The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-12-30
THE REIGN OF FRlvOLITY.
NoDoDY AT WASHINGTON DOING
SERIOUS THINNING.
Everything Civen u 90 Holiday
HRppines~-The Heturn 81 the Let
tiers Prom the Far Enst-Mmc. WI.
wife 81 tse chinese Minister,
mranche. ON ON Mcr own IInnk.

wife OF the chinese Minister,
Branches ont on Her own Hook.
Warrington. Dec. @-This week wash
inrton is a temple q fryollty NO one en-
teriaius serious Thought but on the
contrary tho world IS looked u.on as a
stage. Tor hleh comedy aud the p'tycu
are recruited from an ranks of society.
Weather conditions are Intoxicating to
the blood Spring coats for thc mon ana
tac lghtest sort OF attire for the women
testify 90 the balmy season that seems
more like April than December, MoHt OF
the fashionable SET played solf on Christ.
mas day. cabinet officials. supreme Court
Judges and senators taking advantage ot
The holiday TO gambol on the green A.
torncy General Griggs is the most cnthn-
siastic OF The lot. aud romantic figure
slways. FOR BE- sets ono thinking Of the
portraits OF I.ord Byron-he appears g.
groat advantage on tho links
Tho Puritan fathers would be dismayed
could they have witnessed the fryoliy
of the Christmas celebration in this city
K Is not a custom of long standing this
continuation Of fashionable distractions 90
Vanity Fair even upon tho day OF thc
holy nativity. but iu recent years an hol-
idays have seen thc gay round of teas
and dinners goire merrlly on 10 the age.
lompanymcnt Of music aud light chatter.
Teasing ana flirting Society 40 the IA
uonal Capital is q glddy-go-round. lihn
the story of ilippits Hop, once ser eonk
Z h cannot stop
The Southern Christmas IS ushcrcd in
like the Northern Fourth of July the
u "A 90
there is no suppressing the Nonlh or
America throughout che night before
Christmas and tho day Itself
The Letter Function.
Tho great social event OF the week WAS
the Letter ball "Wednesday night 10 war
In The nature OF return Ca society oi
the rich Levi 4. Letter, three years an-
seuce from town being sufficiently hong
TO shclve one. socially speaking. fuiiN
I six hundred guests were eutart aiued JOB
the most regai manner, aud the famous
mansion was comparatively free 81 palms
and floral decorations. the object being io
allow the guests Co behold the splendid
new eastern effects that have crcpf INTO
every apartment as the result % the re-
cent sojourn OF the Misses Letter 30 ln-
dia
Much humorous speculation has been
I making a good-natured round as To- just
! the amount Of Eastern life the Letter
girls imbibed IN India. whore they refused
any number OF matrimonial offers nom
nabohs. rajahs and English nobility in the
service. according 20 gossip but aside
from returning 10 Washington with
distinct style OF their own, ana a habit
OF cigarette smoking after dinner. there
seems 10 be little change la the decided
| beauty OF the younger and the ordinary
comeliness OF the elder daughter Ok tho
house. Daisy Letter Is as dark az gypsy
and wears her black hair a "a IAngtry.
while other girls affect the pompadouf
dip. ana high couture. This style Is
most becoming. ana with the profusiou cf
pearls that appears with an her costumes.
/ she is a striking figure always Adjt.
Gen. Corhn a paying Miss Daisy marked
attention. and % was an inopuortane case
Of influenza that confined this gallant
officer 20 HIS room on the night ca the
Letter ball.
Twentieth Century Speculation.
| Such a lot % twentieth century talk
| First the yellow journals weGt crazy over
| twentieth century speculafions. and now
the people have taken % up. tlll one hears
little besides The eternal prol.hesles as 90
/ what Will occur On the next hundred Year,.
I The craze has not escaped tho faddisia
and what one harllens 10 these days ln
| Washington g. not Happy Now Year"
/ but ~ wish you a Happy Twentieth Cen
fury" Think Of 81, As ~ ono years
wishes we're not sufficient with which 20
be burdened aud the modern person has
now TO staFger under the load OF wishes
| covering a century.
New Feature.
! Nine. W.. wife OF the Chinese minister
I has blossomed forth this winter az an in
dependent personality. Formerly she
never appeared without her husband or
her American teacher aud interpreter
I Now. despite the fact that she suffers un-
told fortunes ia walking upon her tiny
I feet Nine. WI Enilies forth Ia her auto
! noodle every pleasant afternoon. with
only her young son for company. and
makes from elk 10 a dozen visits. She
has finally overcome her nervousness la
I carrying on q conversation ia English,
and was very interesting IN her views on
I Washington life ia a talk Wish me r.
/ Gently.
/ they rush, how many things they 10
I Susp.sc,t the ladies have not time 70 look
90 the linen closet. 20 the pantry, 20 much
I they 20. 20, go The Chinese woman o.
/ the good house lady-is that word rightt
she look under her furniture for dust.
she no 20 out the house, she stay ~ 70
/ keep n. I have learned here Ia wash
/ inrton 90 20 out sometime, /but not in
Inc morning. only the afternoon You
/ come see me before lunch, you and me
/ very busy AT work
This ls q novel thought. the wife Of u
Wealthy minister stopping 10 her home
/ each morning 20 keep house" but o -
/ exactly what shis capable little woman
/ does. ana more. too. Madame Wa e an
economist OF the rigid sort. while her
| good natured husband Is exactly the re-
/ verse. II Il a standing Joke Ia society
that when charitable entertainments are
| on the tapis Madame WI must never be
| APPROACHED with tickets. but that the min
| lster IS good for round dozen.
| Il Is curious chat. despite the, universal
/ aversion 10 the Chinese as q class. MEM
/ beers OF the legation here IN Washington
are universally popular. The attaches and
| secretaries arc Ia demand az all young
| peoples functions and tho most highly
/ thought ofs glfls 90 alone with them 20
/ the theater, ride Ia automobiles and 80
/ out dances on the stairs and behind palms
according so the nature OF young things
/ 1 have never seen an Oriental engaged In
a tWo-step or waltz. All things else he
| does after the manner OF the born Ameri-
can when smoking. the Chinaman does
not hold his cigar between che first ana
second fingers. but always with tho
thumb and FIRST finger.
New Years Reception.
As the Irishman who was 20 be hanged
I - 49,. rarnarlraI ttaHurr fhfa rrfIf 81.