The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-26
eoME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
xce BENRY's VISIT RECALLS
ruAT OF KING EDWARD.

-, 10 DIushing-Harrfet Lanes
sonse in the Matter of Dress.
cround for Romance in Con-
lion with Miss Roosevelt and
80 uepry-A Bride and Groom
who Are Expected With treasure.
nut. New Carnegie Library-Some
inscription of It-Mudd's Bad Mis-
o,her Matters of General In
tercst.
.,-,shipeton. Jan. 24.-The speedy
,nr If Prince Henry OF Prussia re-
Ills the visit that King Edward made
-a-many years ago, when ne was
&c and charming, in the language
Ti++le Buttercup. In those callow
,.,.s the future King of England was
INV, and awkward youth, hopelessly
~.aicted to blushing-oh, the changes
= time,-and very easily entertained.
u.ohanan was President and his young
and pretty niece Harriet Lane now
Nrs .Johnston) did the honors of the
.-,,h;te House most gracefully. By the
u,o,. she is still a resident of Wash
,rgton power in society and beau
Yfnl woman, though Father Time has
,bitened her hair and left some marks
Of his chisel upon her countenance.
Dur when the Prince of Wales was
bera she was tall, slender and grace
fnl with glorious dark eyes, the love-
Host pink and white complexion and
wealth of chestnut hair that had
ol;nts of gold in it, She was a famous
borsewoman, too, with but one local
rival in that line-the beautiful young
wife of stephen A. Douglass, who after
wards married Gen. Williams, you re-
member. and died about two years ago.
The two ladies' used to gallop all over
the District of Columbia, often togeth-
or their respective grooms Gathering
along behind-just so many PAGES dis
tant. as custom required. Miss Lane
used to go almost every day over to
the Georgetown Convent, in which she
was educated to visit the good sisters
who were always her dearest friends.
Probably it was to their wholesome
+aachings that she owed the rare good
sense which enabled her, even as a
girl in her early teens" to defy the
mandates of fashion, to a certain ex-
tent. 1t was the era of enormous
hoops you know, and the extremely
decolete bodices that went with them.
tenders, in a modified form; but sharp
" drew the line at low-neck dresses.
While all other leaders of society, 4
Young and old, obese or Scrawny, dis
played their elbows and collar-bones,
or, TOO too solid fesh,'' often to the
point of indecency-Miss Lanes bod
ices came we'll UP under her dainty
chin and all her sleeves extended to
the wrists. OF course, the bashful
Prince straightway fell in love with
the modest and beautiful girl, and the
social chronicles Of the time assert
that it was not his fault she did not
don a coronet.
Those who are romancing about Miss
Roosevelt and Prince Albert William
Henry, might as we'll spare their mag
ination such lofty but fruitless flights.
The fact that the Prussian Prince is
already happy Benedict-with a half
grown son and another infant prodigy
ren0uneed as the Baby Bismarck
might not be an insurmountable OBJ
stacle in the domestic annals of Kings;
but while the laws of Modes and Per-
SLAMS may change, and death and tax
es be sometimes evaded, no power on
earth can successfully introduce a
mere daughter of the people into direct
succession to a throne. Do you sup
pose that is the reason why there are
so many atrociously ill-favored, in
sane, under sized, not to say under
witted, members of royal families in
Europe; because their progenitorS,
having been compelled for centuries to
marry and inter-marry within their
own small CIRCLE, are so nearly related
to each other--some of them first cous-
ings, double and twisted half a dozen
times over?
1t is significant of buried hatchets
and all that sort of thing, (doubly sig
milcant, since women are VIGOROUSLY
longest to keep a feud alive, that the
southern Relief Society, organized nine
years ago to aid needy Confederate
veterans and their families, is now
Principally conducted by the wives and
daughters of those who fought on the
other side. Mrs. Roosevelt's name
neads the list of patronesses; followed
crosse by that of Mrs. Jefferson Davis.
Inc list is long one, including names
prominent in every phase of Washing
NJ rUh soclety-Lady Pauncefote, Madame
WI, Mrs Root, Mrs. Knox, Mrs. Lodge,
mrs sehley Mrs. Sartoris, etc. The
VIE wiIe OF Judge Howry of the United
S.ales Court of Claims, is president of
ule society and Mr.. Robert E. Lee,
"ephew of the famous Confederate
mdLrlef' is chairman of the ball COM
.nlltee. The annual dance which al
ways Yields a considerable sum of
money Is held in the Confederate Vet
tL"lS Hall which is still hung with
.liv olars and Bars and other treasured
,sncS OF the Lost Cause under which
we grants and tine Lees and other for
a deI Wearers of the blue and the grey
uance together.
washington society, and especially
sne diplomatic contingent. is looking
polNdrd with pleasure to the arrival of
aaron Ludovic Moncheur and his
'ue' VINO were married the other day
=. tne City of Mexico. He is the new
sidh minister to the United States,
~ Know; and she is the young and
to daughter of Gen. Powell Clay
p Sn our Ambassador to Mexico. The
5o anoh was a widower, his direct wife
Wing been also an American girl,
NJ 'eIt MIN three little daughters,
s ",en she died in Mexico, several years
IT, he is probably in his early for
bns ny no means a handsome man,
cr ~' one of the most genial and Demo-
yarsai, Oh the diplomatic corps, and uni
c,at,, Ilked. He is very fond of So
ter ana with view to extensive en-
banSSilllhg' has taken the large and
Da,1s house of the late Senator
IN OIL Minnesota, and furnished it
elee,May TO make it one of the most
noanatt MONIES of the Capital. The
obIa '9 e stands in the most fashion
facine1 arter OF the city, OTIS II street,
Frente me quaint old Garden of the
wbot,n embassy; and Mrs. Davis for
hau5" IL was built by a dotinp hiIA-