The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-22
PRESENTED AT COURT.
The Agonies Which Feminine Britishers
Have to Undergo st Buckingham.
Whitehall RevieW.1

part think all such things stuff. Girls marry
quite % well, IT seems TO me, whether they
have been to court Or not, somehow We1l-to-
do country squtres, with lots Of houses and q
big house-the kind OF man would like to
to fight shy Of Il, ndon girls.
At any rate no one can accuse me OF liking
town life; the only thing worth doing
there Is riding IN the PARK and the Eton end
Is an earls daughter, and she thinks great
deal Of etiquette and all that The knOtty
point was solved; II was to be lovely white
silk with lots OF tulle and lilacs and daisies,
says the less stuff there Is In the gowns
the more the dressmakers charge; on the
principle Of pennyWlse, pound-fOOllsh, they
take Oft yard and add on pound. On, II
was SO cold when the great day arrived: l
Was dreadfully afraid my nose would be red,
and no amount Of poatdye- de-ris can obviate
that. III only turns red into violet, and g viO-
let nose reminds one OF Guy Faux How
ever, by dint OF running up and down stairs
necessarily for an hour to fetch the necessary
things, which, by the extraordinary perversi-
have misiaid Or are sjust out off, like the
linen diapers, and q few sharp words with
cause he accused me of tight lacing. / kept
myself warm. At last We started ia such
cloud Of tulle and silk, and feathers and flow
erS, that our dearest friends could see moth
ing but the tops OF our heads, IKE cabbages
bly, nervous, the train and the trail, and the
volumes of stuff about me- bothered me very
much and l was not sure now 1 snoulo
make my curtsy. 1t was awful when
beautiful Beefeaters, looking like wax figures
at Nine. Tussaud's, such magnificent crea-
lures III court dresses, white silk stockings
and thin legs. / never made out to this day
Mamma met foreign diplomat at the foot Of
the grand stairs, VINO insisted on walking up
hand In hand with her. suppose 1t is a for
eign fashion; followed, feeling rather dizzy.
I quite understand the expression "nodd1ng
plumes" now; there Is sort OF sleepy awe
creeps over one at these regal ceremonies +;
every one walks On tiptoe; the ladies whisper
one expects to hear of q national calamity
every moment. But nothing occurred, except
that We all sat very silent, very nervous,
looks and dresses. ] thought OF the passage
in one Of Miss Broughton,s books where she
talks of shoulders What show OF them
there was! The scraggy debutantes, rather
apus: then the full-blown matronly, resem-
| bling alabaster; then the orange colored,
like over-ripe fruit; then the fiabby,
like fat sea.anemone; the spotty, the sun
tie theta fat lac lady at fair-aM displayed their
charms to the uttermost How longed to
cover up some of the poor old things who tot
tered In with their poor old skins exposed to
the glaring light Of day. and Knocked by
decoration o. dlafnonns, nuI tnen, o. eouls 81
etiquette must pc attended 70, So enere I've w.
were, all OF us, shlverInG ana deeo.etees: - Inc
beauty 10 al and har
1asned an nom r1pG a. 80 - - annta Iad
about her, but l could NOT near Wnag 1 Iney
said. am sure lt was someInlhg sca4oa pnos
because they would noI let M ~ Know ~. FEE s
emily ne croWd noyeu -. W. Wn. ~. 90 u,ss 80
ting tired, SO We peean ~ pusn yuSe na 80