The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-26
TITLES OF LONG AGO
Some of the Ancient Styles OF
Royal Salutation.
FANTASTIC AND RIDICULOUS.


tons Applied to the King Became
So Servils That Philip III. Sup
pressed Thsm-caesar and the Title
"Demisod.-
Shenstone in his quaint essay on
adventure" printed with long SIS in
the year 1902, says. 1T is very
convenient piece of knowledge for
a person upon journey 10 know
the complications with which IL il
proper 10 address thos. he happens TO
meet by the Way" The author found
himself well or Ill used in proportion
as he happened or not to suit his salu-
tations to peoples ideas OF their own
rank.
1T may not be imprudent," he SAYS.
Ito accost a passenger with n title su-
perior 10 what he msy appear TO claim.
This Will seld ON fail TO diffuse a won
derful alacTity in his countenance and
be perhaps a method OF securing you
from any mistake OF greater impor-
lance l was led into these observa-
tons" he remarks, by some solicit
tudes l lately underwent on account
of my ignorance in these peculiarities.
btllS soiilS nat L4Ose NtIScu III TWINS
than I can pretend 70 he in the orders
of men, it was my fortune TO under
take journey which 1 was to perform
by means of inquiries" After enumer-
ating the mishaps that befell him on
account of mispiacing the titles
friend" honest friend" honest
man." dame" madam" ''sir," sweet
heart" etc, he says naively that he
was within a foot Of rushing down
precipice by calling another for
sooth."
When you reflect upon this subject"
he continues. addressing the public OF
his day as a sympathetic friend, learn
to be wise from others harm and do
not forget to observe decorum on ey-
cry occasion. In the meantime you
may if you please consider the vast
Importance Of superior titles when
there is no one SO inconsiderable but
there is also a mind 1t can influence
The Princess Elizabeth In an un-
dated letter from "Hatfilde" sends by
request her picture to Queen Mary and
concludes the carefully worded epistle
with: And thus l will Ctrobling your
majestic l ferel end with my most
humble thRnkes, beseching God long
to preserve you to his honor, to your
consort, to the realme's profit and to my
joy. Your Maiestie's most humble sis
| ter and seruante."
ST Folk tells us, says the elder Dis
raeli, that kings were usually address
ed by the titles of most illustrious,
your serenity or your grace. The APP
pellation of your majesty was estab-
lished by that Tiberius of France.
Louis XVI, whose manners were OF
the most sordid nature. So distinct
were once the titles OF highness and
excellence that when Don Juan. broth
err of Philip H., was permitted to take
up the latter and the city Of Granada
saIuted him as your highness 1t coca.
stoned such serious jealousies at court
that had he persisted In II he would
have been condemned for treason.
Until the reign OF Constantine tho
prefix illustrious belonged only to
those who had made a splendid reputa-
ton in arms or In letters.
In Spain the affectation Of titles
grew to such a degree that Philip III.
published an act which forbade servilo
and ridiculous attributes. reducing
them to the simple 1.-The king our lord"
/ Ferdinand and Isabella were high
nesses only. Francis l., who styled
himself the first gentleman in his king
dom, saluted Henry VIII. as your maj
esty.
Ancient Portuguese writer's give fan
tastic accounts Of the kingdom OF Mo-
nomotapa, "a native African kingdom
famous for its gold mines, lying in
the lower Zambezi basin and chiefly
in the present Mashonaland. The king
OF this region is surrounded by mu-
sicians and poets, who thrive in his
! atmosphere and who adulate him by
such refined batteries as the lord of
the sun and moon, great magician and
great thief.
THE king of Persia is called branch
! of honor, mirror of virtue, rose OF de-
| light His majesty Of Ava Is called
! God and In his correspondence with
royalty styles himself king of kings
and insists upon being obeyed, as he
+ attends to the preservation of animals
an ambiguous conclusion, to which
! foreign royalty might reasonably OBJ
ject. He is also regulator of the sea-
sons, the absolute master of the ebb
| and flow Of the sea. brother to the
sun and king Of the four and twenty
umbrellas. To mark his dignity the
four and twenty useful and often pie
beian articles are always carried be-
fore the august monarch.
'The most striking titles Of the king
Of Achem are sovereign Of the uni
verse. whose body is as luminous as
the sun, whom God created to be as
! accomplished as the moon at her plen-
ftude. whose eye glitters like the north
ern star; king as spiritual as a ball
/ is round, who when he rises shades all
| his people,"
In the age Of Augustulus "your eter-
nity' and your perpetuity" were not
| unusual titles. A law Of Theodore the
! Great begins. 'If any magistrate. after
/ having concluded a public work. put
his name rather than that Of our per-
! petuity.' let him be adjudged guilty OF
! high treason" When Caesar bad con-
/ quered Rome and was put to dine with
/ the gods he had the good taste to in
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