The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-07
SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON
py CONSTANCE cARRUTHERs

ern Chinese army, fifteen automobiles were required to convey his attaches from place to place and more than three score seats were needed for their enter tainment at place of amusement
 Among the earliest of the returning summer sojourners is the family of the Chinese minister Mime. Chang, the little Misses Lily and Alice. Chang and the min isters son and daughter-in-law, MT. and Mrs Henry K. Chang, nee, Tong, the oldest sister of the trio of tiny visitors at the legation.
 The Misses Chang are all in their early teens. For the matter of that, so Is the little bride of Henry Chang, and they are under the care of an American gov- erness, from whom they are learning the difficulties of the three "Rs," sev- eral languages and music The last Is their particular delight, and they are en- thusiastic little students. Many charm Ing musicals have been held in the orien- tai home on Connecticut avenue, which attracted the minister's agents by it's somewhat oriental appearance in front
 The Tong girls are the daughters or Tong Shao Vi, who was sent here last year as a special ambassador in the set clement of the Boxer indemnity affair. He was educated at Amhurst He has many old friends in Springfield. where his daughters and the daughters of the minister made a visit last spring. The two families are doubly connected by marriage, the last connection being made when the minister's son was married to Emily Tong, Christmas day of last year The marriage did not interfere with her school work at one of the young ladies' seminaries of the city, where she was sent on her arrival here, and where she continued her studies during the school year. She was greatly liked and admired by the girls who were In her classes, ana she was the quaintest and most pictures que little figure trudging back and forth up to school with her also picturesque attendant, who carried her books She is a splendid student and kept well up in her classes. At the New Year day re- ception of President and Mrs. Taft last winter, the five girls of the legation were the center of an admiring group through out their stay at the White House.
 Their little black heads were dressed exactly alike. with long pig tails, cnarac- teristic short stiff bangs, and stin perky pink bows on the tops of their Chinese heads.
 Of the many changes which will be noted in the diplomatic corps when the sociel season opens none will occasion more regret than the absence or the | Italian charge d'affaires and Marchesa | di Montaglari who have been the heads 1 of the Italian embassy at this post since the Baroness dos Planches last winter. Marchese di Montgliar has been trans l ferred to the foreign office in Rome, and will go there on the arrival in this coun- 1 try of the now ambassador. Ambassador | and Marchese di Montagiari have been I leaders in in the gayeties at Manchester
 by-the-sea, where the summer embassy
 has been established as they have been
 during the winter gayeties in Washing ton among the diplomatic set.
 l Mrs. Mary Ellen Chapman has sent out cards announcing the marriage yester- day. in Baltimore, of her daughter Min
 nie Belle Chapman, to MT. Edmond Ken-
 nedy Goldsborough
 Mrs. Goldsborough is the daughter oi the late Dr. Nathaniel Chapman,
 of Charles county. Md, and claims kin.
 ship with two presidents. Her grand father, Judge John Madison Chapman was a nephew of President James Madi' son and cousin of President Zachary | Taylor She also descends from royalty going back through the houses of Perc, and Neville to Alfred the Great. She is entitled to membership in all the pa
 triotic societies of America, in which i'm | mediate, members of her family have long been prominent. MT. Goldborougf comes from the old Goldsborough family of Goldsborough Chase, near Knares T borough, Yorkshire, England.