HOW | THE PRESENTATIONS ARE CONDUCTED. Sight of Splendor and Magnilicence Unsurpassed at Any Other Court of Europe. The average person probably finds it dificull to understand why there should be such a keen desire on the part +f Sociely people to be presented at Court. .T Ahe uninitiated, the miere honor cr 'pleasure--however you may like to re- 'gerd it--of making a-curtsy to the King and Queen in the ballroom of Bucking-: 'ham Palace scarcely compensates one 'fer the expense and trouble inyolved. AS a matter of fact, a presentation at Court means a great deal to those who move in upper circles. Without 1 @ woman has no recognized social posi- ition; she is never invited to Royal en- jtertainments, and when visiting a for- eign country cannot be presented to its Sovereign. In- the old days, when 2 'Msdy had been once presented, she could ecnt'nue to attend Courts, uninvited and Peeopienaen, until the end of her life. Bul time has changed that privilege. However, it is obvious that there are slill great inducements to secure the precious card of invitation from the 'Lord Chamberlain which entitles one 'to attend the Court. Everybody who is anybody is to te seen at a Court presentation--princes, lords, and dukes, grey-haired ambassa- dors, generals, politicians, and diploma- lists, down {o young attaches, all at- tired in FULL UNIFORM OR COURT DRESS, the men's attire, in. many cases, being no less brilliant and gorgeous than the dazzling confections 'worn by youn debutantes who nervously await their turn for presentation. Those who by right of birth are en- tilled to atlend at'Court are members o! the aristocracy and of the leading county families, the wives and. daugh- ters of officers in the Army and Navy, of clergymen and barristers, of og ant finunciers, and of men engaged large commercial enterprises, But the line is rigidly drawn at those occupied in retail trade, no matter how refined or well connec ted they may. be, Now-a- cays several tilled women, members of ol! families, keep shops of their own, and this fact entirely prevents their appearance at Court. This rule is ab- Bolute, and has no exceplions. The general company ive into the ceurtyard of Bee a ae under the portico at the State entrance, There is also another entrance, known as the | Pimlico door, through which members of the Diplomatic Corps and what is known as the Entree company are al-! lowed to pass. By entering with Ue general company, however, one obtains a splendid view of some of the beauties ef Buckingham Palace. After alighting at the Doric portico, the debutante enters the large but some- what jow-ceilinged entrance-hall, with its marble floor and staircase, and ils dcuble row of pillars in PURE WHITE CARRARA MAKBLE. From the hal! access can be obtained to the so-called. Bay Window Room, Which is one of the finest on the gar- den floor of Buckingham Palace. 'The Bow Library where wraps und numbered jick@ts received in exchange. The Staircase is a medel of splendor, Every slep is a solid piece of white marble, and the gold and cream ceiling shicws some marvellous decoration, Sla- ticned on the staircase and everywhere about are Yeomen of the Guard dressed ig red and gold, wilh neck ruffles, buckled shoes, and the flat hats that have become known by their name. Attentive gentlemen ushers pass the guests on in batches of about thirty through the ante-rooms which lead to the last halling-place, the Tapestry Cor- ridor. The baliroom, where the Court is held, is a superb saloon, with walls panelied in crimson and a floor of gat- inwood and mahogany. At one end 1s a fine organ and the gallery for His Majesty's musicians. The King and Queen enter the ball- room about ten o'clock. They are pre- ceded by the White Slaves and followed by the most important officers of the State, who, together wilh other members ef the Royal Family, take up their posi- lion in a semi-circle round their Ma- jesties in order of precedence. Then the business of the evening commences. Trains are let down and spread upon: the floor, cards are passed from hand t¢ hand, and A GREAT SILENCE PREVAILS, broken to a nervous -- debutante's ear only. by the sound of her own tread ¢n the polished floor and by the announce- ment of h.w name in a tone of official aulhorily. When the two deep curtsies have been duly: made, the lady has to relire from the Royal presence with all Ab« grace at her command. Formerly a debutante was obliged !o undergo the nerve-trying ordeal of kiss- jing the Queen's hand, and, if .a peeress, al being saluted on both cheeks, while, jin addition, she was obliged to walk ards m the Royal presence. But King Edward has altered all that. ;Their Majestics remain seated, and a curtsy is all that is required. Between one and two hours are thus en up with the business of -presenta- tion, after which the King and Queen relire from the ballroom to partake ot upper with a few favored guests, Sup- is also provided for the general company, with this difference--that 'while the Royal party sit down to a forma] meal, the others refresh them- selves at the ewig for the most part (tsaay £ up. is used as a cloak-room, | cloaks ure left and | een pee some readers ta learn. | anteed Underwear wears best and fits better loid Starch a Painting Book with colors for the little folks. t requires no cooking, never makes the iron stick and gives the best results. Send your address to-day to The Brantford 'Works, Limited Celluloid Starch oat ae by the way, that strict regulations gov- era the dress of both men and women who attend at Court. Men who do not belong to the Services must appear in the regulation velvet tail-coats and steel buttons, knee breeches, black silk slock- | ings, buckled shoes, and white gloves, | with cocked hat pce the arm and, wee 'sword at at side. ies, too, must dress to order, in secaing toilette, 'with train from three | and a half to four yards long, white' gloves, and with ostrich feathers. For mourning black trimmings are permis- sible with the black toilette, but a spe-' cial permit must be obtained if a lady wishes to attend Court in a high-necked ! gcwn and long sleeves. A doctor's cer- tificate .s generally necessary in order lo obtain this permission.