The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-19

| under afratner ufsdSfcodpfS StON~, | ing called soon after Prince Henrys s visit to America while the Venezuela muss was on. HengelmulIer Is an Ambassador now, ! but he came to America as a Minister his commission, in fact. was issued pe- | fore any power had sent an ambassador to Uncle Sam's court. Hengelmuiier has had no especially delicate tasks such as those Sternberg had to attack | to unravel forssom time. and his great est present prominence is social In capital society he ''cuts a. wide swath," as everyday Washington puts | 1t, though possibly he Is secondary m | the capitals social life to his really striking matrimonial consort. He has never been seen without his monocie: there are those who almost think It grew in his eye.
 The Embassy of Austria Hungary Is one of the gayest establishments in Washington when the social season now just beginning, is at its height The Ambassador, who is rich himsef and hasa big salary with heavy allow. ances for expenses, enjoys the spiendid entertainments given under It's root quite as well as does the Ampa ssaaress. Hengelmuller's court dress Is over | whelmingly gorgeous.
 Washington would probably welcome Witte the big Russian, who was so much of figure at the Portsmouth conference, moro enthusiastically than | 1t will receive Rosen. But Washing | ton is much interested in Rosen. and U will be his own fault if he does not find his path an easy one In uncle Sam's capital.
 | 1t is expected that he will be as great A mixer as Ambassador DuEand has already proved himself to be. Wash l ington, has heard that Rosen did fully half the work of persuading Japan to give up part of Sakhaiien years ago 1 when he was working under De struve, | by mixing" we'll with the Japs at | time when all the other Western dip- l lomats stationed In Japan were treat I ing the brown folk rather cavalierly--- almost like an inferior race. in face. Interesting oriental Diplomats. | Washington is always interested in | the diplomats sent from the Orient They are divided sharply--the Turks and Persians from the nearer orient, | differing radically from the further oientals, Japanese, Chinese, siamese and Koreans.
 More interest is felt in Takahira, Jap anese Mfnister--his country has not yet followed the big European Powers | by making her representative at Uncle | Sam's court an Ambassador--than In any other Oriental in Washington. | The Japanese cause had the bulk or | washington's sympathy while the war with Russia was in progress, as 1t had lgenerally in this country. But It can not be said that Minister Takahfra Is as popular at the national capital as his country was during the war. It would hardly do. perhaps. to say that he lacks in personal frankness, but he is surely secretive little man. Cour- teous? Yes; the old-fashioned word
 "affable" fits him as we'll as any per haps-but certainly not open and com municative.
 The correspondents are never rebuf- fed by Takahira, but they never get much information by calling on him; he Is always ready with words. but when the words arc analysed they are generally found to convey little mean ing. Count Cassini was of another
 sort all through the latter half of his
 stay in Washington, though at first de- cidedly offish.
 It used to be somewhat of a comedy to watch the Russian Ambassador and
 the Japanese Minister whilo hostilf- | ties were going on. Each was always
 punctiliously polite to the other, but they were never seen together if they
 could help it. Neither of them was
 above the petty trick of making the
 other wait for him, if he could, wien
 both chanced to call on the Secretary
 of State at the same hour. They had
 but one encounter that was at all un-
 pleasant. however.
 That would never have occurred but for | Takahira's slight deafness and Cassini's | rather poor sight Takahira bowed, but did | not speak. Cassinl spoke. but did not bow
 When they had approached little nearer
 the Russian accused the Japanese of not | returning the saluatlon.
 'T bowed markedly" returned Takahira i "but you did not respond"
 | 'I spoke distinctly" declared Cassinf l but you did not reply
 "I did not see." said Cassini.
 q did not hear" said Takahira. and the incident was closed without further
 complications.
 TakahIra and all the attaches and clerks
 of the Japanese legation wear American | clothes except on State occasions. Then | like all the diplomats in Washington, they
 array themselves in the State dress of theii
 home court. The only diplomat who wear
 his native dress on all occasions in Wash
 ington is Cir Chengtung Lang Cheng, th'
 Chinese Minister.
 Chinese, Korean. Turk and Persian.
 Liang-Cheng Is one of the best liked O
 all the diplomats He is not so regula
 a figure in the days news as Wu Ting |, Fang, his predecessor. was, simply be | cause he does not push himself fa up to the front as did Wu and does no so everlastingly harp upon the Chinese ex'
 clusion act as Wu did. Wu almost mad
 himself personally offensive to many peo
 
 exclusion, but also by his ceaseless itera tion of his belief that In matters of religion and morals the Chinese were better thai l Americans.
 Liang-cheng is more of d good fellow in several ways than was Wu The latte was sarcastic, both in season and ou ] of season. He was always Knocking. Liang-cheng seems scontent to take tn world as 1t comes along. Though W spoke the English fiuently, and with fu l comprehension of "Americanese." his ow Ispeech was liberaIly sprinkled with de | cidedly common variety of slang. III
 neyer-ending talk was properly terme ''volubie;' his questions were often vul l gariy inquisitive.
 not so voiubie; his slang is the slang of tn
 educated American. not that of the stree l corner ioafer; he shows sufficient interes
 fin your affairs to be agreeable, but he
 never impertinently lnquisitive.
 Everybody knows that wu was educa
 ted in England and Liang-cheng in Amer
 ica. Liang-cheng Is A veritable baseba
 crank. the only diplomat in washingto
 who Is interested in the great America
 game He used to play 1t himself h
 knows its points and he, likes to tn
 game played as well as he used to like t
 play it.
 There was time when the coreans
 though never of diplomatic importance
 were highly interesting to many Washing
 toaians. but that time passed when the! discarded their native dress for every dal wear and took to regular American trous z CTS. waistcoats, eoats, starched shirts an'
 stiff linen collars.
 Til then they were often to be seer
 walking abroad clad in gaudy silks. wear
 ing wicker baskets on their stomachs tC
 simulate pursiness and "fly'' top hats