The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-01-15
THEIR CREST"
The Heraldic Emblems Appear in Place
Where They Are Evidently
Missappropriated.

An invitation to A wedding was re
ceived the other day and the recipi
ent did not much notice the crest Al
the top of the heavy, expensive paper
| Then she chose and dispatched a wed
ding present, and in turn received
note from the bride. thanking her
Again she did not note, particularly
the crest the girl used. Why should
shes Crests are quite all right. They
are a nice, pretty custom. A lot OF
people use them who haven't any right
to them--they've adopted a lineage
or seized it from some male line in
the ofing, and a lot of people who
could use them don't because the other
kind do. And still it doesn't matter.
Among people one has met" are three
women who have two family trees
planted in frames and hung in the en-
trance hall of their very expensive APP
partments. Ny line and the line |
married, 90 TO speak. So no one has
heard of a trace of g%raciousness or
breeding in those houses, One woman,
indeed, should be put into a Bernard
Shaw play. Her father vas a butler
and there is no installing her resem-
blanee to him.
On the other hand, newspaper work
once took a young woman into the
house Of another young woman whose
ancestors called a king OF England by
his first name before they ran a couple
of colonies over here-Rnd everybody
knew her. She rang for tea and pre-
tended the reporter had come to call
There were no family trees growing
around her place. They were scarcely
needed. But she never knows where
her die is, and so she seldom puts her
on her stationery. Her husband
had the family crest etched in gold on
the door Of the limousine. 1t was in
good taste and very effective. Good
Lord, Jimsie," said she when she saw
it. "how You do waste your money!
One would think you were a butcher
who'd struck OIL"
And as TO the crest on the brides
one OF the bridegroom's
was calling and spoke of her.
Bills going TO marry an awful swell,
isn't hei" he asked. He's been tell
ing me about her. ! suppose we shant
see much of him after the wedding"
"T've Just had a nice little note from
was the answer, bringing il forth
md handing il 10 him.
He gasped and looked as though he
10 laugh and didn't quite dare.
THE crestl" he cried. Doesn't IL look
iamiliar TO youf"
An uncomfortable. lightning imrsss.
ion Of "Tailors to His Majesty" flashed
through her mind.
at must be a Joke" he repeated.
What do You mean" she asked.
ats the crest Of the present reign
ne royal house in England" he said.
done something to the top of
tt don't know what-but it's the
anne. Don't you suppose they knowl
" don't they care
A visit to the public library Al Fifth
venue and Forty second street con-
HE statement. There has been
God for thought in it. One does not
Ike to think Bill married q girl whose
amily went into a stationery shop one
ay and looked over the samples and
aid. "I1l take that one OF the Wind
OF tGuelphl family crest. But whai |,
ossible claim csn people who say we
re an old American family have TO
he blood Of King George and his kim
.fter all. how would any commoner 4
such q claim Or why make !
he clsims An old lady who had lived .
! one farmhouse in England all her
fe. and knew that all her ancestors
I'd been there for more than eight
uBdred years in that very house. was /
roud Of her ancestry. The lady Of the |
amor, who did parish visiting. sought
chat the old creature about ID. II
oppose Annie. laugbed she, ynur |
.mly is older than the kiHgsi
Ave. I should hope sol saii An
c-New York Evening sun.