Show AMERICANS WITH i TITLES AND NEAR TO TITLES it iiI i Ie 7 r d l 4 s V r ti r4rOY COO C C cSCNjtJ I y t l Ij i ii JJ i MRS ILl KUL KRhA < DostonSolllo titles are bad and tome titles are worse but there aro 10 good titles a sarcastic American tether Is said to havo exclaimed apropos of the marriage of a relative to a foreign nobleman Ho was not altogether right nor was ho altogether wrong Tho Old World is flooded with titles good bad tad Indifferent The bad and the in llfterent greatly outnumber tho good American girls have some of tho good possibly snore pf tho bad and perhaps per-haps still more of the Indifferent There Is a heraldry office In London that spends all Its time straightening ant the kinks In the peerage With lame 500 American women married to Foreigners duly handled as to their names some ot the freaks of aristoc racys rating are apropos In America It is selfevident though some children disprove It that a parent Is superior to tho child Vet an American woman is on record to disprove the fact The late widow of Isaac M Singer married a sol dlsant Duc do Camposcllco and later M Paul Sohege a plain Frenchman Rut her daughter Is Duchesso Decazes among the French aristocracy and DuclicHHo do Oluecksburg In the highlights high-lights of Denmark If It Isnt a case of daughter outdistancing tho mother moth-er it Is tho nearest approach to tho condition Some of these daughters have become be-come duchesses of England princesses prin-cesses of Russia duchesses of Franco prlnclpossae of Italy duqucsas of Spain or Portugal and still others have obtained titles of the Holy Roman Empire und papal titles by marriage There are sold to bo about BOO of them all told but how do they rank among each other Whore In tho scale of hlghBotmdlng handles to matrimonially acquired surnames doth rank Lady Tennessee Clnllln Cook who Is the widow of an English baronet I baro-net und who through him is Vis countess Alontserratin in the peerage of Portugal And why docs not she employ the higher Portuguese title instead In-stead of tho Inferior English ono Peculiarities of Peerages The truth Is that peerages are now vorthy of but half respect Only two of them aro really to he very seriously serious-ly I taken tho English and tho dignities confined to tho mediatized Teutonic families And tho latter of these Is 110t io open American ambitions as Miss Mary I Wister Wheeler of Philadelphia Phila-delphia discovered In 1S90 when she was married to Count Maximilian Pap penhelm of that Ilk and learned when Berlin heard of the event that she could never bo more than a morganatic mor-ganatic wife Recently It transpired that English titles are not always exactly what they seem It came out that one peerage peer-age was obtained by tho typically American practice of contributing ton to-n political campaign fund It took tl1150000 In that case to mako 11 baron of tho United Kingdom nnd at tho sumo time SIR000 was required to secure a knighthood that labors under the disadvantage of not being heritable Scandal aside however the British peerage Is the best of Its kind An American girl looking for foreign honors can better realize her ambition in marrying a more English baronet than by contracting half u dozen alliances with Russian princes papal princes and such There are half n dozen kinds of dukes spelled according to the genius u of their geographical situation There are dukes In England who are rem aristocrats When therefore an American girl Miss Zimmerman of Cincinnati captured the heart of Ills grace of Manchester she got a titular r matrimonial pri rp I h l < French Ducal System There are dues in France but than only value Is as contributors to the governments Income by tho sarcastically sarcas-tically graded scale that puts more tit a price on them time farther d < p S they go One exception may be made to this general rule for the royalists still hold levees and to them a title Is instinct with meaning and dignity Tho fourth Due d0DIno who unsuccessfully unsuc-cessfully indulged his nor n-or American wives on two occasions would bo entitled to enter this society and either she who was born Elizabeth I Eliza-beth Curtis of New York or the previously pre-viously divorced wife of Frederick W Livingston could have accompanied accompan-ied him during their reigns over a heart whoso unhappIness became rather well known at divorce court The royalist society constitutes the worth of a French title but only two per cent of all titles of La Belio Paris and elsewhere In France Della legitimate The others