Show I I MB MR MRS AND MISS It 1 is ill really reany a curious urious system that we re have here and in every other place of putting a pro prefix fix in order to be polite or as an act of courtesy to the tho narn of tho the person whom we greatly esteem or who is conne connect connected t d with us by the tho bonds of friendship This custom plain ly 13 demonstrates the curious existing social so so- vial cial r relations lations for or is there any reason why people should not be called caned by their names alone aloud And if it is ill considered a proof of ot respect whence comes conies that respect ct Why should we use the prefix I Don Dont t Senora Se ra 1 or Senorita then as 38 a matter of necessity The Thc most humble Roman even if he ho were a slave whether he ho was address in ing a good friend of his or whether he bowed with respect before the great reat Caesar would not have thought it De nei necessary essary to use any prefix wha whatever in n norder order to perform his duty duy and at at- that 1 time it would not ha have vc been considered an act of discourtesy toward his supe supe- rio nor During the tho time of the Roman em om- emperors emperors it was considered an act of ot personal per respect to us use th the word dominus dominus domi dorm nus head of tho the h house use AccordinI According to mp J-mp Claudius desirous desirous desir desir- ous of becoming popular offered banquets banquets ban han to the masses that masses that is to say the lower classes classes and and in order to inspire confidence amon among tho the invited g guests s and to show them that he ho considered them his equals he would shake hands bands with every l person nerson who arrived and tall call him I dominus or mister mist cliO but the custom was not established as ns a general rule because dominus had another meaning mean mean- ing although the poets would use it in its feminine gender ender domino as an endearing name amon among lovers ers The Tho modern use of ot II dominus did not appear until the western empire came to an end What until then had bad b been en a casual tribute of ot respect became necessary in order oner to address persons persona of ot high rank and nd n a l lady dy wife of a n kni knight ht or wife of the tho owner of a castle became It mea mca mea domina omina then mca mra afterward madonna an and lastly It madame The yOung un r unmarried nod ried women women of ot the middle ages received the name of ot II which af nt afterward afterward af- af became demoiselle and this finally became mademoiselle I A kni knight ht was I domino and afterward afterward afterward after after- ward front from which the Spanish Spanish Spanish Span Span- ish II don on is taken BU But 1 later on the masculine masculino and feminine gender melted into one one dame which meant gentleman gentle gentle- ma man map as well as lady ad That i is why hp hy the peasant French exclamation dame damp means senor genor and not senora as ns some p people ope suppose Toward the tho twelfth century the word dame as fl a masculine title began bean to tobe tobe tobe be substituted bv by another the Latin senior which which has has survived sur d in the same form used a all as senor or in Spanish Spanish Spanish Span Span- ish senhor in Portuguese I signer in Italian and seigneur in French The same word mutilated stands for forthe forthe or the thc French h H II or monsieur In Tn En English it has its equivalent In n sir sir which at one time was WIlS an title a and d which meant II reverend re cr nd and andI I r. r bachelors was alto a t nn university litI 1 The rho maitre of oC the Fr French is appellative thc which a is applied td t able persons who deserve er in bt of lot as as for in ish it Is said ald Senor Pepet an an j ir who is respected b but t to tIle thc hewer Jewer classes j ji J Jn n regard to respect in Ji athe thet t is not a country ahead or of the According to their oriental C gentleman b believes i tl th Ordinary pronouns pronoun you rou and ana n nbc bO t are arc too familiar applied to p persons wit whom one is net in close iii touch au h employs a n ser series e of complicate Besides in order to m for of ot hj high rank Ui tb dead the Chinese never real names but others 5 so th t th d use itse will not profane their sa sacred name Owing t to this reason while whilo w wpM iPe 7 with th great familiarity about bout c nf 1 Khong se u-sc u a Chinaman will wil M give the tho name of 3 Sian Sing of- of other name in order to l respect he lie professes and not to de depra the name that his parents gave MIDI him I Mexican Herald sJ |