The Portland daily press., 1900-08-17
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Climb Won Lost Pe7, a.
QUEEN VICTORIA.
The ola Lady Is Kept on Ice in the sum
mer.


Queen Victoria is kept ION ices during
the hot spells of summer. The queen is
past so, robust and hale, and during all
her long life has manifested a renarka-
bic preference for low temperatures. 1t
is a popular belief that noble personages
are always cool, reserved and even more
or less chilly under the most heating cir
cumstances.
But the aged queen of England upsets
this accepted theory. Her ladies-in wait
ing, or such of them as have survived the
various draughts with which her majesty
surrounds herself, have often remarked
privately upon her majesty s tendency to
have the castle windows open in very
cold weather, but these remarks have al
ways been in private. In public they
have tried to look pleasant in their low
out gowns while their teeth ratified and
chartered and chills ran up and down the
exposed portions OF their spinal columns.
But it is in summer that ingenuity is
taxed to make a climate suitable for the
queens temerament Fond of cold, she
abhors heat, and the royal residence, the
travelling equipages, the train, and the
gardens are all arranged in conformity
to her wishes.
In the morning, for instance, as soon
as the queen leaves her sleeping room,
great shallow pans Of ice are brought IN
and placed about, the Ice supply being
replenished as fast as it melts. After the
room has been aired the blinds are drawn.
so that not breath of the warm outer
air may enter. Then an exhaust fan is
driven over q large bed of ice, forcing
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temperature resembles that of a refriger-
atOr. This process is continued until
night.
When the queen retires it is the duty of
the ladies-1n waiting to read to her while
she is being made ready for bed and as
summer costumes are en- reggie at this
season their discomfort in the cOld-stOrage
atmosphere may be imagined.
Besides this, fountains spray Jets OF
iceWater before the royal windows, and
pans and buckets of ice are scattered
about the rooms, The American electric
fan has not yet been adopted, although a
commercial traveller has recently submit
ed samples to the chamberlain Of the cas-
tie There appears to be an objection to
these fans in the fact that they make a
slight humming noise, which causes the
queen much annoyance, and which is a
fatal objection. The designs are now
being modified, and 1t is believed that
when the humming is removed fans VIII
be adopUed
Not long since, her majesty travelled
from Windsor to Portsmouth in the royal
train of Pullman carriages, when practi-
cally the same cooling devices as prevail
at Windsor were resorted to. Pans of ice
were placed under the seats and in other
available spots about these cars, and a
cOld-storage temperature produced equal
TO any ever secured in the cars of the
uressed-beef combine. The result was
it appears, eminently satisfactory to the
queen, but not so much so to the other
persons COMPEL ed to travel with her-the
linen and other warm weather costum IS
not being appropriate to the temperature
in the cars.
This curious tendency OF the queen to
seek comfort in cold is ascribed by physi-
Ologists to her immense vitality This
vitality shows little deterioration, despite
her advanced years The queen sits in
cold rooms in the evening attire pre-
scribed by fashion through long winter
nights, and seems perfectly comfortable.
She at no time permits artificial heat
in the room she occupies, either as
dwelling or during public functions.