Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-10
CAPITAL CHATTER.
Etiquette that AppalS Strangers,
Death of a Famous War Cor
respondent.
Another Army Fight

WASHINGTON, + binary .. IT. y
stranger hero the e tq1etto Is appsl..
ing, and the rules of other plt ces
directly reversed. A fl st fact, the
stranger and the latest C IN r must
make the fl st CALI, precedence DO
tween ,ti ial families of The same
sauk being established by date of com
mission, The president and the chief
~ju,tice alone arc exempt from this
rule; every one of position, whelhcr
uauve or foreigner, going first to TIN m.
The same privilege extends to their
families, and during this admins ra-
ion II is Mrs. Waite who sits on the
social throne. Although iu tho alb
scnce Of a presidents, or a vios pref.
dents wife, the wlfs of the
speaker of the house ranks next
"a the first lady In the land, oven Mrs,
keitor has t. call upon Mira. Waite
first and introduce herself into other
idicial And cabinet drawing rooms.
O.her fiji lial families have to follow
in the same line aud order, and when
n foreign minister comes here he must
not only call In state upon the presi.
dent aud secretary Of state, but follow
that up with calls upon the cabinet
and supreme court people, upon the
other members If the diplomatic
corps and the members Of the foreign
affairs committees Of the senate aud
house, which committeeman, beirg
chosen h,phsz rd and for all sorts OF
political considerations, are seldom
punctiilous In the discharge of their
du.les or extra we'll versed 10 etiquette.
TIE wives of the senators when they
first come to Washington must cali
upon the wives of all the other sena.
tors il they want to know them, aud
then they may sit up as at fl7 az they
please aud wait for all the representa-
tives' wives to come and pay their re-
speos. A congressman's wife has to
call upop every one frat, the whole
line of higher officials demanding this
tribute from thase people whoee tenure
of lte is only for two years at n time,
and who're futures are 30 full OF
uncertainty. Tho wives of the rcp-
resentatives longest In congress
get their grain of comfort out
Of the FACE that all of the new
members wives mus! come to them
first, and 80 the world goes on with
ITS iucreAsipg c'rc,es and rings dowr
to the least o"ficial. With oil this FL
do rol of Official etiquette each peraor
krt,pa 9Th thnp, thn ont NOVA r nj,
own region, and in the tumble of Gus
toms and the rigid adherence of SOM
Of their " particular ways, comica
situations oft result. One coz
gressmsn's wife SAT for the frat tw,
years Of her stay in Washington walt
ing for the world to call on her, NOR
bid and racing in spirit meanwhile a
the supposed atf;ont put upon on
Who had led q small Western town 70
many years. She would not believ
when told, that the advance must b
made by herself, but when sage coul
seis prevailed, went about distribute
+ her cards with a frenzy thst has neve
since been abated, and abe diplomatic
ally rays that she was an invalid fo
the frat two years she spent In Wash
/ ington.
A very pretty society belle Gale
the other afternoon, in all the glor
of a fresh toilet, on another aud yer
stylish society belle. The servau
+ thought that the lady was at hons
0 and so invited her caller into the pa,
Tor. Then the servant disappeared u
Q stairs to find her mistress. the youn
Il lady was not to be found. Ga he
way down stairs with this infor matio
the servant was startled by lou
o shrieks from the psrlor. Runni1
rapidly down the broad stairway sn
into the parior she found the prstt
caller perched on the highest chair !
the room, her skirts gathered olosel
around her, her eyes filed with tea
10 and the air filled withpiercipg scream
Toe maid was puzzled FIR a momen
take him away! Take him away
Shrieked the pretty belle. Theu tn
maid looked at the base of the an
mated statue and perceived q dimin'
tive Skye terrier, who was mild
gazing at the excited young lac
above him. The terrier WAS prompt
). taken away, the weeping damsel d
scended and departed, aud an artist
cratic neighborhood was once more
peace.
Old Ellab Kingnan, who was q {
nous correspondent before the war
g. Washington, died here the other d,
b. at the aga of &c He would not hs'
q lived to be go old had he remained
correspondent all his life. Diringtl
III last twenty years or more he has liv'
i'd ut ease on a rapidly approaching pie
al of property in the northern part of Z
IN city that he was fortunate enough
es buy for q sorg when 1t was farm Ian
KS In the old days when he was a CORE
p pondent he had such news as few m
or ever had. His letters to the Bal
more Sun, over the signature sion
es were regarded as o~racular. Tn
Is we're full Of news, double distilledin
ul paragraphs that were models of bre
re- ity and polish. Henry Wstterson,
ng the Louisville Courier Journal, W
n. was then tho Warrington correspo
he dent of Philadelphia pap'
he .sys that Klpgnsn excelled In givi
ID Dinners. He would give q ohm
RI. almost nightly, for which the mt
ce prominent men in congress won
en- willingly sscrifce every other engal
oh ment. 1t was a. these dinners I'll
vii he got most of his information.
re one ever knew where he got it,
an diplomatic and delicate was his proct
u. Of getting and using 1t. He would Il
,le have n swered the requirements
nt tached to such u position ia the
of days. He was q graceful, brillia
he ,tter writer, who directed his o,
y, LAHORE; not a minute-man subject
"a. orders and compelled to use the to