'Tills Aristocracy. —The Ladies’ Pictorial Journal published an article in which it is alleged that the scenes at the entrance to jtef Majesty’s drawing-room on reception flay are disgraceful. None, of course, but ladies of high rank are received by the Queen, and yet these “ not merely push, and elbow, and prod,” but they “ even strike e ich other ” sometimes in the struggle to get first. “Diamonds, feathers, back hair, and flowers strew the ground after these melees. Veils are rent, dresses Winched from their gathering, aristocratic features are destorted by the heat and exertion, and it may be added that the remarks passed are not always in the politest terms, or couched in the most dulcet tones. When their turn arrived they appeared before Her Majesty as dishevelled, wntioy, haggard, and out of countenance as if they had been a batch of fact Dry girls. Truly the difference between Henrietta aad ’Avetis aob so great.”
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2533, 25 July 1893, Page 3
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156Untitled Temuka Leader, Issue 2533, 25 July 1893, Page 3
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