Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-06

ton, the favorite lady-!n-waiting to
spread out the thin gray hair from the
temples until the queen has a dignified
and even beautiful facial aspect. The
queen on her part is a patient sitter and
puts in several hours a month before the
camera.
Another popularity of the queen is
that she likes to be contradicted. That
is the reason John Brown suited her so
! we'll. She has an Indian attendant now
who fatty denies her things; and after
she has had a royal set-tO with him she
is more comfortab BILE. Now a royal dis
pute is quite different from the dispute
Of a layman; and when Queen Victoria
! tells the Indian attendant that she pre-
! fers to walk through the garden in
stead of being wheeled it is a command.
But the Indian has received his orders
from the Prince Of Wales, who is the
real director of the queens household,
n he knows that he must not allow
her royal highness to overexert herself.
He must not let her walk; so, in spite OF
commands, he stands still.
The queen makes an effort to rise
from her chair. but to her surprise her
faithful assistant does not help her.
Suddenly she feels herself moved along
and she realizes hat her wheel chair is
being wheeled through the garden and
the she knows that she is not to walk
A kOodys klkO0 0AAS VAN oAA0 rSoAAA
mands him to stop. He is taken with a
sudden attack Of deafness and wheels
on until the poor old lady gives up her
struggles and sits still.
Another fad Of Queen Victoria is the
India shawl fad. Ever since the Eng
lish occupation of India that country
| has paid part of its royal tribute in the
shape Of India shawls. These are mag
nificent affairs worth thousands Of dol
lars each, and for years the queen has
given them for wedding presents creating
much amusement by this economic dis
tribution of her own tribute.
Her latest India shawl move is even
funnier. 1t is now time for silver we'd
dings in the royal family. The royal
children have been married twenty-five
years and the royal cousins of the last
generation are also celebrating their
twenty-fifth anniversary. To all of these
she sends an India shawl for a wedding
gift and when reminded that she sent
one years ago she replies, eyes, but it Is
worn out now"
The queen for years used a certain
cosmetic which is in the form of a deli
cate wash for the face. If put on too
thick it becomes a whitewash. The
queen has never allowed her maids or
ladies-in-waiting to assist her with this
cosmetic, but has insisted o applying 1t
with her own hands. When she was a
young and rather pretty woman she used
it very lightly but later she patronized
it more freely and now that her eye
sight is failing she lays 1t on with a gen.
erous hand. Like most of these face
applications 1t is cooling and comfort
able and her royal highness cannot see
when she has used enough of 1t.
But her ladies never allow her to leave
her private apartments unless it is re-
moved and nan are the little articles
to which they have resorted. One day
the queen was in a temper, a thing by
the way which rarely happens for her
majesty is very sweet tempered. But this
day she insisted upon going to one of her
own drawing rooms with too white a
face.
The aides held a little consultation
and decided what to do. One of them,
at risk of her position as she afterwards
declared, lifted a glass of milk to her
lips and accidentally spilled a few drops
upon the queens forehead. OF course
the lady-in-waiting was terribly embar-
raised at the accident and the queen
after ~good-naturedly granting her the
pardon mopped the milk off her face
and took with it a coat of the white
wash.
The queen spends her birthday in both
feast and fasting. She has a birthday
dinner late in the day but her early
morning is spent at the tomb of the
Prince Consort il she is able to go out,
or If not in reading her prayer book and
viewing his picture. She receives a great
number of gifts. This year not the least
is the royal yacht which 1t Ia hoped Cal
be launched on that day.