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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND, JUNE 14, 1908.
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BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
N the game of rubbing elbows with
royalty Whltelaw Reid has easily
won the American championship.
This polished American. who flfty
two years ago was teaching a coun
try school out in Ohio, is now to see his
daughter married In a royal palace. King
Krlward has jiist commanded that St.
James Palace ba put to this romantic
use that the wedding of his equerry-In-waiting
and Miss Reid shall be solem
nized at the historic Chapel Royal, before
whose sanctuary Queen Victoria was
JJlned In wedlock to Prince Albert, and
which ever since has been held sacred to
royal nuptials. The King and CJueen, the
future King and Queen, the entire royal
family and the peers and peeresses of the
realm will surround this pretty Yankee
girl when she becomes the Hon. Mrs.
John Hubert Ward, daughter-in-law of
tiie handsome Dowager Duchess of Dud
ley and sister-in-law of the Earl of that
estate, who is Governor-General of Can
ada and ex-Lord-Lleutenant of Ireland.
Kins Showers Attentions.
The King has hobnobbed with the Relds
ever since they settled down In London.
He has been the former editor's house
guest at Wrest Park, the latter's pala
tial country home, which, with Its 7000
acres, rivals Buckingham Palace Itself.
This estate is centuries old and the
grounds were laid out by Henry, Duke of
Kent. From the front door the vista of
an -entire mile of exquisite gardens can
be viewed, and upon the grounds Is the
ruin of an ancient Roman bath surround
ed by a hedge 350 years old. Probably
no other American girl was courted in
such a regal and romantic spot.
But since this estate is 38 miles
from London, Miss Jean Reid's wedding
breakfast will be held at her father's
lordly mansion, Dorchester house, the
most luxurious private residence In Lon
don, which the Ambassador has leased
for $24,000 a year, $3000 per month, $57
per day.
One of the papers recently paid this
compliment to our representative and his
wife: "The general social tone of the
Ambassador and Mrs. Reid has been the
highest ever struck by ao American Am
bassador, and the courts of, King Edward
himself could not be carried out with
greater eclat and perfection.
The King has dined several times also
at Dorchester house, and this Spring at
Biarritz went on a motoring excursion
with Mr. Reid to the mouth of the Adour,
while the same evening Miss Reid also
dined with tiro King at the Hotel du
Palais. Mr. Reid a few days later accom
panied the King and the Grand Duke
Alexander of Russia to witness a game of
pelota. in the Basque countries.
.Must Know Rules of the Game.
It is the King's prerogative to set the
date of Miss Keid's wedding, since our
Ambassador Is a part of the King's court
and technically a member of his house
hold. Indeed, Americans who rub elbows
with royalty have many such technicali
ties to learn before they can be successful
hosts or guests of Kings or Queens. For
example, whenever the Reids have enter
tained the King at Dorchester House or
Wrest Park they have had to submit for
His Majesty's approval a list of all other
guests invited to share the hospitality,
and the King has signified his wishes as
to whom in addition should be asked to
meet him. When Queen Victoria visited
tt was her custom to bring along her own
bed. bedding, horses, carriages and serv
ants, including often her cook. She
ate her meals In her own suite and did
not always feel obliged to Invite her
host and hostess to even dine with her;
but King Edward and Queen Alexandra
have never enforced this ultra royal ex
cluslveness. However, when the King vis
its the Reids he always eats breakfast in
his own apartment, but as Invariably
thrusts his knees under the dinner ma
hogany of his host. When the Queen is
present every male dinner guest must
wear knee breeches and silk stockings,
even, at a private entertainment. Once,,
while the King was still Prince of Wales,
a host not entirely conversant with the
rigorous rules of royal etiquette, . and
who received his royal highness In these
ceremonious short pants was good
naturedly admonished by the latter: "Go
upstairs. - my good fellow, and put on
your trousers; those things are not worn,
-you know, unless the Princess Is with
me."
