Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . ning about six, receives their re-X^orts, and gives his orders for the admin-istration of affairs. In the afternoon, andsometimes in the evening, he engages in 232 HARPER^S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. social converse with one or more of hisfavorite courtiers, or listens to the reading-of foreign periodicals. On such occasionsthere is sometimes a freedom of expres-sion allowed his courtiers which in formerreions would have cost them their Nusr-ed-Deen Shall is a man of nobleand generous impulses. The tendency to modify the
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . ning about six, receives their re-X^orts, and gives his orders for the admin-istration of affairs. In the afternoon, andsometimes in the evening, he engages in 232 HARPER^S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. social converse with one or more of hisfavorite courtiers, or listens to the reading-of foreign periodicals. On such occasionsthere is sometimes a freedom of expres-sion allowed his courtiers which in formerreions would have cost them their Nusr-ed-Deen Shall is a man of nobleand generous impulses. The tendency to modify the strictnessof the court etiquetteat Teheran is shownby the manner of receiving foreign minis-ters. His Majesty receives them standingat the upper end of the audience chamber,which is the magnificent hall containingpart of the crown jewels, when an audienceis granted to the entire diplomatic corpson state occasions. When an audience isgiven to a single person for a special object,the king receives him in one of the small-er but scarcely less splendid apartments of. WINTER IN-DOOR COSTUME. the palace. Nothing further is requiredof the minister except to leave his galoches,or outer shoes, at the gate of the is attended by the Zaliiri Douleh, ormaster of ceremonies, and when the mass-ive embroidered portiere is raised and dis-closes the Shah-in-Shali opposite him, re-splendent in rubies and diamonds,he bow^s,and repeats this mark of respect when hehas reached his Majesty, w^ho stands asnear to him as two gentlemen in ordinaryconversation. The minister remains cov-ered, as indicating the equality of the twopowers, and waits for the Shah to beginthe conversation, which becomes free andeasy if his Majesty is in pleasant humor,oris favorably inclined to the minister andhis country. The Shah speaks French,andsometimes condescends for a moment todispense with the court interpreter andconverse directly with the minister,, al-though such condescension may be ac-cepted as a mark o
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