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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.
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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
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a. eourtesr title, Uiuslly belonging to tha family, but
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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
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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
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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.
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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, .- . ,
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