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FIVE PERSONAL ATTENDANTS

But the Minister, though ndugent father does not
intend TO permit his daughter this liberty Indeed WASH
ngton society would grfeve If change were imminent
for since the Japanese the discarded their
native garb the Chinese the only unconventional
figures In the international New Years pageant
The young girl arrived this country about year,
ago. and since then has lived seclusion which IS
the fate of Chinese ladies high caste when so1ournng
abroad.
She has keen eyes ana bright Wit and even though
practically prisoner has peep through
curtains which veej her In the legation ana to become
familiar with things unknown to the fair ones in
the Flowery Kingdom.
Miss Lu lives In state In suite of handsome
apartments On the second :.oor OF the legation.
Her mother is dead and while her father is kind and
ndngent the girl Is very lonely sometimes and
longs for exciting fights. brief outside tn,
walls that SC closely hold
she has no fewer than five personal attendants Her
goveness s venerable Chinese dsenna of the highest
rank who Is also distant the young giris
mother Then there maid two assistants ana
eiri whose duty Is to care for the apartments
chinese lady Is supposed to nothing for herself
~ sne desires to use her handkerchief an attendant
must take IL from her bag and apply to her face
IL she wishes to quit her chair she must bs Asss..a
theSsfrom and accompanied where she wishes to 60
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T ISS LU YUNG is barely II years OF age, and nat
NkE uraly everything In Washington Is SO new,
xVA strange and interesting
She speaks but little English less French.
As her father the Minister loosely remarks
most accomplished bellies and bsaux Washington do
not speak Chinese hence the little Oriental maiden
not quite ready for formal society
participation in it's hurrying round of pleasures.
She will not even accompany her father the White
House this winter. for that would be official recog
milton OF her status In society will
iaine at the Chinese Legation.
These honors must be postponed awhile.
II she masters the intricaces English language,
however, she will be formally presentel winter
amid the most brilliant surroundings Chinese
OF high rank and opuence can command.
Her first peeps into the wonderful world of American
society will be permitted at once. however. will
quite sufficient to keep the pretty little busy
the heart in futser OF delight.
Miss Lu belongs to conservative
tial than has yet been Tn this country.
For instance her feet bound, like those of
Madame Wa and other formerly attached to the
Chinese Legation She dainty little embroidered
sandals OF red leather and trip along nnerrily
the most sprightly American girl
This aids her in desire emulate the native fe
nine product
Her young friends hint that Lu Is much inter-
ested IN American stays and mysteries OF Western
civfzaton and they that father were will
Ing, she would discard the shapeess mass of cothns
which the Chinese women and blossom forth In
Partisan inery.
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\ METHOD OF REACHING THE NoN-cHuRcHcoER

this element that expect gain our greatest
OF recruifs
Engaged In the fierce battle and butter they
soon drift away from church affiliations When they were
IN the home village they attended regularly because their
serespecs and the respect OF their neighbos compelled
then- Here IN New York they unknown, and they
are apt TO remain unknown They living In this
parish to-day and in another They have %
ties or affection for church. and they
come Indifferent TO all churches.
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STUDIES ENGLISH WITH ARDoR

