The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-05-28
OUR WARRINGTON LETTER.
Iron orr Regular correspordent.)
WAsHINaroN. May 81. 1879

W rs l1G t44tl 9tti0ltaOa IL
ton. Theatres, receptions, hops, pal
ed before it's black asphalt floor, roll
Ter skates, music, and gallery crowd
ed with the bon ton of the Capital
and a few unhappy diplomats bap-
ished from European centres to this
frontier. But the skating rink has
had its day. The weather is too
warm for exertion, and the swimming
school has usurped its place. The
objection to all swimming schools,
except the surf, is that they are not
social. Here the ladies sport about
in the immense tank until IL n,
when they AGATE for the gentlemen,
who take the ate during The after
noon and evening. Your eorrespoE-
dent occasionally goes TO the swim
ming school, but Dever officially, and
Of course never in the forenoon. Lit
tie suspecling that he was talking TO
oDe of the profession, whose business
is to give q tenacious account in wri-
ting Of oil be hears, the swimming
teacher said to me "a reporter of
one Of the city papers came in yester-
day to get the names of the ladies
who patronize the school, but / would
pot give him their names. The la
dies who come here would not like
such publicity. Oh, yes many of
them can swim, bat they cannot swim
as well as men, for one reason, be-
cause they wear such heavy bathing
dressss. Come into this room and /
viii show yop SOFA Of them Here
is the swimming habit of the wife Of
the proprietor Of the - Hotel
Although she is a very steut lady,
she swims very well. The pink cos
tune belongs to The daughter Of Sen
ator 49, She learned to swim
only last summer, but DOW she q
swim entirely around the basin, and
she floats very well, too. Women, as
a rule, float better than men IL is be
cause their bones are lighter, their
flesh has less solidlty, ard they are
more buoyaut. Here is the habit Of
Mrs. -; feel the weight Of it (;
you could not sWim much with that
on. Let me see; how is it2 ltseems
to be wrong side out and up side
down. All! now ! have il; this is
the way IL goes OF. You see it con-
sists OF waist sleeves, skirt, and pan
falcons all in one garment. When
the ladies first came here they bad
long sleeves to their bathing dresses.
bot most Of them have cut them of
close pp to the shoglder, which gives
them 0 much freer nse OF their arms.
They make q great deal CT noise
when they get into the water, splash
ing each other, laughing, and cream
ing; four women will make more
noise than Q dozen men. But since a
great Freedman has sai5 that, 80
dine with perfection tie presence q
women is inadmissible," | will par
ody him by saying that for women to
swim with perfection The presence of
man is inadmissible,. and We will
turn to a subject apropos of dining
Some ladies of Washington have
been recently thrown into q simmer
and stew Of excitement by the ad-
vent of a lecturer who demonstrates
from the stage with batteries de cui-
sine, the most useful of all sciences;
Before the bright vision has passed
away Of neat teachers aud sweet
girl graduates learning to make cof.
fee, mig omeleites, compound aud
bake buildings, it may be worth while
90 inquire into the necessity Of this
great tsss about gridirons, stew-pans,
lectures and Harding pins. 1t has
been the custom of French artists of
the kitchen to deny to Americans the
eommonest acquaintance with %culina-
ry rules. Of late years we have GER.
tainly struggled to cast of some Of
our ignorance. Cookery was once an
occult mystery TO all but the inmates
of the kitchen, and well bred young
ladies scorned acquaintance with the
commonest duties of the cook, but the
art Of dining in official and political
life has acquired serious proportions,
and there are mairons in Washing
ton, whose husbands are known, by
name at least, in both hemispheres,
who take a keen interest in their ia
BILE, aud who do not on state, or any
prsndisl occasion, leave everything
to the CHIEF. If that French gour-
mand mad q little experience dining
in Washington be would learn to say
that, ITO dine in perfection the super.
vision Of woman is Indispensable"
These demonstratiFe lectures will do
much good if they succeed 10 teach
ing ns that the basis Of all good cook
cry is cleanliness.
There ia o wonderful contrast &c.
tween the average dowdy American
cook with her dirty apron and apollo
gy for a cap, surrounded by black
saucepans and greasy dishes, per-
spring hugely over an enormous Gre,
and the nimble ingered Immaculate
skirted French arfiste, wearing Der
large snowy head-dress, the glisten-
ing copper saucepans Of her profess
sion ranged Systematically over a
compact charcoal or gas stove! The
one is a queen in her sphere, the non
arch of all she surveys. The other,
whep she is not too much absorbed
ia sentimente! reveries to ignore al
together the fact that upon her, more
than upon all the medical faculty, de-
ponds The health of "the nationn or
the Representative republic of SOW
ereiga states is engaged ip a bar
bsrops warfare with her tools red in
the face and as smoky as the dishes
she ~concocts, shs lays about her
heavy handed and furious with The
best intentions, bot her productions
are very unsatisfactory.
z. A. s
wrs. Hang.