A Senseless Custom Abolished
Tuk ancient Prussian custom of holding a " Black Drawing-room " after the monarch's death has been honoured in the breach on this occasion. Formerly in Prussia, so soon as the King was dead all the Ministers of the Crown, foreign Ministers, and the court generally, repaired in full dress to the palace. The first rooms they entered were brilliantly lighted, but gradually, as they went through the different apartments leading to the throne-room, the lighting became dimmer and dimmer, till, tins last being reached, it was found in semi-dark-ness. Around the throne were grouped a series of waxwork figures, deeply - veiled with black, representing the chief mourners of the new court, and before these all the high dignitaries solemnly passed, bowing themselves out backwards. The wisdom of dropping such grotesque mummery is scarcely open to question. — " London Life." "
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 280, 11 July 1888, Page 6
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141A Senseless Custom Abolished Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 280, 11 July 1888, Page 6
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