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Show MMUMWaMainMMaaaanwn THE CHINESE LEGATION. Improcnlvonocfl $r tho Emporor'e Now noproaontotlvoa Under Eilatlnir rtelatlom llctffe.n V nml Chin the Olntlala Will i:- , crlte No ravora fro Americana. Ifwouldnocm that China Intended, to impress American with Its Impor-tauao, Impor-tauao, judging from tho she and gor- ' freotiknM of the logaHon It lias sont I heru to treat in-tho titmo of the om-poror, om-poror, uys n Washington corronpond ent of tho Iloaton Adrortlser. .WIicji tha arilte landed in San Fntnelseo there I cre over elffhty In the tmll of Yun Yu. lint ns some wern left nn consuls on the I'aoltlo const the legation has dwindled to (lfty-nlno persons in all This, of eonrae. lneluilen Mine. Yunir Yu, four children nnd ns many nurses Tlierc Is nny nmount of paraphernalia J connected with tho legation. 1 Tho entire legation la now domiciled ' at a lendliiflf liotei. Tlnsre nlijhtlv n ' crowd gnthent tocntoli ai;llmpoof the Celestials. Hlnee tholr Installstlou nt I the hotel nil who nro entillcil to call nsdlirnlturies, nnd many who nro not, I havu taken ndtnntuge of their preniif-Btlva preniif-Btlva .and prose 11 ted themseWen Ui Yun Yu. Strict court otlriuette for ' lilds Mine. Yung Yu from belnp soon hy nny except her maids and Immediate Immedi-ate hoiMohold. 80 no ono can pet s 1 rflltnpie of this strun;o llttlo woman Mmo. Vung's prcducoseor wm not allowed al-lowed to appear at her own utate din-1 ners! nor permitted to recelte a caller 1 Tlio wlfo of the Chineto minister Is j forced to absolute seolunton. When she iroos for n drive it it with her on ' tire head covered with yards of lmnon-otrahle lmnon-otrahle muterinl. Tho wlfo of the Japanese Jap-anese minister, on tho contrary. Mmo MuneatlUli Mutsu, isono of tlio timet nltra-faihlonablo women in Washington, Washing-ton, and her entertainments nre Renw Tho new legation has tahou tlirec houses for which tho Chlncso Kovani-mentpays Kovani-mentpays twenty thousand dollan a year. Tlio United States paid two hundred dollars u day for tho board of Infanta wlillo her sitlto occupied those quarters. Yune Yu Is laying fh-u hundred dollarauilay nnd sayA ho thinks It very cheap. Wlillo tho womon nro hept In Exclusion tho men havo tho run of tho house and make themselves tlioroiiffhly at home. A part of tho delegation were once In Kuf,laud and speak the IlnglUh laiiRtiago Uueutly. Thoy havo the free and easy manner of tlio westerner and hhow a disposition to talti to mione. who will listen. Tho mliilt.ter Is m dark ns n tuu-huriiod mulatto, being1 at lcaat three shade blacker than tho other members of the delegation. Yuns" Yu wiys he Is very well pleased with American cooking, hut ho has taken tho precaution to provide hiin-nclf hiin-nclf with it Chineso unoU, and has in-btalled in-btalled him In the hotel kitchen. Tho legation oat but llttlo meat, dining chioily on vegetables. Yung Yu iia- uovcr been out of China before, it,- was not .1 -man or tlio luglicst rank in Chlua, but, llko Koko, though in a different dif-ferent way, roso to dlntinctlon. Ho was an aHlcktl in tho provlnco of Chin Klang, which corrcsponda Uicro to tho 1 position o( ollair,of4)ip llojtcoi par- 'here. It was btrloUy'on hh merit that ho was chosen by tho primo minister tp rcprosont tho emperor in thl.i country, coun-try, pcnditiif tho dollcoto relations between be-tween tlio two nations In consequence, of tho Qeury act. As long at thore nre nny (drained relationscxistlng no member mem-ber of the legation will bo allowed to accept tho hospitality of nn American, that being- tho law of the omba:sy |
