The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-01

blood enough to be forever remembered
by a red, red rose? Who knows any
thing about the Earl of Sandwich, in
whose name so many mysterious
things are put between slices of bread?
Who knows whether Nine. LAM
bard had lips ruby enough to sug-
gest the peerless rose that bears her
name? Who was the Mccartney whose
name is given to the Cherokee roses
twin sister? Why do we erect buildings
in memory of Gen. Nesselrode? We
speak the names glibly, but know as
little as we care about the long, dead
persons who bore them. Solferino and
Magenta are merely colors to US, but
what a tint they give to history!
Although Lord Pauncefote had real
ly exceeded the Scriptural limit of
three-score years and ten, his death
seems untimely, for nobody thought
of the stately, courteous and well-pre-
served gentleman as beyond life's full
meridian. His sudden death comes as
d shock, and is keenly felt in social
and diplomatic circles, where he and
his wife and daughters have been most
important figures for many years.
There has always been an atmosphere
of cordiality and dignity about the
DIillSA embassy with Abo Aot 81 NAAO
simply arranged rooms, and Lady
Pauncefote possesses, to marked de-
gree, the greatest gift in a hostess
that of making every guest feel him
self or herself especially welcomed.
Washington is indebted to the dead
ambassadors family for countless en-
tertainments, which were always mark
ed by simplicity of detail as we'll as by
the very spirit of generous hospitality.
I1INr ton, rNf he bc
birthday and the Christmas feasts,
made merry with English customs and
games, will long be remembered. The
marriage of the third daughter, Lii
liam, to Mr.. Robert Bromley of Eng
land, was perhaps the most beautiful
wedding in the history of ariStocratic
old st. Johns, where to buy a Sitting"
costs la creme de la creme of upper
tendon a good deal more than the sal
airy paid to many clergymen. 1t Is
said that $4,000 per annum may secure
a seat, if one happens by rare chance
to be vacant, but not by any means
one of those considered most desir-
able.
The ambassadors and foreign minis
ters will be as widely separated as
usual during the summer vacation
that is, if we really do have any sum-
mer this year. The weather remains
so remarkably chilly for the end of
May in this locality that nobody has
yet cared to go away. The French am
bassador will return with Nine. Cam
bon to France early in June. The Ger
man ambassador expects to go abroad
as is his usual custom. Herr Won Hol-
lebin is a bachelor, and as the death
of Lord Pauncefote makes him now
dean of the diplomatic corps, a posi-
ton of much Importance and influence
in the adjustment of international
courtesies-it seems more than ever
his. immediate duty to take unto him
self a wife. 1t will be long indeed be-
fore the place made vacant by Lady
Pauncefote, which lay very near to the
hearts of the people, can be filled. She
has been eminently a peacemaker by
her gentle tact and genuine loving
kindness, smoothing out many threat
ened tangles and avoiding unpleasant
social episodes. The Pauncefote fam
lily never caused nor participated in
any of the social feuds that have shak-
en- the diplomatic corps; nor have they
ever made the mistake of their less
exalted associates who from time to
time have tried to make over the ira
ditions of the American capital to suit
the desires of the minor courts of Eu-
rope. With rare good sense and taste,
they accepted this Independent country
as they found it and gracefully con-
formed to the established social laws
of Washington.
The Russian ambassador will go to
Paris after his daughter, the Countess
Cassini, in September. The Mexican
ambassador and his family are going
to Mexico next month. and the visit
will be the first Mr.. Approx has made
to his country since his appointment
here. The Austrian minister and Bar
oness Hengelmuller will summer at Bar
Harbor. where numbers of other Euro
pean diplomats will also be, for at
least a part of the season. The Italian
Ambassador and Nine. Mayor des
Planches will shortly be comfortably
established in their new embassy
home and will give a large reception
in the nature of house warming ear
ly in June Nine. des Planches, al
though having no knowledge Of Eng
fish before coming here a few months
ago, has paid such diligent attention
70 acquiring II that she can now car
ry on a conversation with ease with
those OF her callers who speak neither
Italian or French. But the Latin peo-
pie, you know, have the gift OF
tongues" and learn languages much |
easier than We Anglo zonE. The