New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-13

look to her with such longing eyes.
Democracy is becoming aesthetic. It used trbe
considered anti-soap ank.water, antitOwel; end
pro-grease, prO-rum, and 2rerags. But, az tse
French dramatist boldly expresses it, ave have
" changed all that" Democracy nov, smells sweet
ly 10 Heaven, when the people pay for it. That .
to say, the representative men Of Democracy are
putting these cleanly and polite airs and gracss
the multitude who hew dig, pillow and fabricate
handsomely footing the bill. In exemplifcaton Of
this marvellous change, let US hook at the COntin.
" gent Expenses of the National House of Repre-
sentatives during the year 1857. These be veri-
aes-hard money paid oct. And do not let it DO
understood that We ere scrid on the subject or
the contrary, we merely record the facts in the sim
plest language, 80 that the constituents Of mem.
bers may learn what finishing school the House
has become; how rough-and-tumble fellows FROM )
the back-woods and shoulder hitting subterraneanS
from the city's core are suddenly metamorphosed
into men of taste-exqSsites, who not only require
the decorations due fine gentlemen, but also need
the sweet little ct ceterss of feminine bOudorisri.
Coleridge happily says that the artist must be half
woman rightly to apprehend and express those N
Vulnerable little delicate thoughts which belong 20
the sex and folm 60 large portion of artistic
achevem We should opine that Congress
must, according to his saying of the poet, have
among its members q great many artists, judging
by the things which they buy (the people Aforesaid
paying therefOr) belonging to the uses and acorn
ments OF the fairer portion of humarity.
We shall no. quarrel with six hundred dollars
worth of SCISSORS, set down in the COntip cents,
because scissors are dual in their masculine and
feminine employment-editors equs'ly with seam
stresses using them, and why not members of Con-
gress, who often make up their speeches out OF
the leaders and correspondence of the New-York
daily papers Some people may say thai all these
scissors we're not used by the HonOratlss, bat the
greater part Of them were handed ever to the
wives and daughters Of the members and this
opinion may be fortified by the fact that other
things not dual but single inther womany appl.
cations are charged upon the unterrihed Democracy
by these representatives. But we reject this idea
and Ike the judiciary, give the accused the benefit
of every doubt We may remark that twenty-four
hundred psirs of scissors, which six hundred dollars
would buy, make full supply for three hundred
Congressman, even though their missions into the
New. York papers be as great as We have stated.
| But the next article which meets our eye is
purely womanly. One hundred and one dollars are
ch,reed for Ladies Companions" What does
| that mean The companion of lady may be
sweetheart, poodle, parrot, femenine pro-
"priety player" or multitude of things. This
mystic disbursement Of money may no. satisfy the
unterrifed We look for some tremendous queries,
and an amount of investigation equal to that be-
slowed on the Rosetta stone. before these hero.
! glyphics are solved.
Next We have three hundred AMI forty seven dol.
! lars expended for ladies portemonnaes." Nothing
can be said against this The members have their
per diem What is not actually disbursed by them.
selves ought to be shOpped away BY their wives and
daughters, ard hence the necessity of such porte.
monnaies. In addition 20 this chivalrous appropri.
alton, it may be mentioned that seventy dOlarswere
xperded for buckskin purses, and eighty dollars
or Pockets.books.
| "Owonsp, in our hours o, eue,
Uncertain, coy and hard to please
So think the Ladies Companionish representa-.
tives at Washington, for by way of overcoming the
natural coynsss of the SEX they charged our national
Uncle with two hundred and forty.two doll,i. ;
worth Of reticules; and two hundred and forty.
seven dollars worth pearl shopping tablet, which
were, doubtless udiciOusy distributed; for We can.
not believe that the brave instead of the fair make
use of such ladylik appendices, unless they be
artists after the Colerdgian plan above mentioned
Tive thousand dollars are get down as paid
for portfolios, and as these come along
with two hundred and tiirtytwo dollars for
albums, some Of them illuminated it lie rea.
sonable to suppose that many cousin
Kate everybody has a cousin Kate or lovely
Julia without the cousin, shares In the de-
| lghtful courtesy of receiving portfolio as well
ss an album. And parenthetically we may re-
MAX that some one has, or ought to have, said
that one of the supremest pleasures in this world
is making a gift to a pretty woman; Congress
! m, n, Ike Besd.es, arc but human. and if they