Smyrna times., 1868-05-06
MEN AND WOMEN,

Mary Clemmer Ames, in letter to the In.
dcpeadent, dIscourses Of a social phenomenon
not confined to the latitude of Washington.
The Washington carnival runs from boli-
days to Lent, when it suddenly subsidies into
penltencc and ashes till the blooming ont of
the Easter lilies. In the Interval the omant;l
~ OF paStebOaTd consumed is frightful: the
amount OF tarleton and tulle torn, mournful to
contemplate; the vitality and bloom uuenched
1py, gas-llgh and late hours, more than all the
Dalm OF summer can restore Amid much
crude and tawdry displays, tn re are vet Gle
CANT and SumptuOus homes in the capital
where aesthetic women dispense the most grace.
Iul hoSpltalltleS. 1t is easy to count every one
OF such; for the rule is, that the women one
meets IN Washington are not equal in intelec-
tual development to the men. This arises
from the fact that the larger portion of orr
public men are men who have struggled up to
place ana power from small beginnings. In
early, LIE they lived in what the New England
people call small way" People of very
modern antiquity remember when Mrs. Pima
Gle did her own work, cooking her husbands
beefsteak, with red cheeks, in the little two
story house in Bugville. Mrs Pinnacle was
very happy doing this, and it is much to her
cfedlt that she did it; yet it does not alter the
1act ET t4at now, IN her splendid drawing room.
Mrs. Pinnacle does not feel quite at home in
her rattling moire antique she does not know
what to 90 with her hands and, receiving a
thousand people, never feels quite sure what's
the proper thing to say. So She stops on the |
safe SIDE She says, Mrs. Pinnacle" You |
say Mrs. Shipper" You shake hands-von
pass on. This is the beginning and the end of
your communion with Mrs. Pinnacle. If YOU
could penetrate into Mrs. P's pantry, or see
ne her alone with her children, you would find
That she Is not devoid of ideas of very excel.
lent sort, only they don't fit the HIGH LonSo
and the grand occasion. While Mrs. Pinnacle
was taking care Of her chillren and max
ing MIR. Pinnacle comfortable. Mr. Pinnacle
was improving his mind, improving his for
tunes every effort he made was in the direc-
-lon OF growth and success Mr. Pinnacle is
now IN Washington, and his name is power
n ! the land. Mrs. Pinnacle in all intellectual
ieVelopments, stands ages behind him More {
lVer, pam and care have taken from her face ;
he last flush of youthful bloom, Madame :,
AdVenturesS says that She is a very common !
ookIng Woman; and so old Too old entirely r
OF -Hr' Flnnacle, to whom time has brought :
grace or manner and culture, a charm of as
ect which had not come to him when he was
oqng. Madame Adventures, who is ad,in
Washington society, with both eyes wide p
pen Tor something grand in the shape of ao ;;
''dOiiShnent to turn up 'pities poor Mr. Pin ~ =,
hcie' Ana she thinks it is SO lovely in him H. H.
ii0 "ilC' ANU he Is INFINITELY her ~
lPerlor IN every way, she goes on. And it y \
IS something | can never understand WHY =
II great men always do marry such interior o.
omen; 1t would be trying to convince Won ~
AT Mr.. Pinnacle is not the ambition, man ci c
nch he Is, to say that, in all extcrnalS. Mrs ~
nnacle satisfies his silent demand. Rut de-. l
lte politics, Mr.. Pinnacle has conscience M lil
d heart. lie sees a beauty in this little ~ 99I
'man undlScernable to Madame Adventures Vh
only, In all the world, know, how much he
eS TO her She loved him when he was ..Tr
'de ana uncouth. She believed in his future
zen many said that he would never amount goo
much. He does not forget how she toiIed pr'
/ suffered for that future, as no other could aga
would have done. Because through untold IT,
l-denlals she eked out their scanty means. 10
'ause she asked so little for herself that he IS I
5ht have the more because she stavcd out
eriuiiy at home that he might be ever free ,oV
go; because she bore patiently every fami- nun
burden, that no weight of dwarfnr care nov
yht drag him down hocousa b"r ~ ~ hoV
love have bren of.rnJ 80 - I''oI0 " 'l'c woI
J. Mr.. P!nnacle to-day is rich and famous. gra
Mrs. Pinnacle a plain and faded woman =
nemberlng this, it reflects negative credit I
% human nature, as well as upon Mr.. Pin en-
e'. that IN his high estate he does not snub CAM
wife OF his lOwly days that in his heart ei,
hearts he prefers her to Madame Adventu Z. L
, though that beguiling woman fills the mir ton
lamentations that such a superior man lieu
lot claim an equally superior woman to be GAS
wife - " '0 Ian
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