--London Tit- | Bits, { MOTOR ENDS ROMANCE, French Father Captures His Eloping. Daughter and Takes Her Home. The romance of a French heiress and: he~ penniless lover, their elopement, and a few weeks of wedded bliss, have been followed by the an Sap of the bride in the paternal molor-ca Some months have ansaid since Mlle. Piedaliu met Viclor Debaulon near her millionaire father's chateau at Isle- Acam, France. A [friendship sprang up aad ripened into love. A few weeks ago the elopment was planned and carried out. Mile. Piedallu and her governess went shopping in Paris. The girl gave her chaperon the slip and joined her lover, who was waiting in a cab. Soe aeep was the father's anger that be sware to leave the neighborhood, The, e.nlonts of his chateau are to be sold by }auction before the place is shut up. 'The lovers drove to a railway station and travelled to Ostend. 'There they lock cheap rooms, and Dehaulon ob- iteined wark al a well known hetel, HIS wife carried his dinner in a bundle through the streets each day, _ Neither knew that the millionaire who was searching for them was one ef the chief shareholders in the company which owns- the hotel where Dehaulén was employed. Discdvery came owing lc this fact. The heiress was carrying her hus- bund's dinner through the streets cf Ostend when three men suddenly seiz- 'ea her and placed her in a motor-ca> waiting by the kerb. Instantly the vehicle, in which the millionaire was silling, started off and quickly got clear of the town. Dehaulon, alarmed by his wife's non-appearance, ran to their rooms, found them vacant, and learn: what hed happened a few days later. Since then he has been searching in vain for his wife. MAN WHO FEEDS MANY. Joseph Lyons of London Has Most Colos- sal Eating Concern in World. Joseph Lyons runs in London what is by long odds the most colossal catering - concern in the world. There is no ag- gregation of restaurants under one man- agement in America that comes any way near feeding -such a vast multitude iad He makes it pay, too, handsome- ly. His company has declared a divi- dend of 3234 per cent., besides adding. $200,000 tocits reserve fund. There are few companies in the land of million- aires which can show such profits as that. From the rank of a small public provider at provincial exhibitions, Jos. Lyons has risen in=twenty years to the forefront of the restaurant and catering world, and to-day the ramifications od: his business extend throughout the whole of Great Britain. (NDS BAD WEA | ENGLAND'S BAD WEATHER. Sleet in July, This "Year Was the Crown- ing Indignity. , A woman who announces that she' has just "looked out of the window and beheld flakes of sleet drifling past on this July morning," writs to the Queen to recall a rhyme whieh celebrated ano- ther season quite as dripping as the one which has afflicted England this year .| It ran-- Dirty days have September, | April, June and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Without a blessed gleam of sun. If any of 'em had two-and-thirty, -They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty. oct Mis, Money Bags--"I hear you have spent a great deal of your time in Italy?" , Mrs. Parvenue--* yes, my dear; | we're quite Ialicized." - ae for wistom nitions quired by. appla' 8 opinions of up neighbors. SYMPATHY. Mr. Henpeck (after a long argument) "I can understand now why your folks cried the night we were married." . Mrs. Henpecy--"*Why." Henpeck--"They were sorry for me." Dr. J. D. 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Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator is pleasant, sure and effectual. If your druggist has none in stock, get him to procure it for you. HAPPIEST OF ALL. "Don't you know, Willie," asked the Sunday-school teacher, "that you are always happiest when you are good?" "Yes'm," said Willie, "I'm never so ichappy as when I'm goody 'ceptin' when rm eatin." EXRERT SEWING-MACHINE REPAIRS Also sewing machine oil of absolule ovrity, and the best needles and parts 'or all machines at Singer stores. 