The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-15
THE NEGRO IN EUROPE.
His Color SouetAsne s Secures for Him Pr
cedenoe Over the White Trash.

THE NEGRO IN EUROPE.
cedeBoe Over the white Trash.
When was first at Vienna, some
years ago, I.remem ber that the favor
lite and the constant playmate of the
Young Archduchess Valerie, daughter
Df the emperor, was young negro,
named Mallmored, who had been en-
ployed in the Egyptian department of
the international exposition of 1873,
where he h sd> taken the fancy of the
empress to such degree that she at
tached him to her household. Not
outstanding his color and the infer
loritv Of his rank, he was treated with
greater condescensiOn and familiar.
lty and admitted to much more init
macy, not only by the imperial chill
dren, but also by the empress, than if
ne had bornet one of the most illus
,rious names in the Austro- Hungarian
nobility.
At Lisbon I.have been present when
The king solernnly and in the presence
Of his whole court invested three full
FLOODED negroes from the coast of
Africa with the dignity of knighthood
Of the Order of Christ, and one of the
principal persDnages of the kingdom
was an aged negress who had been
with the queen ever since her mar
riage, and who was chief of her
maiesty's attendants and maids.
The man of color enjoys favor and
consideration in the old world that
those who have never visited Europe
~ill find it difficult to comprehend.
He is made much OF, petted and adj
snired, especially by the fair sex. Be-
fore we had been long in London, l
found that my negro attendant, who
was acting for me as valet and courier,
was making money at a rapid rate
and in a somewhat peculiar man
ner Some of my readers may be
aware that the soldiers of the Lon
don garrison supplement their scanty
pay by taking servant girls out for a
walk In Hyde park on Sunday after
moons. On that day the girls deck
themselves out in all their finery and
aping their employees. promenade in
hyde park, usually up and down the
banks of the serpentine. Man does not
like to be alone, and still less does
woman, hence the girl feels the neces-
sity of suitable escort, not SO much
for the sake Of Conversations the look
of the thing. The consequence is. that
they secure the services of a soldier,
who promenades them in the park for
n couple Of hours for stipulated sum,
after which they escort them home and
leave them at the back door of the
house where they are employed. There
Is a regular tariff-an infantry man
having to cont ent himself with a shil-
ding, whereas the. far more stately and
imposing Life and Horse guard receives
as much as q half crown.
While my black servant, Mike was
in London he seriously interfered
with this source of revenue of
the British army. 1t seemed as
If ell the cooks and servant
girls in South Kensington, where /
was stopping. we're bent on having him
walk with them on Sunday, conscious
of the fact that his color would attract
more attention to themselves than an
ordinary trooper or even a sergeant of
the Horse guards So active was the
competition that I have known Mike to
be paid as much as six or seven shil-
liugs for promenadins with stout and
Misunderstanding cooks for couple of
hours along the Vanity Fair of Hyde
park on Sunday afternoon
In Paris the attention OF the fair sex
to my coiored gentleman became a
source of considerable embarrassment
TO me. and had great trouble TO pre-
vent them from completely turning the
boys head. They served, however, to
convince him that he was inmeasura-
bly, superior to all other men servants
of the white race. His conceit became
amazing. and / remember that espe-
cially when. on the day after the death
of the late king of Hanover in Paris, !
went to his ma jesty's house in the Rue
do Prosburg to write my name on the
visitors book, / was astonished to see
Mike iD the act of coming out | had
not time to speak to him at the mo-
,nent but a minute or two later. when
lnscribing nv name, ] was Mortified to
Sea. in large and scrawiing hand. that
OF Mike at the top of the page and fig
uring just between that OF Lord Lyons.
the British ambassador. and that OF
due d Aumale.
On reaching home Immediately in
quired what on earth he meant by such
a piece OF presumption, whereupon he
was good enough to inform me that he
had overheard me saying that it was
the correct thing to do. and that mas
much as the crown prince Of Hanover
now known as the duke of Cum srrland
had tipped him on several occa-
sions quite literally. Mike considered
it only proper to take this means of
conveying to him his expression of
sympathy for the loss he had sustained.
Modern Society
\ Parallel Case.
10 you mean 10 say, grocer, That
you are going to charge me for the
few crackers and raisins that my boy
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