The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-15

Parsons are about completed. The GER
emony will occur next Monday after
noon, at the family home in Cleveland.
Bishop Leonard will officiate. Dinner
will be served on the wide veranda of
the mansion and roses of the red
rambler" variety will be the chief dec
Grafton of the drawing room. The
brides dress is of white satin and point
lace and her attendants are to wear
lace dresses. The summer will be
spent at Sault Ste Mary where Papa
Hanna has recently bought a cottage
for his daughter. Afterwards the cou-
pie will live in Cleveland"
Senator Mason's Washington home
was the scene of a very pleasant event
last Saturday evening, especially for
the young folks, when Miss Winnifred
Sprague Mason gave a dance and
lawn party in honor of the regimental
officers of the High School military.
The Spacial rooms and lower halls of
the residence were draped with Ameri-
can flags entwined with the school
colors. Miss Mason was assisted in her
duties as hostess by her father and
mother, her sister, Ethel and Ruth,
and by two or three of the High
School teachers. All the schools of the
city were represented by the regimen
tai staff and by the officers and men
of their respective companies.
Senator Jones of Nevada will retire
from public life when his present term
expires on March 4 next. He has been
in the Senate continuously for thirty
years, and could remain thirty years
longer if his life was spared for that
length of time. He says: Il am now
70 years of age, and while am still in
full possession of health and all my
faculties. 1 do not want to linger SUI
perfluous here. I would rather step
down and out while 1 may be regret
ted"
Senator Beveridge of Indiana is uni
versally recognized as q wonderful let
ter writer, his genius in that line be-
ing equalled only by his ability as an
essayist and orator. One day last week
he received a striking tribute to his
epistolary greatness. In his always
heavy mail Senator Beveridge noted
one letter in an unknown hand, gar
nished with a black border, and he
paid it the Difference of reading 1t
first. 1t was from the widow of late
constituent, and read as follows:
yours of the 14th inst. received. My
husband read it himself. He died same
evening of heart trouble"
y Washington lady of my acquaint-
anCe says she likes the Japanese bet
ter than any other domestic servants.
but that even they have their draw
backs one being that they are bound
to leave you early in the fall, as many
Of them are college undergraduates.
Discussing the eternal servant question
1T a ladies' luncheon the other day. this
lady said: Just now l have Column
bia Junior in my dining-room and a
Harvard divinity student I'm the kitch-
en-. Last winter had a chamberlain,
who was highly recommended to me by
a fellow-Japa nese who had worked for
me off and on, year or two. The new
man was very slight and small, nice
looking and respectful; but not at all
good servant, because his mind seemed
to be on other things rather than his
work. And then he would ask me such
profound questions! l really could not
answer them. And he always had
book in his hand, even when making
the beds. Finally l had to tell him
that much as / liked him in many
ways, ! should be obliged to let him
go. Every well, Madam" ne says.
with the bow of a cabinet minister;
and to my surprise he went that very
day, without waiting for his money.
As money is supposed to be the thing
they work for, l wondered and waited.
But he came not, and at length wrote
to the japanese through whom I had
engaged him. making a particular
point of the unpaid wages. The man
wrote back to me not TO worry about
that: that my ex-chamber-ma was
not in need of money; that he was a
prince. who had come TO America to
travel and observe: and that he was
going 10 write book on our manners
and customs and thought that the best
way 10 learn them was 20 live a white
"a A rnaffear hpFgahpfd Fancy NV
feelings! Since then ! have been care
ful not 20 engnge any more unknown
japanese servants for fear 81 princes
In disguise. or, worse yet "A cbiel
among ye takin' notes."
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King Alfonso XIII Of Spain had q
special photograph taken IN celebration