The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-06

nowska. territorial rnaSnate OF AUS
! trian Poland. Then she was presented
at court and became one OF the reign
( ing beauties of Vienna, whose painters
! Wed with one another to execute her
Z portrait.
! Next, during q period of soiournes at
! the courts OF Europe. she learned
to speak Russian, French. Germa al,
ton to her native Polish. And
/ more lately she has mastered English.
| This ability to converse with any Euro
| pean diplomat In his own tongue has
| greatly added to her popularity IL
| Washington, She and the ambassado-
have one child, the little Baroness
| Miceline, and the baroness has another
| daughter, Mile Felicie de Taczanowska,
| who has been educated in Vienna.
/ Always Wears Monocle.
| The baron is tall, very erect man.
| OF distinctly foreign mould--eyes
sheltered by those prominent ridges
over the orbits which always suggest
| perspicuity and keen powers OF obser-
walton. strongly masculine nose and
/ firm Wcllingtonian chin. His hair IS
very nearly white and he invariably
wears a nlonocle. The baroness has
handsomely nodded patrician features,
| blue eyes, a very fair complexion and
| hair OF lustrous black.
The Austro Hungarian embassy, the
J official home of the dean-designate, is
! upon Connecticut Avenue directly OPP
| posite the British embassy. All of the
baron's predecessors, from Baron de
! Mareschal. sent here in 1898 by F'erli-
/ nand I. down to Chevalier Won Tayera
/ hal occupied rented quarters, but NJ.
| Hengelmuller shortly after his arrival
paid, on behalf of his government
| $4,000 for the present mansion. which
had been the home of that interesting
| Jewish figure in our public affairs who
| first represented Florida in the House
of Representatives as David Levy, and
aftcrward in the Senate as David Yuiee.
Souvenirs of Royal Friends.
| The embassy Is treasury of souve-
Mrs of sojourns among intimate ac-
| quaintance with the great personages
| who have shaped and are shaping the
history OF the world. In the drawing
! room are bronze busts of the Emperor
| and the Inflated Empress. and upon
| one of the tables is a jewel case pre-
! sented by the Queen of Saxony
! In the dining room are displayed
profusion of ancestral plate and the
| portraits OF all of the rulers of the
| House OF Hapsburg from the eleventh
! century down to Francis Joseph him
I self. Inside the embassy the fads of
/ the ambassador and his wife are APP
parent, those of the ambassador being
! autographs and signed photographs of
| the great actors in the theatre of
events: those of the baroness, exotic
| plants, birds from the forests of dis
| tant countries and dogs.
! His Salary Large.
| No ambassador or minister in Wash
| ington can boast of length of SER
vice approaching that OF Baron Hen
gelmuller. His nearest rival as to
seniority. is Senior Calvo. the Costa
Rican minister, who came here in 1890
i But this diplomat could not succeed
the baron as dean of the corps, be-
! cause he is not of ambassadorial rank
!. The next in line for that honor will
/ be NJ. Jusserand, the French ambas-
| sador.
The new dean is not man of great
wealth. Indeed, no American of his
/ means might hope to repeat his sue
cess in our foreign service But his
! government. unlike our own considers
J genius and training as the most i'm
/ portant factors contributory to dip
i lomatic career. and besides supplying
each of its high representatives with
d1gniffed abode. pays them salaries
adequate to the needs of dignified hos
4 pitality. These salaries, regulated upon
sliding scale, range from $4,000
| to $4,000. and now that We are one
| of the great world powers 1t is be-
lieved that the compensation of Baron
Hengelmuller Won Eengervar is at
about the latter figure. or very nearly
three times as great as that of our
ambassador to Vienna, who must rent
his own mansion.
( Copyright, 1910, by John Elfreth Wat
4 X s. II