The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-07

In this he was like General Grant and
the Prince of Wales. It is very popular
faculty.
Beauyilliers, Meot, Robert, Rose Lee
gacaue, the Brothers Very, Hennevan and
Balcine, are the noble army of Argonauts
in deserving the Partisan restaurant, or
rather they founded it.
The Brothers Very and the Trois Freres
Prevenceaux, both in the Palais Royal,
are still great names to compete with
When the allied monarchs held Paris. in
1874. the two Brothers Very supplied their
table for a daily charge of f120. not in
Guiding wine, and in Pere La Chaise a mag
nificent monument is erected to one of
them. declaring that his whole life was
consecrated to the useful arts" as it doubt
From that day until 1890, what an adj
vance. There is now a restaurant in
nearly every street in Paris where one can
get good dinner. What crowd of them
in the Champs Elysees and out in the Bots.
A Parisian dinner is thoroughly cosmo-
politan and the best in the world when it is
good. Partisan cookeryhas declined of late
in the matter of meats. They are not as
good as they ought to be, these dinners.
But as TO sauces, they are so many and
so fine that they have given rise to many
proverbs: "The sauce is the ambassador
of a king with such sauce. man
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France for other shores, for France has no
monarch to entertain US now, let us see
how two reigning monarchs entertain.
A presentation ct the court of st. James
is picturesque affair and worth seeing.
although it is a fatiguing process. A LADY,
must be dressed at IL in the morning in
full court dress, which means low neck
and short sleeves, with train four Yards
long and three wide. She must wear a
white veil and have three feathers in her
hair so that they can be seen in front.
White gloves are also de rigueur, and as
they are seldom worn now, except at we'd
dings, lady has to remember to buy a
pair. The carriages approach Bucking-
ham palace in long queue, and the lady
waits an hour or more IN line, exposed to
the ieers of the populace, who look in at
carriage windows and make comments,
laugh and amuse themselves. One hopes
that this may do these ragamuffins some
good, as they look miserable enough.
Arriving at the noble quadrangle of
Buckingham palace the music of the
Guards band enlivens one, and the silent,
splendid figures of the Household troops,
the handsomest men in the world, sit like
statutes on their horses.
Once inside the palace the card of en-
trance is taken by one OF the queens
pages, some other official takes 9 cloak
and the lady wends her way up magniti-
cent staircase into another gallery, out of
which open many fine rooms. Gentlemen
of the household, in glittering uniforms
and with orders, stand about in pictur-
esque confusion.
The last room Is filled with chairs and
soon is full of ladies and gentlemen wait
ing for the summons to move on.
The gentlemen are all in velvet suits of
black, with knee breeches and Sword silk
stockings and low shoes.
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stile gate tells you to take your turn; you
pass on with the others; your name is
loudly called; you make three little
courtesies to her majesty, the Prince and
Princess of Wales; you see a glittering
line of royalties; you hear the words,
''your train, madame" it is thrown over
your arm by some cavalier behind and all
is over, except that you are among your
friends and see glittering room full of
people and realize that nothing is so bad
as you had feared. After about one hour
you find your carriage and drive home, or
to your minister's for a cup of tea.
Then you receive Gf you are Fortunately a
great card from the lord chamberlain with
the queens command that you should be
invited to ball at Buckingham palace.
This is sight to see. So splendid is the
ball room, so grand the elevated red sofas
with the duchesses and their jewels. Roy
atty enters absut II o'clock followed by all
the ambassadors.
Of late years the queen has relegated her
place as hostess to the Princess of Wales,
but during the jubilee year she kept it,
and it was beautiful sight to see the little
woman all covered with jewels with her
royal brood around her.
The royal family 60 in to supper through
lane of guests. The supper room il
adorned with the gold plate bought by
George Nv. and many very hne pieces OF
plate gwen by other monarchs. The eata.
bles and drinkables are what they would
be at any great ball.
The prettiest entertainment Of the jubi-
lee year was, however, the queens garden
party. No one had seen that lovely park
behind Buckingham palace for eighteen
years when it was last used for the garden
party given to the khedive of Egypt.
Now it was filled with a most pictur-
esque group. The Indian princes, with all
their Jewels, their turbans, their robes,
their dark, handsome faces, stood at the
foot of the grand staircase which runs
from the palace to the green turf. Every
other man was king, a prince, a noble
man, a great soldier, a statesman, a diplo-
mat, somebody.
The women were all, of course, beauti-
fully dressed in the luxury of summer
costume, and the grounds, full of ancient
trees, and fountains, artificial lakes with
swans, marques, with refreshments, were
as pretty as only a royal English park
can be.
Presently we heard the sound of bag
pipes, and procession headed by these
dancing Scotchmen came along
1t was the queen with all her chill
dren and grandchildren, ladies in waiting,
ana many monarchs, amongst whom
marched Queen Kapiolina, of the Sand
| witch islands.
The queen walked with a cane, the
Prince of Wales by her side. They all
stopped repeatedly and spoke to their
| guests on either side, then the Younger
| members of the family led the yay to
the refreshment tents where a truly regal
| buffet was spread.
There was much talk, much music. much
laughter, no stiffness. 1t was real hos
| pitality. In one of the windows of the
| palace stood, looking out, the crown prince
| OF Germany, later on to be the noble En-
| peror Frederic, even then feeling the pres
sure OF that malady which in another wear
| was TO kill him. He who had been in the
| procession OF princes on the great day, so
on this day silent observer
The queen after this gave an evening
| party to all the royalties and the embas-
sadors and many invited guests.
The hospitality of the queen is of course
| regal, but her dinners must of a necessity
be formal. General Grant described his
disappointment that he did not sit next
her when she invited him TO Windsor Int
| she had one of her children on either side
and he came next TO Princess Beatrice.
The entertainments at Marlboro house
| are much less formal The Prince of
Wales, the most genial and hosnitahIe of
creatures, cannot always pen IN his de-
hghtful cordiality behind the barriers of
rank.
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