Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1880 — The Queen’s Drawing-Room. [ARTICLE]

The Queen’s Drawing-Room.

Fashion and the upper ten have been greatly flattered. Her Majesty held a drawing-room on Friday. She is only going to “ receive” once more this year, it is said. Blood and mammon, therefore, crowded Buckingham Palace, and will do so again, to fall off a little when the Prince of Wales takes up the running for his royal mother. Her Majesty, according to a semi-official modiste, wore a dress and train of black poult de soie and terry velvet,'embroidered in black silk, and a long white tulle veil, surmounted by a coronet of diamonds. She also wore a necklace, brooches and ear-rings of large opals and diamonds; the ribbon ana star of the Order of the Garter, the Orders of Victoria and Albert, the Crown of India, Louise of Prussia, St. Catherine of Russia, St. Isabella of Portugal, etc., and the Saxe-Cobmg and Gothe family order. The Princess of Wales appeared in a dress of prane-colored velvet with pearl embroidery, train of Brussels lace, and no end of pearls and diamonds. She looked thin, I thought, and by no means strong in health. I saw her arrive. The Duchess of Connaught was resplendent in white satin, trimmed with auchesse lace and white roses. She wore a tiara of diamonds and a profusion of pearls. If the imperial stone is really to be manufactured wholesale by the chemist, will these royal ladies replace it in their crowns and coronets? Will it be set aside, being no longer worth a large sum of money? Do they prize it for its beauty? In the daytime there are other stones that eclipse it, undoubtedly. It is at night, when it radiates the glare of lamps, that it is supreme in its beauty and oolor. The dresses at the drawing-room were richer and more magnificent than ever. Gold brocade was in high fashion. The modiste aforesaid awards the palm to the dress worn by the Countess of Clarendon, of which the coloring was Pompadour; it consisted of a close train and Directoire coat bodice of Louis XV. brocade, lined with pale bine anin, and bordered with point d’Alenoon, over a petticoat of ivory satin dnehesse. with gathered front, trimmed with flounces of point d’Alenoon and lisse studded with pale shaded roses to match the brocade of the train, which was ivory and pale pink; tiara of diamonds and diamond ornaments. Lady Julia Womb well wore a dress of old gold-colored broche, trimmed with satin of the same oolor and old point lace; a train of dark green and gold broche velvet, trimmed with old point lace and bouquets of gold mulberries and foliage frosted with gold. Some of the elderly ladies in the enforced low-necked dresses of the oourt looked cold and miserable. The Queen will here everything done as it was done in the Prinoe Consort's time, and no amount of criticism or appeal will induce hsr to modify the low-neaked drees of presentation.

Bat this is no reason why tho Princess Louise should enforce the same siMy regulations upon Canada So firm is the Queen in maintaining her reminiocences of Prince Albert’s day that she discards a new railway on .one pf her royal journeys aad travels one hour longer than necessary because It was the track aim used when her husband was alive. —London Cbr. N. T. Time*.