The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-16

moment later she had not Feen near her
a small boy with his hand in a woman's
pocket. "Oh, see that little pichp0cket'
she gasped aloud. The hoy turned toward
her. He was a little Italian, with the face
OF a seraph, only wearing an expression
of impudence and mischief, which seraphs
are not generally supposed TO wear. Was
he frightened? Not a Bit He had tin
horn in his hand, and, putting it to hIs
lips, blew a blast of saucy defiance and
was lost in the crowd. ''But the impu
dence of it ALL" said the woman telling
the story. 4 think l should have enjoy
ed taking him by the coat collar and
handing him over to the police"
Don't you dread people who meander
on In long-drawn-out detail about their
own concerns?" exclaimed Mrs. Ego, 10 a
New York Tribune man. Il sat next TO
MI Langweilig a the Bs' dinner last
night, and 1 never was so bored A clev-
er mineralogist is bad enough, but a stu
pid one is uncomfortable. His whole con-
Versation consisted of elaborate eXplana-
tons of the why and the wherefore Of
unimportant events and happenings in his
own family"
Her listener laughed to himself, for he
mad just come from his club, where he
had happened to see Mr.. Langweilig.
am just going to Mrs. Ego's.' he
SAID to Miss --, won't you come along?"
10 that lady at a dinner at the Bs last
evening, and l am sure, she must be
talked out as far as l am concerned; il
was one steady stream about herself and
her family, from soup to coffee. l assure
you l could not get in a word edgewaysn
Did you hear that Jack W. had mar
ried again. said one of his friends, a
frail looking little man, who. from under
the shadow of his stout wifes elephantine
proportions, looked like a pigmy. THE
lady fair is a widow, / am told" he con-
tlnued. unconscious Of the parallelism,
who Is as tall as a grenadier and weighs
considerably over two hundred, and the
contrast with Jack. who is a small man
Is, they say, irresstibly funny"
How comical 1t must be-" said his
companion, grinning.
Yes" Uttered the little man, land the
amusing part of il is that Jack is serene
ly unconscious of the comparison that
people cannot fail to make, and struts
about as proud as a peacock"
The charming wife of the new Ameri-
| can Ambassador to the court of Italy,
Gen. William f. Draper is one of the
most talked of women on two continents.
| At the recent brilliant state function at
| the Quirinal, in Rome, her distinguished
beauty, the elegance of her toilet and the
| magnificence of her Jewels made her easily
| hrst among the many other lovely women
| VINO were on that notable occasion the
| guests of royalty. The beautiful Ameri-
| can, we are told by the cables. made
| most marked impression upon Her Males
| ty Queen Margherita, who were she not
| a woman of broad and generous senti-
| ments, might well have envied the admir-
| alton showered upon the wife of the new
Ambassador by the entire assemblage
OF course, says a Rome letter in the
| New York Herald, no one here who knows
a a he
! favor with which she was received and
| the social success achieved by her in
| Rome. AS a diplomats wife she is to the
| manner born for she was Miss Susan
| Christie Preston of Lexington, Ky, her
| father being the late Gen. William Pres
ton of that city. Minister to Spain dur
| ing Buchanan's administration
Mrs. Draper is indeed an excellent Illus.
| tration of what distinguished women
| America can produce. A member of a
| family of Southern statesmen and public
| men, allied by blood and marriage with the
| Carlisles, Breckinridges, Clays and other
| leading families of Kentucky, she pos
, sesses the inheritance from distinguished
| ancestors of fine presence, keen wit and
| gracious personality. The Prestons of
! Kentucky We're as notable for military as
| for civic success, exhibiting in each field
| OF public endeavor a singularly high de-
| gree of ability and achievement She was
born about forty years ago.
| Mrs. Draper was educated almost Who'll
! ly abroad receiving careful and thor.
! ough education at the Convent of the Sa-
I cred Heart Paris. She has repeatedly
| been abroad before and since her mar
riage, on May %, 1890. Prior to her mar.
riage she was one of Kentucky's lead
| ing bellies, justly enjoying the highest So
! cial distinctions of the most exclusive So
| ciety of the state. She frequently came
| in summer to Eastern watering places.
| and in 1889 met Gen. Draper and others
of his family at Narragansett Pier.
The majority of fashionable Partisan
| women are just now buying a new as
! sortment of jaunty chapeaux These will
| assist in tiding them over to the early
| spring millinery. Many of the newes,
hats are turned well up at the side and
| large bird is worn beneath, next the
| hair, apparently Strengthening stray ring
! lets. On many of the hats, between the
crown and the turned-up brm. another
! bird is perched higher with wings out
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