The Reids also had to learn that all
other guests must be standing In their
drawing-room before the King enters It,
preparatory to going out to dinner. Th
King, escorting Mrs. Reid, must then
pass in first to the table, where the King
seats himself, not at the end. but at the
center of one side a fashion now ob
served also at White House dinners.
Since his majesty abhors long dinners,
his hOEtess must make the menu short,
although choice, the corses being usually
but six. Finger glasses must on no ac
count be served, there having been a
royal prejudice against them ever since
the disloyal JacoMtes held their wine
glasses over these bowls when the King's
health was proposed, that they might
toast not the reigning sovereign, but the
Stuart King, "over the water."
And, speaking of toasts, Mr. Reid
had to learn another bit of royal eti
quette governing tnese amenities when
a king partakes of one's salt. Only
princes of- the blood, or rulers, are
qualified to respond to a toast of a
crowned head. For any one else to do
so Is, in royal estimation, a piece of
presumption. At the luncheon which
King Edward some time ago gave in
honor of General Corbln and our other
officers at Buckingham Palace, he rose
from the table Immediately after toast
ing President Roosevelt. This he did
to prevent any of his guests from de
livering a speech in response. All of
this, of course, impresses a democratic
American as the veriest twaddle, but it
Is all a part of the rules governing the
great game of touching elbows with
royalty, and the American who wtshes
to try his luck at the game ' must
either play according to Hoyle or stay
out.
J. P. Morgan Is an Adept.
J. Plerpont Morgan Is more of an
adept at this game than any unoffi
cial American. He has been the guest
of most of the crowned heads of the
world,, and has frequently played the
role of host to royalty. This Spring
he had the honor of doing what no
other American had ever done before.
He entertained two queens at one
time. These were Queen Alexandra
and her sister, the Dowager Empress
of Russia, who early in March came to
his London house to view his magnifi
cent art collection. They spent two
hours In the American financier's fairy
palace with its $5,003,000 worth of
treasures. A week or so later Mr.
Morgan and his daughter, Mrs. Satter
lee, were privately received by Queen
Helena of Italy, who is co-operating
some charities of the noted Wall
street magnate. Mrs. Satterlee and the
Queen have since exchanged photo
graphs of their children. From the
Qulrinal Mr. Morgan and his daughter
the same day drove to the Vatican,
where they chatted with the Pope In
his private library,, and his holiness,
by way of preparing a souvenir of the
visit, wrote an expression of his good
wishes for Mr. Morgan and his family.
The American who, as host of royal
ty, has had greater experience than
any other, save possibly Mr. Reid, Is
Charlemagne Tower, the multimillion
aire Philadelphian, over whose de
parture from the post of Ambassador
to Berlin the Kaisfr recently lost his
head nearly tc the extent of Insulting;
our Nation, not to mention the schol
arly Dr. Hill,' appointed to succeed Mr.
Tower. The Towers after dazzling
Vienna and St. Petersburg with the
splendors of, the palaces which they
leased In those capitals, became favor
ites of the Kaiser as soon as they' re
moved to Berlin, where Mrs. Tower,
with her Jewels, has outshone even
the Empress.
"Von Moltke or Society."
The Emperor has dined altogether
five times with the Towers to date and
the Empress this Spring did them the
great honor of breaking In their favor
her rule of not dining at a foreign em
bassy. During the last regatta at Kiel
the Kaiser elected to sit next to Mr.
Tower at table three different times,
and his majesty's selection for this
honor Is always an item of Importance
In German court etiquette.
At her first court ball in Berlin. Mrs.
Tower was, of the 3000 present, the
only woman besides the Empress who
went the new fad for silver ornamen
tation one better by substituting gold.
She was resplendent In brussels lace
and wore gold game over her gown,
whose many gold spangles cost $2.50
apiece. Forty expert needlewomen
worked a whole year over her gold
threaded court train, which was five
yards long. The Empress was said to
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be jealous of the new
who had outshone' her and who had
greatly eclipsed the royal Princesses.
