Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-05

visited the Grand Duke Michael and Coun-
| tess Tarby just after being appointed sec
| rotary to st. Petersburg three years ago,
| and on arriving at Paris this fall he leased
| the magnificent nine-rOom apartment Tor
| merly occupied by Prince Hohenlohe. For
| this he pays $1,000 a year, exactly double
| his salary. He also Keeps IN faris Iouf au-
| tomobles.
| Mrs White, Pet Of Royalty.
Indeed, our secretaries of embassy at the
| European capitals are required to expend
| at least sos 900 a year above the little SUI
| pend of $1,000 which Uncle Sam allows
| them. 1t is said that the late Representa-
| tive Hit when secretary of legation at
| Paris, spent $50, 900 a year for entertain
| ment while Ambassador Henry White, just
| transferred from Rome to Paris, is known
| to have parted with quite as much during
| the many years that he was secretary at
| our London post Mrs. White. formerly
| Miss Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherford OF
| New York has been more peited by royalty
| than any other American woman In EUROPE
| She was a great favorite of Queen VIC
| toria, and by the present King and Queen
| of England is treated like member OF the
royal family ~
AS a result Of this royal petting Mrs
White has become quite ultra-eXclusive
| and this attitude is rumored to be the
cause of her husbands recent WithdraWa
from Rome, at the Suggestion Oh NC i,,
government After their arrival In home
the Whites were waited upon by court OF
fcals, who. in accordance with the pre-
scribed etiquette. asked them To arrange ior
reception when the members OF the
court the aristocracy and the diplomatic
corps might be introduced to them at the
American embassy. 1t is customary on
these occasions for the court oncials 10 rs
sue all Invitations, the diplomatic host ana
hostess having no say in the matter But II
is stated that the Whites insisted upon
having the list of their guests submitted
to them before issue. This was amazing
enough to the court officials, but when
| Mrs White erased the names OF several OF
| the ladies of the court and or the arlstoc-
| racy-considered exclusive enough LOT 1ne
| queen herself-on the ground mat sne uio
| not care to have them meet her daue nters'
the court officials nearly fell IN RANT.
One of the excluded ladies Is alleged TO
have been the Countess GraZZioli, unlVeE-
sal favorite in Rome, and her treatment. es-
pecially is said to have made Mr. Wnite
persona non grata to King Victor. VINO mao
been such intimate terms with former
| Amba ssador Meyer. Lloyd G. Griscon
transferred from Brazil to succeed MI
White at Rome will undoubtedly revive the
entente cordale He has proven 10 be the
right man in the right place since-shortly
after being graduated from Pennsylvan a
he served his apprenticeship as secretary TO
Amba ssador Bayard at London Since then
he has been a captain OF volunteers IN tile
Spanish war; traveller and writer. oar
secretary at Constantinope, minister to
| Persia and to Japan. The Shah of Persia
decorated him with the Order or the Lion
! and SUM-" while the Sultan OF turkey deco
| rated Mrs Griscom with The Grand Cor
| don of the Order of Chefekat.' MIR. irving
Dudley, promoted from Peru to succeed Mr.
| Griscom at Brazil. is an Ohiolan. VINO
| studied law in Washington and success
| fully practiced 1t and polltlcs IN San Dieso'
Cal.
More Petticoat Diplomacy
Of win
vited for you and of your having no say in
the matter yourself is fully expected by
every trained diplomat accredited to certain
European courts. An ambassador can no
more properly refuse to entertain king s
courtiers or their ladies than can our Presi-
dent decline to receive at his levees any OF
the members of the Washington diplomatic
corps on the ground that they are gosslped
about. When Charlemagne Tower arrived
in Berlin as our ambassador the court off,
Gals issued the 800 invitations for his IN
troductory reception, of which hospitality
he. of course, bore the expense. The grand
marshal of the court and the emperor
master of ceremonies received and intro
duced the guests After Bellamy Storer ar
rived at Vienna, where he was dispatched
four years ago by his then intimate friend,
President Roosevelt, the same procedure Cd
| tanned. All of the arrangements for the In
tial reception at our embassy were carried
out by the attaches of the chamberlain
| to persons eligible to presentation at court.
The ambassador did not even have the priv
| iege of inviting any members or the Amerl-
| can colony In Vienna. Indeed the Vienna
court etiquette is the most 1nfexfble or all
codes extant in Europe. ana Mr.. Storer had
| just prior to this reception received snuo
| for reminding the court chamberlain tnat
! the latter had not arranged for his presen-
| tation to the emperor at the palace at the
same time when retiring ambassador
was received to say his farewell. This had
been the usual procedure, and Mrs. Storer
! is said to have urged her husband to dis
patch a note reminding the chamberlain
| that he had overlooked it. The court cham
! berlain declined to alter his plans, and
| the complaint was next carried by the
Storers over his head whereupon our am
| bassador was promptly squelched. Before
| this, while her husband was minister to
| Spain. Mrs. Storer-not long convert from
! buddhism to Cathoiclsm-had been re-
| buked for meddling in Spanish politics, and
| had been caricatured in the Spanish news
| papers visiting parliament with her
| pockets bullying with little monks But 1t
| was not until later that she became known
| throughout Europe as the American am
| bassadress to the Vatican.
Etiquette When Dining Kings.
| Our ambassadors are often the hosts of
! monarchs, as well as their guests. and on
| such occasions, especially. they and their
wives have to mind their p's and as. When
! ever Ambassador Reid, at London, dimes
| King Edward he must previously submit
| for that sovereigns approval the names of
! all other contemplated guests. The king
may then revise the list and not only strike
! off certain names but suggest other guests
| no matter whether Mr. Reid may know
them or not. Every one else must be as
| sembled in the dining room before the king
| and queen enter and their majesties must
be seated in the center of one side of the
| board. Finger glasses must be omitted for
/ the nonsensical reason that they have been
| forbidden the British royal tables since the
| time when the Jacobites, drinking the royal
| health, USED to hold their glasses over their
! finger bowls. indicating thereby that they
| drank to the Stuart king ''over the water
| Moreover, no servant Is ever permitted to
| hand the king his dishes this duty devolv-
ing upon his hostess, sitting next him, of