Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-01
ROYAL DRAWING ROOMS.
Scenes at One Of Her Majesty's
State Receptions.
Features OF the AMIR That Arc Regarded
with DisfavOr by American Ladies'
Who Go to Call Upon
the Queen.

Entertaining accounts reach me from
London, says New York World
writer, concerning the two drawing
rooms and the participation Of Amer
leans. Everybody complained Of the
long delay experienced in reaching the
palace, delay partly owing, Of course,
to the crowd and partly to the fact that
the doors were not opened by the
queens orders until two o'clock In the
afternoon. 1t was necessary, however,
to be in line long before that time In
order to be near the doors when opened
and secure any presentation at all. The
first day, according to one authority,
| was fortunately both fine and warm,
but even this fortunate circumstance
| mitigated but very little the necessary
| Inconvenience and annoyance entailed
by the queens action. 1t is commended,
OF course, that English women, and pre-
sumably American women, SHOULD not
be compelled to await her majesty's
| pleasure for over an hour In the broad
daylight In state of semi-nudity, to be
stared at and criticised by the refuse
and population, attracted to the mall by
the barbaric sight Of a number Of half
clothed ladies waiting to pay their re-
spects to the queen. Even the most OBJ
l
kings cannot find q plausible excuse for
such outrageous defiance Of elementary
principles of good taste and hospitality"
Here is q highly-coloredd description Of
some Of the carriages in line and the
women in them, who were waiting to
kiss the hand of the queen. 1t is taken
from a London publication:
zone lovely and innocent-loodng,
| eli %J1ysa a
yellow-backed French novel, as If she
imagined that thereby she would &C
quire a suitable tone for the court. In
another carriage family party Of four,
including q papa disguised as general
who were all wedged In SO tightly
that they looked as Il they would have
to be taken out with fork-were bust
" engaged In discussing slight lunch
Of sandwiches and flask containing
some liquid, which went down very
quickly.
''In a third ferocious-1ooking virago
was obviously engaged in a battle royal
with two young girls, though what the
row was about 1t was hard to say. Her
gesticulations were, however, so very
furious, and the way she opened her
enormous mouth 30 comic, that at last
quite a number Of inquisitive spectators
gathered round to observe the fun, with
remarks of an encouraging but uncom-
plimentary character. Finding herself
the center Of attraction she ceased hel
harangue and contented herself with
attempting to wither the crowd by 6
glance, much to their enjoyment.
.''In fourth carriage two elderly 10
dies were asleep, or pretended to be-
and paid no attention to small boy
who exhorted them to change here fol
Buckingham paliss,' and added the
cheering intelligence that the lady IL
! the next carriage 'as jist 'ad fit.' A
,, fifth really beautiful creature wa
!, holding q levee of admirers at her opeI
, windows in spite of the wind. One lad,
had brought q nurse and a baby witt
! her-whether with the view Of admins
tering surreptitious nourishment to tn
, latter or not did not transpire. Anothe
4 was so overcome by the heat, the stroni
f scent of flowers, and possibly the prevl
e Gus lunch, that she tainted and had t.
l be taken ANONYMOUSLY home in a hud
i died heap. What a sweet temper sh
t must have been In when she recovere
h to find that after all the trouble an
K expense to which she had gone, he
weakness or her greediness, or both
: had done her completely out Of the re
>! ward Of her labors. Meanwhile tn
; crowd In the mall amused themselve
by chatting the life guardsmen, VIII
Il were ranged two and two along tn
u road, as If waiting for new ark"