Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1912 — MAIDS OF HONOR WILL GO? [ARTICLE]

MAIDS OF HONOR WILL GO?

Queen Mary of Great Britain May Abolish the Post, Is London Rumor. London. —According to rumor the historic post of maid of honor Is to be abolished. Queen Mary has three maids of honor, but the duties they perform can be equally well done by ordinary ladies in waiting, and as the disposition of the present court is to dispense with much that is purely ornamental these maids may be the last of their kind, at any rate as far as Queen Mary is concerned. From the maid of honor’s standpoint, of course, the emolument of $2,000 a year is immaterial compared with the social advantage to be reaped from constant contiguity to the throne. The salary Indeed 1b easily * swallowed up in clothes; in fact, in Queen Victoria’s time the “young ladies spent fully a quarter of their pay on gloves, as they were never permitted to enter “the presence’ with bare hands."