The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-23

VI Mile DtSpldiANu6Ss WIZ
is here as the guest of the young
Countess Cassini. The bride-to-be is
q tail and very handsome girl of 49,
with exquisitely fair complexion and
dark hair and eyes. She is a former
school chum of the Countess Marguer-
lite and was her guest last summer in
Paris. NJ. Desplanques, father of the
young lady, formerly of the French
diplomatic service, is now one of the
directors of the Russian-C Chinese Bank,
with a residence at Nagasaki, Japan,
and is said to be fabulously wealthy.
He is now en- route from the Orient
to France, and is expected to arrive
in this country in time for his daugh-
ter's marriage. The groom-t o-be is
Count Alexander Pablof, a middle
aged man, and the present Russian
minister to Corea. That he is very
much in love may be taken for grant
ed, considering that he secured a long
vacation from his diplomatic post and
Travelled all the way to the United
States with the young ladies' and their
chaperones, and will remain in this
country, the guest of Count Cassni
until he can take away his wife
Washington's Four Hundred who are
intimate with the Cassinis are MOURN
ing the fact that they will be barred
from witnessing the picturesque Rus
sian marriage ceremony in the Greek
church of New York.
What will Washington be without
Minister WI Ting Fang, who has so
long been a beloved though somewhat
spectacular figure here, with his
gorgeous robes, his yellow ANTONIO
bile, his interminable questions and
his boundless hospitality? He is al
ready on his way to his native land,
by the shortest route-going home for
promotion, it is said; but we all know
that in China they have an uncomfort-
able fashion of promoting with an ak
He is not accompanied by his family.
Mime. WI, who has been sufficiently
Americanized to travel alone, with her
suite, will shortly go to Atlantic City
to visit her son Choa Chou, who is in
school there. Later they will sail
from San Francisco and join the ex-
minister in China. Nobody has any
but the kindest feelings for Mr.. WI,
and the universal wish is that his new
post in Shanghai may prove eminently
satisfactory. His successor, the COM
ing Chinese minister, has many ac-
quaintances here. He is at present a
bachelor, but is said to be engaged to
be married to the daughter of a Chi
nese minister at a foreign capital. The
young lady, whose mother is a Euro
'pean and whose life has been spent en-
tirely abroad, desires before her mar
} riage to live for a time in China, in
order to do something toward emanci-
pating the women of her country from
the thralldom under which their lives
are passed. Perhaps the most effectuaI
way to begin that good work would be
to put little strychnine in the morn
| ing tea of the Dowager Empress.
Mrs. John A. Logan has invitations
| out for a reception to her daughter
| and son-in-law, Maj. and Mrs. Will
! liam Francis Tucker, in honor of their
25th wedding university. on Thurs
day evening, Nov. q, at Calumet
Place, the Logan home in this city.
Mrs. James CT. Blaine and her
| daughter, Mrs. H. B. S. 'Bea1e, have
returned to their Washington home
| for the winter. Mr.. and Mrs. James
| G.. Blaine, Jr., have given up their ap-
(, partment in New York city, and are
| again visiting Mrs. Blaine's parents
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Philip HIGH
born. Mrs. Blaine, the bride of a
little more than a year, has about
recovered from the severe illness
mer.
It has been repeatedly stated of late
that the aged widow of former Presi-
dent u S. Grant is in her last illness
and that her death may be hourly
expected. + have it on, the authority
of her physician that although she
has been confined to her room for
several weeks past, her condition is
not considered serious, being merely
the result of chronic indigestion. Mrs.
and Miss Mcmillan, widow and
daughter of the later Senator McMil-
liam, who have fingered later than
usual at their summer home in Man
chester, Mass. will leave this week for
Detroit. Mrs. Stephen b. Elkins and
Miss Katherine Elkins, wife and daugh-
ter Of the West Virginia ex-senator,
have gone to New York for a week or
so. They will be frequent visitors to
the horse show, where Stephen Il.
Jr. is a box-holder. Miss Elkins is
not debutante, as is so frequently
misstated, but a girl of 16 with
two years more in school, Adjutant
General and Mrs. Corbin are also in
New York. where they will spend
several days with Mrs. Parsons, Gen.
Corbin's daughter, at her home on the
Hudson. Mrs. Parker wife of Col.
James Parker u. S. A., gave charm
ing tea the other afternoon in honor
or Miss Elizabeth Young, daughter of
Gen. S. B. N. Young, the occasion be-
ing In the nature of a welcome to the
OCduhilul girl WHO mas come 10 pre-
side over her fathers newly establish
ed household in this city.
Senator Foraker was one of the re-
cent arrivals at the Virginia Hot
Springs, where ne will spend ten DAYS
or so, in the effort to get rid of his
rheumatism. Mrs. Foraker is still in
Cincinnati with her daughter and SON
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Randolph Mat
thews, who celebrated the first ami
versary of their marriage one day last
week. Senior Don Mario Carrillo, second
secretary of the Cuban legation, and
Sonora Carrillo have taken rooms in
an apartment house for the winter
Sonora Garlic is the youngest ma
, tron in the diplomatic corps, which
this year abounds in young women
and brides. Though Cuban born, she
was educated in New York and speaks
English and French as ,huently as her
native tongue. Mr.. Louis @. Labas-
tida, Jr., the newly appointed third
secretary of the Mexican embassy, has
arrived at his post He is young.
good-looking and bachelor; and
therefore 1t goes without saying that
he will be a favorite in Washington So
ciety.