The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-09-10
SEDAN CHAIRS In FAVOR.
The Coming Conveyance Among
the Smart Set.


Now that that august parsonage, Ii
Hung Chang. is visiting America, we
should be able to see the novel ''ve-
hicle"-a sedan chair. While in France
he was presented with one which is an
exact reproduction of the one Mime. de
Maintenon used to take her outings in.
OF beautifully decorated wood, with
perfumed leather seats upholstered IN
yellow satin, it is dream of beauty.
Fortunately, yellow happens to be the
Chinese national color, SO Ii Hung
Chang can repose in the sedan chair,
lined with that gay color, without
shattering any of his country's tradi-
tions, for not only is China the Glow
cry Kingdom" but it is quite often
spoken of as the yellow kingdom"
Apropos to the sedan chair, even be-
fore there was a hint of its being in
troduced here by the distinguished
gentleman from China, it was, now and
again, spoken of by society folk as ''ths
coming conveyance" In England, the
subject was agitated a year or so ago,
and English magazines and papers dis
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lightful illustrations, in which milady
looked so charmingly picturesque peep
ing forth from the window of her chair
that every maid and matron longcd
to add similar vehicle to her posses
sions. Indeed one grand dame forth
with ordered chaise, a poiteur made
in the highest style of the art. She
also ordered two extra lacqueys, broad
of shoulder, great of calf, and gorgeous
in livery, and she sailed forth, first in
the seclusion of her own park, after
wards she ventured abroad, to her
neighbor, Lady rs, for afternoon
tea. From that moment sedan chairs
became popular in that neighborhood
and Lady - ordered one, likewise her
grace, the duchess of -.
When Mrs. Straus, wife Of Hon. Oscar
Straus, ex-minister to Turkey, resided
in the east, she took her daily outing in
sedan chair, conveyed by two pictur-
esquely and gorgeously-attired Turks,
and photogiaph she sent to a New
York friend was one of herself seated in
her chair. It is a charming picture,
Mrs. Straus being brilliant beauty II
the brunette type, and the photograph
has the place Of honor upon Vernis
Martin table in Fifth avenue draw
ing-room.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid is another lady
who can discourse eloquently of the
delights of riding in q sedan chair.
When in Constantinople she often used
this means of locomotion; her sister
in-law, Mrs. Ogden Mills, is somewhat
enthusiastic on the subject and doubt
less when the sedan chair becomes a
part of the Twentieth century life, she
will be one of the first to order truly
magnificent one-one upholstered in
crimson damask and gold lace, and
leather with gold-headed nails.
Although upon inquiry the writer
cannot discover that any coach builders
have had orders in this country for
sedan chairs, in England number
that is four-have already been made
and more orders are expected. AS yet.
however, they have not appeared in
the public streets or parks. ''The Sum
day parade knows them not" 50 an
American girl writes home from Lon
don, 'but in the country, in private
parks or lordly estates, perhaps more
flourish than one would suspect
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