Show titles in england forty or fifty years ago few people in E ingland england had bad titles there were wera only a few decorations which entitled their owners to put tho the prefix sir before their names wo we all of us looked down with lofty contempt upon the counts and barons that were nere so plentiful in continental countries now we can do so no longer for probably there la Is no other country in tho the world where tho the traffic trade in titles Is so BO open and so indecent as in england I 1 what the number of our denotations Is I 1 do not know and I 1 imagine that few do kery few years some soma new one Is ere abed and an englishman with a taste that way can easily manage to ex hibit himself covered with metal disks and bits of ribbon like some success tul ful cow at an agricultural show these embellishments may flatter the van ity of their wearers bearers wear ers but they do not increase the respect that Is felt tor for englishmen london truth |