aro jokes p 1 His Turkish Title In all cjccspt the mediatized fami lies formerly royal German families there are women to represent trio greatest country without a nobility Even at Constantinople where you can buy tho order of Osmanlch and tho lower grades dirt cheap there is one of our women She has had the wings of her dignity clipped but she Is still Margaret Fchlm Pasha Her husband was till a few months ago chief of tho Ylldlz secret police likewise n distant relative of tho sultan The German ambassador obJected ob-jected to u little pleasantry of his and Fchlm Is now In real oxlle But his wife who was a circus rider married mar-ried a week after rencontre Is still the wife of a pasha That dignity isnt worth much and In the matter of value of titles Turkey for once agrees with the rest of Europe A Husslan prince Is u travesty on language actually and literally Prop erly ho Isnt a prince at all according to respectable English standards but tho Almanach do Gotha mlstranslited the word knlaz that way and the mistake of significance has persisted llko the Almanach Its correct Eng lush synonym Is lord The Incident that led to the present English trans latlon occurred at Paris where a presumptuous pre-sumptuous one of these squireens an peared at Louis XIVs court Ety mologlcally however pilnco Is tho proper rendering Russian Princes Plentiful Prince Michael Cantacuzene who married Miss Julia Dent Grant is one of these but ho has escaped the ad dltlonal title a thlnnedout prlnco Every member of tho family of a Hus stan knlaz Is a knlaz male or female Count up a generation or two in mathematical terms and it will not be surprising that there Is a bona lido Prince Krapotklne drlilng a Peters Dolgorukl who Is a burs cab a Prince Galatzin in a stevedore or a Princess fourthrate circus A Dolgorukl ancestor was once King of Russia and the Galntzln and Kran most among Its otklno families are Occasionally a honorable and ancient zakhndaly knlaz has fallen so low and thus that he Is but a peasant minus the title of noblo that Is given to the educated subjects of the czar This Russian disregard of primogeniture primogen-iture observance which does so much to keep tho English I peerage up to the standard obtains also In Germany i Certain Immunities and privileges be i sides tho satisfaction of defined precedence prece-dence make tho English lord a j marked and envied person Most German I Ger-man und Prussian nobles are devoid of 1 extra privilege and their children all bear the titles of their fathers I Tho house of Hatzfeldt one of the II j fairly numerous exceptions The heir I of Prince Alfred present head of one branch Is Prince Francis whose wife j I was the adopted daughter of the late Collls P Huntlngtou On the other hand tho late ambassador to Germany was only Count Hatzfeldt His case was particularly Interesting because he had a genuine love affair with an American woman Miss Helen Moul ton of Albany Ho married her In 18G3 and was forced to separate from her by Prince Bismarck who made It f a rule never to allow a German diplomat diplo-mat to marry a foreigner The separation sepa-ration lasted until Bismarck went out of power when the two promptly remarried re-married Many Times a Duchess There Is ono American woman who Is a duchess on four commonplace counts This is tho DuchesSc do Dlno who is the same ot TalleyrandPeri gord and of Valencay In France and Prussian duchess of Sagan Titles In Italy date back a long time and had their origin In the times whoa there were free cities each of which had Its own collection of nobility The title of prince there Is not awelnsplr ing and the others of lower grade fall d far short of honor The Italian equ v alent ot Burkes Peerage will look up your ancestry determine your heraldic bearings and Include a history of your ra origin In Its next edition for a nominal sumThe The Vatican grants titles The parvenus par-venus work so hard getting titles unto themselves that really respectable nobility no-bility havo got out of the habit of using their legitimate ones Prince Ferdinand Colonna married Miss Eva Bryant Mackay but In that family the title Is disregarded They consider It I really raVe aristocratic to call each other simply Don and Donna The Rosplgltosl and Ruspolln families which together number nearly a dozen American women among their wives are as aristocratic and as particular Long String of Honors Yet even persons with the plain name of John Smith will very likely tdmlf that Don Francesco Rosplgllosl Is quite a comedown from