The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-03

boarding tragedy is complete.
N! IN the second the stranger keeps
rrG, ,n ne en-. the negro maid; almost
strange. dark. dirty. flashy foreigners
VINO disappear into Don Luis's. room
ana ana stay Z there half the. day and more
smoke issue from the room that Mrs.
SScruggs, alarmed lest the house should
pc on fire, rushes nimbly upstairs.
though she weighs zoo. and ventures
! proved and to be introduced TO a
batch of needy. seedy. titled persons
VINO who bow profoundly and wish her
da The postman brings plies OF
letters. papers invitations that slim
u!ate most unhealthy the magnation
OIL OF Jenny scruggs, who is very pretty.
and fill her head with visions Of
elegant dresses, and titled marriage
into the Diplomatic Corps. and recep-
tons at the White House. and balls
at the British Minister'S. Gwendolen
grows impudent and leaves. to be sue
ceeded by Ethel Gladys, another Sem
egambian housemaid. Jenny buys a
Delineator does her hair q new way.
coaxes her mother out of some en-
pensiye new dresses. and lays wait
for Don. Luis on the staircase. as
gorgeously ,appareled. tube-rose in his
outtonhole; his cab at the door, he starts
off to the ball at the Chinese Embassy
Jenny helps him into his gorgeous fur
overcoat. and a pretty Filtration en-
sues that stands young Don Luis in
coming, when he is what Mrs. Scrusgs
calls "punctual" only at meals. Young
thompson. the grocer. who has served
Mrs; Scrusgs. faithful" paid or not
months. for love of Jenny's brown rcr
eyes largely. gets a series of snub-
bings that would discourage any man
on earth except him. The atmosphere
. Y1nr 1irtn IL, ,Iaa,,
the Foreign Office of the Court of St
James. In the third act Mrs
scruggs begins to demonstrate. to
wax angry, to be disagreeable. to dur
q very small coach: while Don Luis
grows haughty over her 'insolence"
ana his friends somehow disappear
In the. end sometimes there is an
arrangement" Jenny Scruggs is pr-
vately married TO the Diplomatic Corps
by the Baptist minister around the
corner. is told that the heavens would
Iaii II the distinguished family of Don
LUIS de Bustamente knew of his mad
infatuation for her angelic face: is
persuaded to keep quiet till he can
take her to his own land and pal>
ace: Sometimes Don Luis folds his
tent Ike the Arabs. and silently steals
away-to put the case POLITICALLY
generally by night. and Jenny Scruggs
him: thereby insuring to herself a
great re It, deal Of good. old fashioned
s smerlean grd happiness and to Mrs
Don Luis.s superb bouquets to the
German Ambassadress on her birthday
70 the Austrian Ambassadors on the an :
MNL oneSbay s. OF her marriage. to Miss
Sccasions, are all provided by the
florist who sends them. Many tailor
VIM, VINE merchant. cigar vender. washer
woman remembers Don Luis distinctly
for years after he leaves our capital
Tor that OF Siam.
The KS.
westminster is wonderful place for
leX-eVerybodies. They haunt the city
OF OF their former positions and triumphs.
like so many ghosts. There are ex-
belies TO whom. no one now shows or
binary dina attention. There are ex-beau-'
and padded hips and rouge, that YOU
stare a and that glare at you from
their withered old cheeks in startling
contrast to the new auburn front just
match. who led the german fiftv years
ago, and talk of Franklin Pierce" and
the Resolutions OF 49," and laugh
SUI SUI oyer the tests, quips.. quirks, scan
GALS OF the society they have outlived
lB5rummell and Selwyn of their day
Ihere are eX-Senators. who gloom!iy
follow every days proceedings in CON
gress and read for, deiassement the in.
/
wards embalmed in the Congressional
Record. buried and forgotten. There
are ex-generals fighting off rheuma-
tlsm contracted in the swamps OF
Louisiana" with malaria thrown I'M
and proving to, everybody that "the
service has gone to the dogs: no disci-
pine few gentlemen In 1t, no esprit
/ lie corps now that tho new system of
regiment and makes him feel that he
belongs to none" There are ex-ad-
mirals. who think "pur ships rotten
hulks'" and don't doubt that Japan
chooses: admrals that had flt when
The marine corps was abolished, and
| ordered champagne Handsomely at the
club when IL was restored There ara
ex-diplomats, who daily do their mile"
on Pennsylvania Avenue in an effort
to preserve a digestion from the wreck
OF their lives. There are ex-Congress-
men, who are always talking of this or
that measure" or "crisis." Politics
seem full Of both; but they mean some
thing that was done or left undone
when Lincoln was elected" There
are even the ex-clergymen-the "emer-
titus, beloved pastors, who Were once
at this or that church in Washington;
but are now retired. and laid up in
lavender. There are also tho eX-rnil-
llonaires. who lived in this or that fine
house, and splurged nightly. and are
handsome entertainments quite for
gotten; their homes occupied by other
rich men, whose latest dinners and
suppers are daily exploited In the
newspaper at great length, There are
ex-newspaper lights. who formerly rep
resented the great European and Amer
lean Journals at the capital. And they
are the brightest, the best Informed
the cheeriest of all the KS.
Regret.
For they are a dismal lot as rule
One would think that they would al
have laid by enough money to keer
them from all need and give then
every comfort In their old age, but
they haven't--they are all poor, the
mllIionaires especially so. One would
suppose that they would have laid ur
a perfect fund of reading and wit ant
the experience of lifetime for ar
! anecdotase and some Of them have
1 are far more charming than any OF the
Youngsters around them, but most OF
| them are victims of dryrot, living only
I In a sense. not In syUlpathy at all witt
I the movements or the day, and con
] sun?ed by one reget--the feeling thai
/ they lag superiiuous on the worlds
( stage and no longer WELD the sceptrt
] OF power.
! IN Europe an immense amount o
consideration, Of gentleness, courtesy
ciyility. kindness, is shown retire.
u hui off tols III,