The evening times., 1895-10-17
GOSSIP PURE And SIMPLE
Miss, Marchmont's Snap Shots at
Well-Known Men and Things.
Korea, and His Probable Future.
Society Notes and Personals.

! think, without uOuDt, tndt COuEt W elSS-
nichtwo is one Of the cleverest men in the
diplomatic corps. and few people, venture.
In any circle are better judges Of human
| nature than this foreigner, who is taken by
SO many to be only a curled darling, an
Adonis OF the tea tables.
| met him on my way down town n day
or two since, and he gave me a better
idea of the troubles in Korea and what led
to the recent Oriental war than Ihaye been
able TO gather from a conscientious perusal
! of the newspapers.
| All this apropos of our having met Prince
| PAX, late prime minister of Korea, ard an
exile in this country. He, it seems, is a
very illustrious parsonage, a son-in-iaw of
the late king, and second only in authority
TO the poor queen, who was receGtly assas-
sinated. and for plotting against whose life
| he was eXiled.
OF course Prince PAX says he did not
| plot against her life, but in those Oriental
| countries they seem to care very little for
truth, and recognize strength only.
The Count tellsme that Prince PAX, whom
he knows well. is only thirty yseven years
DID, that he is very clever, that he belongs
| to the progressive party in Korea, was the
author OF many reforms SO like our West
| ern ideas that he became immensely unpop-
ular, and a price was put on his head.
Heescaped to thiscountry, however, and now
that the queen is dead he Will doubtless be
recalled TO help patch up the difficulties in
| his turbulent little country.
Count weissnichtw wo gave a supper the
| other night to a select few" as the society
columns have it. The supper was such a
supper as only Jean, that prince of Wallets,
can order-by the way, when the Count loses
| in Wall Street again he can surely reimburse
himself by renting out Jean. i would put
myself in pawn to have Jean cater for me
for week-but the most amusing part OF
the while evening was the Counts rendition
of''WatermelonS Smiling on the Vine,' which
classic he heard when he was in New York
recently and saw Black America
Imagine the exquisite Wessnichtwo, TO
his own accompaniment on the piano, sing
ing with the greatest vim and enthusiasm:
''Hambone am sweet, bacon is good,
'Possum is very, very fine.
Oh, give me, oh, give me, Oh, how l wish
you would,
That watermelon smiling on the vine"
went over to Philadelphia the other
cay FOR the express purpose OF lunching
at the Rathskelier Or course l did not go
alone. We were rartie carree, and after
VIC had finished our kartoflen salad, our
kalb's braten, and our Erlanger, which
We drank from those fascinating mugs
with tops on, and, by the way, / trans
lated the motto on mine, We dropped into
Johns, which is short in the city OF Broth
erly Love for Wanamaker's.
Mr.. Wanamaker seemed very happy in
the midst OF his little orld, and smiled
bcnignly ON US all. He is looking well,
almost robust, since his return from
abroad, and the men of the party insisted
that he lad made an excellent Postmaster
General, and that the bizarre reception
that he gave shortly before be " vent out
of office, W here some of the guests went
into the basement for supper " ithout even
going up stairs to pay their respects, had
nothing whatever to do with his business
ability.
is not going out. When golf came in with
at once the rage, it " as thought that all
Golf has held its own, and the very smart
costume one has an excuse for wearing
when playing il is rart of the reason why
it has retained its prestige, but tennis,
fortunately, has lost none of IFS popular
ity, and there are any number of clubs
which play these sunshiny afternoons.
/ doubt il anything could be more graceful
than the poses good player uncon-
sciously assumes when practising this
game. MISS MARCHMONT.