Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1882 — Toilets at the Queen’s Drawing-Room [ARTICLE]

Toilets at the Queen’s Drawing-Room

The beauty of the day was a lady in black, who wore a boquet made entirely of daffodils. Lady Colin Campbell was there, looking superb. One lady had a splendid bouquet of ezalies, and another had one on a very large scale composed entirely of lilies of the valley .which as each sprig cost a shilling at present, must have represented a goodly sum of money. The youngest looking person present was Maria, Marchioness of Aylesbury, in sang de boeuf and black, with a magnificent tiara of diamonds. Lady Kilmoree was by far the most lovely of the married contingent who were presented. Her corsage was of white Venetian velvet, trimmed with ostrich feathers, the drees itself being of white satin, the headdress being composed of ostrich feathers and diamonds.? Apart from the question of becomingness the following was a poetic dress, worn by a debutante: The front was composed of a mass of snowdrop fringes and some thing that looked llike icicles in the sunlight, but which were in reality bugles, The bodice and long train were heavily fringed with snowdrops and bugles, ana the large bouquet was composed entirely of snowdrops and maidenhair. As the newspapers quit talking of Oscar Wilde his audience diminishes. Should they cease altogether, it would be a case of knee-breeches and hair parted in the middle exhibition to empty benches. On Friday, during the trial qf an important case in Cincinnati, the judge dismissed the jury on account of the intoxicated condition of one of them. They seem to have “juryfixers” down there as well as in Chicago. Jay Gould An the swiftest coupon clipper in the continent.