River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-12-06
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

Correspondence Chicago Times.
+ 6JAll the pretty girls in the country have
I been turned into Washington at once.
To-day, after an absence of two days
( from the personal inspection of the heels
and bald heads of the members, / entered
the gallery again to make note of who
had had their boots patched since my
last visit. / saw the dark circle of bench
es above the members heads running over
with brightness; women had settled upon
! the seats like flock of Kansas grasshop-
pers, and the air was redOlent with per-
fume of violet and white rose and musk,
and ali those dainty odors that are stolen
from blossom and rat. The day was
warm, and fans were a-fiutter; beautiful
fans they have now, covered With snowy
elder down, and garlanded by flowers to
match the costume. One fan of black
feathers, with loops Ofcut jet beads strung
in rows over it; another white swans
down, with pale lilies of the valley sewed
in, and looking as though arising from a
snOwdrift; one of pale pink, dotted by
natural sweet yiolets. Il is quite the
style TO trim bonnets and fans with tube
roses, and even fasten boquets of natural
flowers on the back of the glove at the
wrist; ON the waist, or the pocket. A
chatelain of strung tuberoses, passing
around the waist, and hanging in a long
loop at the side, finished by a cross of
tuberoses, was the unique decoration Of a
girl in black velvet walking dress.
The isuntiest suits, much affected by
stylish girls who adopt severe street
dresses in contradistinctiOn TO their elab-
crate evening toilets, are composed Of
short plane skirts, polOnaise laid in kilt
plaits at the back, with no draping; broad
white cuffs worn outside the sleeve wide
round linen collars turned down all
around; black felt hat with round crown
dropping brim, trimmed By narrow
band of ribbon Not feather or loop or
flOunce or train. They go to the other
extreme of gentility,and are as noticeable
by the severity of their toilets as they
have heretofore by their superfuous
decorations. 4 real pretty girl, dressed
In this neat and solemn way, looks pref
tier than in all the cOlors of the rainbow.
Amsng the BEAUTIES is the tall. beaut;-
full blonde daughter of Senator Don Cam
eron. I am told that, aside from her
society duties. she is housekeeper and
oversees the clothing and education of
her little brothers and sisters.
The two lovely blonde daughters of
Secretary SchuFz discharge the same
sweet daughterlv and sisterlv offices in
their widowed fathers home. These
young, beautiful maidens who take the
added cares of maturity upon their girl
lish hearts, and give, besides a sisterly
love, a mothers care, are to me the most
gracious sight outside of heaven.
The most beautiful young ladies in the
National hotel are the Misses Annie and
Nellie Averill, daughters of Gen. Averill,
of Minnesota. One of the young ladies
is stylish and dashing; one quiet and pale,
with features of classical perfection, hair
worn in Greek simplicity Of knot and
coil. Miss Annie, or. as she is sometimes
painfully called. Dixie, the dasher, has
her dark hair wound in wonderful and
massive pyramids on top of her head, and
growing from the summit of the couture
/ a slender nOdding feather that bends and
+ sways with every bird-like movement of
+ her pretty head. Two sisters cannot be
/ imagined more unlike; yet each in her
/ own way more charming.
/ Gen. Butler in his four story gray gran
+ tie house, facing the capital grounds, has
with him his daughter Blanche, the wife
of ex-GOv. Ames, of Mississippi. Every
/ body likes MIS-. Ames-a talented woman,
/ a gentle daughter, a model wife and
mother. -Four or five tiny beauties, one
+ Just tOddling with uncertain steps,
brighten the grand, gloomy dwelling,
+ and press their pretty faces to the win
dow panes, waiting for waddling grand
+ pa 10 cross the green, and come from
e - al a
/ favorite in society is Mrs. Polk-wife
I Of the brother Of ex-president Polk. \
+ Young handsome woman, with suaye man
ners and infinite tact. She receives at the
/ National; also Mrs. COrlett, wife of the
/ delegate from Wyoming, one Of the new
/ favorites in Washington. DIR. Corlett is
/ a brilliant young lawyer in Cheyenne.
I His wife slender brunette, has hand
+ some clothes, diamonds, and jewelry, and
I better than all, warm, wOmanly heart,
/ gentle manners. and fine mind. She was
I telling me, not long since, about voting.
/ She Is the very opposite from woman 5
/ rights ranter. She speaks very slow, and
/ low, and drawing. 1T don't seem any
thing strange at all TO
THE WOMEN or WYOMING
to vote. Nobody ever thinks of saying
anything against it, or making fun of US.
The women went TO the polls and voted
/ with the men for my husband. The first
/ election a good many ladies were asham-
/ ed To 60, but now they all turn out.
/ think we are Just as wOmanly as other
women, and / believe that while many
vote whichever way they are told to, our
ladies take more interest in the affairs of
the government. do more solid reading
than they used 10, and | know our votes
are not bought by drinks. 1t has come
10 such a matter of course now that
have almost forgotten that l have not al
ways exercised the right of suffrage"
Mr. Cannon, the Republican member
from the fourteenth district of Illinois,
occupies seat at the table with Mr. and
Mrs. COrlett. He tells me that he is the
only congressman who has not a doubt in
his own mind as to whether he was the
member I mentioned as flirting with the
girls. His conscience is clear. The
other men are comparing notes, and try
ing 10 find out who was the man. So
many have the same thing on their con-
sciences, that il is difficult to decide.
Were in a deuce OF fix. Ny wife Just
dispatched she is on her way here" "My
WIFE" said another 'hss written she will
tart next Monday my wife has ship
ped the children to her mother, and | am
expecting her every moment" With
these impending evils, what wonder that
the gentlemen cannot transact business IN
an orderly way. and are now anxious for
an early adjournment Gen. Banks, het
hsndsOmest Republican, Gov. Walker,
the handsomest DemOcrat-both gray
haired and dark-eyed, and young-faced,
lift up their voices in combat on the floor
; Of the house, yet never glance toward the
.alleries for applause as was once their
Sont. The fair ones have notice theii
neglect and demanded to know why the