The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-13

THE QUEEN ATBALMORAL
The Furnishings of the
Royal Palace Shabby
and Faded.
CHANGES IN HER HOUSEHOLD
A Story of Gloomy Claremont-The
Duchess of Albany Restored
lo, Royal Favor.
CHANGES IN HER HOUSEHOLD

LONDON, Sept. 90, 1S92.-Her Maj
esty Queen Victoria, who is at present
staying at BalIuoral, her Scotch home,
is wonderfully we'll in health. Her
Majesty suffers a good deal from
rheumatism, which always affects her
upon damp days, rendering her walk
Ing by the aid of a stick an absolute
necessity. In spite of the humidity
OF the mountain climate, which fire.
quently in the form of a Scotch mist
s%aturates the seats of the carriage in
which she is riding, the Queen seems
to shake off all i'll effects beyond the
affection in question. The royal con
stitution may be said to be an ex-
tremely strong one in view of the way
in which the Queen endures the sud-
den change from the balmy air of the
Isle Of Wight to the keen northeast
wind of the Highlands. Whilst others
are shivering and shaking with the
cold, the Queen preserves her rosy
cheeks and. maintains an excellent
appetite.
SHABBY FURNITURE.
Decorations are sadly needed at Bal
moral, where the faded appearance
OF carpets, curtains and furniture gen
orally is the first thing which strikes
the visitor. In the dining room the
hangings of Royal Stewart tartan re-
quire renewing, and the scarlet mo-
rocco, in which the furniture is up
holstered, has assumed a dingy hue,
which renders its original color almost
unrecogniZable. The ''snuggery," in
which apartment the lady of the
castle ordinarily dimes, was renovated
a few years ago, and is a comfortable,
if not artistically arranged room; but
the great drawing room is not t O be
named with the household arrange
ments of many a patrician family.
Here the Victoria" tartan, (which is
the prevailing material of the uphols-
terer's art, is decidedly dowdy-that
is the appropriate word, though it
seems incongruous when describing
the abode of royalty. The birch
floor, beautifully polished, needs no
carpet; the piano organ, ordinarily
muffied in a baize covering, preserves
its pristine beauty, while the cabinets,
statuettes and engravings which Or
nament the room are all in good con-
dition.
The mistress of the robes has been
granted leave of absence by her Ma
jesty, and has left the Balmoral
Castle The Duchess of Buccleuch
has handed over the royal ROBBERY,
with the gowns of state and dresses of
dignity, to the antiquated Dowager
Duchesses of Athoie and Roxburghe,
and they, being the two first ladies of
the royal bedchamber, will divide the
duties of experimenting the making
of the Sovereign's bed and examining
the boiled soft filtered water for the
royal ever" arranging the toilette re-
quisites, with the sweet, fragrant
royal perfumes, ~glycerines and face
powders and dentrifice, which, as
made for the royal family, is composed
of prepared chalk, cuttie-tish, orris
DOT and cream of tartar, and is
scented with myrrh.
OvERwoRKED DUCHESsES.
Two ladies-in-waiting are hence
forth to do the work OF the mistress of
the robes, in addition to their own.
They really ought to strike, poor
things; attend the servants meetings
in the park and write letters to a daily
paper. But as they are all Duchesses
that are concerned, and all up in Scot
land, perhaps they will keep their
breath to cool their porridge. What
had her Grace of Buccleuch done that
she must have her months notice?
Nothing at all. She is simply a vic
tim of the general election. When
Salisbury went out and Gladstone
came in, the mistress ofssthe robes, ac-
cording to precedent, had to lay down
her buttonhook as well. 1t is to be
hoped the two dowagers who have
picked it up will give satisfaction.
There is a surgeon dentist, a fellow
of the Royal College of Surgeons, also
a dentist, attached to her Majesty's
household, and each of these dentition
gentlemen receives $500 a year from
the State, with other advantages best
known to themselves.
This new custom of dragging the
Queens name into all kinds Of absurd
rumor is in every way reprehensible;
and is, moreover, exceedingly stupid.
The n and only thing the Queen
objects to is the temperance in the
front rank of politicians and active
statesmen of Sir Charles Dixie. Sir
Charles Dixie is coming forward,
must come forward and right to the
front again; nothing can keep him
back, if he lives and cares to let the
wave of events carry him. Her