The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-17

with the large per centage of Indifferent SER
wants congregated, owing to the mass of un-
trained negroes set loose in the District, and
left by their irresponsible parents to grow up,
Topsy-like, unrestrained and untutored in the
important branch of domestic avocatiop for
which fate has ordained the race. Yet oc-
casionally there occurs an instance, even with
the most carefully-tutored domestics, that
renders the position of the hostess one wherein
the virtue of patience and smiling uncon-
ciousness during moments of most trying en-
barrassment is called forth in no stinted meas
ure. Mrs. Manderson, wife of the Nebraska
Senator, was recently called upon to exercise
this virtue of forbearance upon the occasion
of dinner party given in honor of ex-Minis-
ter Palmer during his last visit to Washing
ton. Just as the guests were seated at table
and the oysters on the half shell were served
the hostess discovered that the beautiful set of
silver oyster forks upon which she prided her
self had been forgotten by the waiter. AS it
was too late to rectify the omission, no al
lusion was made to the want, and the course
was concluded by the substitution of the ordi-
nary forks, which, in assorted sizes, were
placed at each cover. No further cause for
embarrassment arising, the dinner passed off
enJoyably Mrs. Henderson, as she afterward
confided to me, consoling herself with the
thought that as there were only gentlemen
present the omission would, according TO
popular theory, pass unnoticed Not so,
however, as the sequel proved, and not long
afterward Mrs. Manderson was made the re-
cipient upon Christmas Day of handsome
case containing two dozen beautifully-de
signed silver oyster forks, the gifts accompa-
MED by card from Gen. Palmer wishing her
all the joys of the season, and probably the
donor will never know until perchance this
article reaches his eye, the true explanation of
the absence of the usual table setting upon
one memorable dinner at the home of his
valued friend and former associate in Con-
gress.
MRS. TSUI KYO YIN AND HER LADIES.
One of the most entertaining sights in Wash
ington is to be seen each Sunday afternoon by
the strollers in the neighborhood of Dupont
Circle, when, upon any sunshiny day of the
early spring weather. the ladies of the Chinese
Embassy, always accompanied by their re-
spective lords and masters, come forth for an
airing. Time was when these dainty wives of
the Orient were so carefully secluded from
the gaze of man that when upon the rare
occasions that permission was given by the
Minister to his wife and female attendants to
issue forth from the seclusion Of their cham
bers for an hours exercise In the enclosure
back of the Legation, due notice was invaTia-
bly, given in order that the members Of the
Embassy might withdraw from view and be-
hind closed doors await the permission of
their Minister to once more resume their vari
Gus ayocations undisturbed by the beauty of
the gentler sex. This rule, however, no
longer prevails, and, owing to the rapid ad-
vance of progress in the emancipation of
woman, which has penetrated even to the
walls of Stewart Castle, for SO long the resi-
dence of the representatives from China for
many months past the ladies have enjoyed un-
precedented privileges in an extended prone
made in and around the numerous public
walks of the neighborbood, their faVorite hour
being the period preceding the early twilight.
Their picturesque appearance as arrayed in
their national costume, so faithfully depicted
upon every tea chest, with their abundant
jetty locks artistically piled high on the top of
their heads and stuck through with variety
of long jeweled pins, attracts universal atteIl-
ton. Their tiny feet, scarce larger than
child's of three years OF age, shod with high