The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-01

Sic AdSnir~n the Varied Charms
of Washington Girls.

SIC Adsnir~n sIsc Varied Charms
of Washington Girls.
Boston Globe.
| have just returned from q polite
and recherche party here. Wash
ingto on is the hot-bed of gayety and
general headquarters for the recher-
che business. 1t would be hard to
find bongtonger aggregation than
the one ] was just at, in the words
of gentleman who was there, and
who asked me if | wrote 1.-The
Heather Chince.'
He was a very talented man, with
broad sweep of skull and vague
yearning for something NOR tangi-
ble-to drink. He was in Washing
ton, he said, in the interests of Min
go county ] forgot to ask him
where Mingo county might be. He
took great interest in me, and talked
with me long after he really had any
thing to say. He was one of those
fluent conversationaists frequently
met with in society. He used one of
those web-perfecting talkers-the
I kind that can lie fed with raw Ro-
man punch and that will turn out
picturated talk in links like varnish-
ed sansages. Being a poor talker
myself. and rather more fluent as a
listener, ! did not interrupt him.
He said that he was sorry to no
tice how young girls and their par
ents came to Washington as they
would to q matrimonial mar
kct.
| was sorry also to hear it, 1t
panied me to know that Young la
dies should allow themselves to be
bamboozled into matrimon,. Why,
why was it, asked, that matrimony
should ever single out the young and
fair?
All" said he, lit is indeed
roughn'
He then breatlled a sigh that
shook the foliage of the speckled
gcranium near by and killed an arti-
fetal caterpillar that hung on its
branches.
"Matrimeny is all right" said he
'if properly brought about. 1t
breaks my heart, though, to notice
how Washington is used MS matri-
monial market 1t seems to me al
most as if these here young ladies
were brought like slaves and expos
ed for sale" | had noticed that
they were somewhat exposed, but
l did not know they were for
sale.
asked him if the waists Of party
dresses had always been so sadly in
the minority, and he said they
had
danced with Il beautiful young
lady whose trail had evidently
caught in II doorway. She hadn't
noticed it till she had walked out
partially through her costume. do
not think lady ought to give too
much thought to her apparel, neither
should she feel too much above her
clothes. | say this in the kindest
spirit, because believe that man
should be a friend to woman. No
family circle is complete without q
woman. She is like glad lanscape
to the weary eye. Individually and
collectively, woman is a great adj
junet of civilization and progress.
The electric light is good thing.
but how pale and feeble it looks by
the light of good woman's eyes.
The telephone is a great invention.
1t is a good thing to talk at and
murmur into and deposit profanity
in, but to take up conversation and
keep it up and follow Il man out
through the front door with it, the
telephone has still much to learn
from women.
1t is said that our Government Of
ficials are not sufficiently paid, and
| presume that is the case, so it be-
came necessary to eeonomize in
every way, bit why should wives
concentrate all their economy TN the
waist of dress? When chest pro-
tectorS are so cheap rs they now are
hate to see people suffer. and there
is more real suffering, more privation
and more restitution prevailing in
Washington scapula and clavicle
this winter than | ever saw before.
But | do not hope to change this
custom, though ! spoke to several
ladies about it and asked them to
think it over. do not think they
will. 1t seems almost wicked to cut
off the best part of dress and put
it Mt the other end of the skirt, to be
trodden under the feet of men, as |
may say. They smiled good humor-
cdly at me as | tried to impress my
views upon them, but should | go
there again next season and mingle
in the mad whirl OF Washington,
where these fair women are always
mingling in said mad whirl. | pre-
sumo that | will find them clothed
in the same gas-light waist. with
trimmings of real vertebrate down the
back.
Still, what does a man know about
the proper costume for women? He
knows nothing whatever. He is in
many ways inconsistent. Why does
man frown ON Il certain costume
for his wife and admire it on the
first woman he meets? Why does
he fight shy OF religion and Christi
anity and talk very freely about the
church, and get mad if his wife is
an infidel?
Crops around Washington are
lookinU we'll Wintar whaat GRO