The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1902, Page 3

E THE SUNDAY CALL. : .. MM EDENCE . €he BURNING TOPIC U T or éhe HOUR_ae WASHINGTON 2% RSy e S _ S = o N N AP0 & fi = S e i & P S5 TATIATATAT TATATAIATAINT, S t% SN IESSSS ’ s HnIss OF Civer JWTICE RULLER ALICE Aroused by- the Fact That Lady Paunce- fote Led the New Year’s Reception at the White House— Cabinet Dictates; So- ciety Dare NotDisobzy S ey meet. the approval of °diplomats, training and instruction. Woman in Official e at Washington. t in a teapot 1t sted, to certain ma- s, daughters and < newly launched upon Wash- society, and a flutter of r the surface than ¢ y was the result of 1, this glorious Cobiter OF b, it ss that followed oo oo proud to call absolutely demo- HELEN HAY (FIANCEE OF MR RAYNE. WHITNEY datp} 1 function of the season. plomatic guests are to be placed, llke gor ride on the hearse. Pauncefote should have led spe: 2 < prescribed by the department are the same as superiority of rank. dence the order which is to be observed in | Order, however, that Mrs. Senator may can be found to cavil at so practical i “f:h;“"‘igo":iizg’; D EEinte In Tade, e Ty o | (508 ccntatnsd tn thie seven saive o€ the Gon: ~ (4 ztle V. s Diplomacka MASTI Kha thbh ¢ e SALEines (RAOE 1o MAtMTed s B i | ot Dutray Do HURAIAEY Rl movide. shie -u ki Ty Tals 8 S The wite € each Ay e soqusntly masasaol with 'ta”emnu Tacie b ik ‘Glbal by | 57 of Vienna found in the protocol of the precedence In their respective classes according the ministers. has merely to read the Cabinet's order Minister s carried out in the same order. But it is ell over now. The waves of "the chieftains who surround the Presi. | c-°i0R of March 9, 1815, and are in the sup- {o the official notification of their arrival. The +Article VIIL It fs agreed that the min- | 8nd to consult the diplomatic list, Which The rule that an embassador or Min's- e how. - plementary or eighth rule of the Congress of present regulation shall not cause any innova- 1sters resident accredited to them shall form, | s compiled by the Department of State ter shall always take in to dinner the wife e samovar have subsid- dent. The Cabinet dictates @nd society | Aix-la-Chapelle of November 21 1818, urface of the brewing in More th The new matrons, debu- its socla but they need never to rigidly established rules laid down by |charges d’affaires, accredited to ministers s Article VI. Relations of consanguinity or man Porte, which divides diplomatic repre- | explaining that Lady Pauncefote should gle flutter or puzzied court chamberlains in other parts of the | of foreign affairs. of family alliance between courts confer no sentatives into three classes only, embassadors, | have assumed first place on the New P F their pretty brains for a moment. world, | “Article IL Embassadors, legates or mun- precedence on their diplomatic sgents. The ministers and charges d'affaires.”” Year's reception in the White House in Continued on Page Four, the absence of her husband, the dean of the Diplomatic Corps. The suggestion that she occupy the place that Lord Pauncefots would have been in did not would as soon violate an International law as’the ironclad rules of their social The idea that the representatite of & country really does represent the reign- ing power is apparently quite forgotten at times in what we may call our national desire to have things “go smoothly.” There is & story told of a dinner given in Washington when the wife of the Eng- lish Embassador was taken In by, or, rather, assigned to the escort of the young son of the house, the reason given being that he was the only “heir appar- ent.” Like most of the stories about pre- cedence, this cannot be verified, but it serves as a capital anecdote to relate. It will be remembered that at the time of General Grant’s funeral there was a MUT EDITH Room most serious discussion anent who should lead, the English Embassador or the Vice 4 President, and it was said the only way to It Mrs. Benator doesn’t know how her _.¢ yne giiculty was to let the embassa~ cratic, and to whose private and semi- SOOIAL GOSPEL OF WASHINGTON. as not they will attend to that matter The rule that the forelgn embassador P 7 Vi | e themselves, for they know, and their who has held his office for the longest ew Year's reception in the White private soclal functions no rigid lines o ‘Regulations concerning precedence of diplo- clos only have the representative character. same rule applies to political alliances. » & slight incident, but that dogmatic court etiquette are known, we | matic agents: “Article III. Diplomatic agents of extraor- “Article VIL In acts or treaties between | COUrts insist that they shall know, just term of years is the dean, and ranks first, ew or waved aside the very have declared with vaunting vanity the | “The rules on this subject which have been dinary mission have not on that account any seversl powers which: grant alternate prece- | NOW to fall in line at the functions. In has simplified matters somewhat, for none = A tion with regard to the representative of the with respect to thelr precedence, an interme- | In accordance with precedence establish- of some one of rank Is rarely ever f lemon float sBrenely dare not disobey. ‘“‘Article I Diplomatic agents are divided FPope. 1 diate class between ministers of the second | ed on the lines adopted at the Vienna broken, and another of the Washington n that, the Cabinet has swayed | into three classes: That of embassadors, le- “‘Article V. A uniform mode shall be deter- cjass and charges d'affaires. Congress of 1815. stories Is to the effect that one dartng # epter these many years, and | gates or nuncios; that of envoys, ministers or mined ip each state for the reception of diplo- “These rules have been formally or tacitly Herr von Holleben, the German Embas- young hostess gave a Minister a place be- ghters and belles may not is, in its turn, compelled to defer to the | other persons accredited to sovereigns; that of matic agents of each class. accepted by ajl governments, except the Otto- | sador, has had some little Aifculty In iween two young and pretty girls, and