The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-01-29
TITLES Of LONG AGO
Some of the Ancient Styles of
Royal SaIutation.
FANTASTIC AND RIDICULOUS.


ain at Ono limo tho AppeIla-
Applied to tho King Became
serviIe That Philip ~. Sup
d Them-caesar and tho Title
1od."
n in his quaint essay on
,ture," printed with long SIS In
!ear 1902, says, at is a very
,nient piece of knowledge for
)erson upon a journey to know
- complications with which 1t is
pr'per to address those 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.
ut may not be imprudent," he says,
ito accost a passenger with a title su-
perior to what he may appear to claim.
This will seldom fail to diffuse a won
? derful alacrity in his countenance and
ne perhaps a method Of securing you
rom any mistake of greater impor-
mce. l was led into these observa-
'ns," he remarks, "by some solicit.
IS l lately underwent on account
ignorance in these peculiarities.
.g somewhat more versed in books
IN l can pretend to be In the orders
Of men, it was my fortune to under
take q journey which 1 was to perform
by means of inquiries" After enumer-
ating the mishaps that befell him on
account Of misplacing the titles
Friend" honest friend" honest
man." dame" madam" "slr," Sweet
heart" ETC., he says naively that he
was within a foot of rushing down a
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 ev-
cry occasion. In the meantime you
may If you please consider the vast
Importance Of superior titles when
there Is no II SO inconslderable but
there Is also a mind 1t can influence"
The Princess Elizabeth IN an I'M
dated letter from "IIatfilde" sends by
request her picture to Queen Mary and
concludes the carefully worded epistle
with: and thus / will %(trobling your
majestic / fere) end with my most
hunnble thankes, beseching God long
to preserve o to his honor, to your
consort, to the realme's profit and to my
ter and s~eruante."
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 ap-
p~ellation 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
er OF Philip H., was permitted to take
up the latter and the city Of Granada
saluted him as your highness it occa-
stoned such serious %jealousies at court
that had he persisted in it he would
have been condemned for treason.
Until the reign Of Constantine the
prefix illustrious belonged only to
those who had made n splendid reputa-
ton III arms OF In letters.
In Spain the aTectation Of titles
grew to such a degree that Philip III.
published an act which forbade servile
and ridiculous attributes, reducing
them to the simple "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 writers give an
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-
slcians 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
oiu ihoiSto upol pcllS ODcy cu, us uc
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 tho 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 ana 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-
itude, whose eye glitters like the north
ern star; n king as spiritual rs q ball
Is round, who when he rises shades all
his people,"
In the age of Augustulus "your eter-
nifty" and "your perpetuity" were not
unusual titles. A law Of Theodore the
Great begins, "If any magistrate, after
having concluded q public work, put
his name rather than that Of our per-
petulty,' let him be adjudged guilty Of
high treason" When Caesar had con
Quered Rome and was put to dine with
tho gods he had the good taste to in
sist or the removal Of his new title,
"demlgod," from his statue at the