Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-07-13
HOW TO GET ON AT COURT.
I he Oddities of Etiquette at Madrid
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and st. Petersburg.
An old custom of the Spanish court re-
euires that when a baby is born in the
royal family it shall be officially an
nounced that vigorous" infant has
come into the world. The Queen of
Spain having become the mother of a
sickly child, which lived only two hours
the court journal chronicled the birth
and death in the usual way: "Her MAj-
esty was delivered at three o'clock of g
vigorous infant, who died at fve." The.
Epoca of Madrid lately reported that
the Town Council of Seville, having had
an interview with Alfonso XII, kissed
the feet of his majesty and withdrew"
1t is not te be supposed that the council
| ors actually went down on all fours and
| of the Escurial, but sought to introduce
+, simple manners i'll a country where even
| beggars drape themselves proudly iu
| their tattered mantles and address one
another as "Senor Cabelero." He one
| day told muleteer, with whom he had
| stopped to talk on a country road under
broiling sun, to put on his hat; forget
| ding that by the fact Of ordering sab
| ect to cover himself in Il royal presence
/ he created HIM a grandee. Marshall
| Prim, who was standing by, hastily
| knocked the nluleteer's head-dress out
| of his hand and set his foot upon it, at
the same time offering the man some
gold; but the muleteer. who was mortal
" offended, spurned the money and a
few days later, when irim was assassin
atd, rumor was circulated that the
mortified individual who had narrowly
missed becoming a grandee was an ac-
| I,n pr,,,
casion King Amadeo inconsiderately ad-
| dressed a groom OF his i'll the second
person singular as tn. Happily the man
was an Italian for, as q court chamber
lain presented TO his Majesty Spaniard
spoken to with his familiarity might
have claimed that the monarch had dub.
bed him cousin-that is, had ennobled
him. Another thing that the much
worried Italian Prince had to learn was
that Spanish King must not sign any
letter to a subject with any friendly o.
complimentary formula, but must simply
write Yo ell Rey CT the king.)
Etiquette is the code of rules by
which great people KEEP. lesser ones II
= a boy, was rebuked by his father fol
sneakinc of the king as 'Fri,z." LEAR
to speak reverentiy of his majesty" said
the old squire of Varzin, ''and you will
grow accustomed to think of him witt
veneration" Young Bismarck laid the
advice to heart, and to this day the
great chancellor always lowers his tons
and assumes a grave worshipIul look
when he alludes to the kaiser. 1fa mes
sage is brought to him from the emper
or by word of month or in writing, ht
stands up to receive it. When we'd
ding takes place at the Russian court, i
is the practice Of the state dignitaries t.
form candle procession-that is to say
that ministers, chamberlains,, high stew
, ards, take each silver candlestick witt
, a lighted taper in their hands, and con
duct the bride and bridegroom rount
the ballroom, where guests are assem-
bled, and thence into the throne room
where the pair do homage to the sover
! eign. At the first royal wedding whicl
occurred alter the Chancellor mad beer
promoted to the dignity of Prince ant
: Highness, Bismarck failed to appear il
= the candle procession, and Court gossip
quickly scacluded that he now though
, hiszanI tSo great q man to take part il
the a.zs1i-menial ceremony. The trutl
was however, that the Chancellor hat
= been seized with a sudden attack Q
. gout; and at the next wedding he wa
careful to silence all crapers by carrvin
n MS CailtAie uldFCly Ilhc OtuSI AlIlSteTc
Prince Gortchakof was always equal,
careful to observe the minutest points O
. etiquette in relation to the late czar an,
. the Imperial family. Lord Duflerin
asking him whether the Emperor's coll
was better, was rather startled to hea
q him answer in reverent voice, wit
. his head bent and his eyes half closed
J 'sHis Majesty is deigned to feel littl
better this morning" The Duke d
. Morny said of Gortachakoff, that b
a seemed to purr when he talked of an
q creature at court, "even of the Gran
Duchess Olga's monkey" Eut possibl
! this imperturable obsequiousness is ar
preciated by the rulers of this earth. 70
a Gortchakoff remained Prime Ministe
y y throughout the whole of the Emperor
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