Women were in the procession, bearing
upon their heads in wide, shallow baskets
their womanly gifts of cakes for the
priests. Lastly went another wagon,
which was prettily canopied aid. docked;
It contained stores of food, rice being the
stapla-Ceylon Cor. Inter Ocean.
A Period of Self-Hlumiliation.
This business of presentation at court is
an excessively silly and sorry affair, an or
deal which no true American would accept
for the sake of the empty hcnor gainel,
Uniform, cr the court costume, including
knee breeches and sword, Is indispensable
From an ansthetic or picturesque point of
view the knee breeches have their advan
tages, but it is the combination that kills.
