The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13


| Washington, but it certainly will not De
| before October The Secretary of the
| Interior, whom business has held here,
hopes to join his family later IN TINS
| month at their cottage In Monadnock.
Mrs. Payne has spent the past few
weeks in Washington, in her spacious
apartments at the Arlington Hotel,
which will probably be their home
| during the whole of the Postmaster
| Generals term of Office They had ex-
pected to go away this week on fall
trip, but the exigencies of business
having detained the General in town,
| Mrs. Payne will remain with him. 1t
is not likely that they will be able to
get away again this season. Miss
Louise Jones, Mrs. Payne's favorite
niece, will join her here again for the
coming season, but will not arrive
before November
The Secretary of Commerce and Mrs.
Cortelyou are still in New York on
their belated outing. but will proba-
bly, return to Washington this week.
The Attorney General and his family
are having such delightful time at
Beverly Farms that they will not come
back to their Washington home until
| 1t is absolutely necessary. There is
no lovelier place on all the north shore
of Massachusetts than Beverly Farms
The great house, called pitch Pine
Hail." is the property of Mr.. Otis
Luke, and is leased for a good round
sum by the third officer of the cabinet
for the summer. The superb colonial
house is built for comfort, as we'll as
for show. There is a large billiard
room in which the Attorney General
spends much of his time, every men,
Der of the household, Mrs Knox in
Guided, playing a good game. Be-
! hind the house are commodious sta
bleS filled with blooded horses, all the
Knox family being particularly fond
| of riding and driving. At the close
| of last season Mrs. Knox found her
self with health greatly impaired, ow-
| ing to the strain of Washingtons So
cial life and the trip to Florida with
! her eldest son. She has greatly i'm
proved since going to Beverly Farms,
and it may be that the trip abroad,
! postponed from last winter on account
of her low state of health, will be made
| in the near future. Miss Rebekah
Knox does not like the quiet of the
! Farms and has spent most of her sum-
mer at Atlantic City. She was great
! ~ disa ppointed at not going to Eu-
! rope as was planned last winter, and
is already INDUCING in the pleasures
of anticipation for the coming season.
| The second son, Hugh Knox, will enter
| Yale this year and will not come to
| washington WIN the family. AS Lney
| are all going to valley Forge" the
new farm in Pennsylvania, recently
purchased by the Attorney General,
| the family will not arrive in Wash
ington before the end of October.
The White House doors are again
| open, after having been closed most of
the summer, undergoing interminable
repairs. Visitors are again trooping
| 11rI, H. 49,.
and the first floor Railways; but they
are not admitted to the three parlors,
or the state dining room. They may
| get a glimpse of the glories of the lat
ter, however, by peering over
each others shoulders from the
| Railways. The ceilings of the
parlors are covered with white
cotton cloth, as is also most of
| the furniture, to protect them during
the summer weather. The celebrated
piano, too, which was presented to the
White House by firm of piano manu-
facturers as the best kind of an adver-
tisement, has been returned to New
| York for repairs. The Colonial gar
dens," which was Mrs. Roosevelt's idea,
are now far enough advanced to indi-
cate what they will some day be. They
have been laid out in the grounds south
OF the White House, close to the two
wings of the Mansion. All the old
fashioned flowers are to be found there,
including mullin pinks, boneset, CO.
| lumbine phlox. poppies daffadils and
hollyhocks. The water garden. also
under way in the south grounds, prom
Use TO become one of the sights of
washington. The half dozen ponds
there are all to be utilized by the water
gardener Seeds of every known vari-
ETY. of water plant from all parts of the
world have been obtained and planted
In the muddy bottoms. Next month,
perhaps earlier, the whole area will be
covered with floating pads" and ex-
qulslte plossoms-white, blue, pink, yell
low, red, all the hues of the rainbow
cobined. The White House gardener
promises that 1t will be a sight not to
De seen anywhere else in this country.
IN all the world. One of the many
varIeIles that have been planted is the
VICTORIA reg1a, giant of water lilies. n
comes from Brazil, where it was dis
covered few years ago on the hanks
Oh one OF the tributaries of the Anna.
1on' When full grown it's leaves are
l9lly SIX feet in diameter and are turn
trays. The native women in proeti
place their children upon them wbiIa
they PICK from the pods of the Miami
ne seeds which they make into a kind
VI d bread. The flower of the Victoria
t9sId Is sometimes foot and a half in
S ana mas most delicious ner-
t t' IL is white when it opens. bur
ttuihs' PINK the second day. The Egvne
!lan lotus has been used oonsiderebI,,
~ the White House water gardens T.
one or the most beautifuI of A.,
eLs. "A single seed of the lotus -
,nro"n into pond, will soon comnJa+a
~ cover the surface of the water p,ith
us huge leaves and blossoms ~ win
sem DIE enormous pink tulips
b,d ne olamese minister and merbers 90
US US dtloh are said to be in great 5o
Sc oy society at Manchester bvetbe-
Sr sc sad one hostess NThe littIo
o ~ vi men sip tea so daintilv ana
sraVely that they seem to have b ailu
porn porn Tor nothing else" Bv fine 1yo,,
soclety is considerably disturbed go
q precedent established at recen+
uuIIlner given to Wong Kai Kah ana
niIie' wong in ST Louis by the WorId,s
Falr commissioners. Mr.. Wong is tbe
Speciai Chinese commissioner 70 AZ
WORLDS Fair, and the dinner in oueso
Ilon was given to introduce them ~
| iocaI upper-tendom. When the coffeo
had oeen served and the ladies were
ABOUT to retire to allow the gentleroao
10 smoke, one of the COMMISSIONER
produced package of cigarettes whicb
ne proceeded to pass to the ladies. Some
OF them were thunderstruck. but the
commissioner explained in an enerpetic
| whisper that it was Nine Wone's in
| variable custom TO iOin her bi,sbo,a a..