Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-06-07
FOREIGN LEaArIONs.
An Interesting Study Of the Worlds
Varied inhabitants
As Represented by the Foreign Ambassa'
doris at Washington---The Lives
of Some Old World Officials, :
their Ladies and
Families.

WASHINGTON, June Cone of the inter
esting features of life in Washington is that
which relates to the homes of the diplomats.
They give you something Of q view of all
the civilized people of the world. 1t is a
curious feeling, when you attend the Presi'
dents reception on New Years or on some
state occasion which brings all the repre-
sentatives of the great nations Of the world
together with their families, to reflect that
you see in a single group, as the diplomats
and their families enter, living representa-
tives of every civilized nation on the earth.
They are all there, the representatives OF
Great Britain on whose possessions the sun
never sets, the Mongolisn with all his togg-
cry, the agile Frenchman, the figid Rus
sian, the representatives Of the South aud
Central American Republics, every nation
is represented by not only its appointed and
authorized official Of the sterner sex, but by
members, in most cases, of his family. 1t
is interesting to study these people aud
their family relations, their homes and their
social lives. Let US take the list and run
through it, as it stands to day. A good deal
Of space has been given at various timesto
the official lives Of these diplomatic gentle
men, let us see something Of their home
lives, their wives and children, their meth
DDS Of living, and their associates.
There are twentyseven Of these, foreign
legations in the United States" they are
| called. Of this number nearly twenty rep
resent homes, for nearly that number have
with them the wife either Of the minister or
of some member of the legation. Running
through the list alphabetically the first one
| considered is the Argentine Republic. This
This is one of the most complete homes
in the full sense of the word that is to be
found in the diplomatic world here. In the
Legation, 1889 Rhode Island avenue,
which in this case is the home OF all the
attaches are to be faund Senior Don Luis l..
| Domipguez, Sonora Dons Ana D. de Domin-
cuez, Senorita Dona Maria Lusa Domin-
guez, Senorita Dona Aurora Dominguez,
Senorita bona Anita Dominique, Senior
Don Floreneio L. D. and Senior Luis q. D.
Ii thus contains the Minister, his wife their
three daughters and their two sons, the lat
ter being members of the official as well as
the family household. Their home, the Lee
CATION, is q very pretty one, tasteful In aP-
pcintments and elegant in all It's features.
| Their entertainments while not especially
numerous are very elegant.
At the Austrian, Belgian and Brazilian
legations there are no ladies, and therefore
| ONLY homes in the most mesger sense OF the
word, though the Austrian minister keeps
up q very handsome and expensive eStab'
| Eshment on Rhode Island venue near the
Argentine legation.
Senior Godoy, the Chilean minister, and
his family were extremely popular here. Mr..
| Godoy is q native Of South America, but
his pretty wife Nine. Godoy is of good Ken
lucky stock. Her parents having formerly
been residents Of the Blue Grass Region.
During her stay here she was a great favor
tie in society. Their home on K street was
a beautiful one. Godoy is an interesting
conyersationalist, while Nine. Godoy shone
in the social world, q bright particular star.
She left her home more than a year ago
and since that time Senior Godoy has been
making his home at the hotels, sometimes
at the Arlington, sometimes at the Portland.
He lives in fine style, occupying elegant
apartments and, like most of these people
cententing himself only with the best of
everything. He is now spending a good
deal of his time in New York.
III Tk..a-a l,-oA,on 80 tbo hall ~
Il was not always go, but when the Chinese
minister, Cheng Tsao in, had to go to South
America for o six months or longer stay, 1t
was that time that the youngest Mrs. in
should 90 home. She was rather a pretty
Young person, though l%ittleiwss seen of her
for she was very much averse to meeting
ANYBODY. Mr.. Ju was over 60 years of age
and this his youngest wife,-for the Chinese
are polygamists,-was about 20, yet they
seemed to be very happy together aud very
much attached to each other. Their home
life was very much as it was at home IN
China. They had their Chinese cooks and
much that was of Chinese origin on their
table. They patronize the markets here
pretty well, as the legation does new, buy
ing chickens, vegetables, rice and tea. Their
legation which is also their home is tasteful
" furnished, its psrfors filled with articles
testifying to the skill OF the natives of the
Flowery Kingdom. On the other hand the
presence of a billiard table aud other tea
lures of this sort indicate that the members
of the legation are quick to adopt the Gus
toms of this country in some cases at least.
There are nearly a dozen Cbiuamen with
long uues and unpronounceable names who
are members of the legation in various ca.
p~acities. Besides there Is an American Sec
rotary of legation, Mr.. Bartlett, whose wife
was about the only acquaintance Mrs. Mi
Ju made during her stay here.
The Costa Ricsn, Dominican, French,
Gautemalisn and German legations are also
bachelors quarters, except that OF Mr., Chs.
Riballier des Isis, the Chancellor OF the
French legation is accompanied by his wife.
The British legation, located on Conuec-
ticut avenue, in the most fashionable quar-.
ter, is one of the social centers OF the social
world. Minister West has three ~dauguters,
one of whom has been in society for some
years, ever since their coming here in fact,
whilethe second made her debut last winter.
The third has not yet come to the surface
in a social way. A great ..~fsvorite among
those connected with the British ministers
official family, however, is
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