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Show DRESS OF ROYAL. MISSES. Many Daughters of Nobility Arn Ex- ceedlngly Modost nnd Simple In Their Attire. People- sometimes wonder what Bum la put nsldo for dress by tho daughteia of royal houses, says the London Tat. lei. before her marriage, I road t.ie other day, the duchess of Fife was wlil to havo a small dress allowance nnd tho sum ot 11,500 n year was men-' ticned. Besides yachting and every-day every-day dresses, and all the usual costumes cos-tumes required by a girl of the upper cIups, royal princesses have also to went the costly and elaborate drosus which their rank demands nt tho wed. dingo of their near relations. On tho whole. It may bo asserted that a frugnl princess may spend vh llllle as 15,000 a year on her drees vhllo her moro wealthy and oxtruv gnnt sister may find her dress bills amount to ten times that sum. Tho empress of Russia, who mor than nny other Kuropenn lady Is able to Indulgo her wildest fancies, dresse. with tho greatest slmpllclty-ln tlw da) time rhostly In tnllor mado coao ana skirts, In the evening geuorally In the purest white. |