Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1897 — Court Etiquette. [ARTICLE]

Court Etiquette.

It is contrary to custom In the Austrian court for perishable articles to appear twice on the imperial table. The result is large perquisites for the attendants. To one man falls all the uncorked bottles, to another the wine left in the glasses, to another the joints, and to another still the game or the sweets. Every morning a sort of market is held In the basement of the palrfee, where the Viennese come to purchase the remains of the banquets. Long ago, In England, even the greatest men in the land were pleased to receive such perquisites. In the reign of Henry 11., for instance, the lord chancellor was entitled to the ends of one great candle and forty small ones per day. And the aquarius, who must be a baron in rank, received one penny for drying towels on every ordinary occasion of the king’s bathing.