Mr. Ruggles came in
this evening and reports that the rump of the Convention has nominated Douglas.
Afterwards came Walter Cutting, very kindly offering me tickets for the grand
ball Monday night in honor of the Japanese embassy. Tickets are in great demand
and hardly to be got by any one who has not an uncle or a confederate in the
City Councils. It will be a showy and lavish entertainment, but neither Ellie
nor I care to assist. Have encountered attaches of the embassy twice, looking
over books and buying largely at Appleton's new store. They seem intelligent
and observant, talk in soft oriental whispers, and contrive to make themselves
understood by Kernot and Allen and the other salesmen. Books on the industrial
arts, geographies, atlases, and high-colored lithograph illustrations interest
them especially. They buy largely, also, of children’s books, and say "new
language—child’s book— very good.’’
SOURCE: Allan Nevins
and Milton Halset Thomas, Editors, Diary of George Templeton Strong,
Vol. 3, p. 36
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