PRIVILEGE OF CHAINS
VIENNESE SIGN OF NOBILITY.
The privilege of the chains has been questioned in Vienna.
We see the same kind of thing in other lands before great mansions. Instead of an iron railing there are stone posts connected by chains often ornamental and very heavy. Sometimes children swing on the chains as they return home from school. In Vienna these chains are a symbol that the house belongs to a noble, and that neither the police nor any public authority may pass within them under any pretext whatever. They represent a separation between the nobility and the middle classes. People used even to take off their hats as they passed the house and its chains, the owner being all-powerful on his own territory. With Britons they have long been merely an ornament; and now that Vienna is no longer the capital of a great , empire the chains are to be interesting ▼ustiges ffS a power that is past
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1934, Page 22 (Supplement)
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