Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-15

behind their fans and smile Ingenious
~ at each other or toss about bit Of
pleasantly in the lanAage Of China.
When they found a camera levelled at
them they put up their fans to shield
their faces but made no other protest.
With something like awe and rever-
ence in their manner they entered the
mansion where George Washington
lived and died. From room to room
they slowly jourpeyed. pausing here
and there to read little .placards ex-
planning the various apartments and
their contents. The texture of fabrics
and the ancient style of the musical
instruments seemed to interest them
most. In the kitchen of the old place
they nearly burst into laughter at the
pots and pans and great spoons and
knives and forks which hung about the
walls.
Chung acted as their guide and ex-
planned things as best he could while
they took all he said in credulous ST.
lence. He bought a souvenir postal
card for each of the young ladies and
gravely presented the tokens with a
speech They touched nothing about
the place nor did they make Chung
weary with questions. They simply
looked and listened like the well-bred
young ladies they are.
Late in the afternoon when they had
made a tour of the entire place. in
Guiding a peep into every nook and
corner in the mansion, kitchen, stable,
and servants houses, and after they
had stood in reverend silence with
bowed heads before the great tomb
itself, they travelled YEARLY but hap
PLY back to the entrance to wait for
WI whom they had now completely
lost in the crowd. They had kept
within sight of him, during the early
part of the afternoon but when he got
to talking and asking questions and
finally stopped to make a speech to a
crowd of school girls who nailed him
on the front pOrtfco of the mansion,
they lost him altogether.
Wu's journey through the place was
somewhat different from the journey
of his party. Nothing came into his
range of vision that did not call
forth a question from him. He seemed
bent on getting at the detailed history
of each article on view, from the
warming pan in the North Carolina
room to the banquet board in the din
ing room. OF course he found every
body willing to answer his questions
ard perhaps his curiosity was satisfied
even If some of the answers did go
wide of the mark.
Whose bed was that?" he asked at
the threshold of a sleeping apart
ment
Nellie Custis's bed" some one re-
piled.
"she slept on it?' v'
Yes
what those steps are for?"
For her to climb into the bed
"Ah! She climb into bed with cteps.
Yes?"
Later on he came to the room where
an old brass warming-pan hung on the
wall.
what that?" he asked.
"A warming pan" he was told.
Whats a warming pan?'
"They filled it with hot Goals and put
II in the bed to take the chill away in
the winter time"
"Ah! 1t didn't burn the bed?"
mo. Simply warmed it,
'They didn't use it in summer time.
MOP"
mo"
why not?" And he smiled.
But the. informant had fed. and WI
quietly took OUT note book and made
in 1t some characters which might
mean that he will introduce the
warming-pan as a household article in
the Chinese empire or it might mean
Inat ne na0 IOund CnlneSe custom IN
vogue over here.
Before the tomb of Washington WI
halted for a longer periodfthan at any
other spot. He reverently gazed
through the iron bars at the marble
caskets of Washington and his wife.
He asked what they were and looked
surprised when informed. The idea of
having the caskets where they might
be seen perhaps struck him as some
thing unique. He wanted to know