The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-06-17
A BUSY DAY IN LONDON.
LOOKING FOR IND At THE TITLED
ONES.

ONES.
Royalty and Auburn Hair-The Good
New Queen-Pretty Stories About
Her and the New King--A Reaction
In Favor of Royalty.
To the Editor Of the Journal and
Courier:
London. June 5.
A day in London, marked by glori-
GUS sunshine, and by such rare privi-
leges as the sight of royalty doing it's
shopping, and the king himself as he
returned from his experiences on the
dismantled Shamrock H.. with a meet
ing thrown in at which aristoeraey
in the person of Lord Knutsford, was
giving it's advice upon how to dispose
of the excess of women in this great
city, and another meeting at which
long haired reformers of the male spe-
cies were charging all the woes of
England upon that system of land mo-
nopoly in which both royalty and the
aristocracy find their chief Support-a
day of this kind, with the view it af-
forded between times, as one watched
and waited at various "Circuses" I'M
der the sunlight first, and then under
the gaslight, of what is darkest and
what is brightest in London life-such
day doesn't fall often to the lot of
even visitor from America. fast and
enterprising as this species is held to
be, and Is, therefore, not a day to be
nassad over without tc raonrd
Having heard that in Regent street
and Piccadilly there had been seen
I during this unbroken week of bright
weather more than the usual crowd of
those who bear titled names, it was
with the greatest interest that the or
mortal bearings of all the carriages
We're scanned. and when the equipase
itself gave signs of promise, the same
stare" was unblushingly transferred
to it's occupants. The Duchess of Mon
trose had been driving through these
shopping streets quite recently, So
had the Duchess Of Buccleuch, with
their Graces of Bedford and Devon
shire; also Consuela, the Duchess of
Manchester. Many, too, had been the
titled personages who had been caught
In the act of doing their shopping on
foot. The Duke and Duchess of Som
erset, for instance, and Lady De Ram
sey, Lord Ormonde and Lord and Lady
Pirbright This unusual influx into
London's shopping center of those who
have right to wear coronets and tia
ras had been due, we were told, to the
desire Of these privileges ones to get
well under way as quickly as possible
such alienation in their headgear as
would insude a proper show at the APP
preaching coronation. But the point
with me was that, whatever took them
there, if these people were really pres
ent in this quarter, it was my duty as
an American, having quite the average
contempt of my countrymen for titles
andtthe like, to see and spot them.
The trouble is, however that these
representatives of great names and big
estates do not go around properly Ia
belled. Most of them are as common
in feature and as clumsy in build as
the rest Of us. How, therefore, are we
to recognize one another? And even
the few who are noted for beauty
whose portraits you see in so many
windows-even these do not have a mo-
nopoly either of pretty faces or of the
grace and dignity which are usually
associated with an aristocracic mike
up Any of these daughters of so many
earls you can match any day, in any
feature of face or bearing, mongst the
young ladies who in the beautiful
shops Of Regent street and elsewhere
make their living by standing behind
counters. How then, on these famous
shopping streets Of London, was a
comparatively stranger to distinguish
the high from the low, the privileged
from the common? He simply could
not without asking. The fact is, in
deed, that in Piccadilly and on Regent
street in the afternoon it is not easy
to distinguish even the good from the
bad let alone the aristocratic from the
plebean; for old habitues aver that
there mingle constantly amongst the
princesses and duchesses and the more
humble but no less worthy women
whose bright dressing and animated
looks are the chief glory of that thor
oughfare, no end of ladies' so-called,
who belong anywhere but in the socie-
ty of either the titled or virtuous.
But as to royalty, one does have a
few things to guide him when looking
for that, chief of which is the armorial
sign on the door of its carriage
Whenever this consists of a crown you
may be sure you have freed your
game And in these days Of royal
mourning, you may begin to be expec-
tant when you see that the coachman
and footman have a band Of Grape
around their left arm. This last
named sign wouldn't, of course be in
fallible always, but it was decided
help to your correspondent because |
noticing the circle of mourning on the
lackeys, he then looked quickly for the
yoyal sign on the equipage, and find |
ing it, followed his clue. in regular |
Sherlock Holmes style, until he discov-
cred on the inside the Duke and Ouch |
ess of Connaught. But they were not |
labelled, and while knew they We're
the kind was looking for, 7 could be I
sure Of being able to call them by
name at our next meeting only when I !
had inquired who they were from the
liveried Individual who had just bowed
them out of one Of the Regent street |
shops.
Perhaps there Is another sign by |
which royalty may be identi6ed-the |
royal ladies' at any rate-viz., by the |
shade of hair they affect; and use the