The Minister viii give series OF dinner parties. be-
ginning In December but he will select his
the ladies OF the diplomatic corps It IS unlikely
that Miss Lu VIII be allowed to the drawing
room when the coffee Is served She will the whole
pageant from her nest In the upper foor however and
the result probably will opportunities
father to hasten the time when she downstairs
and be part of this bewildering spectacle.
She understands that the date her appearance In
society depends upon her progress In the English
and consequently she applying herself to study
with renewed ardor spurre by her desire shine
a belle I'm Washington drawing rooms
Next will witness this unusual spectacle
debut Of Chinese girl OF high rank beauty
Her boudoir prison will open its doors as charming
feminine chrysalis futtered dantily into the
whiri of society.
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made little Miss Lu uu-
derstand them, when she
only comprehended g half
dozen or more English
words and they hadn't
the fsincesf conception OF
the rudiments OF Chinese.
IS a mystery.
But they I'D under
stand each other, and
soon b Q c q IN Q very
ehummy.
1t Is limited that her
new q S 9 o c ia { es have
taught Miss Lu the de-
lights Of ice cream soda
and other strictly Ameri--
can designations. Miss Lu
can chew gum, and Is
learning to play cards.
She likewise watches her
new friends play tennis
with delighted wonder,
and she may soon try her
hand at this strenuous
exercise. In this she win
only be following the lead
OF that accomplished gen.
ffeman. Wu Ting Fang,
who was an expert tennis
player.
The bright young Orr
entail has now passed
beyond the stage Of find
ing pleasure alone IN her
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life which she does not get fn
{ h e neighborhood OF the
Chinese Legation
She has coaxed her father
into taking her next summer
to see the most fashionable
watering places. and she has
the definite promise of spend
ing at least a month at Am
herst with some old friends
of the Minister. So 1t seems
that Miss La has been fairly
successful in laying plans for
the future. even II her formal
debut must be postponed
The Chinese Minister Il q
type OF the progressive
statesman. and the evolution
Of his daughter and OF his
two sons does not cause him
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likes the American CUSTOM it meaningless
her, and she will have her
Another consideration Is that Sir LANG Is Akely
remain at this post for He Is high In favor
at the Chinese Court unless something unexpected
happens he will continue his countrys interests
here. 1t will be better to have Miss Lu presented
society and to enjoyment out OF her exile For
this the Minister insisted Of his
secretaries sending for their wives and daughters and at
present the Chinese Legation colony numbers
bers than usual There also arisocrato young
bachelors the sta and Is limited that Of these
has already been chosen the future Of this
gresstye beauty
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Under no~circumstanee must she help herself In
smallest particular.
Since going with American girls Miss found
these national customs of China very she
has frequently declared the
goveTness.
Her father is merely amused. and II is believed
secretly sympathzes with the growing independence Of
his daughter. but the is much greved, and
blames the tendency Miss Yungs with
girls who comb their hair cotton" under
garments like the coolies. Miss Yung
the finest silk from head and her wardrobe In
dainty enough for princess
Nothing pleases her than to get crowd of
friends In her apartments forth
Of treasures. Of them Inherited ancestors
hundred years dead -i-f
Then. the apartments that belong to Miss In make
her girl friends with envy They would give every
thing to such hangngs marvellous
teakwoed furniture and such delightful china antique
SILVER Great squares of silk embroidered In peacocs
whole trees laden with blossoms nearly
All the wall space. while the which an
Oriental needle design jewels and hesdpeces
Miss Iu could sta bazaar and still treasures
naming.
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MAKING AMERICAN FRIENDS

This foreign maiden Is sociabls ana generous and
readily mads friends with tha girls neghberhood
with whom she was permitted to associate
While her father In a high Celestial ana
primes OF the realm, he retains ideas
1ioeo while at college In this country. He pitcher
ON the Andover Academy baseball club. nothing Is
greater leveler OF rank than baseball
Sc. when the young girls In the neghborhood Of the
chinese Legation-aH members Of washington's best
faies-pegan to pity the wstfu looking little foreigner
VINO watched them sadly they promenading
the Streets and made friendly advances Sir LANG Cheng
o1o not forbid the acquaintance.
OF course. Miss Lu could not join their walks
nor accompany them to the matinee-that would be
sudden and violent departure from Chinese
even the progressive Minister could not
much as he liked American ways.
His daughter however could entertain her friends
In her home and she did.
Many hour have they spent In apartments
looking with ecstacies OF delight
gowns OF finest silks. her Jewels and costly and unique
treasures OF every kind.
How these bright and bounding American girls
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~ old Chinese girl to see tire svorld and
participate in A,neriean social pleas
res sriH break dogvn The barriers Of tradition
and enstom that for centuries haze envyoned
Celestial seomen Of high rank
1t is the dainty hand of Miss Lu Yung,
daughter Of Sir Chenfnng Liang Cheng, Chi
nese minister at Washington, that svHl
open the doors Of the bondoir prison.
lit the urgent request of this young girl,
aer father aviH permit her emancipation.
Her fmid little bose to society smlI be
made at first in select circle She riH be
allowed to go around among feaO intimate
friends Of the Minister, and occasionally she
may take tea sUith the seipes Of legation
Gnaches. II is probable that Amcrieaa guests
ssfH be present at these mild disapations, so
that the hofiSon of Miss Ln's social life svil
gradually suidea.
When she has mastered the English Ian
snage sufficiently sic svhl make her formal
debut. This sviH be an occasion of Oriental
b'Illia~cy such as suiH make IL memorable at a
capital of magnificent functions.
SO this pretty and shy little maid Of
Cathay 1uiH NOT only furnish social sensation,
bit sviH set aside the traditional exelasiueness
that has shut in her conahyzsomen for ages.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-17

