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

NY - ASHINGTON, May SAC
X/ cording to an ancient GUS
wv tom OF his country Mr.. w.
T. Fang. better known per-
haps as WI Ting, Fang, the
Chinese minister. has made a pilgrim
to the tomb of the dead. This pilgrim
age. made, last week, was to Mount
Vernon. the tomb of George Washing
ton.
With Mr.. Fang went Mrs. Fang.
Miss Fang and several little Fangs.
Maybe. though, the odd looking little
ones were not children of the Fang
household, but since everybody who
saw them thought they were they
made the party quite as interesting as
\ II they had really been little Fangs.
The entire party. except one boy,
wore the queer Chinese afternoon out
ing costume. In the matter of dress
Mr.. WI Ting Fang was distinguished
from the feminine Fangs only by a
black silk skull cap. for they all wore
trousers and they all wore the loose
blouses which so closely resemble the
American workman's overall jumper
cut en- train. OF course the material
of which the costumes were made was
the choicest oiled silk to be had in the
Oriental markets and II sparkled and
shone In the sunlight until the sheen
was painful TO look upon. The promi-
nent colors throughout were black and
pale blue, though one of the young la
dies had FIVE stripes of purple braid
sewn about the bottom of her sky
blue trouser legs. They all wore Orien-
tai shoes except one elderly looking
lady who had her poor, pinched feet
encased in new patent leather boots.
Before the pilgrimage was half done
this dame was supported between two
attendants as she walked. and the ex-
preston on her face plainly showed
she was not supremely happy.
The boy whose costume varied from
the others wore a suit Of American
boys clothes with a stylish straw hat
with a buzz-saw brim. His long queue
was plated and half hidden under his
coat but the lower half hung below the
coat and made the boy appear to have
a tail like a monkey, though he was
od-looking boy even II he did wear
thick spectacles.
The hair dressing of the feminine
members of the party was a wonder
indeed. The elderly ladies wore their
glossy black hair in nets at the back
of their necks. but the young ladies
had caught theirs up in a coquettish
knot over the right ear where IT was
ornamented with exquisite green and
red and blue bejeweled flowers. Not
one OF the ladies wore hat. Their
oval faces. one and all, were delicate
" enameled. Each lower lip had a
brilliant daub % carmen paint right in
the bend OF the Cupids bow. They
all carried fans. of course; even Mr..
WI and Mr.. Chung. his first secretary.
Mr.. WI also carried the only umbrella
in the outfit and, since he was some
few hundred yards in advance of the
others during the entire pilgrimage.
its grateful shade fell only upon him
while the ladies, hatless though they
were, trotted along patiently and APP
parently satisfied under the full glare
of the monday sun.
No one outside Of the Chinese lega-
ton knew the minister and his house
hold were going to the tomb of Wash
ington until an automobile with four
COY young Chinese ladies on the seats
appeared at the Mount Vernon railway
station. A crowd Of excursionists from
Baltimore had been standing for half
an hour at the station waiting for
train when the auto came up and un-
loaded it's pretty burden right in the
crowd. OF course there was a rush
to see the Chinese maidens and the
impotence Of the excursionists gave
way to admiration for the Oriental