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A QUEENS LIFE.
Inner Scenes in the Household
of Victoria of England.
The Domestic Routine and the
Servitors who Attend Her.
The inner life of the court, says Mrs.
Alexander in the Philade phia Zimes,
has little in it to tempt a Sybarite—sim
plicity, doubtfulness, conscientious per
formance of work are its characteristics.
At 9 Her Majesty breakfasts alone, un
less some of her children, grandchildren
or personal friends are staying in the
palace, and she is rarely without them.
In Summer, at Osborne, Windsor or
Balmoral, this meal is generally served
out of doors, in some alcove, tent or
Summer-house, after which the Queen
drives in a small pony carriage, accom
panied by one of the Princesses, or she
walks attended by a lady-in- waiting or
maid of honor, with whom she con
verses with friendly ease, and followed
by two Highland servants and some
favorite dogs.
Luncheon is served at 2, the convives
being her majesty’s family or royal
guests. Until this hour, from her short
after-breakfast exercise, the queen is
diligently occupied with official corre
spondence and business of various kinds.
Long training has made her a politician
of no mean ability and breadth of view,
her natural common sense forming an
admirable basis for such a superstruc
ture. It assists, too, in enabling her to
choose her friends well and wisely,
though the court surroundings are not
calculated to help royal = persemages in
forming a just judgment of ¢haracter.
Human nature puts on a somewhat too
angelic guise, where everything may be
won by amizbility and nothing by the
Teverse.
In the morning the maids of honor
(they :are nine in all) in waiting for the
time are with the Princesses, reading or
practising on the piano, singing or play
ing lawn tennis with them, as any young
ladies, companions together, might.
The lady-in-waiting accompanies the
Queen in her afternoon drives and visits,
which are most frequently to the poor
and to the humble workers, often to
simple gentry or any one in trouble.
Afterward this lady reads aloud to Her
Majesty in her private sitting room.
The royal dinner hour is 8 30, and
that meal is shared by those of the royal
family then residing with the Queen, by
distinguished visitors and some of the
household 1n rotation, viz., lord and
ladies in waiting, maids of honor,
equerries and grooms-in-waiting, this
latter afficial holding a censiderably
lower position than the equerry, though
to the uninstructed it sounds like a dis
tinection without a difference.
The ‘Queen is a woman of strict busi
mess habits and steady application. The
amount of correspondence she gets
through is .enormous. In the private
portion of this correspondence Her
Majesty is assisted by her private secre
_tary, a lady-in-waiting, and a maid of
honor, especially the Dowager Mar
chioness of Ely, one of the ladies, who
is a valued friend.
When the court is at Windser the
members of the household in attend
ance are one lady-in-waiting (these la
dies ave always peeresses), two maids of
honor, a lord-in-waiting, two equerries,
one groom-in-waiting, also the keeper
of the privy purse, the private secre
tary, assistants in both departments amd
the master of the household. The at
tendance is the same at Osborne and
Balmoral, with the exception of the
lord-in-waiting.
To attend to Her Majesty’s toilet and
wardrobe there are five maids, viz.,
three dressers and two wardrobe women.
The senior dresser, who has been many
years with Her Majesty, is specially
charged with the task of conveying
orders to different tradespeople—jewel
ers, drapers, dressmakers, ectc.; one
dresser and one wordrobe woman are in |
constant attendance on the Queen, tak
_ing alternate days. ‘
~ Dress is a matter in which even in her
b j‘g’d\tfig days, her majesty does not ap-J
pear to have taken much interest. At
present her perpetual mourning allows
of no crudo colorcombinations. Some
of us olders have o pleasaat, if vagus,
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False tiold and Diamonds.
There are in New York a number of
men—actually peddlers, though they
repudiate that designation—whose busi
ness is almost wholly confined to the
police force. They sell jewelry, watches,
clothing, household goods and other
things upon ‘‘the instalment plan’’ to
members of the ¢‘finest.” The business
is a good one, collections are sure when
the monthly pay-days come around, and
the expenses of trade are, to those en=.
gaged in this line, much smaller than
are borne by dealers who have store-rent
and clerk-hire to pay. Consequently
the merchant who is his own salesman
and clerk, and whose pockets are his
store, or who, dealing in bulkier gocds
than those he can carry, sells on large
commissions from manufacturers, is very
anxious, when he has made a. profitable
line of acquaint ances and patrons in the
force, to retain their good opinion and
confidence. Hence, by reason of a lit
tle expose last week, one of these gentry
is at present on the verge of distraction.
His business is in jewelry, gold watch
chains and watches mainly. During a
month or two past he has been selling a
great many large and heavy watch chains
which were represented as ‘‘solid four
teen-karat gold,” in several of the up
town station houses. One night an
officer in the course of an agitated con
versation with a tough citizen got one of
these big chains broken, and the next
day took it into a jeweler’s on his beat
to be repaired. While doing the little
job the jeweler innocently remarked:
“This is the heaviest filled chain I
ever saw.”
‘Filled nothin’ !” ejaculated the
officer, with a snort of contempt;
“that’s solid gold.”
*‘Oh, no,” persisted the jeweler, ¢it
is filled with silver,”
Eventually the indignant policeman
was convinced, much against his will,
that the gold of his chain was really
hardly as thick as an ordinary business
~card and that all the solid interior was
‘silver. Much more than half of the
‘entlre weight of the chain was of the
baser metal.
Voluntary Slaves.
~ There has not been a more degraded
class in this country since the days of
Columbus than the “Huns.” They are
) hired out in gangs and receive whatever
pay the labor broker sees fit to giwe
them for their work. Even their iden
tity becomes lost. Their names are
known only to themselves and to the
padrone, who makes:a good livelihood
by securing such gangs for those who
want them on short notice. The
laborers themselves :are numbered for
identification, and the employer or the
boss takes no notice whatever of their
names. If he wants No. Ihe calls the
number, and the man who figures under
this name responds. No. 100 does
likewise when he is called by his figure
name, and so it goes. When a railroad
is to be built or a piece of labor of any
considerable magnitude is to be done,
the contractors communicate with the
labor broker, who is generally a cunning
Italian, and manages to squeeze a com
mission out of both sides for his ser
vices. The contractor says he wants a
hundred laborers at the same price as
the last lot, or he may want five hun
dred. Dealing wholesale in this way he
gets them much cheaper than if he
engaged them in ‘‘blocks of five” or
undertook to organize the gang him
self. The labormonger communicates
with the gang master as soon as he re
ceives the order, and in a short time the
pick-and-shovel brigade reports for
duty. The labormonger gets his com
mission from the contractor at once, and
he exacts his money from the men for
whom he thus obtained employment |
when they get their first month’s pay.
The gang master attends to that matter.
Indeed, this is one of the principal
duties for which he was selected.
In a Nutshell.
Lawyer, to Irish sailor who has been
called in to testify to the character of a
companion brought to justice for some
misdemeanor, ¢‘Can you tell me any
thing about the character of the pris
oner?”
Pat —scratching his head — “Faith,
and I can, sure. He’s a good feller,
Michael is, cheerful loike, and of an
aisy disposition; but, plaise your honor,
he's a feller that's in everybody’s mess
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