Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-10

once day in evening dress and on rare oc- caslons in his uniform. He may not have | either family or fortune-not even good man. ners. But he is member of the diplomatic
 corps, and that sufices
 Then there is another circle of official soci- 1 ety-oF series of circles. The centre of each of these is apt to be the State association. For example, all the department clerks, dep 1 uties, commissioners and what not, from Del aware-Deleware will be safe nane to use form the Delaware State association. For
 merly these associations were political in their
 nature, but Mir. Haaes became convinced that all organization was wicked, and suggested that they disband. They then became social
 bodies, but some of them have resumed their
 political character. They have dances, etc.
 The members Of Congress from the State are
 likely to be leaders in this society, though
 they may not appear at all in the more fash
 lonable official society. In fact, in that rarer
 soclai atmosphere, a member Of the House of Representatives is the exception rather than
 the rule. If he has been used to society, and
 likes It, he goes into it, of course. But the
 fact or his being member of the House has
 ntste to do with his entree. A large propor-
 ton or the members are plain men from
 5mal! towns or the country, who have known
 nothing of this life under the gaslight, are
 not comfortable in it, and seldom appear
 there.
 Then there is the hotel society. The ladies
 staying In the Brown House all receive on the same day. Ladies calling can thus hill all the
 birds, socially speaking, there are in the
 Brown House, with one handful of cards
 The ladies of the Smith House have another day; the ladies of the Robinson House an. other. Then at intervals each hotel has 8 soiree, invitations to which are generously distributed. There is g fine band and finer supper, and dancing unlimited. Congress men and their wives and daughters, lobby iSts, southern colonels and numerous ''gene. rals," visiting strangers, politicians and the rest make up 8 mixed company. At one of these entertainments the wife Of 8 Congress man whose constituents had omitted to re- elect him spoke sharply to lady sitting on 8 sofa next to a friend of the Congressman's wife. "You might move up,'' said she
 When the lady had ''moved up" and the Con- gressman's wife had settled herself down in the room thus obtained, she turned to her friend and proceeded. ''Yes,' said she, tits just as tell .Lycurgus. This Washington society units one for any other society. You can't go back to the society you were used to once-you just can't. No, tell Lycurgus, we must come back to the House. He says we can't, but say we can. And we must That's all there is about it. B A few months later 'Lycurgus" Is wrestling in the dust of the district arena for a renomination. No one who sees him engaged in that delightful occupation-red in the face, metaphorically speaking, hot and out of breath-knoEs that it is all because of the social aspirations of Mrs. Lycurgus, who has been united by Washington society for the humber society in which she once moved. If any man doubts 1 that women rule the world, he can have his ! doubts removed in any circle of Washington society. |