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Welcome Only When Invited

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
May
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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It does not take forelgners in Washington long to thoroughly adapt themselves to the social cusióme ot the oity. This is especially true of the Chinese, whose spirit of irnitativeness is proverbial the world over. All Washingtonians and many outtiders will remenibor the famous ball at the Chinese leation some eix or seven years ago when the list of guests was so s weiled by the addition of the uninvited that the place waB crowded to suffocatien, and the mob - for, according to Kate Field's Washington, it was hardly anything else - ao abused the hospitality of these orientáis as to induce them from that time to close the legation except for business purposes. The fact that the majority of entertainments given during the season are written upin the local papers, witha Hst of the guests present, appears to have been duly noted by the attaches of the Chinese lejjation, who desired to avail themselves of this means to prevent the public from appearing uninvited at legation functions. A society reporter of one of the leading local papers was formally requested by an attaché about to give an evening party to publish in advance Ele ñames of those to whom invitations had really been Issued, in order that only aueh should tend the entertainment Finding that suoh a course of procedure was entirely out of the question, the cautious Chinaman compromised upon receivíng a promise to insert a notice that carda of invitation would be required of guests upon their arrival at the leeration, where the man selected for duty knew by Bight every one of the guests bidden to the reception.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register