Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-05-18
KINGS BODY Is NOW
LYING in STATE.
On Friday.WiII Be Taken to
Windsor Castle.
Lotdon Cfow.ed ifh
Visitors 10 Witness
the Pageant
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London. Eng. May 17.-Today the
r,.g Of King Edward was removed
r ~. -.ulus er Hall, where it wil
rf4 tu sta g until Friday. On the ar
rival of t.e body at Westminster Hail
brief raI g,ous services were conduct
ed BIZ the Archbishop of Canterbury
and IN. BISHOP of London. This SER
vice V.s attended by the House of
Lords aad House of Commons.
The ancient hall was not draped
and the ceremonial was of magnificent
stmm.ciy. The casAet rested upon
"a drapeI cltafaIque The only sign
of decoration was a purple Goth COW
erng the platform of the catafalque
and the ulppings of the bier. TIE
Eng ana queen, the queen mother
and other royal mourners were group
ed about Jue catalfaque during the
service.
The participation of the public
i'm the obsequies began today with the
public lying in state From now
until the departure of the cortege on
next Friday from Paddington station
for Windsor Castle, tie inhabitants o.
London and visitors fro22 sit of town
will be spectators of a succession OF
solemn and impressive services. The
funeral Of Queen Victoria touched
London only on its passage from one
ra Ir0ad station to another. In King
Edwards funeral the people will be
able to see the transit of the coffin
from the palace to Westminster Hall,
the two days lying in state, and the
final military pageant on Friday, when
the corJege will traverse three miles
Of the streets of London.
The city is crowded wit han army Of
spectators, who are focking to town
from the provinces and the continent.
An .dea of the probable cost of the
funeral can be gained from the ex-
pense in connection with Queen Vie
t0ria's The latter amounted to $780,
OOo, of which $3.50 was spent for
the entertainment of royal foreign
guests and $4,000 for the expenses
of the troops. Many more. royalties
Will be present at King Edwards fun
eral than there were at Queen Vie
toria's. The cost, therefore, will be
proportjonately greater. On the other
ipnd there will be no expensive naval
pageant, as there was in the case OF
Queen Victoria.
The Rush For Mourning.
Not even at the time of the death
of Queen Victoria was the rush for
mourning so immediate and universal
as since the death of King Edward
VII Already every woman in Lon
don IS wearing a black costume. Many
Of these are quite out of style, and
have evidently been laid away for a
number of years. Indeed, the sudden
mourning has completely revolution
izer the spring modes. The mummy
skirt and the sartwheel hat have dis
appeared, the desire of every woman
apparently being to appear inconspic-
uOus.
The large firms have ordered their
employees to buy mourning clothes.
Women Of all classes are making ev-
cry effort to show respect for the
dead monarch. Many ladies are DIS
carding spring costumes which they
recently bought, and are wearing
black The craze for mourning has,
indeed, gone to such an extent that it
1t means a pecuniary loss to many
people.
G. B. S. Protests.
George Bernard Shaw, the drama
fist, in a letter to the Times, protests
against this. He says:
Take the case of a man with a
profession or bushes from which he
has few hundred pounds a year,
with three daughters at the nearest
high school The school is compelled
to 90 in mourning. The dresses pro-
Yided for the season have to be dis
carded and new black dresses bought
10 court official it may be inconceiv-
able that so trihing an expense. should
De a hardship to any one.
The remedy is to drop the vague
expression decent mourning and to
define the dearing of a violet ribbon
as Appropriate mourning for rayolty.
This would be correct, inexpensive and
pretty. Why our schools should be
deliberately made hideous with black
simply because an honorable public
career has come to its natural close
In all peace and fulfilment and with
cheerful memory is not apparent 10
any healthy minde person"
Mr., Shaw's suggestion has been fol-
lowed by many men, so that instead
oI wearing a black band a purple in
Set in the sleeve is regarded as the
proper thing.
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