St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-09
Everybody at Washington Is
Bubbling Over With Genu-
inc POliteness.
The Chinese Minister'S Deep
Interest in Very Young
Ladies.
He Presents One Of Them
With Half a Dozen Fine.
HandkerchiefS.
Society Lightsas Scrub Wom-
Christening Of Private
81 Secretaries.
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special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON. May 7.-Washington is
one of the most delightfully."- cordial
places on all this earth. Everybody
seems glad to see you, and deeply inter-
ested in you. The street car conductor
touches his cap and says, beg PARDON"
when he jostles against you, and if you
don't find yourself feeling fond of your
fellow man and confident of the innate
goodness of the race, you ought to be at
the springs drinking the waters for
your liver, for something is radically
wrong with you. There are plenty of
people to make one welcome In the fed
eral capital, but nowhere is the stranger
within its gates received with such
sincere kindness and unaffected hos
pitality as at the home of Congressman
Castle. of the Fourth district of Min
nesota. The Castles have been
out of town the most of the sea-
son, and have just taken possession of a
suite of rooms at the Portland. one of
the fashionable apartment houses that
crowd the society quarter of the city.
The latch string is always up, and a
more delightful drawing room to drop
into for an informal chat now and then
would be hard to find. Mrs. Castle is a
sister of Col. Fellows, of New York,
though she laughingly declares she does
not at all approve her brothers. political
career.
The Chinese minister, Tsui Kwo Yin,
is most popular man, especially with
the women. He distributes gifts with a
generous hand, and, like all the
members of his legation, he is
fond of the young girls of society.
And the younger the better. too, appar-
emily. At one of Mrs. Springer's last
receptions his almond eye, as he en-
tered, tell upon little Miss Linda Web
Der. the bright-eyed and vivaciOus ten
year-old granddaughter of Senator
Palmer. Mr.. Yin Immediately asked
for an introduction to the little maiden,
and devoted himself to her while he re-
NAMED at the reception. Everybody
crowded about, and, all unconcerned,
the Chinese minister, through his in
terpreter. carried on an interesting con-
versatiOn with the equally unembar-
raised little girl. The grOwn-up women
were unnoticed, and more than one of
them envied little Miss Linda her hon
ors. Next day the minister's carriage
drew up in front of Senator Palmer's
door. and an attache delivered to the
delighted little girl packet containing
six. G exquisite silk handkerchIefs, en-
Ibroidered in the height of Chinese art,
and two little chests of the kind of tea
Chinese gods on Chinese Olympus
make Chinese nectar of. Mr.. Yin has
net forgotten his little friend since then,
but has always smile and bow for
her whenever he meets her.
If you could look over the pay rolls of
the various departments your eyes
would start from your head in surprise,
for in the lists of scrub women you
would see enrolled the names of promi-
nent society women. Do the society
women scrub? Bless your dear innO-
cent heart, no, indeed; but even in
Washington society women are not too
we'll supplied with coin Of the realm.
The government pays its scrub women
well. My lady procures such an APP
pointmeut, hires somebody else for the
merest song to DO the work and pockets
the balance 1t is very clever scheme.
but of course there is nothing really
fraudulent about it, which is more than
can be said of certain other Wash
ington schemes. Scheming is in the
air. Everybody pulls a wire or
two, and nobody more than the
private secretaries of the various sena-
tors. Some OF them aren't really secre-
taries at all, but only newspaper men
who assume the title in order to gain
the privileges of the floor. The real
secretaries are the widest OF the willy,
and if there's anything. in the world to
be had by scheming, those same private
secretaries are going to move heaven
and earth to get it.
Next to the marvellous silver hair Of
Mr.. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, the
handsomest white head in congress be-
longs to Mr.. Harries, of Minnesota.
Hair and dropping moustache are of
the same cleaning white. Mr.. Harries
has none of his family with him. but
lives up near Mr.. Castle, at the STRAIT
ford. Says Mr.: Harries: "1f the Demo
Gratis and Alliance men in Minnesota
would only unite and fight together for
Owen for governor, there would be
candidate sure to carry the state. MIR.
Owen, think, is sound on Democratic
principles, and has these Alliance
views merely as trimmings, as it were.
He would make an invincible candi-
date am an admirable governor"
r. Z.