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Show TITLES BOTHER HOSTESS TO DIPLOMATS Proper Prefixes in Wuh-, Wuh-, ington Circlet Man and Varied v. ARHINGTOM. Au. II (By A. . ,F Many and serious ar th trlb vlatlon ef th boat ess to affinal V ', society In i a ah In; ton, aad not th f t . least of hai worrUi t th acs-. acs-. slty ofkeeplng at hr tanu's nd ' . th proper tit I and prof) for thoee ef her guests who ar members of th dlpltmatlo rpa In deference to th ru stoma of : demvratio country, many of the forein ambassadors sad ministers, ' tosrei herewith the member nf their ataffs and families, have adopted plain 'Mr..M "Mre." and "Mtaa' as tha only titles by which they are to ha addressed. Others have not, however, aad th official diplomatic diplomat-ic list of tha state department presents pre-sents sncodd mixture of prefiies aatherad from the enda of th earth. It soma ases there even C - appears to ba a paradoxical dlver-!" dlver-!" arence SmOUg thai:tUrCltOL.liJf CJf a sinale country. J. J. Juesersnd. th French ambassador, am-bassador, who as dea of the corps heada th diplomatic Hat. eschew the "Monsieur" of his nativity aad t vies himself "Mr. Juaaerand.' Hut the next nam ts not that of "afra jussersnd." Instead the list reaJa "Madam Jnasersnd, and there . follows a strlns; of "Madsmes and Jkladamolaelles." The eye of th see If r after cer- ' rectneas aext encounter S.ior - Ion Juan Rtano y Oayanaos," tha ambsssador of Spain, and his wlfs, "Senora Dona Alicia TVard da Rl ano. JSenor8." "Senora" and 8e- ,- orltas" rule csaerally amona; th Jatln-Amerlcans, althouah ths Ar- aentln list 1 headed by "Mr. Felipe Fe-lipe A. EgpH.'' ths cnarse d'affaires, whlls ths Uruguay sn minister aai his wifa style themselvss "r. Ja-robo Ja-robo Varela" and "Madam Vara-la." Vara-la." - With th Japaness It 4 "Mr." and "Madame." The Chines m In later Is "Mr. o-K Alfred 8x" and his . wifa Is "Madam Sz." but tha counselor coun-selor of the 1 ear a tlon la "Mr. Yung Kwil," while - his wife la "Mrs. Yung Kwal. Every man except two on th German Hat has ths prefix of "Dr.." and of th two exceptions ex-ceptions on 1 a "Baron snd th other, according to th official Hat. Is to ba addreeaad as "Herr." Tha feminine prefix, la "Frau." Among the Italian It I 81gnor and "titg-jiora" "titg-jiora" , In addition, of onr, 1her ar the Jlplomats and their wives who belong to ths nobility. aid who can ba called by none of these title The Belgian ambasiador is "Baron de Cartler da Marchlenne." tha British Brit-ish ambassador Is Th Right Hon-' Hon-' nrahle Hlr Auckland Oeddea.1 the Hungarian minister Is "Count Lsax-' Lsax-' . la Ssechenyl," and th Roumanian .minister la "Prlnc . A. Blbesco," .-' The Persian Hat. la which only a ' expert can aeparat nam fraro pre .fix. 1 as follows: "Mlria Huasaln Khaa Alal, mln-; mln-; -later: Bagher Khan M. Kaiml. counselor; Abdullah Khan E-ite-I,'; urn, secretary; Hadl Khan Khatt-1 Khatt-1 1 - blou. attache; and Sultan M ah mood ' Khan ArtifrK attache." |