Show A Chinese Lover A Chinese prince nominally attache to the legation fell in love with an American damsel residing near Dupont circle He gave her enormously valuable presents all of which she accepted with complacency but when he proposed matrimony she laughed at him Why said she do you suppose that I would marry a man with a pigtail Whereupon the enamored prince deliberately delib-erately went and cut off his pigtaiL Per haps you do not know what such an act meant It signified the abandonment of his princely perosatives nay more his banishment from the empire of China And after he had made the sacrifice the young woman again refused him with scorn A Early next morning a body was seen hanging out of a window at the legation It i supposed that it was that of the prince but the mystery was never solved The Chinese embassys ground is Chinese territory and an invasion of it by the police would be a coons belli with China Washington Letter |