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Show ! WIFE OF AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA To be the wife of an ambassador to Russia, where the court life is said by many to be the most splendid in the world, and then, when the bags are packed and everything is ready, to find one's self marooned with but faint hope of immediate departure, is, to say the least, disconcerting. That is the predicament of Mrs. George T. Marye of Washington, D. C, wife of the newly-appointed ambassador ambassa-dor to the court of the czar. Mrs. Marye is in Washington, her court dress in Paris and between her and her court dress and her final destination destina-tion are several thousand miles of water, which (at the time of writing) no ship seems anxious to traverse. At the home of the Maryes everything every-thing is in readiness for instant departure. de-parture. All shipping lines are being watched in the hope that an announcement announce-ment will appear that some ship any passenger ship is ready to sail. ( There is a vast difference between the social functions and etiquette of official Washington and the meoieva! splendor of the court at St. Petersburg in times of peace, ruled over by h s majesty, Nicholas II, and his beautiful Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, but Wrs. Marye is well fitted for her new station. |