Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — The Queen’s Conservatism. [ARTICLE]

The Queen’s Conservatism.

I E. M. Jessop, describing “The Queen’s private apartments at Windsor,” in the Pall Mall Gazette, says ; that one may mention with regard to ! repairs and renovation of the castle ' rooms that all Innovations are strictly forbidden. For Instance should new curtains or new carpets be required for a room, there is a fixed set of patterns, and each article must be a duplicate of that which it replaces. On no account may the entire renovation of a room be undertaken all at once. It must be done piece by piece in her Majesty’s absence, so that it never loses its look of homeliness. There is a well-worn but perfectly true anecdote current at Windsor with regard to the Queen’s objection to smartness. On one occasion, during the absence of her Majesty, some railings In view of her private apartments required repainting, and it occurred to the responsible official that a somewhat brighter tone and gilded tops might improve their appearance. The work was duly done; the Queen returned; an hour or so afterward an order was issued to return the railings to their original color before the Queen came down in the morning. Dozens of painters had to start to work at 5 o’clock a. m. to obliterate the objectionable decorations.