Prince Gin seppe Francesco Marla Filippo dl Rom plglioslGloenl duce dl Zagarlo prin ripe dl Castlgltone marcheso dl Glu lana canto dl Chi usa Barana dl Val 1 cortente Darone della Miraglla Signer n married Miss Virginia Uwery and ho I of Washington when ho wan In the latter city A curious feature of the Spanish no blllty Is the manner of Inheriting it Tho dlgnltlrs descend from father to tho daugh but It there Is no son son ter takes tho title and it Is conferred on her husband what tlmo sho marries mar-ries Prince Owns Gambling House of Monaco who runs The prince Monte Carlo was married to Alice Heine of New Orleans and the present pres-ent heir to tho gambling receipts IB her stepson Prince Rechcd Boy Czaykowskl Is a Turkish diplomat but not very Important as a Turk Miss Edith Collins of Now York was tho princess mnldcn name Boston Is not wonderfully well represented rep-resented among tho titled Americans abroad Foremost perhaps among Boston girls of this description Is tho countess of Edla wlo on June 10 1869 married the late king consort of Portugal Ferdinand She was Miss Elsie Hensler and received the morganatic mor-ganatic dignity of Countess Edla which she still bears Then there Is Lady Playfalr neo Miss Edith Russell who visits Boston annually and Mme Jusserand wife of tho French ambassador at Washington Washing-ton who was the daughter of Geared Richards of Boston who founded tho I banking firm of Monroe tit Co Paris I Lady Gilbert Carter wife of tho governor gov-ernor of Barbados was Miss Gertrude Parker of Boston The curiosities that have grown up around the matter of nobility would 1111 a volume In England whore the heraldry office is more than it Is elsewhere else-where the technicalities aro best observed ob-served There is the matter of the courtesy title for Instance There is Baron Wil i loughby dEresby who Is married to Miss Elrolso Brcese of Now York and who isnt a baron at all He Is simply sim-ply eldest son of the earl of Ancaster who has more than one extra title that Is inferior to his own of earl His father fa-ther has virtually loaned that of his barony to his eldest son until ho shall succeed So the eldest son of the duchess of Marlborough who known as the marquis of Blanford by the samo courtesy Young American Mother of Peer Sho who was Miss Gertrude Violet Twining of Halifax is tho youngest of American mothers of peers It was In 1S02 that sbe married the marquis of Donegall sho being 22 and he 80 Their son now marquis was born a year before his aged fathers death He Is a marquis of tho Irish peerage which is quite distinct from that of Great Britain or Scotland A peer of Great Britain sits in tho house of lords because he is a peer Duke earl marquis mar-quis viscount or baron it makes no difference But Ireland sends only n certain number and Scotland a few more The rest not silting In the lords can stand for the commons 1 But that is material for a book England it should be noted Is not overburdened with nondescript princes like some other countries A prince there Is a really and truly prince son of royalty A princess is Just as real ii i I i rJJ aJ X55 pUcOF r JICllfc5c5 OF R HfIRLBOR UGN W dl Aldone dl Burglo dl Contessa and dl Trapetto Roman noble patrician of Plstoja Venice and Genoa There are 200 dukes 000 marquises and thousands of counts In Spain according ac-cording to a recent account Legitimate Legiti-mate Spanish nobility or better aris tocracy Is called the grnndezza In English the grandees It was insti tuted by Emperor Charles V In 1520 so that Spain could bo just like other countries In one respect They began n dozen In number the legitimate members of the grandezza now are 200 and after that the popu lar deluge that includes the butcher the baker and perhaps tho candlestick maker The duke do Arcos who was once Spanish ambassador at Washing ton and has just retired from tho post at Rome Is a real Spanish nObleman aim just iho w as true even to t tho second generation Tho Princess Royal for Instance Rime who is duke married t to the duke of Fife has two daughters Uhlle tho princess Is her royal highness her daughters only their highnesses but are are never theless princesses When they grow up and marry theIr children will be not princes or princesses unless marry royally thoy The blood of Englands J carries with U royal family the title of prince only to the second generation That U worlds away in point of cabdrlrlng dignity from Russians or princely Ger mans whose dignity rests on the chance that they Lire heads of families |