Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-05-09
BALL AND CONCERT ROOM.

cnt-steel buttons, black silk stockings
and buckled shoes, white gloves, cooked
hat with steel buckle. A small sword
is also worn.
A presentation at court involves no
little fatigue and is assuredly an or
deal. It is by no means easy nova
days for the American-in spite of the
eligibility--to get the flavor of the
ambassador" and win the coveted
cards of invitation. II favored, two
cards are received, upon which appear
the name of the lady who is to present
the debutante and the name OF the
debutante. Now the question of gown
engrosses attention, and at last the fate
full day arrives. The start for Buck
fngham palace is made due early, that
the experienced coachman may line
up in a good place. There are several
entrances to the palace: the garden
entrance is reserved for the royalties
and their eQuerries; by Pimlico en-
trance and state entrance the company
Is admitted; one ingress is sacred to
the corps diplomatique and those that
hold the entree-wives and daughters
of ambassadors and other distinguished
! foreigners connected with the legations,
and wives and daughters of high Of
@ficials of the court and government.
To hold entree means not only the
courtesy of special entrance but also
an early presentation. 49,.
r. At the afternoon drawing-room there
would be tedious wait before the pal
ace, the grand ladies at the mercy Of
the cockney come to look his fill at the
show and sharpen his wits bit. 1T
is a. wit which embraces every phrase
ology from the sporting slang in, which
a bechecked coster acQuaints his Ar
riet with the fact that in his opinion
such and such a dowager Indicated by
personal description which admits of
no doubt as to IDENTIFY should be
scratched because she carries too much
weight to the poetic panegyric which
describes blonde debutante as a
primrose foatin' in yer pot O. beer. it
you loike."
At last the palace gate is open, one
leaves ones cloak, delivers one
card and makes progress through vari-
Gus apartments, sometimes through a
much hindering and heartrendtng
crush wherein chaperon and debutante
j. are separated and it would seem never
could be brought together again. But
they always get together, somehow or
other, in time for the entrance to the
ballroom where their majesties of to-
day hold court >c2
Nine. Waddington, in her charming
pictures Of a diplomats wife at the
court of st. James, gives us an idea Of
the wearisomeness of drawing-room
after one has seen the show a number
of times; and lit also Of the ordeal it
proves to young girls. She tells of one
young English girl, a fragile creature
being put through her PAGES by her
mamma, who became SO fatingued
waiting her turn-she did not have the
entree and had to come in with the
general company that she tainted and
was carried away from the crowd, had
to have her dress cut and lie down 4
couple of hours. It was not possible
to get her SO much as a drop of tea, as
in Victoria's day no refreshments were
given. But the rest revived the girl
somewhat, and her Spartan mother de-
cided that, as the drawing-room luckily
happened to be a long one and there
was yet time, to have her dress re-
paired and the girl 60 through the
presentation. She did, received the
stamp that she belonged" = > s 81.