The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-14
IN THE QUEENS PRESENCE.
:saw English Subjects Render Homage ia
Their Sovereign The Ceremony.

;saw EnSiist, Subjects Render Homage to
Their Sovereign The Ceremomy.
Adam Baleau in New York Soaj
Bat tie ladies' are waiting all this tims in
she pAn' The presence chamb is ar
ranged as for leves only that the queen,
AMI not the prince OF Wales. is at the center
I'll the linz; next arc the ladies of her
family, and then the heir apparent AMI hi
brother, or any royal strangers Her
maj 'sty wears black gown AMI a widows
CAP Over tho cap is usually p!acel small
diam nS crown, while the ribbon of the
Garter aQi similar orders are on her breast
a vel Is the ANh-i moor AMI other iew.E
worthy OF qaeen. The prince Is of Waies
ami the ether princoSseS are in full court
dress-rettlcoata, trains, feathers ami all
Behind them stand their attendants, male
and female, as the court circular some
times disdainfully describes them
When the diplomatic corps has made its
reverences AMI taken its place, the Eng.
lish ladies follow, and as each enters the
throne room with her train ever her arm.
Two gentlemen in waiting deity sezs this
sppandage and spread it behind her till it
hangs like peacock's dropping tail 1l,en
w" ief 10 bue IN
waiting, passes up toward the lJrl cham.
beriain, and stanis till he pronoun ces her
name. Up n hearing it, she prostrates her
self In front OF the queen 80 that one knee
nearly or quite touches the floor II it is a
presentation, her majesty extends her hand
with the back upward, and the neophyts
placing her own hani transversely under
that of The sovereign raises the royal ex
tremity to her lips When the lady
la of the rank of an earls daughter,
the queen bends slightly forward
TO kis' the cheek Of her subject and
the homage is complete; but there have
been occasions when the novice was i'll
sufficiently in .tructed in advance and
Kissed the monarch in return very much to
the disgust OF her maj ,sty and the horror
struck amazement Of the courtiers Aftsr
the obeisance to the queen, another must he
made to every one in the royal circle an
turn. the depth Of the courtesy being gradu-
ated according to the rank of the parsonage;
and as the last prostration is performeI and
the subject rises to her natural position in
life again two other watchful lords or
sentiehen. as skilful as the first catch UP
her train and throw it once more over the
war,l out Of the room, having been at court
1t took her two hours, | suppose, to dress,
and She sat in evening costume two hours
more in line in her carriage before she en-
tered the palace; then she was at least an
hour in the pens, and she was two minutes
in the presence of royalty. Now she must
probably wait an hour or SO for for her car.
riage, and she has been at court II she Is
young, she has practiced her obeisance for
lays in advance, and tho backward step as
well, and is delighted that at last he is 10
Che world II she is an aspirant after social
honor, a Becky Sharp working her way
upward. Thackeray has told us of her seasa-
tons If she has gone through the cere.
mony forty times before, she throws herself
back in her carriage and exclaims, like the
cockney who had seen the Apollo Ralvi-
dere: "fbank Godl That's doneI