The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-09-07
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Doise, the genre becomes less distinc-
tive.
The picture, as a whole, is typical of
the extremes in summer fashions-an
oversee echo from Paris
Long, trailing skirts reign supreme.
save all for morning wear and sports.
The bodices are cut over the loose XII
mono style and coats are of the man
DARN order. Add to this the huge,
ungraceful mushroom hats, pinned on
by faith to the back, loaded with large
pompons of flowers, yard-long plumes,
struggling toque or spider-like ostrich
The chin of the wearer is slightly til
ted, the naughty eyes raised challeng-
ingly, the shoulders thrown forward
with wearied step in accordance-this
in the pen picture of the ultra-fashion-
able woman at Newport.
She seems to be inexpressibly wear
led by the burden of so many riches,
and, more often than it is pleasant to
see, assumes an expression of hopeless
boredom.
Truly, a lady slave to fashion, her
social ambitions and triumphs.
A YOUNG wife said to her husband
IA one night, my dear, there is a
gentleman in the parlor who wants to
speak to you"
who is it," Do you know" the
husband asked.
Dear" said the wife, you must
forgive me, but that cough has bother
ed you so much of late, and, though
spring is coming on, 1t still clings to
you, and, oh, if you only knew how
worried 1 nave been about you!"
Come, come" said the young man,
putting her shoulder tenderly, men
don't die of slight cold. So you've
called in the doctor Ell? Well, I'll see
him gladly if it will make you feel
easier"
1T isn't the doctor, dear" was the
answer its the insurance agent"
HE LIzABETH KNOLLYS, lady's
~ maid to Mrs. Albert e. Victim"
Such an entry would be quite cor
rect if one descended from the estate |
of royalty to the commonplace. How
the glitter of royal courts changes
things! 1t is writ on the records that
the Honorable Charlotte Knollys (pro-
nOunced "Knowles'O is bedchamber
woman to her majesty, Queen Alex
andra.
Because the mistress is royal, the
position becomes one OF honor instead |
of servility. Yet one cannot get away
from the fact that Miss Knollys is, to
all intents and purposes, the Queen
of Englands maid" as we'll as heI
dearest friend and confidential COM
panion.
Quite recently Charlotte Knollys
completed her forty-fourth year in this
position. Nightly for forty-four years
she has slept under the same roof as
her mistress, and daily in that lifetime
has she tended her and her many
wants so carefully and so faithfully
that at the royal palaces she has long
had the nickname Of "the shadow"
No one need envy Miss Knollys her
job. Yearly it grows more difficult.
The queen is most exacting woman.
with age her infirmities are increas-
ing. She has a temper. Most queens
have. But the public does not know
that the queens deafness has made
her a trife irritable, and that were 1t 1
not for the tact of Charlotte KnolIys
life at the various royal palaces
would be, for the queens household.
strenuous at time. Miss KuoIlys is I
Alexandras good angel. She is the 5
genial buffer between the queen and /
outside personages, not even leaving {
put jovial Edward VII.
The loss of Miss Knollys would be, !
perhaps one of the greatest Alexandra {
could suffer. For this woman. who {
never for one day in forty-four years &
has been away from her royal mistress. 1
s the only woman who knows the &
secrets of the queens toilet. T
And her reward? Who knows? Char /
otte Knollys, on the accession of King c
Edward, was given the prefix of "hon- c
'rable," and raised by royal warrant 1
o the position Of baron's daughter
BY virtue of her position at court she ]
axes first place among all unmarried a
women entitled to the prefix of "hon- @
'rable." Her relative rank now in +
he British empire is No. 2O,826 after d
he king. She has an armfuI of minor a
oreign orders and decorations bestow- L
ID by European queens. And as to +
alary, she draws $500 a year from II
he government and 81 500 from the e