Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-12-14
Alefan0rla 0azette
FRIDAY EVENING, deer. IA.
EsOnuets and listers.

Bonnets and listers.
Why is it that sensible bonnets to cover tbs
head with their graceful shape, hats turned up
at the side with flowing feathers, such as seem
ed to be somewhat in fashion last summer do
not prove successful? Perhaps the milllners
and doctors can answer the question. Tho
former say the c0ntloual desire TO have some
thing new. something better than the Grundys,
or that tie Frumps can't afford, or that the
Shyner5 will envy, keeps them on the coutinnal
strain for novelty, hence hcmlet hats, Galusuv
rough hats, aad another-tbe name of which l
have not been able to learn, but which rescm.
bles the old fashioned coal bod, set behind
rot on the head, with the point upward.
You will sec dozens Of elegantly dressed ladies'
on Broadway, warmly clad otherwise against De
cember's blasts, but with the entire top
of the head, back to the very crown, u0pro
ected. Some, it is true, friz up the hair to re-
scmbe an oven broom or factory floor mop
of cotton waste, or pile on 10! Of fun
merry that looks as if the coal hud OF waste bas
ket had discharged its contents upon the top OF
the head, and they were balanced by the wear
er. Meanwhile the physicians number their
neuralgia patients among the feminine gender
by hundreds, ard hut few fashionable ladies
have escaped it.
AG Tue luealEC tuC oCA QtlCl SAplSS,
sions not loud but deep at the lnterposltlor OF
these millinery monuments, or OF those great.
round, halo or nimbus affairs between their view
aud the stage. A regulation that ladies should
remove these distractions, and gentIemen-no.
men-shoud not "go out to see man. be:
tween the acts, are improvements to be wished
but hardly hoped for under our school or mod
ern civilization.
Speaking of fashion | notice the. good com
Portable pilot or rough blue ulster overcoat ls
giving way among the young sWels hero to u
sort of check pattern, made without the strap
and buckle, some of SO decided nature that j
pair whom I met arm 10 arm during the
cool weather the early part of last week looked
like al open checker board ready for game
Ncv York Letter to Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
Don PlATr DIsGUsTED.-A closer look at
the sort of force the various officers OF the
House has called into existence makes US thank
God that Sammy Tiden did not secure tho
Presidency. Had that sort of thing been spread
over the entire country believe the wheels OF
Government would cease to turn for lack OF ca
pacity. Mr.. Foster, of Ohio, publicly desiE'
oated the officials Of the House as respect
able bummers. Why he put IN the word
"respectablc' bothcrs me, unless 1t was lr0n!ca!
One is first struck with the fact thatthe dcmoc.
racy has control in passing from the Senate end
to that of the House by the dirt on oil Sides
The corridors are dingy and dirty, while The
floors are covered with pools ot tobacco spit and
stumps of cigars. After this the sight OF tho
doorkeepers and clerks gives evidence that
class is about representing the great unWashcd;
You may consider this little too severe. III
SO, como on and take look for yourself. But
T n RI
this sort of neglect; but the worst feature re.
mains untold. There is not one officer, either
clerk, doorEeeper, or scrgeant-at.arms, who Is
| able to fad 10 the democracy men OF suhlclcnt
education to act in position where such cduta
tion is srequired There is the clerk, tor example
| 10 the opening of the late Congress he turned
out the librarian Of the House because such llb
| rariau was republican. He hired 80 cx Goa
gressmau from Kentucky, who failed, and then he
ran through lively lot Of experiments until the
House lost patience at being deprived OF the
| use Of the library, and by resolution forced him
| to restore the negro messenger, who's there t.
| day acting as lIbrarlaG-Dot only republican,
but black republican. a beautiful commcH
tary that on the intelligence of the class mem.
bers fetch up from their districts 10 TIL these
places.
This same clerk has 10 his employ and can
| GOT GlSpCOSS Will HIS SClNlCCS, d luhu Nho iot
sixteen years has been and is notorlouSly lob-
byst for the gas company hero that is owned
! 10 Philadelphia. | could fill my letter with
cases illustrative of this inGapacity. You must
not blame the clerk, doorkeeper, and sergeant
alarms for these appointments They had to
select from the people the members put tor
ward. Every NJ. g. has a lot OF political bum
mers dependent upon him who follow him to
| Washington, and he has to provide for some
of the worst or be murdered. lie pushes the
most obnoxious upon the poor fellows who have
10 make up a force to run the House.
Ncr am | an advocate Of the beastly system
of filing places with political adhcrcnts Tor
services ct the polls. Had these gentlemen
retained one and all of the republican lot |
would have made no objection. But as they,
did make a Sweep or attempted it, | only call
your attention to the result Washington Let'
ter to tic C;lcinnaH Enquirer.