The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-18
TITLED AMERICAN CHILDREN.
Little Lords and Ladies of Distin-
guished Foreign Lineage.
From the Ne,7 York World.

W neu Jne pictures Oh LlIUle LOTu fdun-
leroy" first inundated the land a little boy
saw one of them smiling back at him
from big bare wall. and thinking it was
little friend of his he smiled back at
and told his mamma he had seen "Dino
| Lanza's picture on a fence" Poor Dinol
doubt not he hasshed many sad if secret
tear from the fact that he could once upon
a tune never take his walks abroad without
somebody either admiring or haunting him
as Little Lord Fauntleroy."
To make matters worse or better, as you
will, Dino LAMA. too. is a little nobleman,
and like his pictorial prototype, his dear
est" is a pretty American woman. The
three beautiful sons of this beautiful mother
are the children of the Marquis and Mar
quise LAMA de Mercato Bianco. Nine.
Lama is the only daughter of DR.. William
| A. Hammond, ex-surgeon general. Each
little lad has q name quite as long as him
self The eldest is Corrado Guglielmo
| Federico, the next is Manfredi Antonio
| Ferdinando, while the baby is Antonino
| Ernesto.
| These imposing names resolve themselves
| into the endearing diminutives of Dino,
Fifo and Mini Dino, the eldest, is just II;
he is the purest blonde, with china-blue eyes
and Aaxen hair. Until quite lately he had
long and shining lot of golden locks,
which hung nearly to his waist in loose
curls; but Dino thinks he's nearly q man
now, and what does man want, to be sure,
with mass of yellow curls2
Fifo would be called blonde in Italy but
| in an Anglo-Saxon country and in our
especially elegant phraseology we would
say he was Just between His hair is
| light brown, with peculiar glisten on it,
| and his big eyes are a perfect gray, with
very long and very black lashes. Mini is q
dear, dimpled little fellow, with black eyes
and bright yellow hair, and a complexion
that dsbutante would give all her best
| frock5, present and prospective, to have.
| Fifo, the second boy, is u poet. He is
| never happy unless he is making rhymes,
and he lives in dreamland. There is nothing
| practical about him. lie has the real Italian
| temperament, excitable and passionate but
he has also some beautiful qualities per-
feet unselishness and a generous, affection
ate nature. He recites beautifully, and,
| like many other poets, but with good deal
| more of reason, he prefers his own poems
II he reads for you those of some other
poet you may count on its being some har-
| rowing, heart-rending selection like 1.-THE
| Bridge of Sighs," "1he Raven" or "The
Falling Leaf" He is a most imaginative
child ana loves rhymes, rhythm and
romances much better than he does the
other famous three Rs. Dino, the eldest, is
a more American-go-ah and win sort of
n boy. He loves his books and plays re-
markedly we'll on the piano, He is colder
and more self-c lntained than his brother
and never "gets leftn under any circum-
stances whatever. He has none of Fifo's
| imagination, but he will get along better in
| life
All three of the LAMA boys already bear
| a title. The privilege of having the title of
| Marquis descend to all the sons of family
is granted to but twelve mobiles in Italy
| The LAMA family is one of these, but so
| long as the father of these pretty boys lives
they will have to bear the title of "Marche-
sino," Ut Little Marquis" to distinguish
| them from their sire.
The little LAMA lads will inherit great
| wealth from ther grandfather, DR.. Ham
mond, who is devoted to them and whose
| fortune is estimated in excess of a quarter
| of million. They have the most beautiful
and courtly manners imaginable. In tn air
velvet suits, with their deep collars Of lace,
their beautiful aristocratic faces and their
slim little figures bent before you in a state
ly, old-fashloned courtesy, they make a
memory not easily effaced. And how cor
rectly they talk! Their perfect English
would shame many Vassar girl or HAIRY
ard graduate. No missing g's, no ellipses,
no ''don'ts," 'cants" and "aiut's" The
two elder boys speak also Italian, French
and German. And withal they are thor
ough boys, full of life. fun and play and
LADY MANDEvILLE's CHILDREN.
Another trio of titled tiny folks are the
children of Viscount Vaudeville. Lady
Vaudeville, as everybody knows, is another
belle Anlerjcdine. Her mother was a
Louisiana beauty, her father a Cuban of
fabulous wealth, and Lady Mandevilie's
education was begun and completed in
American schools and converts She mar
ried Viscount Mandeville during centennial
year, and they have now three beautiful
children--a boy and little twin daughters
These three little folks, too, have already
titles of their own.
The son and heir is Lord Kimboiton, He
will eventually be the Duke of Manchester,
one of the Oldest, proudest and richest
titles In all England. He is splendd,
sturdy lad, about II years old, and the
pride and delight Of the whole family heart
Any mother might delight in such a son,
even If he wasn't destined TO be q duke.
kimbolton was always manly,
stately little fellow, and many stories are
told of his queer, solemn little ways. One
day he was riding in a New York street car
with his grandfather, MIR. Yznaga, when
the conductor, noticing his long, wide
trousers and his funny little silk hat, and
his entire air of being English, you know, -
chaffed the little man and called him "a
biarsted Englishman."
The embryo Duke Of Manchester looked
at him solemnly and said: Pm Lord Kim
bolton. Pm little now, but when get to
be man I'll come back here and fight you
for laughing as me-" Some one once told
him that it was snobbish to say he was
Lord" Kimbolton, and that in America
there were no palaces nor castles Never
after that could he be induced to give his
title, even when pressed to do So. lie
always called himself kim" and when auy
one asked him how he spelled Kinbolton,
he invariably replied: kim Kim KIM
bolton" He's at Elton now, and he looks
very imposing in his Eton costlme, with it
jackets and "bell-topper" He is an adj
mrable rider and excels in all the outdoor
sports, which are numberless in an Eton
school he worships his lovely American
motaer, who, il return, is devoted to her
little children.
The two girls who are twins are Lady
Mary Alva and Lady Alice Eleanor. They
are exquisite little creatures, as delicatey
fashioned as dolls, with fair compilations,