El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-16

J invested nearly S40O, 600 in a block o
Santa Fe railroad stock for the benefi
OF the daughters who have not ye
reached marriageable agee.
One cannot be long in Honolulu with
out seeing the All Fong girls. They
ride great deal, and they are always
unitedly interested in entertaining PEG
J pie of polite society who come on
visit to the islands. The girls are no
literary, and only two or three are
painters. They speak Euglish correct
ly, and French, Kanaka and Portu
guese fairly. They are good singers
and have the love Of the Hawaiians for
string music. For years they have
been famous for their graceful waltz
Ing. Many young naval officer has
sailed away from Honolulu harbor with
fond remem brances of his first appre-
citation of the soulfulness and beauty
of Strauss waltzes after one OF the al.
most weekly hops in the lball room al
the All Fong home. A few years ago,
when Mrs. Capt. Whiting lived at
home, and there were eleven unmar-
hired by contract to furnish music for
four hops a week, all winter long, at
the All Fong home.
The chief charm of the thirteen sis
tiers is their dashing style, their grace
full conversational ability cultivated
by association with the naval officers
and the finest tourists who come to
Honolulu for weeks at a time), and
their excellent taste in color and ar
raugement of their gowns. Having
| large wealth and natural genius FOR
color effects, the All Fong girls have
been famous in Honolulu for their WON
derfully fetching gowns.
A modiste from Paris has been kept
at q good salary for over ten years near
the All Foug home, and she devotes all
her talents solely to the mother and the
periodically to New York, and even
thence to Paris, to send each
time some thousands of the Alb
Fong fortune in boxes and cases
OF the latest Partisan feminine vani-
ties and conceits. Sitting on one of
the many piazzas at home on warm
afternoon in their variegated gowns of
silks and chsllies, the All Fong girls
present an idea of q big, jolly bouquet
OF colors. One has afterward a CON
fused recollection only of group of
merry girls in vivid scarlets, pinks,
magentas and half dozen other shades
OF red and purple, with parasols.
sashes and ribbons galore in q score OF
harmonious and striking hues.
Mrs. All Fong Is a thorough diplomat
In the administration of her big home
her five married and eight unmarried
daughters, besides her five American
sons-in-law. She manages the family
estate we'll. She could give valuable
points to many an American woman
who is daily graphing with problem
as to how to marry most suitably her
only daughter. Every six months now
as'' the . AS ron Is home. wedding Ing
pagoda mansion is always open
to the girls friends. Every gentle
man, naval officers especially, who is
asked there was sure of warm well
come. Dinner parties have been given
there hundreds of times. All of the
officers aboard ship or any gentleman
ly tourists in the city who were friends |
OF any OF the All Fong girls have al
fast, luncheon or dinner-or, if be-
tween meals, to cooling drinks, cigars,
and always warm-hearted cordiality.
The All F'ong girls have never been
1T all backward about letting people
know their Chinese blood. Indeed,
hey still have a large and costly por-
'rsit in oils of their father, in all his
celestial finery, hanging on the wall Of
he drawing room at home, and they
point to II as their father. They used
70 joke about how their papa preferred
he absurd tinpanny music of Chinese
orchestra to the strains of q band on
BOARD an American man -of-war. Even
Without their money the Misses All
Fong would be the most popular girls
n Honolulu. They have become pro-
lc1ent tennis players and are fair at
Whist and poker.
The marriage of Miss All Fonp to
>apt. Whiting, United States navy,
ave the family its greatest social pres
ige, for, Notwithstanding Wing All
'ong's wealth and the rare hospitality
the home, the Chinese father was
yer in the minds of manageable
Dung men who we're friends of the
retty girls there. When 1t was an
ounced that the courtly, dignified and
roud Capt. Whiting was soon to wed
11ss All Fong the affair was nine
ay wonder in Honolulu and San Fran
isco. So the wedding of the veteran
avail officer and Miss All
ong was made SO grand an affair !
nat it is still told over and over in
laval and on the Pacific coast. The
larriage has proved q very happy
ne. The couple has beautiful home
lose beside the All Fong mansion in
honolulu, and there two children have
cen born to the Captain and his petite
ride. Mrs. Whiting is devoted wife
nd mother. When she and her husb-
nd were In San Francisco two years
90 ceremon1Ous attention was bestow-
l upon them by many people who had
liked In whispers about the strange
ass of the marriage a few years be-
ire.
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