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Show FRANZ JOSEFS "HUMILITY. Traditional Ceremony Observed 'by Emperor of Austria. . ! Vienna, March 27. Emperor Francis Joseph this morning performed at the Hofburg the traditional ceremony of washing the feet of twelve aged men The nobility and the diplomatic corns including the United States minister s' McCormick, Chandler Hale, the secretary secre-tary of the United States legation. Captain Cap-tain Floyd Harris, military attache and Mrs. Harris, witnessed the ceremony, cere-mony, after which his majesty hung bags of money on the necks of the : participants, whose aggregate age was L010 years. The old men wore ancient Dutch costumes. The ages of twelve women recipients of the imperial gifts aggregated 1 182 years. ' i s |