The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24
QUEENS OF SOCIETY.
The Rivalry Between Them
in Washington, D. G.
TIE SENATOR FOOTS THE BILLS
Cast a Secondary Consideration
A Probably Brilliant Season in
Washington the Coming Winter.
From Our Own Correspondent.

From Our Own Correspondent.
SALT AXE CITY, October 2S, 1885.
A little more than a month from the
present time, Washington, D. c., con-
sequent upon the re-assembling of Con-
gress, will assume its usual hustle and
excitement. The hotels will once more
have laid aside their dull funeral aspect,
and in the place thereof, put on lively,
animated, busy appearance. Boarding
houses, all renovated ior the season,
with their landladies looking more
charming than ever, will be in great de-
mGnd. The upper ten" will have re-
turned to their city residences for the
winter. and great preparations will have
to be made for the forthcoming winter
festivities. The leaders of society will
vie with each other in this respect, and
the spirit of rivalry may be expected
to rise to a much higher pitch this year
| than 1t has done In many years gone
by. This year Mrs. Cleveland is the
queen of The White House. She will be
the recognized leader of society.
Fashion will follow in her sway. Her
par ties and receptions will doubtless be
grand and brilliant in the extreme.
Her first season as mistress of the Elk
ecutive Mansion will be one of great
significance, socially and politically
for there are not wanting those who
assert that President Cleveland. in spite
of his civil service procliVities, and
hardness in removing Republican Fed
eral officials, will. do everything in his
power to be nominated for q second
term. The receptions, dinners, balls,
etc., at the White House this season,
therefore, may be expected to be of I'M
usual brilliance. The political pot, as
well as the social, will thus be kept
boiling, not alone in the White House,
but throughout the entire city. The
wives of wealthy Senators and others OF
high social standing will not be content
unless they can give their usual parties,
teas, receptions and dinners, and of
course there will be the customary
amount of rivalry in the attempt to
out-do their neighbors in the matter of
brillianCe, beauty and effect The cost
of all this, of course, will be a second
consideration. " The Senator" or
Papa" will have to foot the bill.
He may do it with a grumble, but
he will do it all the same.
1t will be knocked into his
old head that lie must comply with
the demands of society; that it is neces-
sarY TO do so if he desires to retain his
social position, and help his daughters
make their debut in the fashionable
world. AS for the sons-Well, they Will
make a debut on their own account.
They generally do. And they are not
particular where they make it either.
Sometimes it is in the house of a
friend, and sometimes in the police
court. Anyhow they manage, as a
rule, to make their own debut, and in
nine cases out of ten, The Senator"
1.-The old man." or papa" has to help
them out of the scrape. The debut
they make in society is altogether
different to that usually made by their
sisters. The one is not so fashionable,
in many instances, as the other; but in
regard to the matter of cost, | am in
Clined to believe that the boys carry the
honOls every time. In this connection
Washington, D. c., has many worthless
sons of many worthy men. Some of
these sons are absoluteiy without
character. They are dudish in dress
and in manner. The last thing they
think of is work. They are noted for
airing themselves in the lobbies of the
principal hotels, smOki g cigarettes,
and otherwise making themselves
thoroughly obnoxious to everybody but
their own clique. They are known as
So and-So's sons; as spendthritts, loaf
ers and the like. To be seen IN their
company is to be considered fast" so
that as a rule they are more laughed at |
than loved by the majority of people. |
Their presence, however, during q Ses- |
sion of Congress, is one of the features |
of Washington. They are attracted |
thither by the gaiety of the city, and !
like swallows in winter they migrate |
to another climate when the season is |
over.
But session of Congress does not |
alone attract to Washington the elite of |
society and dudes. It has also the eff |
feet of bringing together the most he
terOgeneous class of people that is pos
sible to imagine. The man who insists
that the government owes him $50, 0O0,-
BOO exclusive of INTEREST," and that ne
has the necessary papers to prove his
claim, Is sure to arrive. OF course, he is
has arrived in Washington all the
same, and ten to one he will wiggle his
way into the White House for the pur-
pose of laying his claim before the
President; the result being that he is
bounced into the
street by some stalwart attendant and
old that if he ventures within
the sacred premises of the Exec
tive mansion again he will
De handed over, not to his friends, but
20 the tender mercieS of the police, or
he keeper of some insane asylum. The
crank" is an ever-present character at
he seat of the government He always
.urns up in some shape or other. He
launts the most prominent public
places. TIE White House, the Capitol,
the departments are each ia
7ored with visit, and no amount of
vigilance on the part OF attend4n can
suppress the nuisance.
Another numerous, irrepressible class
10 be found amond among this hetero-
yenous mass is the .would-be LOBBYIST.
lie is a species of the vulture-a bird of
prev. He is a diligent reader of the {
Record and the daily news i
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