Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-04
HIGH LIFE IN WASHINGTON.
from the Cleveland Plaindealer.l

From the Cleveland Plaindealer.l
The wives Of two congressman
were waiting for tho elevator last
evening at one OF our hotels. was
demurely reading the evening paper
with my eyes, eagerly devouring their
conversation with my ears, and this
is what heard. Said Mrs. H.:
"I'm awful tired; Pve made twenty
calls to-day, aud tomorrow l must
make as many more. There's preei-
Gus little fun about it."
Said Mrs. L.: "Funl indeed not
a bit Of it. Pm disappointed in WASH
ington. Why, at home when George
as elected l held my head higher
than anybody in the county, and ex-
pected to have such a gay time here,
but when you get three hundred con-
pressmen and their wives together
one don't count much. needn't have
worried SO about my dresses"
| "Mrs. H.'s face was visibly length-
eninp all the while her friend was
talking then she responded:
"That's SO! There was Grant,
whom everybody wants to see once;
there are the wives of tho secretaries,
tho bow politely when you call and
never know you again"
"Oh, yes they do W interrupted
Mrs. l.. sMrs. Fish never forgets
face, and Mrs. Bristow ID just love-
iy!
"Well, anyhow, Mrs. Robson never
knows anybody lower than senator's
wife, and Mrs. Belknap never returns
our calls. This Is the order: The
cabinet ladies, the wives of senators,
ladies of the foreign legations. the
families of the army aud navy, few
citizens known for wealth or posi-
ton given by Inheritance and then,
, wives of congressman are classcd
with department clerks 1 wish
hadn't come at all !"
won't say that" said Mrs. L.,
; "for at home it does sound SO nicely
to say you were in Washington dur
ing the season. shall make the most
!, : of my position there, you may be
:. sureP'
"Now, this is true, dear friends, for
. the wife of the inconspicuous M. u,
= who comes here with dreams of soci-
y al glory, viii find the reality exceed
;. ipgly commonplace. II she be really
y lady, refined and intelligent, she
Will draw about her circle Of pleas
70 ant friends we'll worth possessing
, if she be exceedingly beautiful, or so
, | Wtdltuy IudG OutVA AAAssNS
!, stir, society will court her with
70 sw eetest phrases, and she shall have
> cards by the half bushel; she will
!" have more invitations than she can
:. possibly accept, and neither days nor
!, nights shall be long enough for her
;, wish. Once in the centre of the whirl'
;. pool struggles are in vain; you cant
keep near the outer edge; it is the
= vortex or nothing know one mar
.; . ried pair who are elderly aud who
4. ought to be staid, but tho lady gaz
sc ing at Washington through the CLAM
le ls our OF fancy's painted vista desired
I - to bel"a high flyer in fashion" while
q q the husband "a genuine ''Shoddy
% Boffin"-detested the whole thing,
+. but follows at my lady's footsteps
a like reluctant but obedient New
10 foundland dog. 1t 10 the greatest fur
- - TO watch his hands, when, stuffed IN
u, to white kids, he attends an evening
>. party. Every separate finger stand
- at different angle and the thumb
-. are at enlnity with all the rest
oWa W After shaking hands with any one h'
sse curiously inspects the liberated digits
W and sticks them out again as If to as
p sert their independent individuality