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Show HAVE TITLES BUT NO MONEY Aristocracy of Italy, In General, Is Miserably Poor. Thero Is an old Venetian ' adage which says "Conte cho non conta non conta nlent" ("a count who doesn't count money docsnt count for anything"). any-thing"). And this cynical proposition It Is said represents fairly well tho sontlment of the modern Italian. In that country tho general feeling toward to-ward tho titled aristocracy Is of utter Indifference. Tho lesser sort of titles are regoJu1 as almost valueless, oven by their possessors. "I havo known," says a writer, "a case of a noble lord who followed tho Interesting occupation ot n street sc vangor. In a cafo in a ceitnin Italian town I was habitually served by a waiter with tho title of count and a ni.no famous in Venetian history. And I am personally acquainted ac-quainted with a lord of ancient llneago whoso tltlo descended from a fnthor engaged In tho vocation of railway porter. por-ter. In general, tho aristocracy of Italy is miserably poor." |