JOTTINGS FOR WOMEN.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9326, 29 January 1896, Page 5

JOTTINGS FOR WOMEN.

GOSSIP ABOUT THE QUEEN. Queen Victoria is a model laudlady. She has a number of tenants on the Oaborne and Balmoral estates, who hold their leases direct from nor, and sha ia very particular that they shall all be of a desirable class. Recently her Majssty bought a small addition to tho Oaborne estate, and a very re;uecublo old couple who had lived for many veare in a cottage on tho newly.purchwed property were in terror le ? b tney •hnuld be ejected from tne home wnich had become so deeply endeared to them from W habit. Directly tho Queen heard of the-r alarm eho called iv peraou on the old mo'ple. and as*ured them in the kindest Kvtbat they should never be disturbed. a A a few ilays aflerwarde hor steward brought U» ap«a p*" » «3 year.Meaee of their house and garden at v nominal reot of £5 P« unumn, thin euauriug their children against dieposaewion. Aoiaoi thiabort, which are by no means rarities (adds our London correspondent) in the Queen's life naturally tend to etodear her to her subjects, and if Edward VII.', George V and Edward VIII. successively follow in her footsteps, I don't think wo .shall see Eugland a republic in any hurry. A "BLOOilEU" RESTAURANT. Ban Francisco cortainiy leads in pushing advanced ideas to the front (says the San Francisco Chronicle). It has had ita bloomer balls, bloomer marriages, and now a bloomer reetaurant Ijos boon oponpd in the very business centre of tho city. Id is the first of its kind known ia the world, but the style may soon become faahiouablu. Tho restaurant is at 411 California street, near Saneomc, and thouuh only just opened it has sprung into a lucrative business pUca in a. day. TUe idea was novel, and whether tho trial would succumb to asevere frost was the risk of the proprietor of tho new veuture. The •'Bloomer Gale" is the name of the place, and four active stout waiter girls, attired in the latest style bloomers, arc the main attraction, though the place is now and neat and the bill of fare tempting. Tho costumes of tho four up-to-date waitresses i 3 very much on the zouavo plan ; especially the waist. Still it is a modest-costume, and the girls have aeemiugly got used to it. They flit backward and forward attending to their dutiej, bub it c!oae!y eyed two or three of thorn got together, and a giggling laugh results as thoy walk hurriedly to the kitchen. Mr Emliiy, tlio manager, explaining the new ■oheine, oaid—"l was go«ug to opm v new coffee, lunch aud dining room, and I tried to think of somothing to bring business to the place qnickjy, hs it often takes a long time to buiid up a trade. I saw so many people looking at lady bicyclists in bloomers as they passed ulong tlio street that tho idea ■truck mc. I secured the waitresses through an employ incut agency. A large number refused to don tho bloomers, though I pay for them myself. Finally, I secured four excellent girU, aud the placo opened. The girle were quite shy at first, but to-day (the Jsth October) they have been bo very busy that they had no time to think of anything but work. I will increaeo the four very soon. The girls are very much pleased with their new uttiro. They cay they can work ever so much more rapidly and easily thau with skirts, and do not get so tiroJ. They are very ladylike, and no attempt at rudeneit towards thorn has been made, and, of coarse, none would be allowed. The girls find tho now costumes very handy in cleaning tip also. They can get round to much better advantage"