Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-05-16
WAsH1NaToN, d. c., April a, 1878

w VASAlN0lON, II. ~, "A ia ri. 1910.
To the Editor of the .acunt Courier:
Friday afternoon the question relating
to the rebuilding Of the Williams and
Mary's College, in Virginia, was brought
up and so determined was the effort to de-
feat the bill that the action very nearly ap-
preached the old-time fllibustering move
nents to kill time and keep speeches in its
favor from being made. Three or four
times the yeas and nays were called, each
roll call occupying more than half an hour.
Such times are not wholly unintcresting to
the looker-on. They afford opportunity
for study Of human nature at least. All
among the members the moment the yeas
and nays ire called, and they relapse into
their reading, writing, conversation or
maps, as inclination chances to prompt.
The hum Of voices is continuous and every
lounge in the room-and there are II or
Ibis occupied by PROSTATE forms of the
honorable gentlemen. some with handker
chiefs spread over their heads and nearly
all sleeping. Indeed, the occasions are
rare when these sofas are empty OF nap
takers.
The weather is getting warm and people
are making preparations for leaving the
city. Houses in the suburban villages are
renting fast. Many business men who own
cottages from five to ten miles out of town,
shut up the city houses, move their tami-
lies into the country and 60 back and forth
daily upon the steam cars. \ large num-
Der of Government clerks also 90 out into
these villages and board during the sum-
mer months. Mount Pleasant, the nearest
village, has no cars, but large omnibus
runs to and from the city at accommodate
ing hours for city business.
Presidents cottage at Soldiers Home is
undergoing some repairs and additions-a
billiard room and library are going up
and the Executive family will remove to it
in the course of two or three weeks.
A lack in the way OF cllildren's clothing,
that has long been felt. is III last supplied
in the colored MISUNDERSTANDING and
lace-that are now much in vogue. Moth
little girls in brown linen school dresses,
while white or very light muslins, cam
brics and prints are too easily mussed :or
school. But now dull linens may be bright
ened up with cardinal red, navy blue or
buff embroidery, and are converted at once
into neat dress frocks. The more delicate
embroideries are to be used for white
dress trimming, both for children and Ia
dies, and white dresses are to be much
Worn the coming season.
Now that water color painting is so
much affected. we see all sorts Of articles
decorated in that manner. from Easter eggs
and wax candles TO kid gloves and ear
rings. The candles and gloves are in poor
taste, being so soon worn and burnt out,
but the dainty silk lockets and earrings
are things of beauty. Among the prettiest
effects in this decorating line we see toilet
articles. Pin-cushions with delicate silk
coverings upon which are painted sprays
Of flowers ard vines, and, what is just now
particularly the rage, the toilet bottles
sheathed in white or tinted silk, trimmed
with lace and ribbon painted in flower
sprays, medallion or any design preferred.
These are IL be seen in every druggists
window, more extensively in New York,
of course, than here, for we get the ma
jority of our little fleeting, fancy styles
from there. New York is Washington's
Paris.
The old and we'll known Hutchinson
Family are here singing. They have given
a dozen grand concerts III the last 9 weeks
here, besides singing at various charitable
institutions-the Reform School, Freed
mans Hospital. Orphan Asylum, and In
sane Asylum. Only one Of the original
''boys" is now in the troupe-John. But
I fancy none but singers are allowed to
marry into the Family" and SO it is kept
up.
ADAMS.