Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-30

hihS III IA9t1 uioNs
These foreigners all stick to one an
other through thick and thin, and al
though they like America immensely,
and New York particularly, most of
them intend to return to their homes
as soon as they have mastered business
methods and the English language, for
many are the sons of millionaire
fathers and have large interests at
stake on the other side of the water.
81 find a great tendency among for
eigners to throw their sons out in the
world and give them a chance to shift
for themselves. They have learned this
lesson from the spendthrift heirs TO
vast estates who have squandered gen.
erations of accumulated wealth in
shockingly brief periods. The fathers
of the young men with us do not doddle
or ruin them by overindulgence. 1t Is
the mothers or the young lady sisters
who take it upon themselves to supply
them with a pocketful of money 50
many times during the year, at Christ
mas and New Years and birthdays, or
whenever occasion requires.
LAS statesmen 1 find the Frenchmen
more successful than any other nation-
atty" said the manager land we em-
ploy them always in those departments
with which our wholesale women GUS
toners deal, for the reason that they
have the suavity and the patience that
are necessary to manage women and
worry along with them through a
series of dinners and theater parties.
An Englishman is too slow of speech
| to hold his own with the women, and
German is too quick and too abrupt
and 1 might add, too honest. He wants
every cent that is coming to him, and
never considers a compromise, even if
it were the means Of his selling the
biggest bill of goods that ever left the
house"
We had now come to the managers
Office, and he gave some instructions to
military looking young fellow at a
desk near the office Goor and led me
into the private office. "You saw me
speaking to that young Russian?" he
asked. well, ] happen to know his
family. I met them in st. Petersburg
when he was a lad of seventeen in kits.
He was reared ir one of the oldest and
most historic palaces that line the
Nevsky Prospect, and naturally entered
the army, as his father had high rank
in diplomatic circles and his mother
was a great favorite at court, and the
son became a brilliant factor at the
winter balls and receptions ordered by
the czar to be held in the winter pal
ace at frequent intervals to entertain
the distinguished foreigners who
flocked to ST. Petersburg during the
carnival season.
HE is a splendid looking fellow" I
said.
"Certainly,' replied the manager
land a favorite of mine. He got into
some trouble last year over the atten-
tons he was paying to a brother Off
GERS wife, sort of platonic affair, it
seems, for the lady was an admirable
horsewoman and as the husband pre-
ferred quiet smoke at his club and a
glass or two of cognac after his break
fast to a canter at his wife's side, Her.
bert Won R concluded to be his SUBJ
stitute, and thus earned the hate of the
husband and the love of the wife.
Madame's husband sent him a chal-
lenge by his servant, which Herbert's
mother in his absence received and
opened and to which she sent a caus-
tic reply. His mother showed him the
challenge the next day and implored
her son to take no heed of it, but Her.
berts blood is blue and he hastened to
his writing table and sent a hasty
and imperious answer to the officers
note' demanding speedy satisfaction for
the offered insult of the previous day.
He waited impatiently for a response
all that day and the next, but none
came, and for the reason that the officer
had resigned his commission in the
army and had taken passage for
America rather than make public what
ne termed his disgrace; and a week
ater, in total ignorance of this fact,
Herbert Won R, to remove himself
beyond the charming presence of the
ady, on whose account his mother con-
itantly reproached him, sailed for New
York on the Kronprinz and the two
nen met face to face here in my private
'fiice three weeks to day of the first
challenge. Both came to me for en-
'loyment, and l employed both husband
and lover.
"One of my $12 a week clerks has
ented a cottage for the summer at Far
iockaway and has bought a yacht.
That seems incredible, but it is true
lie invites his fellow clerks home with
linn every Saturday afternoon to stay
ver Sunday, just as many as the house
will hold, and l suppose they manage
o have pretty good time from all
an hear When his allowance from
lome disappears he lives on his credit
nd everything goes on as before until
he next check arrives from across the
vater. / heard him asking one of his