The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-29
|lONOON WILL HAVE
BRILLIANT SEASON
But the Court of Good King
George" Promises to Be
a Dull One.
~ HERBERT TEMPLE.

VB0cGtll CaDIc ITbUN the
News Service.)
London, May 29.-That this will be
. very brilliant season no one doubts
and probably thise who will rejoice
the most. after the first sting of pain
has subsidized. will be those who have
gently but firmly been excluded from
the Court. The Courts OF good King
George" as he is snobbishly called.
Heaven only knows for what reason,
promise 10 be even more dull than the
last drawing rooms OF Queen Victor
las time. The King is undoubtedly a
very well meaning person. but he has
Inherited none of the jovial bonhomie
OF his late father. which always came
to the surface whenever royal dignity
allowed him to show his true self. nor
OF the artistic temperament OF his
mother. and Queen Mary is too typi-
cally English and has too much of the
Puritan In her make up. to exert a
Frightening influence upon her sur
roundings. The courts, judged from
the one held about three weeks go,
will be eminently respectable. but the
prevailing note will be one of bore.
dom.
Rut luckily the courts are not the
only attractions OF the London season.
There are plenty OF young society peo-
pie here who. now that the last gloom
Of official mourning has disappeared
will make up for their long social lem
ten season.
Nearly all the fashionable hotels
have their reception rooms booged for
the whole season and a dance or din
ner party every night.
Claridges seem to be more popular
liant functions due here will be the
dance that Lord and Lady Davenport
are giving on Wednesday. June II, to
celebrate the coming OF age of their
eldest son.
The approaching Coronation is lend
Ing Its brilliance to the whole appear.
ance OF London. Every jewelers. has
its Coronation gifts. every hosier's its
Coronation tie or particolored sock. At
every turn. too. are already stands or
rumors OF stands. and staid old family
mansions. Of our revered nobility
decked out In new paint and announc.
ed as Ito be let for the Coronation
season, with view OF procession"
But. above all. ono finds. even in
these early days OF what is to be so
memorable year, the Oriental note.
The harem skirt-if Il had been popu.
larixed-would only have put a fin.
ishing touch to a London which has
been doing Its best oil along to revive
the spirit Of old Bagdad. Perhaps It
In with n view to the Coronation t.
self that London seems to have deter.
mined to assert itself as the capital
OF what Is. after all. a great Oriental
empire.
With turbaned head and hobble
skirt. the beauty of the moment seems
to aim at being sort OF composite OF
Princess Badroulboudour and Cleo.
patra's mummy. At the street corner
stands the unshaven sandwich man. a
clay Guilty inserted in his eminently
British countenace. but his figure en-.
veloped In the garb OF Mahomet His
board proclaims the infallibility OF a
crystal gazer whose name might have
created a stir in Babylon itself Even
the temporary picture postcard stall
must needs be decorated in arabesque
A with imperial Rome. the magic OF
the east laps US about.
Yet. beside the gold and scarlet and
Tyrian purple. II Ia almost remarka
BILE how shallow this flourish OF west
ern splendor is. Ransack the ages
and chimes though che may for hel
attire, the British matron is the Brit
ish matron still. As one glances al