crown. The value of the china
at Buckingham Palace and in the private
apartments at Windsor must considerably
exceed 81 1OOOOOO