Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-07-06
PRESENTED At COURT
Experience Of an American al
an English Royal Legee.
A RAPID TRANSIT FUNCTION.
He Was IN and Through and Out Be-.
fore He Really Realized What Had
Happened-The Way His Difficulty
About q Costume Was Overcome.

Happened-The Way His Difficulty
/ 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 a pretty predicament.
On his notification paper was the
hint that ievee 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 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,
ruff1ed sleeves black sword and other
| items.
CONSERVATION ensued. It continued
to ensue when owing to his height and
| girth no borroWabie suit was GiscoT-z
cred an! no tailor could be found who
would make one before the next after
| noon. At last q stage leyee dress was
| rented from Els 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 hardy knew
| what had happened. When he reached
/ the palace he was first surrounded By
/ the yeomen of the guard, w1o started
Ilila upstairs with great di5ua .ch, n
tlac course of his progress upstairs TIE
yeon2en disappeared, and be fet-.a7
himself in a lane of tin plated life.
/ gudrdsmen.
4 Again the scene changed, says Town
/ and Country, and there was q lane OF
royal footmen and next large room
| filled to oyerfiowing with admirals.
generals, diplomats, peers. chamber
4 lains, soldiers and sailors of all de-
grees Of commissioned rank and a
great host of men attired like himself
in levee dress. One by one they We're
singled out and ushered into the royal
i presence In the adjoining room, where
stood the king surrounded by his suit
a 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 in the same
| rapid, mysterious fashion, and the
next thing he knew he was outside in
the courtyard. But he was actually
s.presented' and is now forever Hof
q fahig, or eligible for presentation at
any court in the world, provided he be
( haves 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. II
is probably no exaggeration to say that
iesery time a drawing room is held
100000 is spent by the people who go
to court.
None but very old habitue of the
court and then she is never below the
frank OF q countess--would dream OF
appearing at court in costume that
she had worn there before. The item
! tof flowers alone Is one OF vast iInpor
lance. lie it were not for the drawing
rooms the large florists could not exist
Every woman who is presented goes
armed with bouquet, whose value i
& Tut least a pound, and some Of them arr
worth ten times that sum. Then ther'