Buttling Needed

Nothing so testifies to the enlightened literacy of U. S. citizens as the fact that the great mass of them have, at one time or another, read the Saturday Evening Post. Many internationally smart U. S. citizens are proud of the world's most widely read magazine; but in London they must sometimes apologize and sometimes blush for the Post's chronic misuse of British titles and excruciating presentations of the habits and customs of butlers, footmen, peers, peeresses.

Last week the newspaper of world's largest circulation, the London Daily Mail, helpfully advised as follows:

"Some of these American magazines really ought to hire a butler to keep them straight on the question of English titles.

"In the current number of the Saturday Evening Post there is a story about, the 'Marquis of Benham' who has an unmarried sister by the name of 'Lady Stanwick' and a daughter entitled 'the Honourable Alicia.' . .

"If Lady Stanwick had been a peeress in her own right, which is possible, she could not have had a brother. If her brother is a marquis, though, she cannot be Lady Stanwick. She would be Lady Mary Benham (if that is supposed to be the family name). And the daughter could not be the Hon. Alicia. She would, of course, be Lady Alicia."

Embarrassed citizens of the U. S. hoped that Satevepost Owner Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who has a butler, will send him buttling 'round to Satevepost Editor George Horace Lorimer whose butler, if any, was thus shamefully exposed.