The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-20


your affairs. 1t is all over in min
ute, so far as you are personally con-
cerned You have shaken the Presi-
dents hand, received a warm, strong,
Rough Rider grip, whose pressure you
will seem to feel for many day, ex-
changed perhaps half a dozen friend
ly sentences, and out you go with head
proudly erect and treading on air
though perspiring like a terra-cotta jar
from stress of emotion.
Another, though far less important
thing, which the vitisting woman will
find pleasure in doing while in Wash
ington, is to go, about IL a. m. on any
pleasant morning to the vicinity of the
Chinese legation and see Madame WI
take her daily airing. 1t is one OF the
most picturesque happenings in the
fashionable northwestern quarter OF
the Capital city. Sometimes she is
rushed about in her yellow-satin-l lined
automobile; but more frequently en-
ploys a rolling chair propelled by
coolie servant from the legation, when
the picture is precisely like that on
bit of lacquer bric-a- brac. promptly
at the hour of II, she appears in the
doorway of the pagoda-like residence
of the minister from China. She leans
heavily on the arm of her Chinese
maid, because the feet of this doll-like
aristocrat from the Orient are so small
that to walk on them is very ia
tiguing task When she is to be aired
in the rolling chair it is waiting at the
foot of the steps like baby-carriage,
and the maid tenderly lifts her mis-
tress into it. Then the coolie (shall we
call him 1.-The power behind the
throne?''). who has hitherto stood mo-
tionless as an Automoton, with face
expressionless as a dummy in show
window, suddenly gets move on him,
as If somebody had pulled the string
and-expressionless as ever-trots
briskly down the avenue. The maid
always accompanies her mistress, but
she goes on fot Thanks to her lowly
station, she enjoys the luxury of COM
mon sense feet, so that she is not COM
PEELED to combine with pedestrinism
the balancing skill of a professional
ropewalker. The gait of the little
lassie is exactly that which has been
SO admirably counterfeited in the cur
rent musical play of San Toy"--a sort
of tip-toe lettering in steps an inch
long. The efforts she must necessa-
rily make to hold her pace and keep
no with the chair, swiftly propelled by
the long-legged, big-footed coolie, Is a
source of infinite amusement to both
Madam WI and herself. Indeed, mis-
treSS ana iIldlu are iiht LNO NHllol Gil
i'm their daily frolic. The robes of the
minister's wife are always of the cost
lest China silk and satin, and even on
this informal morning jaunt she is as
gorgeously arrayed as If on her way to
the Presidents reception. With the
maid, however, it is different She has
no tiresome state to maintain, is al
WAYS clad in exactly the same fashion
and material-shiny black cloth that
looks like paper cambria, made into
loose, baggyc shapeless jacket and
trousers. She wears no sort of head
covering and her smooth black hair is
unadorned: while Madame WI usually
Affects a-coiffure of carnations in the
morning, and of jewels, golden chains
and artificial flowers built up in a sort
of pyramid, for the afternoon.
ipc?eSd oi.tigp top cmfwy cmrw
The dreadful death of Mrs. Mar
ourite Dickens, wife of Commander
Dickens. u. S. NJ, which occurred lit
lie more than two years ago, is still
fresh in the public mind. She was a
rich. beautiful and talented young wo-
man, burned to death in her own home
and so horribly mutilatedV that her
husband was not permitted to see her
remains. She was putting away lot
of rare rugs for the summer, using a
quantity of naphtha to protect them
from moths, believing that there was
not a spark of fire IN the house. II
seem that unknown to her, some tin
ners were repairing the roof, and one
Of them CHANGED to come down with
his brazier full Of live Goals, just at