Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-01-27
mrs. LANGrnY ON CHICAGO.
Her ImPKeSsiOns Of the Great City-Its
Language and Its Female Reporters.


From Advance Sheets of Mrs. Lpngtr,' q Forthcoming
Book, Impressions OF America"
MONDAY.
I have been very much interested In the city
| OF Chicago. It's people are very fatiguing in
| their hospitality. There are hundreds OF news
papers published here. The ladies appear to be
| Interested in my shoes. They always inspect
| my feet with curious wonder. Can it be that
| there is something peculiar in the foreign foot
Retired early after having the reporters
| elected from under the sofa and wardrobe as
felt weary.
TUESDAY.
F. has just shown me criticism IN the,
| which gives the names Of my ancestors and
| questions my legitimacy. How Henrietta would
| laugh over that
F. has Just found a reporter curled up in the
| bottom drawer OF the wardrobe. / never saw
such enterprise. We found yesterday that one
OF the walters was reporter in disguise F.
| says that | am working too hard and ought to
take more recreation.
WEDNESDAY.
Went out for a short drive on Michigan avenue
with F. 1t was very beautiful and animating
to see the mob running after us. There must
| have been severa! hundred of them. F. saws
n.
The police cleared path for us when we came
back.
! chided F. this morning playfully because he
was getting more notices than myself in the
papers. He pouted and seemed to be hurt and
l felt sorry for him. Poor fellow how sensi-
tive he Is! must give him more Of my time
The literary circles of Chicago give q great
Geat OF attention to the discussion of feet
What curious custom. I understand that the
ladies OF St Lonis are as celebrated for their
Dig feet as the Chinese ladies' are for small feet
spoke to F. about it, but he was still pOutins
and only said ''damd nonsense He can be
quite prOfane at times.
One OF the papers said to-day that had omit
ted a whole scene in "ROsalind." l shall have
TO ask the manager about that. How careless
of them to let me leave out scene
The more l see of Chicago the more am in
terested. The customs and even the language
are SO strange.
One OF the female reporters who came to see
me me- looked all around the room and then asked :
'WhereS your masI!" F. saws it Is French for
ma cae'e-b but what an idea! Last night the re-
marks OF the audience were very funny. | re-
member some of them, for i wrote them down
IN the dressng-room, SO as to get them inter-
preted
Shoot the feet.
Where's his nibs?
HOw's the Prince?
Cheese the daisy.
Hold up your Greek head.
- says lueSe are IcCnNlCal terms used Dy CHI
cagO critics.
In the last act they threw sticky kind of
candy that they call taffy on the stage and
abused the conductor because he has bald head
1t was really too bad. l have always found
baldheaded men very NICE
the Chicago critics are very fine gentlemen.
out, OF course. not SO cultivated as the New
York critics But their customs are peculiar.
when they get through with my private letters.
they always send them up to my room with an
apology. shall never forget their politeness
we go to st. Louis tomorrow. The houses
nave not been good here. But of course, so far
away from New York one cannot expect the
people to appreciate the divine works Of Shake
speare.
~ chicago is situated on sea they call lake.
The city burned down some years ago. and when
the people rebuilt 1t they made this lake to pro-
vlde them with water in case of another fire.
r. TOOK me down to see it, bnt couldn't see
anything but ice. and couldn't under tand how
they got at the water
81. Louis Is in the ch!valrOus south and ex-
-pect to meet great many people of nv own
station there.-N y Journal