Year: 1868

In the first place, It you propose being
presented. few days before the drawing
room-three clear days is the regulation
time-you must send in your name, with
that of the lady who presents you, to the
Lord Cham berIain, at ST. James Palace,
in order that they may be placed before
Her Majesty If she is graciously pleas
ed TO receive you, card will be sent you,
which you will have to give at the palace
when you are presented. It merely con-
tains few printed directions and regu-
Iatons, together with your name and that
Of the lady who presents you; beside
this yen must provide yourself with
large plain white card, the regulation
size, on which you must write legibly
your own name and that of the lady who
presents you-Who, by-the-by, must be
present at the same drawing-room, though
she does not go before the Queen with
you; indeed, you nesG never s3a her at
all for matter Of that; and, moreover, q
lady who is herself presented may pre-
sent some one else at the same drawing
room; for instance, a mother may be
presented by friend, and present her
own daughters at the same time.


With regard 10 dress, it is indispensa-
BILE that you wear a train, feathers and
lappets; and nothing but low dresses are
worn, or apparently low dresses. Young
girls and brides, when presented, always
wear white, with no color IN their dress
at all.


Most drawing rooms are held at either
? or @ clock in the day, and you ought
to be at the palace quarter Of an hour
before that, because that is the time the
Queen herself appears, and in an hour it
is all over probably; so if you are too
fashionably late, you viii find everybody
gone before you arrive. On these occaB-
sions coachmen and footmen wear mostly
large bouquets in the front Of their coats.


Arrived at the palace, you give one of
the cards with which you have provided
yourself to the Queens page, who is sta
toned at the top Of the stairs when draw
ing-rooms are held at Buckingham Pal
ace, and at the foot of the stairs when
they were at St. James. Then you make
your way to one of the suites of tate de-
partments, all this being clearly indicated
to you by the officials present, antssa@v.Ss7e
you wait until it is your turn to appear
before the Queen. All this time your
train is carefully folded over your left
arm; and, if you are presented, be sure
to take of your right glove at this part
of the pr oceedings, as you have to place
your hand under the Queens when you
are presented, and it must be an unglov-
ed hand. If you leave it to the last mo-
ment you may forget it, or have diff
Guilty in removing it. Be sure, too, as
you advance to the presence chamber to
have that hand quite free your hand
kerchief, fan and bouquet, keep in the
| left hand.


By-the-by you will find yourself fol-
lowing the stream Of people through the
suite of rooms. You have nothing to do
but to walk on in regular succession until
you reach the door Of the presence cham
ber, when the two pages IN waiting re-
move the train from your arm, and you
proceed with it trailing behind you on
the ground. Trains, if unlined, should
not be made of too thin silk. An ab.
surd incident happened once through in.
attention to this-unfortunately, it was d
hot summers day, and the windows were
open. Just when the train had been re
moved from the arm, and ought to have
been we'll spread out on the ground, the
wind took the unlucky garment and rails
ed it in the air, where it futtered over
the head of the wearer like peacock


tail In vain the pages, with their gold,


headed sticks, strove to lead it IN the di
| rection it ought to have gone; the more


they tagged the higher il seemed 10 go