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Show A WKDDIMI RAVJEO HIM. In Washington there exists a real blue-blood aristocracy, don'tyouknow, recruited fom the effete dynasties of tho old world and sent to this robust republic re-public to perform diplomatic duty and social conquests if it can. The post, is not the most agreeable one to the scions of decayed feudalism because they cannot can-not dance attendance upon a royal court and niako lackeys and flunkeys f themselves. It is unadorned manhood that counts in this land of tho free and home of tho bravo. This blue blood aristocracy a few days ago was shocked, positively shocked, dont't you know, because a young secretary of the Venezuelan legation had tho impudence to escort to a reception in the White house and again to a breakfast in Mr. Blaine's residence, the daughter of a Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania avenue merchant. Just think of it ye patrician ancestors, the daughter of a plebiiin American shopkeeper mingling with the nionocled lordlings of Yurrup! Tho girl was sweet and lovely and exemplary in every way, and lacking only in rank. Hence the diplomatic corps put its wise heads together to-gether and designed a pro'est against the glaring broach of etiquette of which the Venezuelan secretary was guilty. The latter however seems to possess considerable diplomatic skill as well as manhood, for he went straightway to work and married the girl, thereby conciliating the wrathy aristocrats and gaining a good American wife at the same timo. As such she bas the entree en-tree to the select circle of snobs which tabooed her as a girl because she was tho daughter of an honest shopkeeper. And thus another international complication com-plication is happily adjusted. |