New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-23
THE ROYAL WEDDING.
THE GARDEN PARTY AT MARLBOROUGH
HOUSE TO MEET TIE QUEEN.

is as much as Society expects, ana there are hot
many other garden parties c!s'wW'i" thah al M"ii'
borough House. for the sufficient reason that there
are few gardens to give them in. DrvonsIirc
House and Holland House are the only two. be-
side the palaccs where the grounds ar really larg"
enough for a great company. Lowth"r Lolg'
comes next and then perhaps Carlton Gardrns
The Princess I,ouisc has given one such entertain
n,ent within recent memory at Kcnsington Palace,
the Queen one at Buckingham Palace: ioi inc
rest if YOU live in London and cannot DC happy
out OF doors without royalties az host AMI hostess
MARLBOROUGH, House is your best and most Ire
oncnt resource. The garden, or the lawn VIII II
it is the fashion to call garden, is more eNt'nSlI"
than il looks from the outside. as that OF Buck
inrbam Palace is, and the Arrangement 81 mouse
and crounds is such a. to add To the apparent
s,,e oven os Won wander about them. Never, !
surnosc WAS such strain put on the resources
of the place as on Wednesday. Invitations w"n'
ont TO 1000 people. There are authorizes VINO
piye YOU higher number. but, on the WHOLE II
seems probablc that the invitations did not mnch
exceed the figure named
When anything happens in royal circi's' 'ne
roIice take charge of all the outside ARRANGEMENTS
Tho ,,o,;c Of 81. Jamcs's-st and Pail Mall is ruth
lessly suspended or diverted. All carri"'Ps "''
coin 10 set down at Marlborough IIou~' were
the garden party were suffered to crawl along Tour
deep at a foot pace. Most people got OUT anu
walked: for those who did not a considerable p"i'
of the time between 80 and must have been
snont in tho streets There are two entrances u
Tho grounds only one of which was now open. eN-
cent 70 thos, arriving foot-tl" on" oppoSi'c
G. J,mcs's Palace II is always question HOW
carly the guests really begin to army" on sue"
occasions Certain it is that at . ocio'N '"',
afternoon the crowd was already IMMENSE az,
the pcoplc who had taken stations on 'n' RAJ
terraces on the south side looked as if they had
been there long time.
Ghosts wer, invited to meet the Queen Ihrr"
is a theory that when royalty is c\pcc'e" N""
must arrive carly.-arrve. that rs, h'lof' inc '"H
alty-and remain in an attltude OF ucNo"' 'Ni"''
ton till il arrives. In pracuce' " "' nov
matter where the party is large and especially II
,hn ro,al,ies are numerous They arc far too
mncb concerned with themselves and with cach
a.hor % notice what the rest of the world does.
No hosts are more considcratc o, kindly than III"
Prince and Princess of Wales, bat they wonld DO
cxtremelv surprised if they We're expected to re
coiye their non-royal guests on such an OCCASION
az this Nor are they expected TO- IN" non
ROYAL world has long since learned its lesson OF
,oyal etiquette and grown accustomed 10 ways
which as between persons of equal rank VI VI
any rank less than royal. would b" tho'Ph' ~
tolerable If YOU do not like the custoh' auop'''
and imposed by kings and queens ana princes " i
always open to Won t. stay away new" mari
NJ ANYBODY in London who staid away iof any
snch reason as that.
Tho scene is lovely enough to tempt yon TO lay
aside your republican prrudiceS, il you ia\e any.
The grounds, if not spacious, are plea>"n'' az
the most is made Of them M'rlueeS am '"'
are pitched here aud there: trees ana terraces
and some flowers Justify the name of gar len. -
do the living flowers; the well dr'Ss'u az" '''''
ya;lv dressed women who compose the better part
of that ever interesting world by itself when Is
called Society An addressed woman Is III" eX-
contion-bo,y different this state of things from
that which prevailed twenty years ago. or lesS
than twenty. There is beauty to-. ev'rvwh'r''
no one pre-emincnt in lovelness TO put out All 'he
rest but wonderfully even distribution OF ha-
,uras riffs: nor too often heightened by IN" re-
sources of art. Columns and columns VIII De VIII
ten and published about the dresses to-hofrow'
and the ladies who wear them will lee named ana
praised or criticised at the Will OF the writer SUN
Is one of the penalties of publicity; TO which,
/ suppose, YOU are so we'll accustomed III A"I'I'''
"a TO wonder why anybody should rcmlrk upon
il. and perhaps why anybody should omit T. dwell
ON these matters when he has an opportunity
worth noticing and nobody can notice everything.
The flowing and ebbng streams OF royalty 90 not
divert attention from the coming of an ola man
of noble head and bearing who. with his VIE pV
lis side. walks slowly through the opening crowds
till he comes 70 a space where there are cnar"'
and the two take their seats II ne walks SLOWLY
he walks firmly. with certain wiliul stardheSs
of movement. as of one who felt the burden of
va.rs unon him. but was resolved TO bear it man
fulIv and calamity TO the end. The noble head
IL uncovered and bends 10 right and left IN re-
sponse TO the salutations which meet him from all
sides The onyx eyes roam watchiuliy over Inc
throngs about him. You can imagine II You Ike
that he has not forgotten the hostile reception
which he had TO endure not very long ago al 'he
Imneral Institute Some of the same people are
here. some but not tenth of the whole You
seem TO have assumed in America that the 10000
peope Mt the Institute all OF the classes, ana
ALI in Society But Society in London does not
consist of 90 600 people, nor of 1000. There
L. AT any rate no hint of hostility here to-day.
Tho galleries and asphalt grounds Of the Institute
are one thing, and the company one thing; the
gardens Of Marlborough House quite another, ana
the people who fill them one other No doubt, you
NAV see angry faces and avertcd faces, out the
ANGER and aversion ere kept strictly within deco
rous limits Ii is, in the public life of England,
moment when mems passions are reused, ana ne
who has reused them is hero; moment when the
majority Of Englishmen believe their Empire IN
danger, and the ancient constitution of the realm
in danger. and this is he who has put the one ana
the other in peril But it is hard to perseVrrc IN
such a belief when you stand IN MS pF%eh"' an"
behold, though for the thousano'E 'in'' '.'e a"-
gust benghity of that magnificent heao anu mag
r,6con. manner So far is every though; OF in
s,lt that he is treated almost az a royalty.
circle forms about him at respectful distance,
and evcry moment some friend or acquaintance
enters it to greet him. For while and until
the Queen comes, Mr. Gladstone is the central hs-
ure of this brilliant company and on HIM Is D.
slowed a full measure of the homage due to his