Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-01-10
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
HER TRIALS, TRlUMPHS, PLEASURES
AND DlSAPPOlNTMENTS.
Counsel to Ease the Pathway of the
Queen of the Fireside-The Everyday
Life of Nictoria-Julia Ward Howe
on Woman's Indifleronce-The
Beauties of Andalusia-The
Women of Cairo.

Among the many hard working women in
England there is none more industrious than
Queen Victoria, and, like the majority of
those who have achieved any distinguished
success in the state of life to which they have
been called, she is great believer In early
rising. In Prince Albert's time the royal
couple had always breakfasted, attended
prayers with their household in the private
chapel and taken walk together round the
grounds of their palace before 9:3O O'Clock.
when the real business of the day began
Although not young and hearty nowadays
as formerly, the queen still rings for her cup
of cocoa at I o'clock and rises an hour later
Breakfast is laid out in the apartments of
Princess Beatrice, with whom her ma iesty
also lunches alone.
At Windsor the morning is spent in signing
state documents and generally stud yng state
affairs, and if the weather be propitious the
work Is carried on out of doors under tent.
Like every good Engishwoman the queen
dearly loves her tea and partalies of the coy
meal in company with Prince Henry of Bat
tenbcrg and their little ones. The afternoon
is entirely occupied with driving, or some
times riding, an exercise her majesty is very
10th 30 relinquish Notwithstanding years. The
royal dinner hour is 3 o'clock. sometimes even
ldJcI-JuSJ dDpub Jle lllilc N0en Ine SOVer-
eign's eldest grandchild, the emperor of Ger
many, thinks of going Off to roost after hav-
ing discussed a very simple supper with his
family and friends Fortunately no meal at
the royal castles is of long duration aud din
ner is dispatched in a mercifully expeditions
manner If guests hare been invited the
queen enters her drawing room five minutes
before tho hour strikes, and on the sound of
the gong leads the way to the dining hall.
Soon after 10 the party retire to the corridor
de conversation" and the august lady adj
dresses all her friends III succession but does
not remain with them much longer than half
an hour, when she returns to her own apart
ments to write letters or play duets on the
piano with any of her daughters who happen
to be staying with her
At Balmoral, the dullest house on this
earth, according to the late Lord Beacons-
field, the monotony of existence is almost OBJ
pressve. State business is, of course, con-
Quoted as at Buckingham palace and at Wind
sor, i'll the early morning, after which moro
often than not, the whole party is forced to
proceed on country expedition in open Ian
daus however cold the weather NAV be- not
returning home until late in the afternoon or
evening. LuncheOns and tea baskets are of
course taken III the carriages, and the repasts
spread out III picnic like fashion in some shell
tered nook. The queen is particularly fond of
sketching, and to the despair of her shivering
and blue faced ladies in waiting, will order
her camp stool to be produced and remain
plante Ia, transferring the landscape to paper,
while these unfortunate mortals stand around,
awaiting her good pleasure. One of her mai
estys most pronounced pecuiarities is an in
ordinate love of cold weather. Fires are her
abominatiOn and she will enter the room
lo, olaI
verely from the effects of those open windows,
which are derigueur wherever she is expocted,
exclaiming with provoking hiarity: what
lovely day. What a comfort to see Jack /
Frost again.
1t must be whispered that the chief lady of
the realm is not Oh all occasions the most CON
slderate of companions. Besides her disre-
CORD for the feelings of others in respect to
lcy apartments, she is apparently unaware
that her ladies in waiting are like ordinary
mortals, capable of bodily fatigue. They
must always be within earshot, always ready
to produce the daily papers from which ev-
cry paragraph which might prove distaste-
full to their sovereign has previously been
carefully removed) and to read aloud stand
ing for any length of time. French and Ger
man, as well as English books, are discussed
in the presence of the royal circle after din
for music, and betide the maid who
shows any sign of failing strength Many la
dies have, indeed, proved physically unequal
TO the tasks thus imposed upon them and /
have been dismissed without further ado
The queen is as may be imagined. a stern |
mentor IN small matters in great. Her
dislike to the ways and manners of the mod .
ern Englishwoman is very evident, and only .
recently has she allowed her ladies to in
dulge in such vanities as ''fringes. - or to dis
port themselves in listers or other outdoor
gear displaying masculine cut. To drive a !
dog cart was also, in her opinion, an essen |
TALLY manly privilege, and the Princess Bea-
tree, who now reveis IN the pastme, had, | |
believe, hard fight to obtain her mothers
permission to be seen thus deneaning her |
self anywhere outside the castle grounds at
Balmoral.
The Lady Victoria's own costumes are of .
the simplest, and her bonnets of antiquated
fashion, while, must admit it?-her indoor
boots retain the broad, almost forgotten
shape OF bygone times, and are made of /
paramatta, with elastic sides.
Not long ago, to my knowledge, a pretty |
little maid of } summers, tho child of one OF |
n favorite young friends, was summoned !
y Windsor TO take tea with her majestys /
grandchildren The proud mother had dressed |
her tiny daughter in sashless but picturesque
Kate Greenaway frock-a new tangled attire .
which did not seem to find pleasure with her .
majesty, for she remarked to the nurse on
parting with her; Maggie is q nice little
girl, but the next time she comes TO see me
She must wear sash. London Letter in
San Francisco Chronicle.
Woman's Indifference.
There is "A class Of noble workers who labor
increasingly for the uplifting Of their l1nfor-