THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1319, 5 November 1883, Page 2

THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

« Alexandra, says a L ndon correspondeut, speaking of the Pnucessof Wales, seems much more attractive than any other woman. It is not that she is handsomer, for there are more beautiful women than she in the ranks of the English aristocracy; there are many who are far younger, of coirs-, since she is the motlie.- of five children' one a l.oy of nineteen, But the Pmi cess of Wales is the very iucomparablt* lecarnation of fine ladyisrn. Her manners are perfect. Her dress is always right. Yesterday, in Hyde Park, for instance, the day was very warm, one of the few hot days an English summer '

brings. Wom.m of rank were wearing d esu-s of gienadiue, trimmed with lace, light silks with many flounces, and all sorts of gay paraphernalia, swohf as one se,s on tb>j racecourses near Piii-k- But how was the Princess of Wales dressed? S rasply in a washing- | pdnt cotton of pale hi ue,. with a palepink rose at her throat,, and a siraplestraw bonnet trimmed to- CorrespondHow inesisti ly pretty she looteed, Her til ee d tig iters wore also dressed in frocks made up of a marteritl designed for purification by the aid of soap and w.iter.. " Radiantly clean," Ruskiu's prime essential of beauty was indeed the leading characteristic of this tronp of royal ladies*. The eldest of ho three " little princesses," as they are commonly called, is getting to be a big girl now, awl her bearing is peculiarly like her mother's. The same slightness of figure, upright carriage, aud sweetness mingled with hauteur, is hers ; but, strange to say their father and mother being such a handsomecouple — the little Wales girls are reallyplain in feature, nor do their countenances denote any high degive of intellectuality. The family life of the Heir Apparent is a happy one, and i those who are in the inner arcana, aud I are 3iipp>scd to know whereof they ; sp'ak, say tiiat the Prince of Wales is one of the most devoted husbandlovers that tver lived, a^d that many of the "admirations" for various women whioh he is charged with having, in reality never existed except it* the imagination of the women t iem> selves. -."*'.