The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-04-14
7HE CHINESE MINISTER.

A shreIvd Old OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES:
nent of the Accomplishment 81
Dancing.
met the Chinese minister on Thursday Of
4 DISQUALIFICATION, says Washington let.
ter TO Tie Omaha Bee, and listened With
pleasure to a conversation In which he
INDUCED With the nephews Of one OF the sens
tors.
"VelIee fine day." chirped lie envoy ex-
traordinary.
sLovely," responded the young gentle
maj.
'shallee welee see tdd d earlss lecsp-
tiouF'
'Oh 1 guess not" responded the young
man. There will be such crush"
'Oh, yessec," said the minister. "allse
Washington like belize fullee."
THIS did the shrewd representative OF the
F!owers Kngdoad refer TO Che ffee.lunchipg
thauia Of Washington soeietf.
The Chinese minister during the rast sea,
son has been throwing Himself into the social
vortex with an nergy aud Tiger that would
do credit to q man thirty years younger.
Having Watched ia ecstatc raptures the
movements Of the modetn waltz during The
last year, and having been compelled 10 lie.
cline the earnest requests of scores OF ladies
to meander with them in the gid,iy mazes OF
The dance the minister last December made
arrangements to receive private Instructions
In dancing, together Nth lis tfaifsiatot,
LANG Shung, and couple 81 ether ,Ineni-
beers of the legation. Mondays AMI Thurs
days, with an unvarying regularit', these
representatives of oriental aristrocracy could
be found at Miss Wilson'S, presp!rng la their
efforts 10 aCQu re acknowledge oil the Three
aud twq-step waltz, and making glitiering
circles, Of blue SILK and tiisel Rs they Nhirlcd
arouhd ehdifs. and cdrromed against sofas In
the apartments Of the fair danciti :-teaeher
No more inspiring anil insp titing Sight has
ever been seen In Washington than the
Chinese minister plenipotentiary, with his
spectacles bobbny up and down on his nose,
clasping systematically the fa'r-haired Ameri-
can maiden, wildly endeavoring 10 eiudc her
train as it swept over the floor, and dodging
her fairy ike feet as they trpped through the
maze Of the pGlka: As result the Chinese
minister can nov dance the tw0-step WALTZ
as well as the average 10-year-Old American
scho6l.bOy while his agonizing eontortions
10 tile polka would throw Mr. Dodwotth into
commissions Of iiierriment. He FEELS how.
ever, quite satisfied with bis progress, and at
one of Mrs. Whitucy's receptions couple OF
weeks ago paraI, zed ali byslanders knock
ing over three foreign diploma.es and doub-
ling up waiter with tray OF wine-glasses as
he skipped festively down the floor with his
four-inch soled shoes, bobbing serenelY UP
and down In the festive wa tz.
That Chinese minister 10 not devoid OF
gratitude for the social attention paid him
NAV be seen BY visit to some Of the ladies'
parlors Id Washington. where, hanging on
the walls or displayed conspicuously on
tables, are seen the New Years gifts of his
excellencr. Like most of his nationality, he
never allows a Chinese New Years to pass
without giving profuse evidences of his re-
gard for his friends. How deeply attached he
is to his dancing teacher NAV be seen from
the fnct when Chinese New Year came
around this year he sent her most gor-
gcously decorated pair of silk stockings,
which she now has hung on her parlor wall
with Chinese dragon above them.