Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-16
NO SECRETS IN THIS
Peace ENJOYS After Sessions
of Conference
WHEN SCHOOL CLOSES
WHAT HAPPENS ON PORCHES OF
WENTWORTH.
Some Stories That Show All Is Human,
Despite Strenuous Times
in Conference.

in Conference.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
PORTSMOUTH. n. H.. August 16.-Dap-
per little Takeshita. the naval attache. was
standing on the veranda watching Rus
sian newspaper man and three American
youngsters play tennis. up came the cor
respondent Of the MAXI Saki Shinbone Chat
may not be the right name. but 1t SOUNDS
like III, himself a japanese. and in his own
language asked Takeshita for an opinion On
the status of the peace negotiations
Don't you think" he said. that the con-
ference will end orc way or the other very
shortly
Takeshita aimed a well-manicured nail
at the chaps In flannel at the nets.
Are the destinies of nations he an
swered, Ito be banded about as quickly as
are those tennis balls?'
As Takeshita knows pretty well. or should
know what is going on over at the Kittery
navy yard his epigrammatic reply Is taken
to mean that the events which keep the
eyes of the world trained on Portsmouth
will not end abruptly as some of the
wiseacres hereabouts have been predicting
Tall, Willowy, Fair.
There Is one girl. tall willowy, with
fair face and neck like lily stem. a reg
ular holly hook of a girl. who leads most
OF the fun for the younger people OF the
Wentworth Last night she shepherded her
crowd into the parlor, where Takeshita sat
on a divan. Innocently the summer girls
formed circle around him. Then they be-
gan to chant Under the Bamboo Tree.
which will be remembered as growing freely
in roof gardens soil before The Old Apple
Tree" came along.
For a short time Takeshita gazed at them
astonished out of his oriental calm. Then
he broke into laugh and offered to buy
tea for the bunch.
Earlier in the day he had told the holly
hook girl that his family name meant in
English beneath a bamboo. and 1t does.
His first name. Isam. translated. has the
words old hero" for its equivalent in
tongue
Don't Always Fit.
Nearly all Japanese names, 1t appears.
have more or less poetical significance.
but they don't always fit the wearers. For
example. Komura means little village"
and the baron's first name, "Jutaro," means
live long. big fellow
Komura Isn't big at ALL and he lives in
Tokyo, which isn't village by any means.
Takahira means "a high level" and his
first name, kogoro. means small fellow"
Now Takahira isn't small as his people go.
but 1t isn't denied that his intellect is on
a high level
Kaju Nakomura the name of one of the
correspondents here, might be translated
by little stretch into the simple lfe'' in
town about the size of Weehawken for
kaju stands for happy live long and
Nakomura Is medum-siZed village"
1t will be noticed that his name like the
name of the chief envoy. ends in "mura''-
village.
At home in Nippon his political enemies
are given TO calling MatsumotO the MEM
Der of parliament who is here three high
To n Inv,
by right of regular christening but be-
cause Ma tsumoto. like ice Chamberlain and
some other statesmen, has taste for the
extreme in the matter OF collars and cuffs
However he only wears one collar at a
time, SO II is hard for American to see
where the three part comes in
Steady. beating, soaking rain made all
outdoors Il dull drab dreariness yesterday
afternoon and last night. The rain with A
wind which filed itself to keen edge on
The cliff line down by the breakwater.
drove indoors most of those members of the
great army of the unemployed who are
spending their summer here.
The big wood fires in the lobby enjoyed
steady patronage all evening. Some of The
little sisters of the rich. the younger ones
mostly, iirted with available boys The
others did fancy work or played bridge
whist.
Great Place for Dressing.
This is a great place for dressing. As
soon as the ENJOYS return from Kitta,y
they rush 10 their apartments to get into
evening toggery. although Komura and
Takahira rarely wear dinner coats One
young woman a handsome westerner. by
actual count appeared in four different cos
tunes yesterday, and it was raining at
mat Some of the others We're only one
gown behind her and running fast. The
pest dressed woman here. and the best
looking, too, is the mother of wonder
July large family. She might easily pass
tpr the older sister OF two of her daugh-
tcrS, who are also az the Wentworth
Probably this Is the most polyglot as
semblage that ever filed New England
hotel since the Pilgrims made that stern
ana rock-bound landing OF theirs. The en-
voys, their STATS and the correspondent
1907 up total of some ten nationalities
but that isn't all by a long sight The
three hotel cooks are Italians the steward
Frenchman. the head porter Is a Ger
man. ms first deputy a negro and one of
his lesser scene shifters. who juggles
trunks. Swede. The male walters are
mostly French and Swiss with one Eng
hshman assigned TO the Palm Garden The
dining room girls all either school
teachers or college students Two are Wei
lesley undergraduates four are from Smith
and three from Vassar. The rest are scat
tering. Every bell hop Is negro and
Pokotiloff has Chinese man servant The
night clerk hailed originally from Canada
one or The twenty telegraph operators was
born in Ireland and another in Mexico OF
American parentage. Can you beat 1t out
side. of Coney Island or an chronological
congress?
The hired help are all exercised over a
new rumor. They hear that there Is to be
a general distribution of tips from both
Russians and Japanese when this thing
breaks up. But the undergraduate who
waits on the Japanese enyoys won't lose
any sleep II the talk doesn't turn out TO
oe true. She gets 30 cents from the baron
very meal and dinner it's 81 Every other
Siri In the room Is filled with jealousy till
she can't rest
Ihe management has created Sensa-
tion by posting this notice on the bulletin
board
No bathing today after lunch
The water Is to be changed"