_Can you tell me what I should have to pay to become a marquis? My
wife has a great desire to be a marchioness before she dies. Is
there the title of marchioness in any other country besides England?
I mean, do you think I could get it done in, say, Turkey or some
place in need of money? Not America, I suppose? Anything you can
tell me about it will be useful and will earn our gratitude.--H. F.
G. (Bedford Park)._
The market price of a marquisate at this moment is L150,000. A few
questions are asked. It is not usual to make a commoner a marquis at one
step. There are no Turkish marquisates, nor any yet in Albania, but as
one never knows what that country may bring forth perhaps it would be
wise to wait a little. America confers no titles of such importance as
marquis, but a dental degree is not difficult to obtain at, say,
Milwaukee. Tammany has its bosses, but that title carries with it no
distinction for the wife.