Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1898 — The Queen's Gold Spoon. [ARTICLE]

The Queen's Gold Spoon.

A curious story is told by Lady Middleton of how oue of Queen Victoria’s smallest gold spoons was lost and found. A lady attended a state ball in a dress, the skirt of which was arranged in perpendicular pleats in front, stitched across at Intervals, and unknown to her, a gold teaspoon got lodged at supper in one of these receptacles. Of course there was one spoon missing after the ball, and the fact caused great perturbation to the official in charge of the gold plate. The next spring the lady went to a drawing-room in the dross she had worn at the state ball, and as she bent low before Her Majesty, the pleats of her skirt expanded, and the gold spoon fell at the queen’s feet'.—Youth’s Companion.