The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-11-02
New York Cotton Market.
ODD BRITISH USAGEs
Costumes and Precedence for the
Kings Coronation.

The Earl MdTshalS notification TO The
peers and peeresses Of Great Britain IS
thought vastly amusing. 1t strikes US
here as might an attempt To go back
with pride TO the ancestral missing link,
whose skeleton il appears has been found
IN the farthest East There was some
thing grand and handsome IN the disunc-
tive costumes that Louis XIV invented.
The tabouret and the plant, OF folding
seat. had their manifest Taison detre in
the crowded saloons and galleries at Yer
saiIIes. the exaltatiou Of pettiness. Could
Swift nave been thinking Of d similar no
tihcatiOu i'm his time when he wrote about
the war between the Big Endians and the
Little E,udiansy A consequence or the
notification Will be TO make American
heirrsses scOrn offers Of marriage from
nObIemen less high than dukes
They will know how that dukes ony
have strawberry IeaVes on their COrOnets
and four rows OF BLACK SulVs o. tuT on
their mIniver CaP--- BaroEs who can on
Is wear two rows OF the black sulls viii
be held OF small account Al the neiress
preserves Of the United States, and 80,
We may expect, viii earls VINO nave mar
a row less IMAM the marquis, ana a "no4e
row less than a Duke " nat American
lady could bear 10 appear a. Baron s
vile I'm a mantle with train three tecI
on the gOrund when the NlscOuntess i'm
meuIaIely preceding her had one quar-
ter OF a yard longer, the marchloness
turee-QuarIeEs OF "a yard, ana the Ouch
ess "a whole yard Inc English easily
grahp the iuferioTJy Of LheI- proper sta
uOns ia or out OF the peerage- But the
Americans do not Ihcir motto Is out on
rieu. They must have "a front seat or
they leave the room. Mr. Jesse Grant,
Though not of the ornamental sex, de-
cIiued 10 dine at Windsor with the lords
ltuJ.-meu-4I-waIJ.uE- at ] 90 not ulAe
with father ttLe eN-bresIleHi OF the Unit
,l StHts=I ANA mother al ls-- queen Id
bic J 20 home. a count Official. with
fear and trembling, conveyed TINS uu-
macon Ig her late MaJeSlAr VINO Feiugl-
al.IE yielded. for Big Eudlau and Little
Eudlau questions came within the COM
pass uI her Dram, and she attached great
importance To- Them Mr. Jesse Grant dll
uut know that the smallest court JIIclaIs
with whom be SsOruel 10 dine took pTect-
GeuCe OF the grand old Gladstone, and that
without suOcAug any Eu--znman The
aII=Jgcrauc nobody who waited uu the
Queen was supposed To- ABSORB some or
her sacred virtue. 80 lar DIS precedence
went the Prime Minister. VINO was tine
representative Of tho nation. was Of infer
l-l -tsuu.lS. But . dare -ay Iu.s GIl not
matter 10 the Grand OLD Man
had some years ago one oi her Males
Is S. JUCg,s. Sir Henry Heating dining
Win me. Another guest "aS su cnElsu
honorable. " DO might have been lu re-
saru o. age. uls SON Il seemed 20 me alb
suIu that tho place OF honor should not
Boz given To- the judge Iu make things
pleasant tD hum 4 consulted MIN before
cydtAC,- ~, b, said, il - a Franco
English dinner. adopt French rules. since
you are ia France D. Do IS an English One,
suupl English, Iu which case 60 behind
. the honorable ANY earl son Olu enough
To- wear ii swalIow-JN led coat and q white
. CT1EaL D. entitled 10 take the pas OF me
j know that an American judge, accus-
TONED to Dc looked Up TO- would not Ike
10 walk behind young sprlg OF nobility
! remember EEarts, che great American
lawyer, who pleaded on the side of the
N.H.#H a ...HH q D. D.. ID.
Court. being SIslbiy annoyed at earl 5
son who had just l'it Elton being placed
above him at table
Tn, great Pascal thought rules OF
precedence and etiquette absurd IN SO far
as ILpy uII hot maze Ion social peace So
far as they Odd he WAS for them vs. hat
did IL matter 90 him 10 duke OF amy Ii
tied person walked before him With
PascsIs mind h matteTtd nothing but n
matt.I-d very much to th- bourgeois
geutIlIummcs, who had become legion
and Iu this way established etiquette be
cam. a brand - li1cDTd
The pa-sIDr for equality which ragged lu
lhe FIRST Preach Revolution did not oIlEl-
nate lu tE, rauusIIle taS tha common pyD-
pie were then called. but lu tho wealthy
DUuTg,OIsIc- 10 was not the IrICutCuses OF
;ED Revolution who CIamuTed ursJ FOR
. equality. but the wives OF the buuTEu DIS
gent ihOume and rich professional men
and traders. What lulaTIatod them most
was the etiquette CDuuuluG rouge 10 the
checks of ladies of quality. polio. gToyla-
. nations from time To- ilfIt informed tho
. bourgeois ladies that they were not ,u-
titled To- rouge their faces. At tho iUs,iga-
F tIuu Of 10. MdrpUisc De Euuou, Philippe,
f Due u'JIl'aus. led - war against Oh, uuIT-
Erui-I.s VINO presumed 20 Tuugv Ia the ,IE-
Gus that D.. built Iu the Champs Eiyse,s s..
? lie stood a. the door armed with a Wet
. -pouE-. When Hc saw "a rUUgcd DUu-EDu-
. size hc applied the spUuE, 90 her face. and
/ said UH.lu things To her AS be- was "a
/ prince a. the blood, ne was above being
] challenged uy her husband Possibly thu
/ consciousness Of thss, miderds mace MIN
J take III, name OF ERIlIte in thu Revolu.
/ right tD wear rouge and 10 call herself
? Madam" But when IL was PERMISSIBLE
/ 20 All women To rouge. the rouge Dot dis
/ appeared from dressing tables.
The late M Felix taurc had the air
and majestic dignity OF q Wditre d-hOtsL
One could imagine him throwing open
. lyldiug uDDr.s and announcing Iu Il sOuor-
GUS voice that Madame Ia COmtcSse est
. seTvie." lie had a passion Tor protocol
. affairs. and dId what hc could To set uI
. again, SO far as republican institutions
. admitted. the etiquette Of McssidOr
I adapted by the First Consul from that ui
] Versailles His Bible was a handbook OF
Z that etiquette published toward the close
/ Of the Second Empire with a history of
J the variations palaJial etiquette had un-
deTEUne since Messidrr. lie also consult
I cd the guide Of Comte de Bourquencv
/ then Director Of the Protocol. namely
/ lie Protocols du MiuisIere des Anaires