Arizona republican., 1898-08-15

special act or pdrl1aEoDt ndQ ,lO Ue, passed at Westminster in order to en- able him to leave India to attend the golden jubilee Of his mothers access sion to the throne.
 Throughout her husbands term of office Mrs. Curzon-or Lady Curzon, as she will now become-will be com pelled in common with all the other .adies Of the viceregal court to accord so her husband the same honors that she would have to pay, not merely to prince of the blood, but to the sOver- eign. That is to say, if her husband happens to enter the drawing room, or bourdOir, where she may be stated with ether ladies, she as wen as they , all must rise and remain standing, un- til with wave of the hand or a word /, he requests them to resume their seats. 1 He will precede her on all occasions, and on leaving his presence, such as for instance at the close of dinner, or withdrawing from an apartment in which he may happen to be, it will be etiquette for her to make Q low and i sweeping courtesy to him before so doing.
 For an American girl all these differ ent phases of public homage paid to her husband will be distinctly novel, and it will be rather amusing to watch the manner in which Joe Letters high spirited sister will conform herself thereto.
 1 I mentioned above that she would now become Lady Curzon. This is ow- ing to the fact that her husband. who becomes by virtue of his office of vice Of 1a nr.dn of a Star of India, ard of the order of the Indian Empire, and ipse facto a grand cross of each of these orders, must nec- essarily be knighted by the queen be- fore leaving England. He is the first instance of commoner becoming vice. roy of India in more than half cen tury and there is no doubt that were it not for the fact that he is the eldest l son and heir of an aged peer, namely Lord Scarsdale, he would receive at the present moment a peerage in his own right in order to add to the dig nifty and prestige of his office.
 His wife will as vicereine of India receive before she leaves England the order of the Grown of India, beau tifully ieweled decoration, reserved ex- ,clusively for ladies of the royal family and for the wives of personages who have held the office Of secretary ot state for India, of governor general ot Madras and Bombay.
 There are likewise half a dozen In dian princesses, the consOrts of vassal rulers. who have the order, which ir itself confers no title. Thus the daughter of Sir James Ferguson, for. mer governor of Bombay who did the horors for her then widowed father during his term of office. remains Miss Ferguson. although she is a member ot this order, in fact it's only untitled member
 4 There is but one American woman who has possessed the order in ques tioHuntil now. namely. Lady Randolph Churchill. who received it at the time when her husband was secretary O. state for India.
 One distinct advantage Of the ap pointment of George Curzon to the of fee of viceroy is the fact that he i! the last man in the world likely to per nit himself to be ridden rough-shoC by the present secretary of state fol India, Lord George Hamilton, the mos incompetent of all cabinet minister: who has ever held that office.
 When the viceroy of India happens to be a weak man, as has been the cas, with Lord Elgin, the present viceroy his office becomes subordinated to tn, secretary of state for India, who there upon seeks to rule India from Londol with disastrous results. A strong man however such as young Curzon un doubtedly is, may be relied upon t' jealously resist all encroachments up