The times., 1898-10-09
SOME CONVENTION SKETCHES.


Washington in connection with the trien-
NAL Episcopal convention are the two
pretty young Japanese women teachers
and missionaries from Tokyo, Japan
They are Miss Una. Tsuda and Miss Fu-
deka Watanabe, the former of the Peer
esses' School for Girls in Tokyo, and
they are. perhaps. the first real live ex-
amples of the great good which has re-
suited from American missionary work
in the Orient. y
Miss Tsuda is apparently the elder. and
is more familiar with the customs and
language of Americans than her COM
panion. She Is less bashful, too, and at
the Woman's Auxiliary meeting in Con-
vention Hall Thursday She read her own
address in a clear sweet voice. with a
perfect pronunciation and enunciation of
every word. She may be said to have
made the decided hit of the meeting. The
ten-minute rule was in force while she
was speaking but at the expiration of
her time the audience vociferously de-
manded an extension. which was grant
ed. and she completed her address.
Miss Watanabe, the younger. had also
prepared an address, but she delivered 1t
by proxy. the Bishop of Tokyo reading it
for her. She is remarkably pretty. with
bright, intellectual face lustrous eyes
and most delightful smile Her coal
black hair is combed up and back from
a broad high forehead, in Japanese style.
which heightens the picturesque beauty
OF her face. She is modest 10 the verge
of bashfulness. however, as, indeed. is
Miss Tsuda, and the attention which the
two have attracted since they came to
W,
barrassment
Both the young ladies were sent to this
country by the Japanese Board OF Educa-
ton to attend the Federation of Womans
Clubs in Denver some time ago, and after
ward by the express order of the empress
of Japan they were sent to Washington
to attend the triennial meeting of the
Woman's Auxiliary to the Board of Mis-
sions. They wear the native Japanese
costume of Powered silk, and wherever
they go they are the center of attraction.
Even d procession of bishops in full can
onicals does not attract as much atten-
ton.
The following story is told of one of
the stately members of the House of
Bishops. 1t is not new, but it is timely.
The bishop, as the story goes. was only
young clergyman then, and If it is true
he still retained a fieeting memory of the
worldly days which preceded his ordna-
ton.
One morning a young man appeared at
the rectory of the church of which the
bishop was then the pastor, and with
every appearance of contrition, said:
Doctor, inadvertently dropped small
disk of blue ivory into the offertory when
impression that 1t was silver half dollar,
which it resembles in size. If 1 can get
it back 1 shall be very glad to give the
fifty cents in it's place"
The future bishop looked at him with a
merry twinkle in his eyes and replied:
NO. my young man, 1 cannot return
the piece of ivory for. so cents. A blue
chip calls for s..
A stately, dignified gentleman, of pleas
amt mien is his honor. Herbert S. Nc
Donald, lay member of the deputation to
the convention from the Church of Eng
land in Canada. He is a Judge of the
County Court of the united counties of
Leeds and GreenvilleS in Ontario. and is
well known in this country as in Canada
for his interest in matters of the church
Judge Mcdonald was educated at Queens
University. Kingston where he received
the degree of NJ. A He was called to
the bar in 1863 receiving his appointment
to the bench as junior Judge only ten
years later. This is not his first visit
TO this country as a representative of the
Canadian church, he having been a dele
gate to the general Episcopal convention
in New York in 1889, and in 1894 he came
to Washington as delegate to the gen
eral convention of the Brotherhood of ST.
Andrew.
Judge Mcdonald and HIS clerical col
leagues, Archbishop Lewis and Dean
O'Meara. have been around the city a
good deal since their arrival and recep-
ton by the two houses of the general
convention. To Dean OMeara the trip
was an especially delightful one as it
was the first he had ever made ito Wash |
it's impressive public buildings have not
been lost upon any of the visitors The
Rev Mr.. Williams. rector of Trinity has
accompanied them to several places of
interest in the city. and yesterday they
accepted the invitation of Col. Cecil Clay,
president of the Boys Reform School, and
accompanied him TO the school. Mrs
Lewis. wife of the archbishop, was in the
party They expect to return to Canada
next Tuesday.
Her Idea.
From the AtChiScn Globe)