The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-24

senators and representa- s and the
thousands who follow in their train.
Already the hotels are crowded and
prices, as usual, have mounted sky
ward. Representative David B. Hen
derson. who will undoubtedly again
WELD the Speakers gavel. is re-estab-
lished in his old quarters at La Nor
mandie and working like a beaver.
The genial General is in excellent
excellent health and spirits. On his
way here he stopped in Chicago to
attend a banquet of the army of Ten
nessess, in which division he lost
leg during the Civil War. Like most
wearers of the button, he never misses
chance to re-une with his old com
rades. -
Senator and Mrs, Fairbanks have
reopened their Washington home
for the winter. Their daughter is
with them-Mrs. H. r. Allen
of Indianapolis, who will accompany
her mother on short tour South AS
president general of the d. A. r., Mrs.
Fairbanks goes next to Charlottes-
Vile, Va, to attend the State Conven-
ton of the society in that city; later
she will go to Atlanta, Ga, to take
part in an elaborate programme, ar
ranged for Nov. 81.
Mrs. Eugene Hale will spend the
winter in foreign travel. The Misses
Evans, daughters of the Commissioner
of Pensions, have just returned to
Washington, after veal, $ absence in
/ foreign lands. Their travels included
visits to China, Japan and the Philip
pines. Miss Cockrell, daughter of the
Senator from Missouri, is still at her
Western home, where she has Deen
nursing her uncle Mr.. Ewing, through
a long and dangerous illness. She will
not join her father here before the last
of December; and her younger sister
Anna Cockrell, who is in a convent
school near Paris, will not return to
America for a year or more Mrs
Phil Sheridan has been at West Point
for several weeks, attending her only
son, Cadet Phil Sheridan, Jr., who has
been at deaths door with typhoid. He
is now convalescing and Mrs. Sheri-
dan is expected to rejoin her daughter
tomorrow in their Washington home
Mrs. Root, wife of the Secretary of
War, has had similar experience with
her son, Elihu Root, Jr., who is slowly
recovering from a long siege of ty-
phoid. She is still at his bedside, in
New York city. Mr.. and Mrs. George
Cabot Lodge have returned from Par
is, where they have lived most of the
time since their romantic marriage
which took place in Boston nearly two
years dSO. 1COl SC W. SAAA1ho
has sold her Washington house to At
torney General Knox and gone to
Southern California. 1t is not likely
that she will ever live here again.
though very fond of the social life of
the Capital, in which she has been an
important factor.
Ex- Senator Marion Butler of North
Carolina, the youngest member the
United States Senate has ever known,
paid Washington a few hours visit last
week, departing for New York in the
same day. 81 am out of politics for
good and ALL said Senator Butler. Il
am now in business and make money
and don't get jumped on, as did in
the Senate"
After declaring that he will never
marry until he has won the cup, what
will be the disappointment to Ameri-
can feminity if Sir Thomas Upton
should decide not to build another
yacht! The troubles of Mr.. WI, the
Chinese minister. are unceaSing. His
present worriment is caused by the
three little maids from school, whom
his wife brought back with her, on her
recent return from summers visit in
the Flowery Kingdom. The little maids
aforesaid are attracting altogether too
much attention for Oriental ideas of
propriety, especially as Mrs. WI prom
ised their parents that they should be
kept in as careful seclusion as at
home Both the Chinese minister and
Mrs. WI Ting Fang go a great deal
in Washington society, but the pretty
young visitors will not often be al
lowed to venture beyond the legation
walls Poor little almond-eyed maid
ems. with their dozens of chests full OF
finery. which nobody but a few stupid
| secretaries Of the Chinese legation VIII
see. though their tiny feet are fairly
aching to trip into the midst of the
fairy-like revels of this (to them)
strange land! No suitors need apply.
Persons walking down Twelfth street
are treated to a novel sight in the
show window of popular bird-store-
that of an enormous python tucked up
in a bed quilt, with his head protrud-
ing, peacefully asleep. For some weeks
his snakeship coiled up contentedly IN
the bare window, until the weather
grew chilly. Then his owner tossed 1t
a cotton filled comforter" It is safe
to say that the python had never seen
anything like it in his native Jungle,
but after a careful Investigation, he
decided to make the best OF circum-
stances. Now he squirms himself IN
to his nest about O'Clock every after
noon-and when settled for the night,
looks exactly as if somebody had put
him to bed and tucked him in, like a
baby in it's crib.
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