Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1904-07-22
Social Doings in Royal Circles
Have Kept the Costumers
Busy.
CLIPPINGS FOR KAISER
Germany's Emperor Falls a Victim at
Last and Subscribes for the Out
put of a Bureau-Americans
in Social London.

1 oOl a AOoRCAA1y W ~ -
been a stranger.
The recent state ball given by the
king and queen at Buckingham palace
in honor OF the Austrian archduke,
brought more than 100000 into the
Golfers OF the fashionable dressmakers.
milliners. florists, costumers and the
thousand others who live on the pleas
ures and extravagances of society.
The second state ball at Windsor
castle following the brilliant Ascot
| meeting, was invested with even greater
splendor and pomp.
Each OF the illustrious company of
famous men and OF every ma
ton and every CLINE became imbued
with the stately spirit Of the royal
Demesne, so full of memories.
In the shadow OF Windsor the slang
and sneer of the smart set v~anishes;
the grande dame and gentleman of the
old school come into their w again,
and all unconsciously the vast company
falls into the manner of the early
Georgian period, when men wore
square-tailed coats, took snuff with an
air, and carried a challenge to a duel
In their eyes.
Americans in Society.
The Ross Winans, of Baltimore, have
won a firm footing in the quieter and
more dignffied element Of London soci-
ETY.. Their ball, given at Claridge's the
other day for their only daughter, who
was recently presented at court, pro-
yided a representative gathering of the
higher and better element in society.
Such a representative gathering of the
great ladies Of the old school has rare
ly been seen.
One-half the titled danes in the
rooms had at one time or other at
tended Queen Victoria and her success
sor. Many OF the prettiest girls and
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ent, but they were assuredly not of the
smart set, representing as they did the
element of good taste and good form
which once more is becoming evident
after an eclipse of SO many years.
Mrs. Ronald's house continues to be
the mecca OF the ambitious men and
women of the art world, and every
titled family in England is at one time
or other represented in her muSicales,
which are continued without intermis-
sion on Sunday afternoons throughout
the summer.
The duke and the duchess of Marl-
borough go everywhere. Their names
are found ON every dinner and every
dance list, but so far they have made
no apparent effort to open Sunder-
land house to their friends, a circum-
stance which has evoke considerable
and by no means fiattering comment.
A Genial Old Duke.
Humanity is perhaps poorer for the
passing OF the genial, democratic, chat
ty old prince. grand duke of Mecklen-
burg Strelitz, and one Of the last octo-
genarian rulers who for nearly fifty
years had with so much smiling pa
tience borne total blindness.
Through half a century of darkness
he Loyalty tried to forget he truth
so poignant-that the loss of sight had
been unwittingly caused by his son and
successor.
A ball pitched with great force at
a wicket struck the prince, then a
handsome, stalwart soldier, between
the eyes. telling him to the ground.
From that moment dated the gradual
decay Of the optic nerve.
Yet he somehow contrived to enjoy
life, went into society as far as he
could do so, AMI was never so happy
as when quietly sitting en- famile with
the king and queen of England and
recalling other days.
to every one of whom, down to the
smallest children, he was a familiar
n much loved presence, n for
them he was ever apart from his af-
fiction. invested with a certain pathos
az the nephew OF the heroine and
martyr, Queen Louise of Prussia.
But to the last day OF his life he
| declined to attend npan the house Q.
| HohenzoIlern n he never forgave
Prussia he conquest of Hanover.
Clipping Bureau for Kaiser.
The Emperor William has at last
succumbed to the influence of an ad-
vertising age and abandoned his imper-
ial dignity in the modern rush fol
notoriety.
1t was recently found that the emper
or had subscribed TO several clipping
l n~ancfaQ fhA cola duty nf five Caar0-
taries being to file away every news
paper reference to their august master
and as these references number severa.
hundred a day il will be seen thai
their appointment is no s%inecure.
A second half dozen are occupied il
looking up items OF news which may
have some interest to the kaiser, an6
these are carefully laid before the EN-.
peror each morning in a scrap book.
The recent death of the Princess
Mary OF Hanover recalls the pretty lit.
tie love story OF the Princess Fred.
erica and the Baron Pawel Raminingen
her fathers best loved friend and adj
wiser.
In the bitter war with Prussia thu
dier in ~ little army than the baron
He 1t was Who led the Hanoverian:
In the victorious engagement at Ian
gensaiza, capturing the Prussian bat
teries and breaking a square Of Prus
sian infantry.
With the finai quelling OF the rebel.
lion, the baron, who, with others, has
escaped vas sentenced to ten years
Imprisonment,
This meant exile, and then, from Tins
10 time he travelled over Europe, wait
Ing faithfully on h deposed king unit
sle, death OF the latter In 1880.
It was IT the home Of the duchess
OF CafnbrfdQe that. two wears before