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.v.r ' 7 ""1 Youngsters Enroll in the Whom . Pages of EMEMBER your first circust That really first circus when you were old- enough to sense something of all the grandeurs and gorgeousness which spread over j the unparalleled aggregation of overwhelming talent and distinction included in the greatest one-png, two-ring or three-ring show that had ever been in the entire world? Was there anywhere ever such a long continued thrill of unddulterated blisses; and dul fly ot)m .circus -in, ftep,yearsjCQmpart : tvith that first onet All the circus evtr lacked was the solitary feature required to take it atvas from earth and translate it right up into perfect heaven. , " That feature? Why, wasn't your sole regret the stabbing pain, which recurred as your gaze dwelt on every succeeding act, that you were only at, and not of, the circus? V Well, this summer there are whole groups of toys, most of them just of the age when 10 fHEM. so long as they are boys and haven't matured sufficiently to discuss problems of empire with the Dlase omniscience which la toe aasuraption of youth, the king is a real, old- fashioned king, vested with all the power and glory, , and none of the dwarfing worries, a modern king - aught to, have and does have. Xo iheut the pacuitry ig altogether actual and true anil nut merely symbolical of many powers and privileges that have been taken over by a ; peopla who have insisted on running affaire to suit baiuselvea, instead ot kings and peers. r 'JL'o them the colore Hare bravely; the lacea are the exquisite mists ot some xalryland where they are happy denlsens; tne very fuces of the court beauties are lncaiiittuona of all mat is entrancing and fair. , Juat now, Uiroughout the circles of ureat Britain's nobility, the main uiought is clothes and, perhaps, the Mils that are to come afterward. But the bills are quantities totally unknown to the expectant pages. . 'A'fleJr fatners can worry about little things like that. What they see is tnai, for ail their families' nervous ; anxiety to make aura of correct designs and prompt 'delivery of coronation robes, some one is continually . finding time to attend to the details of their page costumes. - The tact is that, so far as the ceremontea go, the pages must be solicitously cared for, even though their fathers' own attire te delayed and their mothers' growns be left to the modiste's good faith and no more : than half a dosen reminders per day. The frogged ; coat, the f lace ruffles, the satin breeches, the lace cravat, the silken-hose, the patent leather pumps, th little, fancy court a word these items represent tne page In the etiquette of the coronation as much as the . boy who wears them. j' , EARLY DISTINCTIONS If he were to evidence the smallest shortcoming when the great day arrives, it would be noticed more - than If tha fault were In the make-up of tba dignitary . be attends; and. when that dignitary happens to be some one other than his own father, it would amount to dereliction that la well-nigh unpardonable. So the , heirs to the. great names of the United Kingdom and Ireland are being treated now with a consideration ; which they may never know again. It la understood that In every Instance where It Is possible- the peera are to be attended -by their sons. I hua, the coronet of the duke of Devonshire will be borne by young Lord Charles Cavendish. Lord Elmley v,, l9lar tlJt arl ' Beauchsmp. Lord Cranborne ; will .be a tha page of the earl of Salisbury. These youths, legally, are as rule simply young esquires, f.!-p!,!,Kft ot iUM than the sons of the tradesmen who feel honored by permission to announce i?m-2lJ!M.M !urr,roT nnsd lima beans and bQttled horseradish to the noble parents. But English 0&V-h.. distinguished houses a. eourtesr title, Uiuslly belonging to tha family, but In abeyance ander the possession of higher raiic by . I jj A ( 1 b:ll. ! : j ' :: iv'j j J' r.n nn.ntt' cmmv tnTTDM&T.' PrtPTT-AMn - STTMnAV .MrtPMTMrt'- llfAV. 