Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-02

to and no one has ever seen picture hat"
on her royal hlghness' head. She wears
only those dainty little bonnets which bear
her name. Tailor frocks and Jackets
she dotes on, although before going into
mourning for her mother she had blossomed
out in very stunning toilets.
She does not favor the fashion of high
shoulder knots and her ball dresses are made
with the old-fashioned court bodice, the
shoulder strap dropping on to the arm.
The Princess Beatrice's attire is apt to be
of the simplest description upon ordinary oc-
casions. One travelling the continent who
had peep at Queen Victoria and the
Princess Beatrice wrote home, Nothing
could be palmer than their gowns"
The German empress, too, has well de-
fined Ideas about dress and once organized
dress reform order, which counted among
its members many high and mighty danes
The empress, however, is too fond of fine
dressing to carry these reforms very far
Twelve dressmakers are kept constantly en-
ployed in the empress tailoring department,
as Ii is called, under the superintendent of
woman of the court. The staff is in
creased to forty at certain seasons, when
court festivities are going on, or the en-
press Is preparing for journey. Blue and
white are, by the way, the favorte colors.
state dresses, twice many carriage and
visiting costumes and about $50 demi- toll
cites and house dresses-450 frocks all told (!
The sewing machine Is an unknown guam
tity In the empress tailor shop. From $25
to $50 yard is paid for the silks and satins
OF which her dresses are made.
The empress of Russia spends more on her
wardrobe than any royal woman in Europe.
Until and for short time after her mar
riage she dressed with almost severe SIM
plicity, but the grand women of the Russian
court took no pains to conceal their disap-
proval of the empress indifference to regal
splendor OF attire and the result Is that her
majesty Is gorgeous now in raiment which
might be likened to wrought gold" Shoes
are an important item, for the woman has
pretty foot with a high instep and her size
Is No. b.
Queen Margherita has a passion for
dainty handkerchiefs and the costliest lace
handkerchief in the world belongs to her.
1t Is valued at 100000, not exhorbitant
sum, when one considers that three artists
worked at 1t for twenty years. 1t is so
filmy that ii can be folded up and placed
in gold sheath about the size of a lima
bean
The favorite dress of Queen Olga OF
Greece is of blue and white striped OF
cnecheu uomestlc SIM lneSe DelnB the ma
tional colors, and besides the makers of
silk in her realm have not learned to dye
II any other colors.
The cast-off demi- toilettes OF royalty and
carriage and house dresses are the per-
quisites of the "head woman of the bed
chamber" who, after making q selection
for her own use in some cases, she either
sells them to private parties or to an "old
clothes" establishment. Here they are not
allowed to be sold as they must be remod-
eled so as TO obliterate their special fea-
lures. Actresses are among the principal
customers OF these shops
The countess of Warwick, whose Wit
beauty and philanthropy are often para
graphed. is magniied at times in her at
tlre-lke unto royalty itself She is a
woman with exquisite golden hair, deer
blue eyes, finely marked brows and grace
full elegant figure. An American woman
who recently met her at an outdoor func-
tlon says that the countess wore on that
occasion a French blue cloth dress trimmed
with silver passelnenterie, and she trailed
her handsome skirt about the yard with \
nonchalance that showed there were plenty
more where that came from.
Consuelo, the duchess of Marlborough
ball gowns are beautifully soft, white and
fluffy and she invariably wears strings oi
pearls as ornaments and keeDs her dia-
monds for gowns of more imposing material
With "Lothair," she thinks that there is d
reserve about pearls, which makes then
best fitted for white dresses. One OF her
pearl necklaces consists OF sixteen rows Of
magnificent pearls Another one has ten