town covered with a mighty flood Those
houses that had not already been aban-
doned were brightly lighted and formed
shining points of light cleaning through
the black night their terrorized occupants
staying awake night and day in fearful
anticipation of destruction from the twen-
ty-four-foot flood on its way from Safe
Harbor and another equally large volume
of water from Bainbridge.
After the bridge was crossed the special
burst off again in a thrilling dash, and
Poplar, eighty-six miles from Philadel-
phia, was reached In eighty-nine minutes,
or eighty-seven of actual running
When the crew of the special stepped
from the train at Camden station they
were greeted with cheers from a number
of railroad men, who had timed them by
aid of the telegraph line. The engineman
and fireman were surrounded by an adj
miring group and detained until each had
shaken hands with and been slapped OR
the shoulder by every railroader present.
The Sunday edition was rushed to Bal
timore in the same manner as yester-
days A larger force of men and wagons
was engaged in handling it, on account
of the larger number of copies, but it was
in Baltimore and on the streets long be-
fore dawn.
The Herald's head pressman and his as
sistants and the stereotyping force have
been greatly assisted in expediting the
work of printing by II. M. Chapel and
w. Hanck, foreman and assistant, respec-
lively, of the Evening Telegraph force.
NJ ]. Donovan, superintendent of the
Evening Telegraph's circulation depart
ment, and his large force of assistants
have done much toward getting the paper
to the trains as fast as it is printed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-17
Mr.. RooseveIi's Pronramme.

The Washington dispatches state
that Mr.. Roosevelt has perfected his
campaign platform, as follows:
1. The administration policy in the
Panama matter.
2. The attitude toward corporations
taken in the Northern Securities case.
,. The attitude toward labor shown in
the Miller open shop case
4. The attitude toward the differences
between capital and labor taken in the
settlement of the great anthracite coal
strike.
Those who. think Mr.. Roosevelt is
not politician should study that pro-
gramme, for it is planned to catch the
minimizing voter a-comin' or a-gwine.
He should get the votes of anarchists,
for in the Panama matter he disre-
garded the plain terms of the Spooner
law. He should get the votes of those
who are against corporations, for he
nearly created panic when he started
the Northern Securities case. He faced
about however, and bid for the votes
of employers when he forced the re-
tention of Miller in the government
printing office, and then he faced about
again in the anthracite coal strike in
the course of which he bid for the
union vote and for the vote of strikers
in general.
BY combining opposites he has en-
deavored to meet and invite all inter-
ests. Those who do not like his action
in the Miller case are invited to con-
slider his attitude in the coal strike, and
vice versa. Those who do not like the
Northern Securities case can contem-
plate the fat contracts and pickings
that Panama would afford Like the
trap of the old darkey, it catches em
a-comin' or a-gwine. II is a wonderful
compound OF opposites. The contraries
are blended, and If the impertinences
of the st. Louis convention could be
suppressed, 1t would of course catch
them all.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-17
For YOUNG Men.

There are always things enough that
need aid from the general public, but
it seems to The Age-Herald that the
appeal of the Y. M. C. A is especially
is considered well-equipped unless it
has Y. NJ. c. A. building, where young
unmarried men can go and find COM
panions and be entertained at moder-
ate and reasonable expense. Other
clubs are either too expensive or too
exclusive. Other clubs have large en-
trance fees and waiting lists. The Y.
NJ G.. A. welcomes all corners from the
ranks of young men who can pay small
but self-supporting dues.
Nothing is asked from the general
public in the way of support. All such
institutions are selfsupporting. The
young men who use the conveniences
offered by the association are to pay
for them. But in all cities the public
is expected to furnish the building. In
this way low fees become possible.
This is what is desired here A fine
start has been made An excellent lot
has been fully paid for, and work will
be begun upon a gymnasium building
suitable to this association if seven
thousand dollars more can be secured.
This will give the enterprise so much
of start that it's success would be.
come assured. The battle, in fact, re-
lates to the raising of seven thousand
dollars. With that additional sum in
hand the rest would follow naturally
and readily. The Age-Herald urges
every thoughtful citizen to give this
subject careful attention. 1t relates to
the young men of this town, and no
town can afford to overlook those who
are to take hold of its affairs in the
near future.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-17
Mr.. Cassati's Undertakings.

