The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-03-09

throughout the suite, the dressing and
bed rooms only differing from the sit
ting room in that the walls of the for
mer are panelled in soft shade of
green silk. while the latter are papered
with rich crimson flock. The most
striking reature of the queens private
rooms are, to casual observer, the
pictures In the eyes Of their owner
each separate one has history or re-
calls a Renaissance. Chief among the
portraits and landscapes the oils, wa
ter colors and crayons, are the many
likenesses of the Prince Consort. The
best of these. which hangs in the sit
ting room, opposite the fireplace, is a
life size, full length picture, by Winter
halter, of the prince, attiTed in black
walking costume and holding the top
hat of modern times in his hand. But
most charming Landseer that hangs
above the cabinet on the left of the
fireplace also shows the prince to great
advantage. He is in shooting costume,
and the fruits, in fur and feather of his
days sport lie heaped at his feet. The
baby Princess Royal, his favorite grey
hound Eos and a Skye terrier are play
ing on the floor, while Her Majesty, in
a plain gown of white satin, and with
her slender girlish shoulders bare,
stands at her husbands side. The pic
ture which was painted in the bay of
the green drawing room, has for the
distant background fine view of the
East Terrace and the park beyond, and
is replete with grace and tenderness.
| oIi f,1 niptIIrp in old
fashioned gilt frame of carved wood
shows the Prince Consort and the
Duke Ernest Of Sake Coburg in velvet
doublets, slashed with white satin, and
wearing the collar and order of st.
George. Close by hands another por-
| trait of Prince Albert In Stuart cos
| tune, the accompanying figure being a
most dainty portrait of the queen,
dressed for the great fancy ball of the
Charles II period which was given at
Buckingham Palace on June 10, 1851. 1t
is singularly pretty likeness of the
queen. The Duke of Connaught APP
pears twice in fancy dress, when quite
tiny boy of three. In one picture he
wears the full panoply of an officer In
the Scots Fusilier Guards; in another
! ne ~ dIllIed az Jun lNiiltS iipi' -
| cess Helena (aged three) is represent
ed in full Highland costume, and
Prince Alfred wearing his first MILDLY
uniform. There is also charming pic
ture Of Princess Beatrice when ten
months old. She wears a lovely white
lace frock, and is lying on white satin
cushion.
In the queens bedroom hang two por-
traits of Prince Albert and his brother
in their youth. Near them Is fine
portrait Of the Duchess of Kent, and
also a pictorial recollection of her room,
and the sofa on which she died at
Frogmore in 1861, in the presence Of the
queen, the Prince Consort and Princess
Alice. A sketch Of the queen CARRIED
as a nun, standing with clasped hands
in the presence of Vision of Prince
Albert, is from the brush of the late
Princess Alice. In the wardrobe room
hang portraits Of favorlte gillies and
pipers, among them being good like
neeses of John Brown and Ross, Clark
and Campbell.
Among other pictures to be found on
the walls OF the queens rooms are four
different portraits Of the Queen of the
Belgians in as many different costumes.
and many likenesses of cousins and rel
atives too numerous to specify
Two portraits of Baron Stockmar,
most stanch of friends and sympathet-
ic advisers, are interesting. They show
him as a kindly old gentleman with a
shrewd face. A charming portrait of
the Prince of Wales, when a child, Is
I,rriy7
Landseer." Other portraits, many of
them being in tinted crayons, are Prin-
cess Mary of Cambridge (now the
Duchess of Teck) a little girl all golden
curls and ribbons; the great Duke of
wellington; a most quaint study of the
Princess Royal when baby, by the
Prince Consort, and lovely head of the
handsome Marchioness of Douro.
OF sketches of Balmoral, Rosenau
(Prince Albert's tirthnlace), Osborne,
and the favorite apartments Of the
queen at her different residences, there
are many score. 1t is perhaps worthy
of remark that among the two hundred
and thirty one pictures that adorn the
queens private rooms, her daughter-1n-
law. her sons-in-law and her grand
children find no place, although photo
graphs and miniatures of them abound
on every side.
The mantelpieces and occasional ia
bles In the queens dressing room are |
as charmingly arranged and befiowered |
as those in the sitting room. Here the
green silk walls and hangings make a 1
perfect background for the toilet access
sories that cover the pressing table. |
These are all of gold, worked and |
chased into most delicate designs. The |
mirror is set in square cornered frame
that rises at the top into an oval Be
fore II lies a large gold tray, flanked by
four scent bottles of carved crystal
Two of these are set in gold filigree
stands of a shallow boat shape. The
pircushiou is dark blue velvet. fitted
within gold pierced edge. OF gold
boxes there are about dozen, and they
are of every size and shape, ranging
from the large square handkerchief box
IN the small, nutlike patch box
oair of candlesticks, two large oval hair
brushes without handles, and hand
nell complete the equipage, From the
room floor rises some feet
nigh the magnifcently elaborate gold
stand which supports a lamp and
dressing kettle" of the same precious
METAL.
The solid gold hand basin, on the
,o+tom of which are engraved the royal