The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-04

spite of overwhelming numbers
of little darkeys- about, in a way that
would be thought scandalous in other
centers of population. Besides the
swarming descendants of darkest Afri-
ca. one notices in the most fashionable
sections of the city peculiar admix-
ture of foreign born boys and girls.
Most of the latter are children of the
diplomats, jabbering at their play in
a very Babel of tongues. A Chinese
lad from Minister Wu's legation-the
small son of a secretary, his queue
tucked into the back of his coat-plays
top every day in the aristocratic pre-
cincts of Dupont Circle, with all COM
ers, black or white. There, too, pref
ty nurse-maid letters away the spring
afternoons, wheeling the swarthy baby
of one of the Turkish attaches. In
another little carriage may be seen the
daughter of the Austrian ambassador,
who-though only a baby, is already
full-fledged countess in her own right.
In fact she is heiress to a double set
of titles. longer than her own small
person, inherited from both her father
and her mother.
Mr.. Shen Tung, first secretary of the
Chinese legation, married pretty
American girl few years ago-and
they have several children, all bias
eyed and copper colored as they make
em in China. One often meets the
whole family on the streets together,
packed into an automobile. Not long
ago one of the young Shens was i'll,
and in consequence the butler of the
Chinese legation found himself with a
troublesome order to fill. He went
about from store to store, from grocery
to grocery, from restaurant to restau-
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on which was written the cabalistic
words, milk tops" He had no more
idea than the man in the moon what
milk tops means; but it was under
stood that the doctor had ordered them
to save the baby's life, and so they
must be had. even if they grew up
the tallest trees in the uttermost parts
of the earth. One grocer asked if
turnip-tops wouldn't do, and dry
goods merchant thought that probably
cheese cloth was intended. Finally the
butler went back in despair to the
legation and explained that there was
not milk top to be had in all this
heather city. Mr.. Shen dispatched
him to the doctor to ask if some other
medicine might not be substituted for
the unattainable. The physician looked
at the paper and showed signs Of be-
ing amused. His prescription for Mr.
Shen's baby might literally be termed
milk tops" but that was not what
the man of medicine called it. He had
said to Mr.. Shen that the baby re-
quired the richest milk obtainable, and
that it should have only the tops of
the bottles in which the milk men of
District of Columbia deliver the daily
supply-in other words, milk that has
some semblance of cream about it,
One of the most charming of Wash
ington babies is the little daughter of
Senator Quay. She is small hoyden
"a regular tomboy, in fact, preferring
to play with the boys, to climb trees
and tumble into the fountains with
the rest of them. Two grandchildren of
the late James G.. Blaine reside in
Washington and take active part in
the pastimes of the very youthful
smart set" One Of them is the little
son of Walter Damrosch. who married
one of the Blaine girls: and the other
is Walter Beale, whose mother was
Hattie Blaine. The Garfield grandchil-
dren-sons and daughters of Molly Gar
field Brown-number FIVE. Their brown
eyes and yellow curls show the COM
bined characteristics of their brunette
mother and red-haired father-young
Stanley Brown, who was President
Garhelds private secretary. Perhaps
the most remarkable child at the capt.
tai is the son of Lieut.. Peary, the Arc
tic explorer. He BORN in the far
north Of Greenland. and his mother