Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-08-14
WHEN KING EDWARD DIMES.
The Most Splendid State Observed at
the ROYAL Feasts.

the Royal Feasts.
| When King Edward and Queen
Alexandra give state dinner, writes
I the London correspondent of the Pitts
burg Leader, the following is the form
of invitation:
The lord steward is commanded by
the king and queen to invite Mrs.
Vanderbilt to dinner Thursday, the
18th. at o'clock. Full dress,
The guests assemble in the drawing
room, and there arrange themselves in
a crescent to await their majesties'
entrance, which is made without an
nouncement. With the ladies' only is
there handwriting ceremony. Guests
invited to a private dinner find their
royal hosts in the drawing-room to
receive them. The guest of honor
sits on the kings right hand and the
royal family on the left.
The precedence at state dinners is
as follows: Foreign Ambassadors take
precedence of English mobiles; arch
bishops rank with dukes; bishops with
earls; foreign counts and barons take
no precedence, but rank with English
barons or great landed proprietors;
ana in entitled precedence an earl's
! grandson or near relatives of the
aristocracy precede the esauires or
country gentlemen; next come wives
OF country gentlemen of no profession;
then barristers and their wives, naval
officers and their wives, military men
and their wives. Physicians are
ranked in the royal household as next
to baronets. At private dinners usual.
ly some members of the royal house
hold present; the royal household
numbers about 200
There is no race prejudice in Eng
land, and had not King Edward issued
decree to the effect that widows of
peers who had married commoners
had forfeited thereby prerogatives as
peeresses of the realm there would
have appeared among the latter at
Westminster Abbey on coronation day
negress of the Hottentot type, for
the widow of the Earl of Stamford
has lately married boer.
On state occasions there is a splen
did display OF silver and gold crystal
and fine porcelain being more in evil
dence at private dinners. The dishes
which the fiunkies carry about must
be deity balanced on three fingers.
One dinner set of pure gold will dine
$50 guests; in another set there are
400 silver plates. The sideboard is
decorated with lot of golden trophies.
some captured from the Spanish Ar
mada; on the walls of the banqueting
room Of Buckingham palace are dis
played may gold shields, mounted on
scarlet; peacock of precious stones.
valued at 500. 900; tigers head with
a solid gold tongue and diamond teeth.
The value of the royal plate, including
services for every function, is over
/ SS,o00,OOO. To pay its yearly house
hold expenses about half a million
dollars is necessary.
TO return to the state dinner: There
are three servants to six guests-one
10 pass the food. one to take away the
empty dishes and one to go for the
FOOD, Each royalty has his or her own
servant. The king is always waited
on by the same footman and he Is al
ways served first; the queen has her
special servitor,
! The menus are printed on beautiful
cards. surmounted by the royal arms.
and with picture of Windsor castle,
buckingham palace, or whichever
royal residence may be the scene of
the function. The menu is headed.
Their Majesties' Dim err" this is fol-
lowed by the date, and after that the
French name of the various dishes.
The usual order is two kinds of soups.
two kinds of fish; in fact, two kinds of
each course, with three different ies-
serts and side table of various cold
: meats. King Edward drinks but little
wine; nor are long menus popular, an
hour at most being the limit of the
dinner.