The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-24


Roosart Is dressed IN q long, narrow robe OF
green satin. Queen Elizabeth appears in al
her traditional magniticenoe. She wears
frock OF gold tinsel stuff, trimmed richly
with ermine and pearls Her royal feet are
covered with shoes OF crimson plush, anc
her head Is adorned with a crown of tbs
same remarkable material, 70 which are
added points of gold paper.
SOME THEATRICAL FAvoRIrE.
Count Almaviva,n q character from
The Barber of Sevillen and THE Marriage
OF Figaro" was another one Of the dolls
dressed by the queen. He wears baggy
white satin trousers, a sky-tlue satin coal
and broad brimmed blue hat.
Iagloni, whose dancing used TO ravish
the hearts OF the theater- going people when
the century was young, has a place amonu
the queens dolls. She is dressed as she an.
peared in LA Sylphide ," in an abbreviatei
muslin frock and has little wings painted in
white and gold. Again she appears as Ia
La Bayadere,n in scarlet stomacher, scar
let, scarlet tippet and big blue velvet capote
with punches Of pink roses
Another theatrical favorite was Nile.
Porphyn Brocard, whom the queen has rep
resented In a fairly-like costume OF silver
geuze pesticoat. white satin bodice with
silver spangles. green garland and a gold
chain.
VI. Albert was ballet-master at the Kings
theater, and he has a place among the
| queens remarkable collection. He is start
hngly attirsd in a single garment OF thin
| white linen daintily trimmed with rows OF
narrow, pale blue ribbon. A pale blue sash
encircles his waist and blue ribbon gathers
his strange and wonderful piece Of attire at
the neck.
In addition to her theatrical company the
| queen had many court ladies in her doll
family She did not name her dolls after
the fashion of vhe modsTn-untitled little
| girl lns:ead OF Edith May - she had
! Gaglione instead OF "Rosabelle," she
bad Lady Shrewsbury. In her whole
| family there are but two mentioned
as being just dolls, named after no
one. One was named Paul V. victoriue, as
became Nictoria's daughter, AMI one was
| Ernestine, little Dutch peasant doll. SO
| Is unlike the others. being made Of white
| leather. She Is a squat, dummy little
woman, with huge waist that would fill
the hearts Of reform dressers with gloe.
! and face OF the genuine Dutch type.
More domestic than either the court ladies'
or the theatrical is "Mrs. Martha House
| keeper" She is substantial person, with
q white lawn frock and an apron Of the
| deep, delicious purple silk that is somehow
| suggestive Of pluns and preserve closets, a
! white net cap with flying pink strings and
all the other accomplishments Of a good old
time housekeeper.
LADIES OF HIGH DEGREE.
| Among the danes of high degree are
! Lady Shrewsbury, magnificent in white
| silk, with a magnificent train and Medici
collar of Spanish lace; the Countess of
| Claremont, in pink satin ands erminie; the
Duchess of Warwick, with evening head
| gear that reminds one, in its shape of the
| awful dust cap and towel of housecleaning
time. Then there are some aristocratio
babies-the children of Lady Pulteney in
! loose frocks and checked silk, and the chill
| dren Of the Countess of Dudley, in the i'm
possible style Of the eighteenth century
white satin skirts, pointed pink satin bod.
| Ices and coats.
There was another young lady-Miss Ar
mold. She might have been the heroine ef
an early novel. She wore muslin skirts
that stood out about her, and q lilac sash
| and neck ribbon. A lace fichu reached
| nearly to her feet, and her face was hidden
benath ooal-scuttle bonnet. Some fair
Priscilla or DOrothea Of that ancient time
she ssens-and it is to be hoped the queen
was at least as fond OF her maidenly doll as
of the rustiing court ladies and the frivol-
GUS dancers of her family.
The copy book has all the names and dates
OF this most interesting family. In 1888
1.-THE dolls we're packed away" What took
| their place in their queen mothers heart?
And did she weep some royal tears when
| VIC DOASih NNdib ud dlu the LalTY-uke
| Taglioni, the gentle Miss Arnold and the
| quaint Ernestine were taken from her and
stored away! AT any rate now that they
| are resurrected, the queen recalls them all,
and even after the lapse of nearly sixty
years is able to give many Of the details Of
the dolls personalities.
THE QUEENS PERSONAL INTEREST.
She has been unDending her mind from Mr.
Gladstone and parliament TO dolls and dolls
| dresses, To Miss Frances H. Low, who
| has written an article on Queen Victoria's
| Dolls" for the Strand Magazine. she has
! given every opportunity of learning tile
true history OF the playthings, even going
| so far as TO read it over and correct any
| inaccuracies, all OF which corrections are
recorded in loyal British subject fashion as
foot notes just as the queen jotted them
| down.
Several of the dolls are dressed in the
| different characters taken by the celebrated
| Marie Taglioni and her sisters" writes
| Frances Low. "She had none" is the brief
note which shows the sovereIgn's correction.
THE princess must at an early age have
been expert with her knitting needle" is
another statement that calls for the queenly,
though conscientious. foot note: mo, Bar
oness Lehzen did the minute work" "She
! tTaglioni again appears dressed by the
baroness as peasant" writes the subject
dancing girl" briefly corrects the queen.
'She went to the opera and saw the ballet,
OF which she was very fond, several times
is another foot note confession that this
story OF her dolls brings from the great
grandmother queen.
So great was her interest that she for
warded some details of her childhood
through Sir Henry Ponsonby. He says:
Her majesty was very much devoted to
dolls, and. indeed. played with them till she
was nearly IA years old.
"Her favOrltes were small dolls-small
wooden dolls-which she could occupy her
self with dressing, and who had house in
which they could be placed.
None of her ajesty's children cared for
dolla as she did, but, then, they had girl
companions. which she never had.
Miss Victoria Conroy (afterward Mrs.
Hammer came to see her once a week aud
occasionally others played with her, but
with these exceptions she was left alone
with the companionship of her dolls.n
In a postscript to the above letter Sir II.
Ponsonby adds: "Since writing the above
l have been informed that it is not correct
that none Of her majesty's children cared
for dolls, as the four eldest princesses were
very fond Of them"
Strawber-Do you notice that the cashier
In gfataV- hn.