The daily gazette., 1878-04-18

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THE ADVENTURES IN wAsHINGToN--
HOW THE DUALITY OF THE DEVIL AND
THE GRAcBs MIGHT HAVE MET HIS
EQUAL-HBR RELIGION. HER
LOVE, HER MOTTO, AND
HER ALPS.
A spIRITUALlsTIc ENrERTAINMENT-AN
oHIoAN PAYS 81 400 FOR A CLAIRvoY-
ANT PAINTING OF THE WOMAN HB
Is TO WE'D IN THE SPIRIT
LAND BUT IS AFRAID TO
SHOW 1T TO HIS WIFE.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, April 16, 1873
When Chesterfield said that women
were only children of a larger growth,
with an interesting tattle, and sometimes
wit, but that he had never known one to
possess solid reason and good sense ,or to
act consequentially for four and twenty
hours together-it is quite evident that
he had never came in contact with the
Washington species, maid, wife, or
widow. Had he met Washington ad-
ventures, and if he had gone into good
society he would certainly have found
her, he would have met his equal, and
more TOO. If he had begun to flatter her,
as he advised his son TO do, ON any sub
.iect, from her understanding down to
the exquisite taste of her fan, under the
impression that she would gratefully ac-
cept the smallest compliment, and greedi-
ly swallow the groSsest what would have
become of that duality of the devil and
the graces, Lord Chesterfield. He would
have been "taken ill.," destroyed He
might practice his graceS, his fiattering,
his diabolical je ne seal qloi, upon Uni
ted States Senator, on Ben. Butler or Sam.
Cox: but with all his knowledge of the
bemu monde, as it was, the Becky Sharpe
OF Washington might teach hlm thing
or two that would cause him to admire.
The century and quarter that has elan
sed, since Chesterfield wrote, has not left
woman becalmed in the wake of its
mighty evolutions and resolutions.
The queen of the Gambia Islands s
more tastetully tattoed than was her
grandmother, and the belle of this hab
ltat has more in her head, if not in her
heart, than had her progenitress of the
day OF Chesterfield. The Washington
society woman has one grand absorbing
passlon-an enthusiastic devotion to her
SELF that has made her Stoical on every
other subject, she may have her smiles
and her tears, her joys and her sorrows.
but they are not for others. She adores
dress, kneels at the shrine of Mammon.
unrns incense to dear mealy mouthed
society, lawns upon the powerful and
eievateS her exquisite nose at the knock
kneed, pot-bellled, and weak. She is an
audaclous, perssrvering, pioneering.
little body; her motto is excelsior, and
her Alps is the social ladder Sooner or
later, probably later, she will get married
to sentimental youth, with well bal
lahceu mar, and money; or, to what she
would prefer, money, with only SEN
taugenerlan encumbrance. Money, sub
Sidlary TO sell, Is the sumpreme object of
her lie, and she will secure it, through
marriage if she can, but, at any rote, she
VIII secure it. Since the days of Baby
lon there have been other careers for
women at capitals than matrimony,
Yesterday evening in passing Tall
madge hall which adjoins the old thea
ter where Lincoln was murdered. I oh
served that it was Illuminated. and ask
ing the long haired man at the door
'" mnaC ne was TO nave, he replied: "a
lecture by the great high priest of spirit-
uallsm Mr.. Davis" l rememb mbered that
when quite boy had read a book on
sprltualsm, by Davis, full of transcen-
dental Jargon the fly leat of which was
adorned with portrait of the writer.
Trying 10 look like man of genius and
sensiolllty; so | paid ten cents and
strolled in 10 hear him. One sees some
queer looking people in large hall full
ot splrltuallsts. 1t is said that every
man has his insanity, but a spectacle Of
room full of middle aged men and wo-
men, elated with a homogeneous insan-
lty, Is spectacle. From Mr.. Davis lac.
lure l would inter that his insanity ia
oI the mllder, more refined, and ETHEREAL.
type, his rhapsody was as conyincing
as chaste rhete.ic, poetical hypotheses'
anu GnlInpasslOned Il ctlon could make
II. Inc philosophy or rather "nlsophy"
"hlch ne taught was to distrust the
Sehs"s, with thelr love of sclence, and
hsten only TO lHstiLct and longing. which
was real wisdom, and the hereditary say-
peflenee OF Infinite generators of tine
human soul. He denounced speetacniar
splrltualism and SO called materialiZa-
uohs, ami reproached spiritualists for
washing money GU them. The best part
oil MS lecture was that in which he rinie
cuIeu wealthy Ohioan, whose bust ness
uetalhed MIN In New York, while his
"lle TOOK care Of his family in the buck-
eye state, Tor paying 81 400 dollars for
an Oh painting OF his spirit bride, the
woman ne was to wed in the snirit
woIlu. lie sad this man would sb.nd
hours IN enamored contemplation of rhe
faihtlng, while his good, homely. wife
III ONO, was engaged in the care Of
tHelr numerous progeny. When he asked
MN why he did not take the nlctnrn
nome, lie replied that he was AFRAID II
might make trouble! G. A =