The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-01-25
Immoral Cougressmen.
WHY souE WIVES ARE LEFT AT HOME.


"Where is Butler?i is the first ques-
tion strangers ask in the House. a
young girl / saw trying 10 adjust her
opera glasses to bear upon the gentle
man from Massachusetts. ado you see
him ?" asked her escort, looking admir-
ingly at the slender-kidded hands and
the charity bangles that hung loosely
from her slim, uplifted wrists. 81 can
only see the top of his head. that looks
like big, frozen pond fiat aud slick
a good place 10 skate. Why, nearly all
the heads are bald. Why is It that pro-
fessional men lose their locks ?n Turn
ing her glasses in surprise around the
floor of the House. "Ihe House Of Rep
resentatives looks like a big skating
rink. The heads not bald are white,
like patches of snow. a frozen, dreary,
wintry, national cranium.n Then as
she saw a pair OF brown eyes looking
up at her admiriDgly from one OF the
members chairs, she put her pretty
hand TO her head, smoothed the golden
French waves over her forehead, and
tightened the invisible net that held
them IN place, bit her lips scarlet, and
begun Irritation with the young man
at her side, while she showed her dim
Piles and animated face 20 the enap-
tured member, and threw him OCCASION
ally a glance down from the gallery
from eyes blue as indigo. Butler, for
the time, was forgotten. The member
sent up note by the page. The lady
blushed aud sent him her name. In
this informal manner acquaiutauces are
often begun in Washington, and, of
course, end disastrously. The member
has wife. | know her we'll She j.
now in her distant home, Keeping the
hearth-1ire bright, hearing her childreu's
prayers, bidding them say, "God bless
dear papa and keep him safe" He,
meantime, is running with the boys,
FLIRTING BOLDLY WITH PRETTY Girls,
And making the halls Of Congress "a
meeting-plaee for his fair friends. All
the legislation he will accomplish YOU
can put in your eye. Tie wife cannot
come TO Washington. Home is her
place; everything would run down; the
children must be taken care of. 50, af-
ter she tucks the little ones in bed, and
gives them their goodnight kiss for
their absent father, as well as herself,
she sits down IN the stiffness aud reads
the Washington news, and wonders
how Washington looks; tries TO picture
the great Capitol building, the house
where, day after day, her husband sits
She tries 10 see how the gay Pennsyl-
vauia avenue seems when all the crowds
are surging to and fro from the Capitol
She reads that her husband, among
other distinguished guests, paid his re-
spects to the President. She pictures
the President in the White House, and
wonders If 10 is really an elegant home,
or shabby, as some say; thinks With
warm heart of the sensible, plain Mrs.
Hayes aud the little children, Fanny
aud Scott, and wishes she could see
them-cOuld see all the wonders OF
Washington. She could IL it were NOT
for those babies. Then. frightened ai
her own thoughts, she goes 20 look ai
them i'm their sleep, traces their father s
| features in each tiny face, and thank
| fully falls asleep beside them. In some
! cases 10 is impossible i0r wife 90 ac-
company her husband 60 Washington.
In such cases it is the least that the mus
I band can do to
| HONOR BOTH HIMSELF AND WIFE
/ BY behaving deceutly. In four cases
out of five the wife can as well be here
as at home. II is only the mans sell
] fishuess and meanuess that prevents her
I from coming. she must ecOuomiZe that
D AlE AlAAN AAhG lnWAE AAANlAEN ANA AAA0 fAA--A-
| patious. She must be nursery, maid,
| and cook, that he may make the wine
/ How and the hot glow come on fair
/ foolish cheeks. She must give up So
ciety, all pleasures Of feminine taste,
that he may splurge and not be bothered
with "thOse young ones" ] have seen
/ hirtations too disgraceiul to repeat. Nol
/ only are the entrances to the Capitol
| thronged by braZen creatures who have
lost all womanly modesty, but there arr
| girls, scarcely past childhood, leaning
on Senators arms, listening with glow
ing cheeks to compliments paid then
by great men in the corners of the cor
ridOrs, eating with them ia the restaur
ant, and unsuspecIingly and iuuOcently
/ being the subject OF wiuks between Con
gressmen. They-high-miuded iegisla
tors-Will leave their seats any time. %,
matter how urgent the subject in debate
to answer the card of an attractive
woman. The language used between
themselves, and in the hearing of Tin
boys and attaches of the building, i
shameful. \ little fellow, applying 70
"a pageship TO a man whose gray hair
and grandchildren one might suppos
would entitle him to be considered pas
the fOolishness OF youth, received th
I AENAN ~ ~ tAW aN Until AAlE next AAANu "a
he couldn't tend to him then. He the
told his clerk that he was going TO see
lady at her residence, winking as h
spoke. The two men laughed heartily
"Iell any ladies who may call that
will see them
ANY TIME AFTER MIDNIGHT
, Then, after another coarse laugh, tn
great man left TO make his call. tn
Innocent little fellow, coming back dis
appointed and fearful TO his widowe
, mothers room, asked her if u o'cloc
wasn't very late for ladies 90 be oul
, "Why ?" said the mother. "Becaus
Mr.. -n III have a notion to give th
, blackguard's whole name, bus for th
sake OF the feelings Of his good old vii
! I will not, "tOld his clerk 90 tell ia
: ladies who came he would see them al
4 ter midnight The hoy repeated tai
/. which he overheard, talk so low tina
!, printers ink, used 10 all kind of bat
: ness, might well blush, and set the tyI
= marks in red instead of black for yer
/, shame at chroniciing the language OF
4 Congressman. The pretty-bangled gi
who sent her name down % the men
Der, filled with vanity at being notice
by so celebrated a man, did very foo
ish thing. II young girls could see Wit
: the eyes Of middle age, the flatteri,
Y aud attention so pleasant to ineXper
y ence would assume darker color
y Would, for the sake of the after happ
j ness Of our girls, that such were IL
: case Would, for their sake, our M
: tional Legislators had higher manhoC
d In their natures.-COr. Chicago Time
-.
J. a higher and holier world than q
o world OF ideas, OF the world Of beaut