Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.
How Wealthy People Spend Their
Money--COngress and the Presi-
dent---Republican Outlook
Garfield Fair.--The Presi.
Dental Watch.

| Garfield Fair---The Presi.
Dental Watch.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec Z, '82.
The CHRONICLE: The brilliant So
cial season of the capital has arrived.
We see the streets crowded with
well>dressed visitors. who have come
to see Congress in session and to
enjoy that atmosphere of social life
SO peculiar to Washington during
the winter months. You know there
is popular delusion in the world
that
WEALTHY PEOPLE ENJOY LIFE
more than their poor neighbors.
During summer, these nabobs fit
about the country from one sun-
mer resort to another, bathing in
salt water at the seaside for
week, and then shifting the pure
air of some mountain resort for
another. Their faces grow white
and tender from sitting always in the
shade, and their bones and muscles
soften on~one endless round of feath-
er-bed fare. Quails-on-toast, tender
loin steaks, oyster pies, bottles of
champagne are the only preferred
guests of their idolized stomachs.
They wear dainty clothes. A tailor
explained to me how these pleasures
seekers often wear new suit of
clothes every few days. The fastidi
Gus young man comes In and orders
suit, and after wearing it a few
days, he returns and exchanges it for
different style, paying the differ
ence. The suit which is returned,
only needs TO be ironed over to make
it as good as new. These people are
doubtless very happy but what prac-
tical pupose they serve in the battle
of life is hard question. Here
comes young lady whose seal-skin
sacque and silk dress dazzle our eyes,
and who wears so slender a shoe
that the heel taps are no larger than
twenty-five cent coin. A velvet Shop
ping bag hangs on her arm and
with elbows all a-kimbo, she walks
at so nipping gait That she scarce
~ clears brick at a step Phew
only catch sniff of that delicious
perfumery. tbs delicate enough to
have been distillt d in the labor
atory of the gods and waited
to us on the waking breath
of the morning. If the gold
dust should ali filter from that young
lady's purse what would become of
her? What sort of bread and pies
could she bake? Wouldn't it be
fun to see her manipulate good
sized calf at milking time ? imag
inc that if she should try to peal a
= potato she would cut her thumb the
first round.
We have here, in winter, another
class of society goers, party givers,
&C., besides that class who have but
the one observation-disclosures I
mean that rrepressible class known
as ''office seekers" If you want a
fat Office, one way to get it is to first
get the appointing power to
thrust his legs under your ma
hogany, drink your wine and
smoke your cigars. Hospitality will
put 70 rout all forms of opposition in
nine cases out of ten That mans
fortune is assured here, who is a
real good social tactician. It is by
no means a trifing thing to know
how to be graceful in uncorking a
bottle, gliding across a ballroom
floor, or carving turkey in the Off
cial atmosphere of the District OF
Columbia. A successful leader in
social circles can have all the Offices
he wants. Last week Mr.. Tullock
was made postmaster for this city.
, He has held about score of Fed
eral positions up to the pres
ent time here. There are GER
tain old suagers who never
, fail to appear on all public occasions
3 as prominent actors. They call pub
, lie meetings to order, make motions
3 offer resolutions; secure themselves
3 elected as marshal of the day, o,
| chairman on visiting committees
anything to keep their name promi-
nent By this means they hope to
: build bulwark of influence against
) a day of adversely.
Congress has assembled and
} THE SHIP OF STATE