The size of this country and the vol
ume OF its trade and the magnitude Of
It's cities all find illustration in the
great tasks that the Pennsylvania rail
road has accepted under the leader
ship of President Cassatt. Last year
1t sold stock-common stock-at 120
until 1t had acquired $67000,00O with
which to carry on needful improve
ments east of Pittsburg, chiefly in and
about New York city The railroad is
streams to the heart of the great city,
and then across and out of it to New
England and Boston. 1t is a gigantic
piece Of work, involving new engineer
Ing feats, especially in the crossing of
North river at depth of sixty or more
feet below the surface of the water.
Not content with this work east of
Pittsburg, the same company has just
borrowed on its corporate notes $780,
100000 to be expended west of Pitts
burg. The improvements have not
been planned by visionary men, by
promoters or by irresponsible persons.
They are each and all plans that are
expected to bring good returns as the
years roll on. 1t is conceded that the
proposed expenditures in New York
city will not at once yield full re-
turn, but no one doubts but that they
will in the course of few years. And
SO undoubtedly will the western ex-
penditures.
These efforts of the Pennsylvania
run contrarywise to the ambition Of
our gulf ports, but the truth is, the
country is growing so rapidly there
will soon be business enough for both
the north-and-south lines rs we'll as for
the east-and-west lines. Both will have
all the traffic offered them II he Mis-
sissippi valley that they can haul, and
the north-and-south lines will not suf-
fer because the grades to the sea are
in their favor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-17
A FARMERS IcE-TRAP.

From the New York World.
Farmer Bartholomew or the ogsdenburg
State hospital has had great luck this
winter with his ice-trap.
Because of typhoid in the neighborhood
the managers of the hospital decided that
Ice from the ST. Lawrence river must not
be used. This would have involved haul
ing 1t from considerable distance to
fill the big icehouse. So Farmer Bar
tholomew asked, and with some diff
ficulty obtained, permission to construct
an ice-trap right near the asylum.
The trap is merely big shallow tank
of cement, with sloping sides, flooded, by
pipes laid at cost of $500, from the water
supply main. An outflow removes the sur
plus water All Bartholomew has to do
when a cold wave from the west is an
nounced, with a theromemter 81 degrees
below and a bitter wind, Is to set the
trap toward night baited with water.
Thirty-six hours later he has caught a
fine lot of ice handy for cutting and
hauling in.
Local newspapers say the ice-trap has
saved the state $4,000, but that may be
a hyperborean hyperbole.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-17
A QUEEN AS A SHOPPER.
From the London Mail.

From the London Mail.
The aueenssthe Princess of Wales, Prin-
cess Charles of Denmark and Princess
Victoria walked from the castle into
Windsor yesterday afternoon and did
some shopping.
The princesses filled their pockets with
lovely things, the royal party staying in
the shops a considerable time. "They
give as little trouble as possible" said
Mrs. Barber, land 1t is a real pleasure to
wait on them" The queen and the prin-
cesses would not even trouble the shop
keeper to have some of the things wrap
ped in paper. They simply put the small
purchases into thir pockts and askd for
the larger things to be sent on to the cas-
tie.
Her majesty and the princesses did not
pay for their purchases in hard cash, but
the queen remarked to one tradesman,
you can trust me?r They seemed to
make light of the unpropitious weather
and the wet pavements, and tramped
along quite gayly. holding an animated
conversation and frequently stopping to
look at the wares displayed In the shop
windows of the High street.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-17
Spelling A GOLDEN WEDDING.

From the New York World.
When nine grown children of Louis
vile couple had assembled to celebrate
the golden wedding of their parents the
father announced that he had selected the
occasion as a fitting time to enter suit
for divorce. He added that he had made
up his mind to this course five years
before. but had delayed to complete the
half century of married happiness"
If any one in that family deserves a
divorce 1t is the wife. To select for an
nouncement of the application a season
naturally devoted to happiness was in
itself a brutality.
If the old man deserved divorce five
years ago he does not deserve 1t now. He
has shown endurance that he should be
permitted to exercise to the end. More
over the husband who takes forty-five
years to decide that he made a mistake
is not capable of drawing any conclusion
worthy of respect
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-17
I HELD 1T TRUTH.
" Alfred Tennyson.

BY Alfred Tennyson.
1 held it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping-stones
OF their dead selves to higher things.
But who shall so forecast the years
And find In loss gain to match?
Or reach a hand thro' time to catch
The far-off interest of tears?
Let Love clasp Grief, lest both be
drownd,
Let darkness keep her raven gloss;
Ah sweeter to be drunk with loss,
To dance with death. to beat the ground.
Than that the victor Hours shall scorn
The long result of Love. and boast.
rBehold the man that loved and lost,
But all he was is overworn-'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
A man is in great danger when a girl
begins to let him know she is afraid of
him.
1t is as bad for woman to be too thin
where 1t doesn't show as too fat where
1t does.
No man can ever make love to a gair
in all the different kinds of ways she
thinks he ought to.
When man is looking at the queer
way a woman's hat is kept ON her head
it is mighty easy for her to think he is
marveling at the luster of her eyes.
After she has been married seven years
and had five children, a woman begins
to know almost as much about manag-
ing family as she thought she did
week before her wedding day.