London, June 25.
Parisians had a bad quarter of an hour on the news of the death of the! Queen's mother. Nowhere is family held more sacred than in France and) it seemed impossible that the Royall visit should take place. Then President Lebrun's Gallic tact suggested that perhaps it might suit the King' and Queen to postpone the visit for three weeks. 'The suggestion was gratefully accepted, the situation' saved, everyone is happy.
That there is to be no Court mourning is understood to be the Queen's special wish. She did not wish to made a dull season any duller by having the few balls that uve been arranged cancelled. 1 am told that if it had not been for the Courts and the "debs" there would searcely have been any season at all, ladies: perhaps camp in Hyde Park with the sheep between the times of marching through the West End with banners and carrying petitions to the Houses of Parliament. There are of course exceptions, "But generally furnished lodgings are the most depressing abodes (except a boarding house) one can imagine, and life in them is not improved by the fact that the lodgers, usually very young. are completely terrified of their land Iedies. Here is a great social need which the International Council at Edinburgh might well tackle.
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