Evening star., 1899-03-18
THE WAYS OF WOMEN
Pauline Pry Chats About the
Peeuliarities of Her Sex.
UP TO DATE AMERICAN LASSES
How Wives Secure Pin Money
for Their Use
KNOWING SCHOOL GIRLS
KNOWING SCHOOL GIRL

Have you heard that the item of $35o, 900
for government building appropriated by
Congress for our display at the Paris eN-
position was secured with the high hope
and great expectation that the President
of the United States will visit the eXposi-
ton? Only such countries as anticipate the
presence of their ruler erect these national
buildings at the exposition, and Commits
sioner Peck is making this provision Incl
dental to the exercise of every possible
means to insure the Presidents visit In
any event, the Presidents official alter ego,
Vice President Hobart, has positively prom.
ised to be present. To oppose the Presi-
dents going is the general notion that the
President of the United States is prohib-
tied by law from travelling outside the ter
ritory of his country during his term OF
office. A member of the commission tells
me, however, that he fails to find any au'
thority other than precedent in support of
this notion-that he has not discovered any
such restraining law in existence. But all
that is neither here nor there, really, when
Won reflect that Commissioner Peck is a
Chicago man. and when Chicago gets out
to do anything. from moving a twenty
story building to a ruler of nation, Chi-
cago knows no such Wofa as lali. MoiS r.
over, should Mr.. Peck find 1t absolutely
impossible to carry the President to the
Paris exposition, Chicago will simply rise
up and bring both the Paris exposition ana
the President to Chicago. mat tLe way way
they manage things in Chicago. whether
it's the worlds wheat or worlds EXPOSE
ticn. u,
Americans generally have a singular anil
ity for accomplishing their ends "Nh"u.
much reference to obstacles or means; "a
member of the diplomatic corps was teiiins
me recently of rather remarkable ekpe,ir ,,r
ences they have at his embassy WIN o"i
great American people.
said he land I'm sure you would not pe
lieve many of the odd Things tnat happen .,
For instance, sightseers in Wasninstoh
seem to regard a foreign embassy ana the
ambassador as quite as legitimate objects OF
curiosity as yotrr monument or your fresi-
dent. Frequently we have "onleh-il iiloS. ,
often women-come to the embassy anu o.
for the ambassador, who Is awfuily-simpfy
awf1Flly-atta ached to the notion that one OF
the first duties of his office Is to make ms ms
nationality popular in the foreign country
where he resides We poor uevils a,;,,e, VI 60
retaries are positive slaves to this toucnniS
sentiment He insists on cur ansWerlhN9
every crank letter that is received-ralses
an awful vow If we don'teand lnsaEfaoIs
resnonds to these requests TO be seen, even
since he has found out what they mean
Time and time again women ,'Pefieci
strangers to him summon him 10 ths aEaWi. Hi
ing room-to look at him. Just tnal-0illy
that They do not introduce theHisslNes
marble men in statuary hal-
when the ambassador speaks to, them
they appear to regard it as nefelV propei
exhibition of what he can do IN that iiie
oh yes he speaks; quite human almost
American in his intelligence apparently
But they do not let this interrupt their op-
servation. They continue to look AT MIN
If thew have not finished examining the
drawing room before he enters they DO
this and retire. It's the honest truth. the
ambassador has many such visitors, VINO
come, stay, stare and go, without ADDRESS,
ing to him one word. OtherS-qulfe com
rnnnIy very forward school girls-Will quiz
him about all his personal affairs at nome
and especially about the emperor charac
teristics and ha bits in respects which could
he known only to the emoerorS valet
During the button craze of your last presi-
Dental campaign pins of every description
were at a high premium in the emoassy.
We had all of us scarcely a button left
Even our visitors suffered. One young lady
would not leave the embassy until she had
a naval button of certain design. EAfnaVal
officer. brother of one of the secretaries
was visiting US at the time. and we stole
the coveted button from his best uniform,
in obedience to the command of the ambas-
sador Your American women are charm
ing. but they certainly have very much
what you call nerve.
X re-'
When one thinks how dreadfully- this
sort of thing must upset those foreign
chaps 1t relieves my national feminine
conscience mite 10 KNOW now foreign
young woman-the niece of the Russian
mbassador-succeeded in getting the
nerves of an American dignitary
Mile. de Cassin adds to her other charms
the fascination that attaches to a woman
who deals in occult lore. She is an earnest
palmist. young and pretty woman is
never so attractive as when graced with
the air of mystery that emanates from a
knowledge of weird sciences. but Mile de
Cassini is oblivious to all this and takes
palmistry very seriously. She has dug
into end of curious old works on the
subject and studies the hands presented
to her not for the fun to be gotten out
of them. but a geologist would study
rocks, or naturalist would study animals.
An unusual hand fills her with the en-
thusiasm of genuine student and she for
gets for the moment. everything but the
10y to be found In a rare specimen.
A venerable and tremendously important
man-one who is very incarnation of the
"arrogance Of office''-cadled at the Russian
embassy recently bent on a solemn errand
of state. He was just in the act of handing
his card to the servant, with request to
see the ambassador. when Mile. de Cassini,
who was waiting to pass out the door,
caught sight of his hand. AS an entomolo-
gist would swoop down upon strange
beetle, the fair palmist grasped the official s
hand
'Oh. what a remarkable hand! Please
this way, There! Do sit down-oh, what
curious. curious hand!'
And the old gentleman. his awful dignity
all askew. was seated beside the Irresistible
enchanting but wholly inexplicable young
woman, who proceeded to trace the marvels
of the times upon his palm with no more
concern about the man attached to the
palm than if he had been twig upon
which the entomoiegist had found his
beetle. When the ambassador appeared in
productions and explanations We're vouch-
safed. but / doubt whether the old gentle
mans colossal self-importance will ever
recover from his experience as mere data
Of a young woman's scientific pursuit
So far as I myself am concerned there is
nothing the modern young woman can do
that surprises me. Take her altogether she
reminds me very much of Gauter's charac-
terization of his most celebrated heroine:
Her innocence Is of the knowing sort
and her virtue has about town a bit in its
day"
I am especially impressed by the know
ingness that attaches to the modern school
girl, who, by the way, attains quite a re-
markable age at the end of the century.
frequently have a girl from a fashionable
seminary in town stopping with me few
days. She is twenty-five years old She
comes from the west where she had been
officially out in society for two years
when it occurred to her, as it does to many,
to take a second round'' at school Being
old euoIph and by he Sarpo fnlap u,;rx