Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-07
KINGS QUEER GUESTS
Representatives From All Quar-
tiers of the Globe in the Brit.
ish Metropolis.
Princes From India Excite Great
Interest and Furnish People
Amusement.
Attract Much Attention by Their
Costly Silks and Jeweled
Turbans.

London, July 7.-Never did the
streets of London present so cosmo-
| poliran appearance as has been the caso
during the last week. The guests OF the
nation from the furthermost quarters
of the earth have been exploring the
empires capital. Black, yellow aud
brown faces, surmounting saady, fam
Elastic costumes are met with every
where.
At the London hippodrome yesterday
was to be heard mulfled gibbering and
a soft, monotonous pattering of feet.
Along the tiled corridor came a big,
hurley figure in short, heavy blue
coat under which was suspended a
kind oil linen apron drawn close around
the hips and reaching to the knee, while
below-oh, prudish London-were q
pair off ebony legs and huge. bare
| feet. After him came some twenty
more, all smiling and chattering, and
Tall similarly attired. Each of them
was carrying a small rattan cane
| tucked under the right arm in the
fashion popular with Tommies. Their
hair stood upright like stiff brush.
While dark at the roots, it shaded off
at the ends into a dark tan. These
picturesque men We're the Fiji police,
come to London to do honor to their
emperor.
In Piccadilly half an hour afterward
was to be seen body of three splendid
native Indian soldiers in their pictur-
esque turbans, or puggarees, and gilt
tering buttons. With black, shifting
eyes, they strobe along like kings, and,
to tell the truth, the average London
man who walked near them seemed
Iridiculously insignificant. These fight
ing men, devoid of much that civiliza-
ton is supposed to bestow, were su-
perb in their Indifference to the gaping
crowds.
There have been little men from
Japan in top hats, frocked men with
round button-like hats from China,
skirted and coiffured men from Ceylon,
specialized and much withered men
from the remote straits settlement,
mild looking, tawny complexioned
Hindoos in snowy white robes and pink
or red turbans, stout, blackfrocked
Bengalese with no head covering at all,
and men from every British colony
or dependence, as we'll as almost every
other nation.
These princes, however, have given
London its greatest treat. Swathed in
costly silks and satins, wearing beauti-
full turbans bedecked with priceless
Jewels, they have been the sensation
for London's highest as well as it's
lowest society. Never has a more gilt
ering body of men been seen on horse
back than the group of princes who
rode behind the prince of Wales
Wednesday, when he reviewed the mill
itary contingents from the Indian En-
pire, and rode thru their stolid, impas-
sive ranks. Only quick, stealthy
chances betrayed the fact that they
were alive and not automatons.
These princes We're seen to better
advantage at the reception given In
their honor by Earl and Countess
Roberts Thursday. The scene was brill
liant, the dresses and jewels worn by
the princes far outshining the lovely
dresses and tiaras of the ladies pres
ent. A most delightful air of friend
illness prevailed, rajahs conversing most
willingly when possible with guests,
among them many Anglo-Indians re-
newing happy acquaintance and re-
calling pleasant associations in that
delightful land of India.
The most impressive figure perhaps
was that of Colonel Sir Pertab Singh,
in uniform of white, laced with gold
cords, wearing turquoise blue turban
with a fawn aigrette.
The most impressive group certainly
was that of the Maharajah of Jeypour
and his followers, whose velvet robes
were gold trimmed, and from whose
turbans hung punches of jewels. Their
dignified bearing suggested something
distinctly biblical.
The historic Maharajah Sindia of
Givaliore wore a white frock narrowly
edged with red. His quantity shaped
turban. was red. His necklaces of
pearls were worth an emperor'S ram
some There were four rows of big
round pearls, then a row of long pear
shaped beauties. some more than an
inch long and shaped in proportion.
The Sultan of Perak wore dark blue
cloth uniform, with the ribbons of the
various orders. His black satin head
dress blaZed with the finest diamonds
set in most graceful design. In short,
the gaudy rajahs, nawabs maharajahs
and other oriental potentates We're too
numerous to describe in detail.
After this reception all the princes
drove to the Lyceum Theater, where
Irving received them, and the numer-
Gus company there can hardly have
seen more brilliant assemblage of ia
nous people than that which came
to shake hands with the chief English
actor Many of those who had Witnessed
the evenings performance stared in
amazement to find the theater stage
orchestra stalls and pit transformed
into a spacious, comfortable saloon in
twenty-five minutes. 1t was perfect
feat of rapid organization, and makes
a record even for the Lyceum.