The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-09
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM.

AS Senator DepeW grows older he
loves to surround himself with pretty
women, and Mrs. Depew is quite de-
lighted to aid him in gratifying a love
for the beautiful. The senator knows
how to pay neat compliments with ap-
parent unconsciousness, and he never
displayed that faculty to better advan-
tage than at the dinner on Saturday
night in Washington, when he and his
young wife had as their guests a beyy
of charming girls-Miss Josephine Pat
ten, Miss Edes, Miss Ward, Miss War
der and Miss Fauldlng. 9Snall dinner
parties have become something of fad
with the senator. He gets a genuine
delight out of them which he does not
at the big public entertainments, where
he has to wear a property smile and re-
tell the Peekskill stories he has been
telling for thirty years, building a new
introduction for each. His activity as
a raconteur has become something Of
task, and he knows every veteran
diner has heard each Of his jokes in
various guises score of times before.
But with the buds it is different. He
can select at random any chestnut"
out of the bushel he carries with him,
and the girls go into ecstacies over it,
The Countess Cassini declared on FRI
day she never had met another man
possessed of such originality as the
senator, as she heard-for the first
time-the original Peekskill sour apple
story, over which Gen. Grant laughed
at dinner following the surrender Of
AppomatoX.
We have with us in New York a
native of Korea, who was what they
call in England "a gentleman's gentle
man." or a confidential man of the
nf h0
was his duty to keep the confdant Of
the ruler informed of the coming into
the kingdom of all women from for
eign countries, with a full description
of their appearance and comment on
their physical charms. 1t didn't matter
whether they were maids or matrons.
The duty of the Korean VINO now is a
resident of this city was to keep a
schedule and submit it regularly to the
fidus Acf1ates of the emperor. 1t that
go-between. looked with favor on any
girl he would ask an Introduction
through official sources, and, following
that, Intimate it was the pleasure of his
royal master to have the stranger pre-
scented at court sAsiatic women re-
garded that as a high honor, but En-
glish and American tourists were in
clined to resent it and the expatriated
Korean say on one occasion the in
a young English mefchafH fer leering
at the Englishman's sister and praising
the plumpness of her armS.3
f&aAiT-
It has become so common for girls
of the vivacious, independent type to
use hotel stationery ferytheir out-of-
town respondenceL stationery to
which they have not a shadow OF
right-that many managers are con-
templating seriously some drastic pro-
hibitiye step. Polite protest has been
of no avail A young weman enters
the red room or the blue room, or
wherever the guests go. to write,
pumps herself down att fhe most de-
sirabie desk, rings for an attendant
and for two mortal hours or more
writes letters while patrons who pay
a high price for their rooms are cooling
their heels and wondering .sWill that
girl ever get through ?"s When four or
five of those sinterlopers get to work
the paying guests. who are barred out,
can do nothing but wait