The Washington critic., 1886-05-31
WASHINGTON CRITIC
WASHINGTON, MAY 81, 1885.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

was n healthy, sixteen year-old boy,
who spent portion of the summer of
1884 at the Spring House, in Richiicld
Springs. He wore English clothes
that is to say, he dressed in July as the
ordinary American would dress in
November or early in December. His
coat was compromise between
fell in ample folds over pair of cloth
CATERS. Tie wore Derby that seemed
TO be couple of sizes too big for him,
and carried a formidable cane. He
was addicted TO lawn tennis, and one
day, while i was lazily watching
his bad playing, / heard him de.
Tending the tennis ball he was
using from criticism which had
just been passed on them by a fell
low. player. "Why, deah boy, he said,
with the air Of man settling con-
troversy, they're English. 3" wrote
letter few days subsequently, which
was printed in the Philadelphia Press,
wherein dwelt at some length on the
Anglomania rampant at the summer re.
sorts, and gave the young man | have
mentioned descriptive notice whose
length an emotional actress would have
envied. When | returned to town, my
attention was recalled number of
times to the general subject of Anglo.
mania by reason of its various and pic.
turesquc manifestations, and finally I
wrote the song.
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Says the Cleveland Plaindedlor's cor
respondent: "The Speaker of the
House gets some queer letters. Mr..
Alfred Wright of England, with his
wife, visited the House gallery the
other day, and while there had $50
stolen from her purse. Mr.. Wright
Immediately left in regular British
dudgcon and penned letter to Speaker
Carlisle. The letter is quite English,
you know He calls going down from
the gallery descending from the loft
He says the police told him such thefts
were common in the galleries. What
he proposes Is that there should be
placards, Beware of pickpockets. He
does all this suggesting for the sake of
humanity at large This Is his ac-
count of how he gets into the loft of
the House of Commons Il am an of.
ficer in Her Majesty's service, an
although am well known to great
many members of Parliament per
sonally, yet when l want to get into
the House of Commons am obliged to
obtain an order from the Speaker, also
be fetched from the outer lobby of the
Speakers corridor by member wei
known to me, before can get into the
nol1.rxy Vf o,,n1, r,,1a et,I, ;oI,n al
In your great assembly / am induced to
think and believe you would forever
drive from the galleries such diaboli-
cal race, who appear to me to live on
strarEers and foreigners visiting your
noblS and beautiful house."
W.
ST Sydney in the Chicago Neos.
"Wa gton was slow of speech, but
he a Us made his meaning clear.
Down, the Capitol is copy of Jared
Spark Writings of Washington
whichs marked at various places by a
strongfbl ack, vicious pencil line. This
was dmey by the hand of James G.
Blaine when he was preparing that
celebrated philippe against Massa.
chusetts, which he delivered on the
floor of the Senate and smote Senator
Hoar hip and thigh"
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Says Washington letter to the Al
bany Argus: Mrs. Pendleton's death
makes the twenty since Presi-
dent Cleveland's Inauguration of per-
sons prominently recognized in society
here within the past year or two years,
the previous names being: Mrs. Stan
ley Matthews, late in March, 1885, fol-
lowed by Mrs. Herbert of Alabama and
Mrs. Yulee of Florida; two vice.re-
gents of the Mount Vernon Associa-
tion, eX.Secretary Frelinghuysen, Law
yer and Mrs. Richard r. Merrick,
General Grant, Mrs. John G. Nicholay,
Vice. President Hendricks. Mrs. and
Miss Bayard, Major. General Hancock,
Mrs. Henry Adams, Mrs. Barbour of
Virginia, Mr.. ID. p. Morgan, Mrs.
Emma Key Thompson, Mrs. Joseph r.
Hawley, Mrs. Craig Wadsworth, Mrs.
Attorney General Brewster, Mrs.
George Bancroft and Senator John Il.
Miller. No such mortuary record has
ever previously been known here
within anywhere near the same limit
of time"
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Miss Luella NJ. Varney, the young
American sculptress, who is just home
from Rome, said to writer in the
New York Tribune the other day about
the child models there: ut is wonder
full how they can train children for this
work. You can get models of little
ones scarcely year old. They caunot
main long in pose, but they are
perfect while they are at it. All the
studies of child subjects that / made
were from living models. The thing
most disllked in Rome was the constant
ridicule that they heap upon America
and American art. If 1t comes out that
you are an American, the chances are
nine out Of ten that some foreign artist
or sculptor will Immediately say:
American; oh, yes, know where
upon he will hastily sketch on piece
of paper the square and parallel lines
TO represent the base of one of our
park statues. Then he will perch n
stiff soldier figure on the uncouth base
and hold itup, saying, Yes, American
| understand. They declare oyei there
that our conception of monument is u
huge granite base, and that the higher
the base the more exalted in public es-
teen is the sculptor. The criticism
hurts because of the partial truth
of it.
#*w
Says New York letter in the
Boston HeWH; "They tell me ID. O.
Mills, the big California millionaire,
has been on the right side of the stock
market for some time back. 1t is, in
deed, declared that he has cleared