By permission of the State Depart
ment, Mr. Tower has appeared at the
Kaiser's state functions with cocked
hat and sword and in the gold-em-
broidered court uniform which .he wore
also at St. Petersburg. While In Ber
lin he has given Mrs. Tower an allow
ance of $200,000 for entertainment
alone, and all of this lavish expendi
ture has so delighted the Kaiser with
the Pennsylvanians that he recently
referred to Mrs. Tower as the "Von
Moltke of Berlin society," and added
that she had done more to make social
life in the German capital brilliant
than any one else who had been in
Berlin during his reign. Indeed,, the
Kaiser's penchant for Americans has
been proverbial. He got so chummy
with Commander William H. Beeler,
our Naval attache at Berlin, recently,
that he called that officer "Bill," and
put his arm about his shoulders. The
Commander was said to have been In
vited to His Majesty's table no less
than 37 timea.
Another American who has hob
nobbed with practically all of the roy
alty of Europe is Postmaster-General
Meyer. At St Petersburg he was In
timate with the Russian royal family,
and while Ambassador ax Rome, just
before entering the Cabinet, he would
go boar-hunting or on other expedi
tions with King Victor, . while Mrs.
Meyer would stay with Queen Helena
at the palace, where the Meyer children
romped with , the little Princess Ma
falda. In the royal nursery. While Mr.
Townsend was Minister to Brussels, the
Crown Princess selected him to open
the court ball with her, an honor
which etiquette reserves for the court
American I master of ceremonies. Paris ' is not
normally a capital where Americans
have much opportunity for intimate
association with Kings, but Ambassa
dor McCormick. the reaper magnate,
while there, had as his dinner guest
the late King Carlos of Portugal, le
cently assassinated at Lisbon. Mrs.
Conger, while her husband was Minis
ter to China, broke the tee . barrier
which surrounded the Empress Dow
ager and got so chummy with the old
lady that she sometimes visited her two
or three times a day. In fact, Mrs.
Conger is said to have converted Her
Majesty to Christian Science. Lloyd
Grtseom has been cheek-by-Jowl with
royalty ever since he entered the Diplo
matic Service. Now at his new post
he is a favorite with the King and
Queen of Italy, and recently chummed
with the Kaiser while guest of the
Towers in Berlin, at the time the Hill
incident arose.
And a lesser diplomatic light, who while
In Europe visits informally at royal
houses, is Spencer Eddy, the young Chi
cagoan who married Miss Spreckels,
daughter of the California sugar baron.
Some time ago he visited the Grand Duke
Michael and Countess Torby at Cannes,
and while In London he went on shooting
parties with the royal family. While
first secretary at Berlin he leased for
$500 per month a 19-room flat. Ambas
sador Henry White and his wife were
greatly petted by Queen Victoria and
later by King Edward during the long
time that Mr. White was secretary of
our embassy at London, Mrs. .White
especially being treated as a member of
the royal family.
Indeed, almost all of the rich Ameri
cans who have had a social entree at the
British court have fared much better in
the game of rubbing .elbows with roy
alty than has William Waldorf Astor,
who went to the trouble to expatriate
himself and to lavish his money on Eng
lishmen In an effort to buy his way into
the aristocracy. Eight years ago Mr.
Astor at his London house, rebuked King
Edward's friend Sir Berkeley Milne for
coming to his house uninvited, although
Sir Berkeley had been asked by the
Countess of Oxford to escort her there, a
service which he could not .have de
clined.' Although the knight apologized
for the technical error, Mr. Astor pub
lished the incident in his London paper
and the King never spoks to him from
that day until recently, when he forgave
the multimillionaire and visited him at
Cliveden, his country home. It has been
recently rumored that Mr. Astor's gen
erous bestowal upon English institutions
of his money, derived from New York
real estate, would win for him his long
sought British peerage, but his recent
purchase of the flag of the Chesapeake
and his presentation of It to an Eng
lish museum to prevent America's obtain
ing it is another blunder which has de
layed his long-hankered-for honors. The
Vint, now hAnitflta tn inflke Mr Astor
a peer for fear of weakening the
cherished entente cordiale with America.
