Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-11-19
CHIEF OF PROTOCOL
IS Chief ARBITER
OF FRANCE
Official Etiquette Observed as
punotiliously in Republic
as in Most Absolute Mon
archy Of Europe.
OFFICIAL PROCEDURE
COMPLICATED AFFAIR

rux Leased Wire 70 Hveninu Herald.
Paris. Nov. is.--oHlcial etiquette is
observed as punciiliously IN rernoh-
can France ~ in the court pf tho
most absolute monarch ia El'tpa,
and the statesman who o. .he sr
premo authority on all questions 81
social and official procedure finds b
post moss difficult He Is ,a",j tn'
Ch.ef of the profoS I. and iht last
incumbent. NJ. Moiiard, has .usf rec
siEnod To- become French minister 90
the court Of Luxembourg. Since he
has been lu the Protocol NJ. dCl-
lard has become the most decorated
man ir Europe but every ribbon and
star he wears has been justly carried.
The protocol rules official procedure
Ia the most diverse circumstance
receptions, official banquets, rrosenta-
tions to the president. inaugurations.
official visits and last bus not least.
letter writing To avoid mistakes the
army and navy have suppressed an
forms Of sAiutation at tho end Of let
tofR But even so the practice Is not
uniform. lea the army one says NY
general. my colonel, etc. while in 'he
navy. admiral. captain. etc.. suffice
Before the separation Of church and
state Ia France. the most delicate
problem which ever confronted the
Chief OF the Protocol was 90 decide
the precedence of the Papnl uuucio
and the Cardinal Archbishop Of Paris
The problem was never solved. the
difficulty being avoided by never ln-
wiling both prclatcs to the same func-
ton.
AZ the foreign office the greatest
Importance ~ attached 10 the episto-
larry protocol 81 pamphlet publish
ed on this subject everything b. pre-
yided for the size and quality ~ the
letter paper. which must bee eiit-edg-
ed for soNcreigns, ambassadors and
ministers OF foreign anairs. the width
Of the margin. the superscriptun. the
heading. the final formulate and the
titles an are strictly regulated An
ambassador. untitled. D. addressed as
mir Ambassador 10 titled. cas- Mar
uuls' or count. or Your High-
ness" as the case may 0e a min
ister picnipotenuur> does not get his
title except in the subscription at the
bottom of the first page and ON the
envelope. 60 which ls added. after the
titles. one, tWO or three, 'ets,, ace
cording to his rank An ambassador
is entitled To three "ctCs.' Al tho
end of "a letter an ambassador is ask
ed 10 accept the assurance and not
the assurance" Of the foreign min
isters every hmh consideration
while diplomats az lesser degrco re-
ceiye either the most distinguished, 10
'tho very distinguished cor merely
"the distinguished consideration Of
the minister, according 90 their rank.
s=
A country clockmaker has con-
structed a clock in which a phono-
graph Is substituted for the gong In
stead Of striking the hours, 81 repeats
them Ina "a loud voice. The inventor
got the idea during "a journey in
Spain. whore he heard the serene or
night Waterman calling the hours in
the street.
u rs proposed % extend the idoa hy
ntlne public clocks with large phono-
graphs which, after announcing the
hour. would repent boa steutorian tones
some appropriate proverb or wise
sayine For example. early in the
morning the clock would announce,
"Six O'Clock Fortune belongs to the
early riser" AZ noon, "Eat 90 live.
not 1--we 60 eat Remember that alc0-
hol is slow poison which leads to
sickness. madness and an early
grave" The clock -phonograph could
also be- used for making important
/ Official announcements.
/ One 90 the most famous works OF
f the great French painter jacques Dn-
yid has been missing Tor nearly e.
hundred years. and ihc problem Of
its whereabouts is an artistic mystery
& which has appealed go the imngina-
ton of many wCil-kuuWu members uf
the Paris art world. Tho picture iS
now believed Co have been traced 90
/ the old chateau of saint FargoHu, loo
The Nicyrcs. According 40 this story
The painting was placed boo an oak
hox and sealed up in ono OF the
chateaus walls, But NOT even the
present owner of the chatoau, N An
nlson du Porron. has the slightest
clue to just where 30 may bc.
THE picture represents Michael
LcpeIeticr, Count saint Fargcau, as
Nf lNN nli Allf NfiNf"NNi ~ ANi' "'ft''t'
Of Louis XVI the dag before the oN-
coutiun oi that doomed monarch.
saint Fureeou Was royalisi deputy
Go the states general but alterwards
went over to the revolution and voted
the death OF Louis XVI he was as-
saasinatod tho dny before Louis NlNs
execution by roSulist man-at-arms
Saint Farpoau's dead body, nude, and
covered with Rurlauds of oak leaves
Wns exposed for four days on the ped.
estal from which the statue of Loui'
XVI had been thrown down.
The picture WAS originally placed
In the Hall 0f Debates OF the convon'
zion. n was given hack Co the artis
after the terror and Is believed %
have later pnssed through the hand.
of NJ Dayid'a son 60 one of The heir
at saint Farpeau. the Marguise do
Montfoninine. Tho marquiae accord
lne to the story, signed am nRreemcn
not 10 destroy the picture. She had
however, remained faithful 20 th'