Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — Two Chums on a Throne. [ARTICLE]

Two Chums on a Throne.

Not until Nicholas 11. went to Paris In the a dress coat in his wardrobe. His majesty’s ceremonious toilets consisted of elaborate uniforms, with nary a clawhammer coat in the lot. But etiquette demanded an evening coat. President Faure could not wear anything else, and the Czar was forced to admit he was baffled by a matter of dress, and as gracefully as possible the situation was accepted. He sent for the court tailor and commanded a dress coat In the latest Parisian fasion. This personage could cut emperor’s uniforms, but the evening coat was beyond his genius. What to do? Why, being a tailor of expedients, he sent to Paris to find out the latest fashions in dress suits. A few days afterward his messenger returned to St. Petersburg, and two weeks later the suit was ready. It cost 700 rubles, but that was of no consequence, for it fitted the emperor like a glove, and the empress said Nicky had never looked so well in his life as in it. Women who take an Interest in their husband's wardrobes always do say that of the dress suit. But Nicholas 11. and his Alexandra-Feodorovna are like two chums, and In St. Petersburg it is said that never was there on the throne of Russia a couple so well mated and so completely happy.—Boston Herald.