The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-15
WASHINGTON, Jan. IL, 1874.


Is reign, that people were tempted lnto
keeping doors and windows open, ana IN
caught colds Of the worst
,ype, which sent not few to their last
resting place. escaped with just enough
to make me feel as if an active buzz-saw
we're in operation inside my Uranium
md as if I didn't care whether school
Sept or not.
Well, there was little lost after all. The
average American mind seems to cling to
the idea that the acme of enjoyment con-
sists in firing off flintlocks and frecrackers
and getting gloriously drunk. And faith
fully they adhered to it. On Christmas
eve the exercises commenced and were
kept up with more or less vigor until New
Years day, when they eliminated in the
grand finale of starting on call-route So
Der in the morning, being funny at noon,
lawfully queer" little later, and so full
of brotherly love in the evening that
nothing less than an embrace of the whole
world, lampposts included, would content
them,
I assisted" you see, at a receiving"
and know whereof 1 speak. Why not
abolish the foolish custom altogether, and
leave Tom, Dick and Harry to their free
lunches, instead of listening to their booty
compliments, and giving them free ride
on the road to perdition while closing their
eyes to danger with our smiles?
But there that looks suspiciously like
the epitome of temperance lecture and |
had better mention the feature like best
about these receptions the flowers. In
the parlors of Mrs. This or That of the up
per crust, masses of them, in the shape OF
baskets. vases or boquets, load the air and
please the eye with their fragrance and
beauty; and anyone, reviewing them
through the mist peculiar to the uninitia
ted eye, would suppose that small fortunes
had been expended to procure them. But
spare your calculations, my unsuspecting
friend, Mrs. This or That only makes hel
wishes known in the proper quarter, anC
the gardens and Conservatives of gallant
partial old Uncle Sam are forthwith ready
and able to CRAFTY them. OF course
"Hayseeds' pays for them; but what o
that? Is not our much Wanted emblem {
bird of prey who makes an honest living
by robbing smaller hunters of their hard
earned food?
Well, all that is over now for a while
and Congress has returned to its diet o
Salary Bill and Civil Rights SPLENDID
dishes both of them. with plenty of sauce
and a pinch of spice now and then a
when a member from Tennessee move
that clause be tackled on which SHOULD
make it punishable offence for woma
to refuse to marry a man on account o
race, color, or previous condition of servi
tude; out-Sumnering Sumner, asiit were
Oh yes some of these gentlemen are al
ficted with sense of humor; and whe
once it dawns upon their Inner conscious
ness" that, by passing this Civil Right
Bill, they accomplish what priest an
belP' have been vainly endeavoring to de
namely ring the knell of public schools
at least in those states where a large POI
ton of the population consists of colore
people-how the oddity of the transactio
will strike these common school loving Re
publicahs
On the 18th, inst the National Woma
Suffrage Convention is to meet here again
and in order to have unanimity of action,
preliminary meeting was held in the Y
NJ O. A. building on the 9th inst wher
had an opportunity of seeing the leadin
members of the movement in this distric
OF the ladies present three we're phys
clans, and as unlike in manner and appea
ance as members of one species can we
be. DIR. Winslow mot she of ''Soothir
Syrup" fame; that Mrs Winslow" is
man: has highly intellectual face,
quiet in manner and appears like ar
other lady. DR.. Edison is little roly- DO
sort of sBig medicine, with reddish ha
cut short, bright reddish brown eyes and
the most preposterous hat, Of the inverte
soup bowl shape, on her head that ever di
figured that telling portion of the huma
frame. Last and least flor she is del
cate looking little woman) DR.. Walker
her well known martyr to principle un
form of unmentionables and skirted Goa
by the way, the long dress portion of tn
meeting snubbed the little thing horribly
quite overlooking the fact that they al
Just beginning to take the ground she o
cupied two years ago in the way of arg,
ment,) Mrs. Sara j. Spencer, one of ii
principals of our Business College, W;
president, and Belva A. Lockwood, Leaf
ing and successful female lawyer, seer
tary.
The plan for the campaign is, to petite
Congress to protect women, as citizens
the United States, in exercising their rigI
Of suffrage within this District or Terrific,
which is under its special control. It lisa
sumed that, when this shall be accomplish
ed,the other Territories will follow suit, I'll
til the States, for very shame, cannot star
aloof, in a matter of justice, alone.
But next week shall probably hay
more to tell on the subject; till then, c
TeuOir. LENARD
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