Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-05-04

peru orclilds drew crowd around tn
owner. When English ladies are shut III
IN carriage with nobody to speak to the
mostly read newspapers. During til
dull and cold waiting, at least score O
ladies' were reading newspapers to tw
VINO were reading books, and to one in
genious little damsel who was sewing OF
button to one of her long gloves. Thi
little piece of work done coraNn DoDut
did not seem to please some of the on
lockers, who, after staring into the car
riage till they were tired, growled
PLENTY of confidence, ell 1t amt TIN
fust time she's been looked at" To th
impartial observer of actors and specta
tors it seemed as if the iewelry came ii
for the most admiration.
second to the Diamonds
in popular estimation were the rich stuff:
which composed the trains, many of whicl
were brown, gray OF purple, although
white, as usual, and pale yellow prevail
ed over darker colors. Third in the race
for admiration were the superb flowers,
and absolutely last were tee fair wearers
OF all this bravery. Everybody looked
cold, and, by the light of the steely, win
try sun-shall it be snid ?-ycllow. But
the occupants of the carriages, chilled as
they appeared, were not 30 badly off as
some OF the unhappy ones present. The
police and the pedestrians could make
out after fashion by moving about, but
how was it with the luckless charioteer,
in all his holiday bravery, with overcoat
laid aside to display the same? There he
seemed to sit, stole, immovablc, as if Sc
dct dcternum1uc ScdebH infcliy would
apply to him us to the Greek hero. Look
ers-on who saw this dreadful sight and
were experienced in housekeeping opined
that the servants who had new overcoats
were allowed to wear them, while those
who had not froze gradually in the bitter
biast. One unhappy footman sat on the
box wearing waistcoat nearly as open
as ''Masher's," and turned gradually
blue as two O'Clock approached while
others, not SO poorly clad rs to their up
per works, must have found the silk hose
which covered their neither extremities
inconveniently porous. The horses evil
IDENTIFY felt the cold and the bitter wind
severely; they were closely clipped and
had no covering, and their natural coats
STARED in the chill blast. Best off, de-
cldedly, though bad was the best, were
the ladies inside the carriages. Cold as
they looked they obtained little sympa-
thy from the crowd and none from the
cynic. Gold, "growled the rough-coated
and minded one. "Bless you, they amt
cold. They've got their pride to keep
them warm. Nothing like pride. 1t
blows you out, swells you up, and never
lets you feel the cold till its took down. "
Here the cynic's hat was "took" by the
wind, and he vanished into cloud OF
dust to be seen no more.
In the Awful Presence.
Inside Buckingham Palace there was
time enough to thaw in the hour between
the beginning OF setting down and the
appearance of her Majesty in the Throne
Room, and the younger ladies who had
never seen the palace before had oppor-
Iunity TO examine one of the finest col
ections of Sevres china i'll the world.
From. the unrobing room below to the So
'alled White Drawing Room every avail
lble spot is occupied by superb pieces of
pate tcndrc of the richest colors and
arrest shapes, from the raisseur a mat
below to the vases of grOs Jicu and rU |
tc perdrif in the room called White be-
'ause it is yellow. Snow fall outside,
out this famous apartment wants neither |
light nor warmth nor color even on the |
occasion of comparatively thin Draw
ng-Room. And the time does not seem |
ong to any Lut the young presentee who, |
lespite numerous rehearsals is very sub.
ect to variety of ''stage fright" on ap-
bearing for the first time before her Sow
reign. The maurais pas is the short |
distance from the White Drawing Room
o the Throne Room, where the Queens