The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-08-12

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Happened-The Way His Di.f.eulty
About a Costume Was Overcome.
A six foot American who had So.
! cured a command to one Of the Eng
lish royal levees recently found him
self in a pretty predicament.
On his notification paper was the
hint that levee dress was inIispensa-
bic. 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 a 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.
rufiled sleeves. black sword auni otie,
items.
CONSERVATION ensued. IL continued
to ensue when owing TO his height and
girth no borrowable suit was discov-
cred and no tailor could he 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 i'm 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 curse of his progress upstairs the
yeomen disappeared. and he found
himself III Il lane of tin plated life
guardsmen.
Again the scene changed. says Town
and Country. and there was a lane OF
royal footmen and next a large room
filed to overlooking with aimirals.
generals. diplomats. peers. chamber
lains. soldiers and sailors Of all de-
giees of commissioned rank and u
great host of men attired like himself
In leyee 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 aud In another room before he
knew what had happened, His over
coat was on his back in the same
rapid, mysterious fashion, aud the
next thing he knew he was outside in
the courtyard. But he was actually
'~'presanted' and Is now forever liof
fahig, OF eligible for presentation al
any court in the world, provided he be
hayes himself.
All this was preliminary to the pres
entation of the mans wife and daugtl
ter at the drawing room. Men are pre-
scented at the kings ieyees, and the
women undergo the same ordeal AT the
courts or drawing rooms. which are
by far the more imposing functions. II
is probably no ~exaggeration TO say that
every time a drawing room Is held
100000 is spent by the people who go
to court.
None but a very old habitue of the
court-and then she Is never below the
rank Of a countess-would dream of
appearing at court in a costume that
she had worn there before. The item
of flowers alone Is n OF vast impor
lance If it were not for the drawing
rooms the large florists could not exist,
Every woman who is presented goes
armed with q bouquet. whose value is
at least d pound. and some Of them are
worth ten times that sum, Then there
are the bookmakers and the hosiers and
the milliners to consider, to say nothing
OF the people who lend carriages.
Suppose there are ut a low estimate
500 people OH the presentation list Of
these every mothers daughter has heFs
self photographed In her court cos
tune. and London court photographers
are notorious for their stiff prices.
st. James park on the night of a
drawing room Is filled with Eoad9a'
ers who wander up and down the doh
bic line of carriages stalled in the mail.
peering into the windows and CRITICS
ing the costumes OF The matrons anu
their debutante daughters. II y a
legitimate privilege OF the popn'ace 20
consider those waiting for presentation
as objects OF interest, and there tnf
latter have to sit, some Of them over
an hour, subjected to the gaze OF Lon
don's citizens. You see half a dozen
~shopgirls fattening their noses against
the window OF n motor brOngham aud
carrying on n rapid fire conversation
about the dress of milady ana her
daughter inside.
"Ain't she beootifuI. Mary Ann! or
"Wot do you think OF this IN? Ol don't
like 'er gown at all"
All this has to be borne with Spar
tan fortitude 10 long ms there Is :
r~owdyisim; but. strange t. say, there
never is.
A good many people strive shrm
selves for months SO that trey an
their offspring may have II" 1f'F -
enable them to go to conrt. There are
many half pay colonies N- i've ~
the country whose II OBJECT u
come up for a drawing room.
Generally they have l~nanNr.ial on
wealthy friends who make i el9y r
them in the matter OF lofg Z town