Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1903 — Expedient of Reduced Nobility. [ARTICLE]

Expedient of Reduced Nobility.

An American who was spending the winter In Naples had taken a flat in a palazzo, the first floor of which was occupied by a noble family in somewhat reduced circumstances. He noticed, to his surprise, that every day he met a servant going up or down the stairs carrying a pair of carriagfe doors. At last the mystery was explained. The noble family shared a carriage with some other families, but each had its own doors, with the family coat of arms, to make their friends believe that they all lind carriage^