The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-17
LATEST ACCESSION
TO ISL AND KINGDOM

rio Monarch hoid his court, and con
| cerrninE whose Gay d6ines lesenda aIs
SIN current IN the couniry. are y. u,
carved oak in nc library.
Lord Howard dc Walden entertained
the members ~ the Harvard crew
Henley Regatta in 1906. Lord Howard
&c Walden rents Audlcy End from Lord
Bra ybro9ke Lord Howard dc Walden
ms father, Just after being Sazcttcd
TO the Tenth iIussars. and AT the very
n-omcn, when the latter regiment haI
Bocr War He stayed lust long enough
TO attend his fathers funeral. and
,,hen sailed for the Cape OH a fast
liner, arriving before the transports
which had his regiment on board. lio
went through the entire war with the
Tenth llussars,, took part in the re:
lief OF Kimberley. in the capture OF
General cronie. In tic surrender OF
Johannesburg and in the pursuit OF
General pc Wet, before being inva-
h9ns ire = on asoo5eG 20 MS
- Lord Ludlow. He cannot be said
I" lave spent Il very happy childhood.
ms his mother WAS so abominably NAL
treatcd in every way by his father
enc. 81 he blacklist sheep OF the nccr-
Iasc. that she was forced to seek re
iicf from the courts, in a judicial
husband had been suundly horscwhip-
ped By several OF her relatives in turn.
Few women arc aware thai tho word
Miss as Indicating an unmarried Voc
man. dates from tho time Of Charles
II. John Evelyn in his famous diary
they begin 10 be called" Until that
reign. even small girl wa addressed
as ''mistress,' like her mother. Poo
pie commenced. however. TO find ihat
II was inconvenient 10 use so little
distinction between q young Girl AMI
Il grown woman in ordinary social ii-
lerco,Tse. and so The word miss" Was
invented a. diminutivc OF mistress.
Servants however. retaining the old
form OF address. Thus. Lady MARI
Wortlcy Montagu remarks in one OF
her letters That as a child she Was al
ways spoken to as 'mistrcss'' by her
social Interiors.
Mistress" is now no longer used.
1t has been abbreviated Into AIRS
used in connection with the surname
ADDRESS ,n.ar,. s "mndam; or "ma,nm The
interiors. "Ma'aRl'' is also used by
every one at court. from the greatest
diEhitaries of the realm downwards in
addressing the two Queens and all of
their age. and for those not accus-
toned to it. il sounds strange To find.
perhaps a white-hared pocrcss adj
cess as ma am" u.0.
On the Continent OF Europe, queens
and Expresses arc addressed Is -'nn
u''AiiS the u FCUCI
IS used, and so, too. are princcsses az
the blood, no matter how small III
Austria even The most diminutivc
archduohess is Frau Erzherzogin. ana
there arc no "fraulcins" among tile
young girls Of tie rctgning houses in
the Dual Empire and in Germany. Old
maids are "fraulein" in Germany. un-
less they belong to one OF tho feminine
orders Of lnighthood. admission to
which Is based entirely on gcnealogi-
cal qualifications. Membership Of ono
Of those. orders confers all the
rights Of married woman. Sometimes.
put very rarely, the title of madame
or by some OF the sovereigns Of Ger
many upon an old maid Of bourgeois
birth as n special and treasured re
ward for services rendered to the cGAlee
Of education. as superior of schools.
(ccpyright. JAIL. By the Brentwood
Company IsI