INDIAN MUSIC BY THE PHONOGRAPH
Records Show Resemblance to Work of Modern Composers.
THE phonograph has recently been
used by the Bureau of Ethnology
to register the native songs of
the Indians. Several hundred songs
have thus been obtained and It Is de
signed to secure the most complete
record possible of the vanishing melo
dies. These Indian songs as transcribed
from the phonograph records have
elicited the interest not only of scien
tists, but of professional musicians as
well. Credit for the records is due to
"Miss Alice Fletcher, an employe of the
bureau, who. for a number of years has
Interested herself In the subject of In
dian music.
In the records of the talking machine
Indian music has for the first time
been recorded In a satisfactory man
ner and the transcriptions which have
been made from them are scientifically
accurate. The Indians have no musical
notation and apparently no theories of
music. Their songs are handed down
by tradition and the phonograph will
be of great value in perpetuating- them.
"Contrary to, what I have found to
be a general impression among those
Ignorant of the subject." said Miss
Fletcher, "the songs of the Indians are
not meaningless chants, devoid of
sweetness, power and expression.
"The Indian is a natural musician.
On transcribing a number of these
songs, for Instance, a striking' circum
stance was noted, namely, the use of
the major chords of the over third and
under third. As you probably know,
this Is one of the most notable char
acteristics
composers.
' "We find
of our
modern
more or
romantic
less of it In
Beethoven and Schubert,, still more In
Schumann and Chopin, most of all In
Wagner and Liszt. This fact shows,
we believe, that the great romantic
writers in going outside of the accept
ed harmonic limits, made a genuine
discovery of natural harmonic rela
tions. This has long been the belief of
a number of musicians, but these In
dian songs afford strong confirmation
of the justness of the theory Tor what
ever else they are there can be no
question that they are absolutely
natural.
"What may be called the opening of the
Wa-wan or Pipe of Peace choral reminds
one strongly of numerous passages in
Wagner. Yet It Is perhaps more daring
than any of that master's compositions,
for it is a 12-measure song, beginning in B
flat and ending In C.
"Surely this composition is worthy of
the attention of every student of harmony
as well xas of the scientist. It seems a
bold statement to make, but it is one
amply justified, that all melodic and har
monic resources to be found in our music,
especially the most modern and advanced,
are also to be found in this primitive mu
sic among a people who have no musical
notion, no musical theories, no syste
matic scientinc knowledge of music.
"Nor is it in harmony alone that this
Indian music reminds us of the present
day ultra romanticists as well as older
masters. The Indian rhythms are fre
quently as complicated and dlffcult ae any
to be found in the works of Schumann
and Chopin.
"I have, for example, songs simulating
precisely the rhythm of some of Men
delssohn's 'Songs Without Words, as
well as of compositions by Schumann
i and pieces of the modern and most ad
vanced school. One rhythmic peculiarity
of some of the songs is the frequent, uee
of a short note on the drumbeat or em
phatic portion of the measure, exactly
such as we find employed in ancient
Scotch music.
"Strange to say, the funeral cong is
expressive of joy and hope. That of the
Omahas, which suggests in its major
strains sunshine, birds and verdure has a
fleet, happy movement. Nevertheless
there is a latent harmony between the
song and the ceremony. Music, In the
Indian's belief, has power to reach the
unseen world. They think the spirit of
the dead man can hear the song as It
leave the body, and the glad cadences
are to cheer him as he goes from those
to whom he was attached on earth, the
mourners showing their grief by muti
lating their bodies.
"From a purely scientific standpoint
these phonographic records are very val
uable. The songs of the Indian give us
an interpretation of his character. Ws
can discern from these melodic records
his religious nature, his attitude toward
the unseen powers that control him.
"Friendship Is a common theme in In
dian songs. There are no songs of labor.
The mystery song has a peculiar origin,
as It is supposed to come to the composer
in a vision, after days and nights of
fasting and supplication. The revelation
often cornea in the form of some animal,
typifying the supernatural agency friend
ly to the supplicator, and In praise of
which the song Is composed." Ohio State
Journal.
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