Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-12-04
Visiting at VI Washington.

4 Washington correspondent SAYS
To show 20 what lengths visiting
is carried in thls city, or as Mrs.
Senator Morton once aptly put it, "The
pedd.ing of cards." | will quote GER
6afim tor you an advertisement which
appeared for three successive evenings
last week in the Star:
A lady having a carriage and pair
would like one or two ladlss who have
regular visiting to JOIN her in the keep
of it. Address, n S. W, Star office. +"
Can you Imagine anything more
senseless more vapid than a round of
calls, made with people whose only
recommendation to such an intimate
companionshIp, as sharing ones car
riage would necessarily lead, lies in the
two facts that they have regular visit
ing, and share the expenses of /" the
keep - The question of how to bar
monize these .'lists 2" seems out of the
question. L naturally infer that a
woman reduced to the necessity to ad-
vertise for Inmates to 90 the rounds"
with her. must belong to that large
floating class wAo devote the season to
rushing from one public official recep-
tiun TO the other, tor under no crrcum-
stances would such persons have the
enfree to the private resident society of
our city. These are the kind of peo-
pie Sho swell the visiting lists of the
wives of Government officials, making
life here for thess burden, and leav-
ing them, during the season, scarcely
moment to enjoy their personal friends
and home life.
Iu the last year q the reign of Mrs.
Fish, as the wife Of the Secretary of
State there hsppened an amusing incl
dent, which | Will relate to instance
the trouble to which the wives of pub
lie men are often unnecessarily put. l
will call the lady Thomas. Her hus
baud is a clerk on snail pay in one
Of the departments. She made no social
pretensions, lived In a quiet, humble
way, in a very petite house 10 the su-
hurbs, kept no domestics, and did her
own Eork-all this greatly to her
credit. Beng one Wednesday after
noon in the neighborhood of the "Fish
Mansion she proposed to her sister
/" to 60 IN just for look aud see what
the high-fyers were doing" At the
door a footmsu presented his salver for
a card. They had none. The assist
ant servant handed another sslver with
q blsuk card and pencil. The little
woman wrote her name and address,
thiaking it mere form, and the twain
we're usbered into the drawing room,
where the courtly Mrs. Fish received
them with all the impreSsment due a
Queen. About ten days after this, the
industrious housekeeper was mounted
on a step ladder il front of her modest
little home, engaged In the unpleasant
task of washing windows
She noticed coming down the street
an elegant carriage, with servants IN
livery, driving suberbly caparisoned
horses. 1t came OF, and presently
taited at the door. The footman spraDg
down, snd came to the window, took
card and, approaching the ladder, ask
ed:
"Does Mrs. Thomas live here o.
"Yes."
sis she at home 2"
No,"replied the quick-witted house,
wife, as she took the pasteboard aho
slowed it in her pocket. The story
wss too good to keep, and the husband
told i. in great glee TO friend o. ours.
who gave it to me. Mrs. Fish was
very punctiliOus about paying VISITS
and no matter how obscure the person
from whom she received the compliment
of 3 visit, she never failed TO 60 In per-
son and return it.