Arizona republican., 1901-06-23

ment of the consecration--each detail | freighted with all sorts of significance l of the power of the ehurch-will not have to be followed In ner case. but otherwise her dress will resemble prob- | ably that of queen Victoria in many | particulars.
 RANK SHOWN BY LENGTH OF
 TRAIN.
 The king and queen are not So much | concerned about their clothes for this occasion. however. as are the lesser lords and ladies, for whom 1t will be the chance of a lifetime. It is only at coronation that the pesrs and peer esses wear their coronets and their full official robes, and in consequence the amount of fuss and feathers over those robes and coronets is something amaz- ing. Each coronet must be built ac- cording to an exact pattern, and each robe according to exact specifications i7sued by the lord great chamberlain.
 The train of a viscountess will be longer than that of baroness, while countesses go viscouptesses one better, and so on up to dnchessts, who have the longest trains of all. except prime esses of the royal blood According to sacred custom, therefore, the duchess of Marlborough. nee Vanderbilt, and the duchess of Manchester, nee Zim- mermann, will carry trains exactly nine feet long, whereas such baron eases as are present may sport only three feet, not an inch more or less, al though their ancestors may have been high and mighty personages some cen turies before Commodore Vanderbilt dreamed of his ferry line. to say nOth- ing of Papa Zimmerman.
 The lords and ladies have one great advantage over royalty, for they may wear coronation garments that have been used before. In consequence there has been a great deal of rummaging of late in family chests to see If there was anything in stock that would do with a little making over. The search is worth while. for the che price for which a peers robe can be made brand new is $300, and as much as g, 800 can he spent on one cf them with out doing more than the law allows.
 STYLE IN CORONETS.
 l But the llveliest chase of all just now ig for coronets. There have been lot of new peers since the last coronation, and judging by the rush at the jewel CTS, most of them neglected to get their coronets until the time came to use | them. It was such long time between coronations, too, that some of the old family coronets got lost-or al least the pawn tickets were lost.
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 other day of a young vir-ount who turned up mournfully. at a jew5ier's there with corouet from which all fourteen O. the silver balls were gone, and which otherwise had been turned partially into cash by his predecessor in the title. Until found this thing ye sterday." he observed, "I had no idea
 how hard up the old man was"
 The law regulating the pattern of
 coronets is as strict az that which pre-
 scrlbes the length of peeress's train.
 Luckily for the poorer lords-and there
 are a lot of them-no one but a peer
 of the royal blood may wear jewels in
 his coronet, and the result is that with
 the judioious use of silver gilt and . cheap quality of velvet bona flde cor
 onet can be turned out for $l5. The average price. however, is from N,oo'
 to 5000
 You can tell the rank of your peel : more easily by his cOronet than b,
 counting the rows of miniver on his
 cape Eight strawberry leaves, presu . mably the rim of dukes coronet. 4 marquis has four strawberry leave!
 alternating with four silver balls. Al earl rejoices in eight silver balls anc eight strawberry leaves, smaller now ever, than those of a marquis and th' l balls extending up higher from tn rim. A vlscount has to get along with
 out any trawberry leaves, but consoles
 himself with fourteen silver balls whereas the baron humbiest peer O all. has only six of these balls in hi ? cap. but may find comfort in the fac
 that they are larger than the simila , ornaments in the coronet of any othe
 peer That is the sort of crown ol which the new Lord Milner of Cap Town is preparing to spend some 1T his pocket nancy. The king coul' ' order a change in any of thesg design !, if he chose to do SO. but as he has give e no lnEtGuCtlOnS Oll lillS pOInl, Nhh :. nets are being made like those wor , on Queen Victorla's coronation day e JOY THAT DOESN'T LAST LONG. | The funny part of all this bother owe . coronets Is that they are worn otiioiall a only few minutes. They must not b n put on untl the actual moment tha |. the king is crowned, and they are sup Q posed to be taken off on leaving tn l. abbey. As a matter of fact. thougl d nine peeres:as out oe ten and doubtles
 a lot of the peers, will hasten direetl IF to a photographer to have all this tran . story glory perpetuated. No one ca C blame them, for it is the one occasio a when peers and peeesses look difreref h from other folk.
 ,f IL must have been an ungallant ol l- master of ceremonies who laid dow h the rules that govern coronations. H t, provided that all peero should have Id page, not above IA years old, to carl ., his coronet on cushion until the con le ing of the great moment when u ,e bauble was to be put on. But it w;
 provided also that the peeresses mu
 carry their own coronets, and in pain
 ings of past coronations you can s' n them looking awkward enough wi 'l coronet in hand. a. unhappy over 1t { u a man with a silk hat In a crowd' l. .l,,.,,, a,.,> tY,r Jn,ap nf tha