Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-18
SPICY S|DELI light S
Scenes and Incidents at the
Peace Conference Quarters
AT PORTSMOUTH, N. H.
SOME OF THE SIGHTS ONE SEES
DURING OFF HOURS.
Russians and japanese in Leisure MO
ments and at Games-Oddities
Of Hotel Life.
SpecIal Dispatcb to The Star.


HOTEL WENTWORTH, NEWCASTLE.
N H., August 1s.--Yesterday it was the
SUNRISE today wild flowers and trumps at
Peace Conference.-The, N. II. The Sumac
thus early has lit it's crimson candles on the
hills back Of the hotel, and yellow and Whlte
blossoms make the lowlands look like extra
large platters of scrambled eggs. MS
morning one of the before-breakfast consul
tutionalists came back from his walk Win
a big bunch of newly rpened goldenrod. and
at the sight of it a young woman on the
piazza was overcome with emotion
She went right indoors, with handker-
chief up to her eyes. She had not purleo
some loved one in goldenrod time, 1t was
learned; she was a hay-fever graduate, and
she sneezed until the superstructure OF her
pompadour fell down. She was heard to
say that next thing some inspired idiot
would be calling dogweed, and then-achoo,
Just see there-she would have to leave TINS
place.
Riding home from the navy yard last
evening one of the japanese attaches made
the chauffeur halt and, jumping out or the
auto, picked two Indian pipes, fleshy-look-
ing tuberous blossoms, that grew at the
roadside. He carried them carefully aft TO
the palm garden and sat there arranging
and rearranging the two flowers as intent
brief until the ice all melted in his julep.
A Scion Of Nobility.
He has the narrow. long forehead, the
high-brdged nose and the poets face that
one sees in old Japanese prints. He belongs
to one of the old noble families, the ancient
warrior clans, and his grandfather wore up
hostered armor and stuck two swords
through the folds of his silken surcingle.
DO nd iS
tailor made clothes, doing his stunt of eight
hard hours a day.
While he fingered, grouping his Indian
pipes on the table top and ignoring the iced
drink of his comprehensive young
est man in the legation-was sitting fiat on
the back fire escape landing of the third
floor, with his legs dangling down. train
ing his camera on the justly celebrated sun
set effect where the western sky blushed
pink above the pine tops chambermaid
from Sligo stood behind him, Offering ad-
vice.
The Japanese Correspondents.
The Japanese correspondents have a hard
time getting their stuff off for home. First
the dispatch is written out in the conven-
tional, idiomatic characters which Nippon
borrowed from China That is for style.
Then the correspondent laboriously trans
poses the copy into Roman characters. In
this shape it goes to the cable. When 1t
is taken off the wire in the same Roman
characters translated back into japanese
characters and SO printed.
In Japan a system of forty-eight phonetic
characters is employed in telegraphing, but
that isn't possible here. The correspond
ents say that some of these days progress
sive Japan will shelve the cumbersome pic
ture characters altogether and the pho
neticS both in commercial and in literary
work.
Russians at Switchboard.
1t is fun to the Russian play shuttle
them makes a lucky shot. He bubbles a
slav exclamation sounding like the last pint
of soapsuds running out OF a bath tub and
gesticulates with both hands, both Shout
ders and one leg. His companions say
that has seven SIS and one sand
WICKED vowel III it and take several eX-
cited steps Another good shot, another
voiley OF effervescinS Consonants, a coupe
of "bravos'' fired in rapid succession and
the two big men have half embraced.
They look like Germans, these Russian
secretaries, and they behave like French
men Roscn, next to Martens, the financial
expert, is the quietest, gravest Of them ALL
Bets were made on whether he would come
to the Palm Garden last night. The
Baroness Rosen and her daughter had ar
rived III the afternoon. He didn't come.
Heiney, Rosen's pet waiter, missed him.
Heiney's Little Game.
Heiney has new watermelon, which he
cut today. When ne brings back your
change he puts five pennies, neatly stacked
up alongside the silver explaining IN
switzer English, that he Is sorry, ten thou
sand pardons, but he cannot made zee
change unless zee gentleman will accept of
zee pennies.
OF course, he gets the pennies back in ad-
dition to the dime or quarter that he
would get anyhow. The five coppcrs have
earned at least 300 dividends on them
selves during the day and the end is not
yet. So Heiney figures for strangers on
the morrow.
For a hotel where much happens in
the day time, mighty little happens at
night Most of the regular guests dress
extensively for dinner and go upstairs al
most as soon as they are over. The or
chestra tootles awhile on the veranda,
playing that shivery climax to the third
act music when the wind blows chilly of
the sea. Then it folds up its noise toos
and seeks the annex. The night clerk ex-
plains for the hundreth time that the laun-
dry will certainly be ready tomorrow.
The Last Summer Girl.
The last summer girl brings her summer
boy off the quiet corner side porch. 1t is
II O'Clock by now. Dope-eyed bell hops
roll up the rugs in the lobby and give the
floor a massage treatment.
The night clerk yawns into the ledger
the telegraph instruments, which have been
chattering for fifteen steady hours like so
many loose rails in a right-of-way, click
laZly internationally.
Midnight at the Wentworth and al's
well One o'clock. The electric globe in
Komura's bed room winked red and went
out half an hour ago. and now q gentle
tinkling little snore, reminiscent of the tenn
pie halls by the river, Sits through the
keyhole.
Outside the Russians doors double
lines of European-made boots, thick-soled
and heavy-heeled. The night Waterman tip
toes through the corridor to save echoes.
Cuts Cash in the Silence.
Everybody is in bed A sudden burst of
near harmony cuts cash in the silence. 1t
comes from the direction Of the palm gar
den -Four morning newspaper men, done
with their stories, are sacriligiously shat
tering the brooding calm with a goodnight
song Three BASES. one tenor and one