The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-21

! MunD, mas no title, two OF the attaches are
Barons Won Eekardstein and Speck Won
/ Sternoerg The secretary of the Persian
legation, like the minister. is Kha>-
| MIRA Mahmoud Khan in full-and a
very handsome man he is too. a remark
| which not even the most partial observer
/ could make about the minister. The British
Legation hasn't title in it, exc apt Sir Julian.
Almost Tor the hrst time in our history
ashlngton society is left without a single
| resident lord to rave over. IL contents
Itself with what it has, however and when
ever lord Grant strsys this way he comes
| with all the double eclat of a new man
with the loveliest of all titles In the Bel
gian legation Count d'Arschot is secretary.
aud Count Lewenhaupt is attache of the
scandinavian legation.
This is not a bad showing of resident
titles, but the craving appetite for them is
not satisfied. and the writer heard a certain
hotel proprietor recommend his rooms as
the suite Lord Joseph Chamberlin had oc-
| cupled when he came over here to be mar
rled. Mr.. Chamberlin was posing as a
great republican and radical at that time.
To raise him to the peerage off-hand with
out his consent was unkind. 1t was like
former Presidents wife, who persisted in
addressing simple lawyer as judge.
Madam said he. "why do you call me
! Judgea l have never been on the bench"
But you ought to be judge, and 1 have
no doubt you will be soon.r
And sure en- ugh the gentleman was ap-
pointed to the bench few days afterward.
Mrs. President was simply ''previous y and
who knows but what the hotel keeper was a
| prophet alsos
"Jedge," "Kur'nel," "Gen'ral." ''Guv'-
nor"-how naturally and easily we use these
tltlesl But to call man baron or count or
cheyaller requires an awkward movement
| or the average Americans lips. He is apt
not to call him at all. for he is always afraid
he may call him wrong. Whether he should
speak to Lord Brobdingnag as my lord, or
say the whole thing; whether he should
speak to the Marquis de Lilliput as Mon
sieur lie marquis or Marquis Lilliput, are
| questions that he may decide when he is
| alone with himself, but he is apt TO be un-
| decided when he meets the individuals in
| question.
But how should you address royalty?
| Surprising all OF sudden YOU were to walk
into one Of the rooms of the Winter palace
in ST. Petersburg and find yourself face to
| face with Alexander, autocrat and Gar of
all the Russias, what would you, simple
| American, who never saw a king except
perhaps, the dusky Kalakaua, King of
| Hawaii. when he was here years ago. call
| hlms Would you flop down on your knees
before him, as John Randolph did be-
fore the Empress Catherine when
he was minister there's or would
| you grasp HlIn COTQldllY Dy GD0
hand and sing out, as the same eccentric
parsonage did on a subsequent occasion,
| "Aow are you, emperors How's the
madame You should simply bow and call
him "Your majesty" Suppose you were
President and wanted to write to him; in
that case you should begin your letter:
Great and good fried, and sign yourself,
between heads of governments has been set
tied for many years. and has been
adopted as the regular form by
| every nation of the globe. Even in
writing to the president of Liberia the
President calls him his great and good friend,
and the President of Liberia replies in kind.
And there is always this fact to be borne in
mind, too, that while we treat our President
pretty Familiarity and he submits to it pretty
tameiy, nevertheless he won't allow any old
foreign prince to do it. He demands that
| the Emperor of Germany should address
him as formally and as tremendously as the
Emperor of Germany addresses the regent
of his Most Catholic Majesty the King of
| Spain.
The President of the United States was
given that title at the beginning of the
government, ana it was decided definitely
then that he was not to be his Majesty or
his Higness or his High Mightiness. You
may call him what you please, but the cor
rect way is Mr.. President. But no two
people seem to agree as to the proper mode
of addressing him in writing. The
United States, Dear Sir" is. per-
haps, the commonist form. 1t
places him on the par with any State
legislator, and is not used by people who
have lived in official life "His Excellency
Benjamin Harrison. President, &C., Dear
Sir is another favorite way, and this form
is often used by officials, but is objection
able on the score of bad taste, as governors
of states are generally excellencies. The
| simplest way is "Benjam Harrison, Presi-
dent of the Uuited States, Mr. President"
and this is the most dignified and correct
| form of ALL
Senator is easy enough to say, and people
| generally call the members of our upper
| house in that style, but senator VINO has
been governor or a general often finds his
old handle sticks to him. Nearly every
| member of congress has a handle to his
| name. One who served in the war is colo
mel or general; the one who has been a
prominent lawyer is judge, whether he has
ever been judge or not. If by chance a
politician was ever called captain, he rises
to colonel as soon as he becomes prominent,
and should his reputation become
national he is breveted general Will
lam w. Dudley, the dreadfully wicked,
| who says he doesn't dine with the
President every day, used always to be
| known as Col. dudley, Dut MS galiant and
mertorious conduct in recruiting the ranks
of the Republican party in the last presi-
Dental campaign brought him brevet
rank, and he is now Gen. Dudley. Regular
army titles are nearly always misleading.
The free bestowal of brevets in the war has
caused large proportion of the officers TO
be called by names that don't signify any
thing of their real rank. A man is general
before his actual rank is that of a full col
onel; he is colonel before he is major; he
is major when he is really only captain.
In the navy. on the other hand, the titles
stand for the real rank. for there Is no
brevetting for the seamen.
There is peculiar nomenclature in the
departments, Mr.. Secretary is the correct
way of calling the secretaries of the state,
war, navy, agricultural. treasury and int
rior departments, and, if you follow forms,
you should call the other two members of
the cabinet Mr.. Attorney General and Mr..
Postmaster General, but these words being
awkward, we have General" Miller and
General" Wanamaker. This is all very
easy, but what are you going to do with
such titles as Mr.. Second Assistant POST
master General. or Mr.. Assistant Attor-
ney General for the interior depart
ments The society column of
the local newspapers use these
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