The Tupelo journal., 1902-12-19

men and warriors have long consid-
cred it the plum of presidential ap-
pointments.
a poor man is never appointed to
such a post. First, the poor man
would never have the money to enter
tain sufficiently; second, he would
hardly have had the necessary train
ing; third, the wife of a poor man
would not have received a sufficient
moun of polite education to enable
her to fill the position well.
Mrs. Joseph Choate began life as a
rich girl. She was well educated in
the schools of 60 years ago and re-
ceived a training according to the
standards of those days. When she
married Mr.. Choate in 1861 it was
said in Boston that she could pour
tea better than any other young mat
ron at the hub.
Mrs. Choate was once a great beau
ty. But Al years of married life or of
life spent in the wide world, in one
country and in another, will take
away ones actual prettiness, though
the years will bring something else
just as admirable and thai is what
they have brought to Mrs. Choate.
She shows refinement of the lady
of society, the repose of the woman
of the world. the finesse of the dip
lomat and the high polish which
comes of rubbing against the best
people of all countries.
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London are as famous as the speeches
of the ambassador. She gave a series
of dinners last winter, at which the
table decorations were the finest
ever seen on a diplomats table. Rea-
soning hat the feast must be partly
of the eyes, she ordered her foris;
to trim the table with all the flowers
that were of the season and to use
them with a lavish hand.
An annual event of much interest
in the ambassadors family is that Of
the celebration of his birthday. Then
a grand dinner is ordered and Mrs.
Choate dresses in a fine new gown
which is made in Paris for the event.
Although still a young man in APP
pearaDce, or at least briskly Young.
Mr.. Choate will soon be II years old,
and when in January the birthday
fete takes place Mrs. Choate will
need to burn II candles in honor of
the vent.
Throughout her husbands career
Mrs. Choate has been a power, not
from the standpoint of~assisting him
in his public work, but automatically
and through her family connections.
Like Mrs. %Chauncey NJ. Depew, she
plays the highbred lady's part and
does it so extremely we'll that her
husband is much assisted by her thor
ough work.
Mrs. Choate is the owner of very
fine emeralds, which are Mr.. Choate's
favorite stones. She obtained them
while on a trip to the orient and She
wears them on important diplomatic
occasions.
Mrs. Choate has done a great deal
for Americans in London. To the
house of the ambassador go all
Americans in distress, and to the am
bassador'S wife are turned over all
cases of women requiring aid. Mrs.
Choate has restored runaway girls
to their American homes. She has
supplied money to musical students
out of funds, she has extended her
hand, and even her roof, to penni-
less artists, and she has put hundreds
in communication with their friends
at home.
Mrs. Choate and the ambassador
have always been singularly devoted
and rarely is one seen in public with
out the other. They travel together.
and, besides a~ffording a noteworthy
example of diplomatic excellence,
they furnish one of extreme matri-
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