01 Iftlv , 1 M , I J K ri-l II J 111 aUIV IJA the Coronation Will English History they are qualified. t&-en joy 4 circus, who are awaiting, with ill-dissembled eagerness, their debut, as picturesque performers in the big- gest circus the world has ever seen -the coro- nation ceremonies in England. They are the, sons of Great Britain's peers, and their job is that of playing page to their own noble fathers, or, in more favored instances, to royalty, j The grown-ups over there what with their secret, gnawing anxieties over the ob strsperous commons? the fate of Ireland and the income tax will participate tn that splen did cif'cus with about as much genuine enjoy ment as the magnificent ringmaster and the ; loop-the-loop stars who are working for their living. But only the pride and joy of the kid who has been admitted to the sacred toil of carrying a watcr'bucket at a real circus, can compare with the happiness these peers1 heirs are awaiting so rapturously now. the father. So far as universal acknowledgment of the title goes, young Lord Cavendish and young Lord Ashley themselves scarcely realise that they are not legally the personages their names denote. In King George's train will appear many young sprigs of nobility; and It Is worth noting that not all of them belong to families most prominent in the" peerage. It is .distinctly a case, at this coronation, that page-boy honors have gone by favor, although tue lav or Utts ueen anipiy earned uy me fatners or the mothers of the children. Among them are one or two lute the Hon. George ttaward Knoilys, eon of Lord Knoll, wno is rather oeyond the age wnan a corona tion can be altogether a circus to niui, for no is now in his sixteeutn year, and served as a page of honor to Wwura Vli wnen that monarch had tne long-delayed trappinesa of being present at nla own coronation. rie will be page of honor this time, and will . share that hfgnest oi page functions with plain young Wal ter Campbell, tne sun of air Walter Campbell; Anthony Lowuier, aon of Lancelot Lowtber, anu Victor Alex ander Haroord, son ot Charles Uarbord, but grandson of Lord tiuifleld. Little Lord llartington will be a train-bearer, together with Lord KomUiy, wno la already a real baron, because he has now Inherited the title, altnough'but 12 years old, and with Lord Cranborne Lord Salisbury's older son. . The nand of Wueen Mary spy ears in some ol these appointments, quite indirectly, out potently neverthe less. Site haa a way of sticking to her friends that offsets many other traits leas highly esteemed, espe cially by those most in favor at court during King lid ward's reign. Lord Hartington'a mother la the duchesa of Devon shire, the queen'a most intimate friend and her mis tress of the robes. The duchess of Buccleuch, her aunt, held the post for a quarter of a century; but. almost as soon as Queen Mary was no longer merely the prin cess of Wales the old duchess decided that her fall ing health made the position too onerous, and resigned. Her niece, the queen'a closest friend, waa at onoe given that peculiarly confidential place: and- whoever is kin to her can count on whatever honor or emolument Queen Mary can Influence. The young marquis of Hartington is close to. tha age of Lord Knoilys' eon, but he la atiil a real, boy tn hla devotion to all outdoor sports, a taste that brings him very close to hla father i in his pleasures. Young Lord Cranborne' title Is the cne his father core nearly a dozen years ago, when, in 4he house of commons, aa under aecretary of' foreign affairs, he startled the world by making the official statement that it was Great Britain that stood the friend of the United States when Europe propoaed to Interfere In our little mixup with Spain. Although he was tha son of Lord Salisbury, whom Americans knew ae one of England's leading statesmen. Lord Cranborne himself had attracted little attention her when h uttered the worde which had no small weight In Influencing -this country'eptoioA-f-GreatBrita!cb . . His declaration ran counter to the claim made by Russia, Jaat ft had been our only friend during the f VW .