Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-31


pier about May Yohe's life In Yokohama.
This girl has been in japan for year.
She lived near the Strong menage and
saw a good deal Of the goings-on OF that
famous couple.
She says they went to one hotel as
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith, but they had trouble
there and went to another hotel as Mr..
and Mrs. Strong. BY that time all the
English-American set in Yokohama
knew who they were.
Publicity compelled them to leave the
hotel and they rented a splendid house
living there under their rightful names
as Lady Hope and Captain Strong. They
were then spending money like water.
OF course, every one gagged them on
prices, but they didn't seem to care.
They rented furnished house on the
bluff, where the best people live, and paid
an enormous rental for it. They brought
two black servants with them, but added
a, retinue Of servants to this list From
that moment they made themselves con-
spicuous by the way they threw money
to the four winds.
Every one hires jinrizishas, but these
two purchased their own and had q huge
Up. b. s. painted in gold on the panel.
They used double the number Of men
to a jinirkisha that any one else did, and
these were dressed in livery, la ia
panese. with the gold initials embroid-
cred on the back of each.
They entertained gorgeously. Always
men; no women ever went near her. She
gave dinners and lawn parties and late
suppers with dozens Of English and Amer
lean men at everything. On Sunday they
had the band from the hotel and as 1t
banged away on the lawn the marvellous
May did few fancy dances she had left
over from her vaudeville stock. One OF
these consisted in her kicking of her
slippers at the end, to be caught by the
guests.
Whatever was sensational that she and
Captain Strong did.
She rode through the streets in the most
marvellous toilets, wearing all her gor-
geous jewels The now famous diamond
swallow was always in evidence. She was
the delight Of the shopkeepers. She was
familiar figure at the frequent Japanese
sales, where she would invariably buy
two-thirds of the stock. Bronzes. curios,
silks, tapestries. old prints, jewels were
bought by the thousands Of dollars worth.
The Anglo-Saxons learned never to try
to get anything she wanted.
They bought recklessly to make a show
and to get talked about more than any
thing else.
Miss Yohe was loud-voiced and made
herself heard, and felt II she wasn't
recognized in any public place. She en-
barrassed terribly the daughters of H.
Clay Evans, the pension commissioner.
They were at Uikko in the same DINING
room with Lady Hope and Captain
Strong, and stared at her probably bit
harder than they did other strangers be-
cause she was uaking herself quite con-
spicuous and was wonderously gowned.
Suddenly she stood straight up and called
at them:
IT refuse to be stared at"
So loud were her defiant tones that the
proprietor had to demonstrate with her.
The evans girls walked into a dining
room at Yokohama several days later
where she was. and she called out, for all
the people to hear:
There are those beastly Nikko
women"
This story went the rounds of ships and
clubs and houses in Yokohama and II
frightened the women so that they never
dared look straight at her or say any
thing that she could hear.
The joke of the tour, however" said
the Bryn Mawr girl, was when Strong
and May Yohe were compelled to give up
that house and took one in Missionary
Row. Even the natives saw through the
humor of that. AS for Captain Strong,
his face seemed to grow more democrat
ICED every day. He had a weak, dissi-
pated look when he first came there. but
these characteristics seemed TO be more
accumulated every time / saw him.