The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-02
KING EDWARDS WARDROBE.
1t is More Varied Than That of Any
 Other Monarch.

Other Monarch. l .'Of all the absurd stories respecting the British royal family which from time to time gain currency on the con- l tinent, that emanating from Germany which attributed to King Edward the 1 lidiosyncrasy of never wearing the same suit twice, is perhaps the most foolish. !" So declared last evening a gentleman who is in position to speak authorita- lively on the subject.
 The king has an immense ward robe" he added, including all these varieties of style and material, and as he seldom, perhaps never, wears these particular clothes in England, he natu- rally takes advantage of the opportuni- ties fforded him by the less stringent so- cial customs abroad.
 That is why the king is rerely seen 1 by a continental public wearing the same suit twice But the clothes are not discarded That would imply ex- | travagance, which is not one of His Ma I jesty's traits. In fact, during the pres ent week he has worn while shooting l at Windsor a. sac back suit and ca l thered hat, in which he was first seen at German bad I believe the king would more frequently adopt this com fortable style of garment if cireum- stances permitted.
 The suits the king ywears only once are those he does not like. These are transferred to gentlemen whose posi- tion appeals to the kings kindly na- ture The other clothes for which His Majesty ii has TO longer any use are the perquisites of the assistant valets, of whom there are two, an Englishman and an Austrian, who are under the su- pervision of the superintendent of wardrobe
 The king never assumes fewer than three different suits in the course of the day. When he rises he puts on an easy fitting lounge suit of black navy blue, or dark mixture. In this attire he goes I through his private correspondence
 Then about ten or half-past, if he is going to shoot he dons brown tweed sporting costume, with the fa- lvorite and picturesque Tyrolean hat When the king is in residence at Buck lingham Palace and goes to Windsor for a few hours among the pheasants, he Leaves London in frock suit, but in the royal rooms at the Windsor railway station-one of which is fitted up as a dressing roorl-there are awaiting his arrival one or two shooting costumes from which the king selects the one most suitable to the weather. If he is bent on golf, clothes befitting that pas time take the place of the shooting out fit
 l If His Majesty has been subjected to any great exertion during the outing he, on his return to the castle, under. goes a system of massage, and thei dresses for dinner. Thus on an ordina Try dy three different suits are worn.
 If his majesty made it rule never to wear the same clothes twice. a sim pie calculation shows that he would re quire no fewer than 1,95 suits in tht
 course of a year. Taking ten guinea. as the average price per suit, that
 would bring his tailors bill to ovel
 ten thousand nine hundred and fifty pounds year Which, of course, is ab
 surd.
 As a matter of fact, the king stil
 wears once or twice a week a frocl
 coat which he had made at the time o
 the coronation. Only the other da,
 His Majesty might have been seer
 within the precincts of Windsor Castl
 wearing a lounge suit of a distinctl,
 uncommon purple color. He was con Yversing with some workmen in man ner as unaffected as his appearance wa
 unassuming. That purple suit was !;
 revelation.
 The king has undoubtedly the larges
 wardrobe of any monarch in the world ! and no one would dare reduce it with
 out his permission; for he has a re
 markabe memory in the case of snal
 things as in large, and he might ask fo
 the very garments which had been re
 moved.
 At Windsor Castle, Buckingham
 Palace and Sandringham His Majest , has total of about two hundred suit
 of all kinds, besides nearly a hundre hats and caps He has, moreover, splendid collection of furlined over , coats.
 Il T may point out that for mornin , wear with frock coat the king at pres ) ent favors a trousers pattern with 5 thin vertical stripe. The white yes slip which he made fashionable ha been lately discarded by His Majesty
 who also likes velvet collars on hi
 overcoats.
 ITO sum up, the king orders abou