'Look 'or the Red S. Singer Sewing Machine Co. Write us at Manning Chambers, Yoronto, for set of Bird Cards free. "Well, my little ie said the minis- ter, kindly, "I am glad to see you com- 3g re rag . the Sunday school. You want to be a good little boy, I am sure.' "i do, indeed," replied the "little: man," earnestly. "You see, Mamma says she can't trust.me, and she always locks the pantry door, so I'm trying hard to be a good boy so that she'll leave it open as 'she used to do. There are four 'Scottish breeds of cat- | tle namely, Polled Angus, Galloway, ; Ayrshire, and West Highland, The Wake. the 2 Torpia Energies, -- Machinery not properly supervised and left to run itself, very soon shows fault in ils working. hy is the same with the digestive organ time to time tae are likely to becdme tarpid and throw the whole system out of gear. .Parmelee's Vegetable Pil!s were made fo meet such cases. y restore to the full the flagging faculties and ali into order all ones of the mechan. Just as Jong as there's a case there {will be a woman in it, PROPRIETOR TAYLOR KEPT THE | | STABLE DARK. A Handy Shoe Factory--Horses Got Off Their Fecd--a Great Scheme. Down in the southern. part of the State of New Hampshire, at a railway Slation where the farmers for miles around used to come to take the train fr Boston, a certain man had a house and a big stable, and in the leng rows of sldlls they kept their horses during the day unti) thev returned from their journey to "the nub." Then they wou'd hitch up and drive home. Everybody wails on himself in these democratic ccmmunities, so they were in the habit 0? unhitching their own horses, hang- ing the harness on the pegs at the a o: the stalls and giving each animal ¢ measure of oats from a big bin over in ihe corner. The stable was kept very dark, so that somelimes on a cloudy day they had to feel their way around, bul Mr. Taylor, the proprietor, explain- ed its advantages--thal it kept out the flies and other insects BOUGHT SEVERAL BARRELS. One day Mr. Taylor was employed by a stranger to diye him over to Haverhill, where a sMe factory with ail its contents and appurtenances. was {7 be sold at auction under foreclosure. Everything was going very cheap and Mr. Taylor bought several barrels <f shoe pegs for almost nothing. When e got home he put them in the barn without explaining what he was going fo do with them. It was something more than a coinci- dence that about this time Taylor quit buying oats and the horses that were placed in his barn while their owners went to Boston almost invariably got "off their feed." SOLD BURDOCK CURE. The owners unhitched and put them in the slalls and gave them a measure of grain, as usual, from the bin in the dark corner, but when they returned al night the fecd lay untouched in the trough. Mr. Taylor, had some medicine, made of burdock leaves, which he re- commended as an appetite restorative, and he sold a good many bottles at 25 cents each. He told his customers to give their horses a dose before they started to drive home and another after their arrival before feeding, and he thought it would cure them, And it did. It worked like a charm and there was a greal demand for the burdock rem- edy. HAD BEEN FEEDING SHOE PEGS. Mino day an inquisitive farmer faok bis measure of oats to the stable door and found it full of shoe pegs. For nearly a year, ever since Taylor went over {9 that auction at Haverhill, his cuslomers Lad been feeding shoe pegs to their horses and paying Taylor 25 cents per animal for that privilege. As one might expect, there was a god deal of comment on the discovery and Taylor went out of business. icae Excel wenacesgecan Time Has Tested I.--Time tests all things, that which is worthy lives; thal which is inimical to man's welfare per- ishes. Time has proved Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil. From a few thousand buttles Jin the carly days of its manu- {eclure the demand has risen so thal now the production is rifmning into the hundreds of thousands of bottles. Whal is so eagerly sought for must be good. In Germany over 8,000,000 persons are insured against sickness at an aver- age premium of $375 a head. Hell Gate, the great reef in New York Harbor which was removed by a single biast in 1885, covered no less than nine acres, Like a bad habit a skin disease grows. Scrofu- a humors, eczenma and all eruptions may be with Weaver's Pig amined internally oy teaver Syrup. Druggists. In 1791 it took 8 tons of coal to make a ton of iron. To-day the work is done with one ton. Fo Roughly speaking, one man is. killed in British collieries for every million tons of coal raised. Is there anything more annoying than having your corn ed upon Is there anything more delightful than getting rid of it? Holloway's Corn Cure will do it. Try it and be convinced. Two fishermen named Smith, living near each other, had met with misfor- tune, the one having lost his wife and the other his boat. A Jady visilor cal!- ed on the one who had lost his boat, thinking it was the one who had lost wife. "Good morning, Mr. Smith. am sorry to hear of your sad loss." ton it ain't much mutter, mum. She warn't up to much." "Dear me, you don't say so." "Aye, she was a rickely cold crock. When I went out with her I was always in danger of my life, In- deed, I offered her to my mate only last week, but he wouldn't have her. J have had my eye on another for some time now." But the lady could stand no more of the old man's denunciation «f the weaker sex, and hurricdly took her departure. " - Prussia produces 400 tons of silver yearly, and has someof the most valu- able zinc mines in the world. _ Bat her ecal is poor, and so is her copper and inon ore. deat CARPET DYEING wee AMERICAN esas oa by post and we are sure to sa/isly Sex FOR SALE. 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"A good many people," said Mrs, Oldcastie, "have been inclined recently to crilicize our minister for the little finws that his sermons contain, but I think we ought to take them summum bonu replied her ngtess, "I think so, too. I don't like those sermons that are all flabby. Give me the good stiff ones that seem to have bones in 'em, even if they ain't just as polished as they might be." Yes," ------ A Brazilian spider spins a web ef .which the total length of the strands has been estimated at 2% miles. = DODDS. , MIDNEY | PILLS =,