Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1903 — Venezuelan Etiquette. [ARTICLE]

Venezuelan Etiquette.

For some time now the world has been looking at Venezula with more than ordinary Interest This gives timeliness to a paragraph from a recent number of the Evangelist In regard to the multiplicity of “generals” in the Venezuelan army, it has been observed that these worthies, so numerous as to be almost omnipresent, are the only men who are allowed to wear their swords at official receptions. The major of an English regiment, being about to pay a call of ceremony upon the governor of an interior province, asked his servant for his sword, to put it on with his uniform. The mozo grimly Inquired his rank in the army, and on being told, oh served that officers of that grade in Venezuela were not allowed to wear swords through the streets on visits of ceremony; but he added that he, the servant, holding the rank of general in the army, could wear his own sword, and hand it over to his master at the governor’s palace.