-.. - . ' -, .; , . I - - ,, , ... , ... , 1 ' "'.J X I W W - ' e war e esawej ,wvirtti, 'fj 1''' ' I i hi ' i I Mift J&ylA- - i it4.u -fa l, a.,,,,,,,,,,,,,!, ,n n ir .,. , KHim r i ,. ' EXPENSIVE to If VvA' s-ej?.. E WAS a very nice young man, very nicely dressed, and he gazed at the outgoing liner with, the heartbroken expression that, betokens the lover whose dear one sailing away, innocent Una, to take her chances among the ravening nobility who need her money. ".Nope P he answered;: "Not on your, ancestral tree. If she is on that boat, she's the latest and last of "nine dear ones and a granduncle. Ify suf ferings are worse. I atand here, after shipping off ( all my-f riends to Europe,' atone roke-nyself,-and-hopeful only of three sauara meals a day until they H w v a- " IV A V i , lA , 1. .OP 1 Aft - j : "'-W; - -.- - come Sack and bring me collections of picture postals of the coronation." . , 1 He was tho extreme of the modern fashion, which decrees- that,- if jfou have ft friendrespe- , cially a girl friend who can raise enough to take the trip abroad, you must speed the departure with gifts that will convince the passenger list there's a million-dollar heiress on board. If, as happened with the ead young man, your friends are so many and your Attentions so munificent that your travel fund is used up before you start, your best bet is to skate along until next year, and then start early. - - THE enormous expense of steamer gifts may ac count for the steadily advancing date of the summer flitting. "What profit it a man who shall Walt until tba first of June to go. If his acquaint ances are whooping It up from Rome to Berlin with trophies that came out of his travel money 7 Better take . the 1500 or 11000 they have cost him. start in April and gather In the steamer gifts as the early bird assimilates the worms. t A merciful providence spares most married men and all unmarried . girls. Gwendolyn, when Phoebe sails, needn't send her anything more expensive than a bunch of violets, beoauae Phoebe knowa that Gwendolyn is chronically hard up, and Uwendolyn anowa aha auuws; ao what's the-use? , But with a bacbelorl 'Well, simply take tha round of one bachelor's best girls; his Influential women friends. Including bostesses who have fed him; and all men whose. Influence is useful and whose wives and daughters, if they are not expectant, are at least receptive. Several hundred figure-in. the list, and at, least half a hundred' loom Important in his eyes. A lu bill looks smaller than a two-spot when be is planning bis escape at the lowest price for, above everything else, he dares not , Then remembering the thousands that are sailing out of the port of New York alone every week, even before- March has been blown into the hereafter take a little journey through any liner of the superelegent class just before It aalla. " , . -r" The bon-voyage gifts received by the passengers up to the beginning of any single voyage run from Slfi.OOO to 125,000. Baskets and boxes have come to demand a sepa rate space on the piers; cabins and staterooms are filled. The flowers come by the waaonloada: no one wasron- load for any on traveler, but ao many individual tributes an sa, many different vitom that, th Nim tha last orchid haa been crowded Into a popular belle's cabin, she esn only stand outside and wonder whether they're her 1 fipaaiih ww, jat m It tad btan la th tivll war, sd for montlt th aiipuu racto, unui uirai w i aueeMdad to tha Bailabury UUa. ha baa bad ratbar. ' a warm place In tha rag-ard ot Amarlcaaa. Uoaa woo attend King Gaorg-a, but tha bora who will Tha atfpaaraotfe. of all that young- pada aot alona ba aetn with theflr fathara, will bo certain to recall Inaumarablo roaaacta of tha paaraga, whUJh haa graduailr abated. But avar ajacoiand aapoclally whaa probabljr produced ' mora aatonlahlng-'lova affalra taaa any other pat of people In tho. world. ? - , fTher y it W iuat Juilt that lltjlajpord Elmloy . happanad to be tha on pretty Lady Lattice Oroa veaor, aletar of the duke of WeatmlMter, lnatead ol the beautiful denahter of a worthy but entirely pie bttajt gatekeeper, who eked out hla humble Uln on ,. Sari Beauohamp'a estate. y - .' Nine or ten yeare ago tae earl wae one of the hand, aomest 'young peara to Bngund, and the gatekeeper1 daughter wae. one of England's prottiaat gtrla The earl had. ueceeded to the title wnen he wae only II yeare oiO. anu no naa gone a strange way tor a rhh ana care-free young pear, lie had. one hobby and one . eevolion. 