| Show I AMERICAN AMBASSADORS AMBASSADORS AND HOW THEY LIVE NOW Special Correspondence O DO May 11 9 Mark Twain LONDON L probably would be pretty NettY well L satisfied If It only he lie could come comen abroad broIl n now IIO and see the tho various mansions which arE ars belliA occupied by bythe the representatives of or tho the American government nt fit the different capitals of Europe and Incidentally get gt J a 1 glimpse e of the style le which some of these diplomatists ar art are now nol engaged In putting on at Probably he ho would be he bea hea h a 1 little gratified too for tor Mr Ir Clemens Clemen would discover cover that certain rather caustic advice which he ho tendered to the state department nt at Washington by b means of lit n 1 magazine article several years rear ago aHO hn hll has a apparently been taken to heart hearl rod and that there U is now nothing whatever to complain about either re regarding reo garding the way wn In which tho the various American ambassadors abroad are lire housed horI or ns 1111 to the capability of oC these gentlemen for keeping up II In III a 1 worthy orth manner th the dignity of oC their respective positions line lI lIThe The boot In fact ad Is III emphatically on the th other leg und and Judging by b recent the government at nt homo home homola la le fully fulI conscious of this tint and prepared to take butte effective action In nil all cases CASCI where the tho anxiety of 01 an nn American am 1111 ambassador or that ot of his hl lady to hobnob hob hobnob nob with Ith royalty and generally make mAlle a n abig abig big blK splurge In high society In danger of leading them to give gle the Iho cold shoulder to folk of or their own awn ty tip or to treat trout tho tiro susceptibilities Ines with Ith lofty Indifference At Al leant bast lell t that Hutt U h the tho conclusion that one Is le disposed to draw from Crom the recent recall of tho thin former r American am nm a 11 ba to the tho court of Ilm gary For Kor although It Il undoubtedly was seas us III reported the th political wire pulling carried d on ou In by hy Mrs Irs Bellamy Storer and the various diplo thine diplomatic matic 1111 II t o tic Ile Ies created create l by lY that lady that led to her nor husband being relieved of o his lu Ix duties It IL Is not unlikely ut 1 Ilku p y that t Irel President s dent Roosevelt rIt was also o Influenced In Iii taking ti his h hi action by hy hearing of oC the rather r excessive Ie strata state that was sins In In nI by b the l pair PUIT and amid of or the mite way w n Oy they Ihy lad hud of turning down their heir own cult countrymen whenever the opportunity presented Itself elC In point wore nf of o course Mrs Bellamy lI habit of o receiving her guests ut at the embassy 1 who Included surprie surprisingly Ins few fete fE Americans seated upon n a adial dla dial for fur rut nil the thi world as ns If It she nhe were a fI royal ro al mid the tho ambassadors dors unexplained failure to lo hold the usual mila I Thanksgiving IllIg day ilay In reception last ladt November not lint to mention many other rather surprising departures turee from the democratic of or the embassy Y where wh re to the tho advent of ot the lieu Hoi Ill IllIn lamy In my m of ot the Amerl Ameri American can colon In III Vienna have Invariably been br n made weh oma |
