The Odyssey of the Philippine Commission . thesame rank, your blunder would be only this, but Mrs. Senior Captain and Captain must be placed with the same pre-cision as her husband — if not more so. To a civil-ian host and hostess, who have not studied the ArmyRegister with the prayerful diligence of most armyofficers and their wives, the problem of properlyseating their guests is often a very perplexing believe the members of the Commission firstlearned that some of them ranked the otherswhen they were received by the Japanese most of them the idea
The Odyssey of the Philippine Commission . thesame rank, your blunder would be only this, but Mrs. Senior Captain and Captain must be placed with the same pre-cision as her husband — if not more so. To a civil-ian host and hostess, who have not studied the ArmyRegister with the prayerful diligence of most armyofficers and their wives, the problem of properlyseating their guests is often a very perplexing believe the members of the Commission firstlearned that some of them ranked the otherswhen they were received by the Japanese most of them the idea had not occurred that theyhad a right to precede each other in the order oftheir appointment by President McKinley, being alto-gether content to file in as circumstances made con-venient. One of the Commissioners, with some pre- [85] THE ODYSSEY OF vious experience in mind, insisted that he should rankthose who had been named subsequent to incident was later recounted by the other Com-missioners with considerable glee. [86].
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