Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-16
5ai1Y eagle
WOMAN'S REALM,
Her Trials, Triumphs, Pleas.
ures and Disappointment.
THE WIFE AND MOTHER.
Counsel to Ease the Pathway of the
Queen of the Fireside.
THE EVERY DAY LIFE OF VICTORIA

Julia Ward Howe Woman's Indiffer-
ance-The Beauties of Andalusia - The
Political Women win win-Dressins the
Baby-Pin Money for Farmers Wives.
The Women of Cairo-They Always Win
in the End-Children That Tease-Are
Beautiful Women Hsppiest:-A Never
Ending slavery-Facts About Fads and
Fancies Gathered Hero and There.
Among the many hard working women in
England there Is none more industrious than
Queen Victoria, and, like tine majority of
those who have achieved any distinguished
success in the state OF life DO which they have
been called, she isa great believer in early
rising. In Prince AIbert's time the royal
couple had always brealfasted, attended
prayers with their household in the private
chapel and taken walk together round the
grounds of their palace before $50 o'clock,
when the real business of the day began
Although not so young and hearty nowadays
as formerly, the queen still rings for her cup
of cocoa at o'clock and rises an hour later
Breakfast is laid out in the apartments of
Princess Beatrice, with whom her majesty
also lunches alone
At Windsor the morning is spent il signing
state documents and generally studying state
affairs, and the weather be propitious the
work is carried on out Of doors under tent
Like every good Engiishwoman the queen
dearly loves her eea and partakes OF the coy
meal In company with Prince Henry Of Bat
tenberg and their little ones The afternoon
is entirely occupied with driving, or some
times riding, an exercise her majesty is very
10th to relinquish notwithstanding years The
royal dinner hour is . o'clock, sometimes even
later-just about the time when the sover-
egn's eldest grandchild, tho emperor of Ger
many, thinks Of going OF 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 and dip
ner is dispatched in mercifully expeditions
manner. Ii guests have been invited the
queen enters her drawing room five minutes
before the nour 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 ad- |
dresses all her friends In succession, but does |
not remain with them much longer than half |
an hour, when she returns to her own apart |
rnents to write letters or play duets ON the |
piano with any of her daughters who happen |
to be staying with her.
At Balmoral, 1.-The dullest house on this |
EARTH" according to the late Lord Beacons-
field, the nlonotony of existence is almost OBJ
preSsive. State business is of course, con-
Quoted asat Buckingham palace and at Wind
cor, in the early morning, after which, more
often than not, the whole party is forced to
proceed on a country expedition in open Ian
iaus however cold tie weather may be, not
returning home until late in the afternoon or
evening. Luucheons and tea baskets are of
course taken In the carriages, and the repasts
spread out in picnic like fashion in some shell
tered nook. The queen is particularly fond of
and to the despair of her shivering
aud blue faced ladies in waiting, will order
ner camp stool to be produced, and remain
olante La, transferring the landscape to paper,
while these unfortunate mortalS stand around
waiting her good pleasure. One of her mai
estyis moss pronounced pecuiiarities is an in
ordinate love of cold weather. Fires are her
and she viii enter the room
where her people are assembled, suffering Sc
ve-ely from the effeotsof those open windows,
which are de rigueur wherever she isexpected,
enchanting with provoking hilarity: What
. lovely dayfn "Whas comfort to see Jack
Frost ageini"
1t must DO whispered that the chief lady of
he realm is not on ell occasions the most con-
'iderate of companions Besides her disre-
sard for the feelings Of others in respect to
cy apartments, she is apparently unaware
hat her ladies in waiting are like ordinary
nortals, capable of bodily fatigue They
must always be within earshot, always ready
o produce the daily papers from which ev-
ny paragraph which might prove distaste-
ul to their sovereign has previously been
sarefully removed and TO read aloud stand
ng for any length of time. French and Ger
nan, as wei as English books, are discussed
u the presence Of the royal circle after din
Ter, when the queen Is not feeling inclined
or music, and woo betide the maid who
hows any sign of failing strength! Many la
lies have, indeed, proved physically unequal
o the tasks thus imposed upon them and
lave been dismissed without further ado.
The queen In, as may be imagined, stern
mentor In small matters as in great Her
islil1s to the ways and manners OF the mod
IN Englshwoinan is very evident, and only
has she allowed her ladies to in
uge in such vanities as ''fringes, or to dis
'ort themselves in listers or other outdoor
ear displaying a masculine cut. To drive a
og cart was also, Ia her opinion, an essen
tally manly privilege, and the Princess Bea-
rice, who now revels in sac pastime, had,
elieve, hard fight to obtain her mothers
ermission TO be seen thus demeaning her
eli anywhere outside the castle grounds at
ialmoral
The Lady Victoria's own costumes are of i
be simplest. and ~ S5nuets of aEtiquote0