Show COLONIAL DAMES OF or A society with a strange object organized in the east the london illustrated news tella tells 0 of I 1 a peculiar society the existence ot of which has been little spoken of if it noticed at alaby our own papers it says american iko life shows undercut rents of reaction tho the main bulk of the national existence Is ia is a mass of fairly prosperous cople people placed on a dead level of legal lega equality with institutions more or lets democratic now wo we hear that foma tome ladies of the states lave have entered upon the delicate deli cuto cf of formin forming a club to be known as the colonial colonial dames of america its objects are to promote patri patriot ibin and to conserve conservo aristocracy and the only eligible candidates will be th those ose who can show more than a ce century in ry of ancestors each member will b be 0 r required 0 to prove her descent froni persons of english race fettled settled in america before the declaration of independence who then filled recognized social positions this outcome of what everybody knew was a characteristic trait of our kin beyond the seas is rather unexpected we ware were aware of their fondness tor for tracing their blood to old english families it was an interesting tern te ting touch of nature tending to bridge the atlantic and to bring together the several sections of I 1 the he race the greatest number of applications to the english heralds college for pedigreed grees arac mottoes and crests create are it is said from american citizens it must be gratifying to the ladies ladles belonging to a successful speculator in silver oil or pork to find that in the far past their ancestors wore armor as knights to or bore without u t abuse the grand old name of gentleman the old cag cat tie ties a of england have also a fascination for americans despite the remark of the yankee who referred to them as certainly handsome but rather out of repair will not how ever these retrospective women of the states experience a trouble in sifting the claims of the fair candidates 7 in the time of louis quatorze it was easy for the officials at versailles to ascertain the sixteen quarte rings necessary for all prevented ted at court yet when the bourbons return returned fd the attempt of lonis to purge his p peerage utterly broke down lie ile lop issued an order that there should be an investigation into all the titles of nobility then tided tined throughout the land but his political advisers told him that the carrying out of the tak would alienate some of the wealthiest and most ardent bankers merchants and manufacturers grandfathers or fathers bad had unlawfully taken titles or who had assumed them themselves consequently the attempt to draw up a list of the real nobility was given up and to this day dav there is no authority to decide in france whether a title was conferred by a king or assumed a gen eratico or two ago by some aspiring parvenu will the colonial dames succeed n here a sovereign of france utterly failed |