New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-05-29
PRESENTED AT COURT
Experience Of an. American at
an English Royal Leyee.
A RAPID TRANSIT FUNCTION.
He Was In and Through and Out Be-
fore He Really Realized What Had
Happened-The Way His Difficulty
About a Costume Was Overcome.

f7aPPeneQ-t ne way TITS ,0tTiCQlIy
About Costume Was Overcome.
A six foot American who had Sc
cured command to one of the Eng
lish royal levees recently found him
self in pretty predicament.
On his notification paper was the
hint that levee dress was indispensa-
BILE. In the guileless innocence Of his
democratic soul the American took this
to mean that frock coat and shiny
shoes would be called for.
He was in the act of looking over his
best outfit of that nature when more
experienced friend called and caught
him in the act The friend made haste
to inform the misguided Yankee that
levee dress involved silk stockings,
ruffled sleeves, black sword and other
items.
CONSERVATION ensued 1t continued
to ensue when owing to his height and
girth no borrowables suit was discov-
cred and no tailor could be found who
would make one before the next after
noon At last, a stage levee dress was
rented from His Majesty's theater,
where it had done duty in 'The Last
of the Dandies."
| After the levee was over the Ameri-
can confessed that he hardly knew
what had happened. When he reached
| the palace he was first surrounded .by
| the yeomen Of the guard, who started
him upstairs with great dispatch. In
the course of his progress upstairs the
yeomen disappeared, and he found
himself in a lane Of tin plated life
guardsmen.
Again the scene changed, says Town
and Country, and there was a lane Of
royal footmen and next large room
/ filed to overlooking with admirals,
generals, diplomats, peers, chamber
lains, soldiers and sailors of all de-
grees of commissioned rank and
5. great host Of men attired like himself
in levee dress. One by one they were
singled out and ushered into the royal
presence in the adjoining room, where
stood the king surrounded by his suit.
The work of presentation was SO
rapid that the American found himself
out and in another room before he
knew what had happened. His over
coat was on his back, TN the same
rapid, mysterious fashion, and the
next thing he knew he was outside in
the courtyard But he was actually
presented" and is now forever Hof
fahig, or eligible for presentation at
any court in the world, provided he be-
HAYES himself.
All this was preliminary to the pres
entation of the mans wife and daugh
ter at the drawing room. Men are pre-.
scented at the kings levees, and the
women undergo the same ordeal at the
!. courts or drawing rooms, which are
; by far the more imposing functions. Il
is probably no exaggeration to say thai
, every time a drawing room is helc
, E1OO,OOO is spent by the people who &C
! to court.
None but very old habitue Of The
} court-and then she is never below thu
} rank of a countess-would dream o.
5 appearing at. court in a costume tina
: she had worn there before. The item
: of flowers alone is one of vast impor
lance. If it were not for the drawing
3 rooms the large florists could not exist
:, Every woman who is presented goe
/ armed with a bouquet, whose value
Y at least pound, and some of them ar
:. worth ten times that sum. Then Their
s are the bookmakers and the hosiers an
|. the milliners to consider, to say nothln
Q of the people who lend carriages.
Suppose there are at a low estimat
500 people on the presentation list. Q
these every mothers daughter has bel
: self photographed in her court COS
e. tune, and London court photographer
t, are notorious for their stiff prices.
y st. James park on the night of
e drawing room is filled with Londo1
e ers who wander up and down the dol
e BILE line of carriages stalled in the NAL
s. peering into the windows and critics
II ing the costumes of the matrons an
IS their debutante daughters. It is
le legitimate privilege Of the populace
ID consider those waiting for presentatio
a. as objects Of interest, and there tt
u latter have to sit, some of them ov'
an hour, subjected to the gaze Of Lo
Is don's citizens. You see half a doze
is shopgirls fattening their noses again
the window Of motor brougham al
carrying on rapid fire conversatit
about the dress Of milady and b
81 daughter inside.
le s'Ain't she beootiful, Mary Anna"
LII "Wot do you think of this un? OF dol
Us like 'er gown at all"
~ All this has to be borne with Spa
CT tan fortitude so long as there is
ct rowdyism; but, strange to say, the
al never is.
N A good many people starve the
"a. selves for months so that they a.
Dy their offspring may have the money
ne enable them to go to court. There 9
ct many half pay colonies who live
ne the country whose one object is
come up for drawing room.
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