The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-19


il would seem that a few OF the butter
flies and beaux as well as the serious
hosts and hOStesses. beginning with the
distinguished inmates of the White
House, would have to take the rescue
as sanitarium. 1t may be that the
social votartes are getting tired and
bored beyond endurance. but seldom
has such lot of grurnbling and fault
nnding been heard as during the past
fortnight It is now the youths and
dancing men Of the capital who are
coming in for drubbing. The buds
the matrOns, and even Mrs. Roosevelt.
have passed through the ordeal and the
men are on the griddle. 1t seems that
the gentlemen who accept invitations
the diplomats. the younger army and
navy contingent, and the natives who
toll not nor spin. as well as the smart
young men from the state departments
do not acknowledge the debts of graft
tude they owe their entertainers. They
are accused OF utter neglect in return
inG calls. in inviting the girls to dance
or trying TO pay back their social Obli-
cations. They go to balls. dinners, re-
ceptions and cotillions when they are
invited, but never take the initiative in
planning pleasures for those who enter
tain them SO frequently and generously
They do not even try to give the girls
a good time at the balls to which they
are hidden, and there are cases when
pretty and rich young ladies sit out
two-thirdS Of the programme at in
formal dances and cannot join in the
cotililons because they have no
partner. The haughtiness of the aver
age man who can dance in a town like
washington where there are ten girls
10 one beau. SurpasSeS all attempts a Z
paintings. In the language of my
friend Pepys, whom I love to quote
1t do be fine thing to be man. but
l 40 De minded not TO speak further
on these matters"
New Departure.
The English ambassadors. Sir Mortf-
mer Durand, presence at the banuret
OF the Loyal Legion marks a departure
30 Few occasions arise when the British
! diplomats can be asked to take part i'm
| national or patriotic celebrations that
| they hSure but little outside of purely
state functions in Washington 1t does
not strike one as overwhelmingly ap-
propriate to ask a representative of the
Engllsh government to the gathering of
the Loyal Legion But Sir Mortimer
acquitted himself well. If we could
| AFFORD to forget il was not for him to
rake up old ashes. He proved rarely
Soou company, and told some yarns
| mat really could not be printed in
FAMILY papers. In times gone by the
British envoy here would occasionally
| attend the dinner of the New York
chamb er of commerce, when il was the
unVarying custom to toast the queen
before the president of the United
states But he never made speeches
His toasts were copfined to a few
StiIfed words which meant nothing at
all. But the cOurtly CambOn and the
/ gifted Italian ambasSad dor opened a new
| era IN the intercourse of diplomats
| with the people Of Washington Mr.
Cambon made dozens of speeches dur
| ing his term Baron Mayor des PIanches
| Is fiery orator and has made famous
4 addresses in nearly all OF the large
| cities of the country. The Spanish
/ minister. Senior Ojedo. is popular pub
/ lie speaker, and a good one. The British
/ nave been compelled to fall into line
| Sir Mortimcr's appearance at the Iowa
1 Legion banquet was the entering wedge