'i'ne nobby waa the coueotlon of anu boxea Vim T devotion waa to the Usuoiiahed Church of ICng- "iSfona of hla family or hla feUow-paere dleeeraed any aangar la ihe.anutf ooxaa, Jiut aa aoon a u waa iurmlaed that he !waanamorad of the-gatekeeper-a daughter, everybody aaw grave danger la his fidelity l He waa bow 7 years old. Pfoy able to make up hla" own mind and very much Inclined, to do it. If the Church of England feature had been out of the wey, bla f rleada would have been at eaee about him. end they wouldn't have cared a hang what became of the a-atokecper's daug h ten-fiat wttb nve cnurotr pnneipiea fney wire mortally afraid' he would, marry her. So uueeh Victoria waa led to make Jtfrect appolnunant for him. Sba madeOilDt-gdvernor of New South Wale v and the earl, taken wltnwnbU'on. ealted way. , When he returned he had duly forgotten all about, the humble Ideal be had begun o oftarlah. and ere long did hla noble and hereditary duty by proposlaa; to Ifili&lrM 'pfoportlon of the ouOelrs . win ba Betes. have come into the wofUfarwr romancee mori or leas diverting to British abejety, but none of them Is old enough to .know nauch about II Thira arolnr to be part of the jtrlreus. They.wlll hive ! ava their hands full with their own romances later. querterre awaiting the arrival of the Interesting '0rApa' cost! Why. an admirer, in Seattle is Just ha liable as not to wire an open prder to a Brosdwey florist, .who Is fooliah If he Isn't generous to a fault. By the ' way, If you happen to be In Canton, China, and know the ship and the sailing date, Sou can "till Impress her by cabling, with Instructions to the florist to attaoh the cable dispatch to yotfr bunch. . She won't be Impressed with your extravagance, but she Vwlll appreciate your thouihtfulness. Ordinary floral tributes. tewtha dear ds parting shouldn'l. lapse bolow S; and engaged girts are supposed to be loth to receive flowers worth more than ou troin admirers wno wouiu latnu seuu ttieiu to uer nance, with a. ribbon attached reading. 'Loved and '"'About a thouaand would be a minimum estimate for the number Of baskets of fancy fruit.. Plenty of the big liners make a specialty of the table; but the fond eyes of loving friends, who want to make sure that some girl wearing a twenty-inch corset on a twentyJour-lnoh figure shan't starve, can UsuallyNilg up hotnouse grapes, special pears and various other expensive delicacies, which, with a basket or box, ribboned and sealed, will boost -the bill to , .; t ... The candles are merely, moderately flattering at 110; when you go into hand-painted boxes and fill them with the very ttnesV assortments Obtainable, 2S vanishes aa sweetly a if you'a never earned (i, or taken it away from somebody who did earn It " -? v "' v Champagne has been steadily acquiring a reputation as being a specific for seasickness. Of course, the ship carries enough champagne to float Ita lifeboats, but not lor voyagers who have kind and loving frlenda. A neat little case, containing a dosen pints, handsomely framed up so aa to lure the mind to visions of sunny vineyards, can run from 25 to t50, and look aa good to the' perfectly bealthy traveler as It doea to the Interesting Invalid. Maybe she has a dog. Well, the steamer gift includes a hamper for Fldo.- And there are not a few who think of cartons of eggs, freshly laid that morning Friend ship's offerings may even ' include, favorite brands of butter,-tea,-coffee, milk and weam. " - T , The man traveler is usually safe to receive a lot of cigars, ana whoever gives tnem to mm can esteem hlm- self lucky to escape for $16 or 120. Your Englishman, on the principle of inuring himself to hardship, smokes i (iiyv mauru whu ifiueuuwwnivq mi i ir can maaa ranker. But the cigar-smoking American clings to the faith that. If he will only pay enough tor his havana. It will burn well anywhere; and If tt doesn't, it isn't any fault of his. - So you can't afford to send the boss any - thing but the finest-brand obtainable when you' ere proving to him how much-you'll miss him when he sails a wsy, He'll probably think wtth bitter regret of the etogies : he moked . In the office- but he'll -comprehends how much you paid for what he's smoking now, and ha won't blame you, .- . , l , J ,.k . M.t..W f. . . s V.
