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Show ROYALTY AT THE RECEPTION Wearisome Duties Imposed on Those In Hlflh Poiltlon. How royalty and their suites ovor manage to survivo thoao weary hours of standing Is always a mystery to mo, Bays "Tho Counte38," In tho London Outlook. "You get used to It In time," say tho maids of honor, but apparently ap-parently not till they havo been carried car-ried out two or throe times In a faint do tho gontlemcn-at-arms tightly buttoned but-toned up In uniforms and smothered In helmets get used to tho ordoal. It Is within the memory of many how in Dublin a cortaln distinguished viceroy In tho mlddlo of a drawing toom gave tho ordor to close tho doors, nnd having cloarod tho room tho entlro viceregal party eat down on tho floor In various stages of collapse, and I often wonder how It Is that our own king and quoon are not similarly ovorcome on these occasions. Royalty Royal-ty Is tho best paid profession, but ns-surodly, ns-surodly, It must bo also tho most wearing. |