The Washington critic., 1888-02-25

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looks of kindly and respectful inter
est. The half barbarous and repul-
sive Coreans and the more civilized
Cinnamon vie with each other in
their attempts to please and entertain
her. They send their pictures and
shower flowers, fans, old coins and
other curios upon her. The young
lady accepts their admiration and
gifts with easy grace and calm, mat
ter-of.fact air. She has the repre-
sentatives of the Orient at her feet,
and has right to be proud of It,
Her conquest is one of the events of
the season, and Sas been much COM
mented upon.
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mentioned last Sunday, says a cor
respondent of the New York Tribune,
the sad experience a certain Senator
with musical tastes underwent when
he attempted to give himself up for
one short evening to the undisturbed
enjoyment of the opera; how his
coachmnn was arrested; what difficult
Ties he encountered in securing his re-
lease, and how the following morning
he went to the Police Court and
pleaded the mans case and obtained
his discharge. The Senator's wife is
an accomplished musician and fine
performer on the piano. She gave a
dinner party the other day to
which she had invited, among
others, certain member of the
Kentucky delegation in the House. AT
tho urgent request of some one in the
company she played and sang while
awaiting the summons TO dinner.
She had just finished o polonaise by
Chopin, and painful silence followed
the outburst of applause which had
greeted the performer as she rose
from the piano, when the Senator was
heard turning to his Kentucky friend
with: "Would YOU like q sonata be-
fore dinner, CulonelY' "Well, /
don't mind" replied promptly the
Colonel" shocking his lips and
bracing up. 81 had two on my way
here, but | reckon can stand an
other"
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New York Morning JouyBak Young
Paul Holman, son of the great OBJ
jector" Congressman from Indiana,
has succeeded Berry as king of the
dudes-at this end of the line, at any
rate. Mr.. Holman's afternoon recep-
ton and "tea',, attire presents com
bination and scenic effect worthy Of
the gods. Imagine a short, heavy
set young manwith dark hair, ruddy
face, short sandy moustache, blue
eyes, sad, sentimental smile, q large,
flaming red necktie, ornamented
with green Brazilian bug and
crossed by black watch cord;
low cut white vest, disclosing
shirt-front of blue and white
horizontal bars; black cutaway coat,
striped trousers of breakfast bacon
complexion; patent leather shoes, with
cream-colored over CATERS; tan-colored
gloves, large, curiously-headed cane,
a silk hat, and you have the young
Hoosier dude. Imagine again this
to be the heir of the plain, blunt man
known from ocean to ocean as the
"Watch Dog of the Treasury" Great
Paul
W.
Carpenter in the New York World !
Washington is rapidly changing from
a acountry town to IA city, and within
the past five years the business
aspects of the town have advanced
more than the prices of its real estate.
1t has now many fine four and five
story buildings, and the Baltimore
Sun building Of white marble is eight
stories in n'height, and .is structure
that would honor New York. The
stores have changed, and the people
no longer go to Baltimore or New
York to shop. Five years ago all the
measuring in the dry good stores was
done with yardsticks, and the latest
| styles Of goods were not to be seen on
the counters. The stores were much
of the same status as those of Rich
mond and other towns of the South,
and one of the price marks was the
| levy" which is term sometimes
used here for shilling. Silks were SO
many "levies'' yard, and eggs might
be "a levy" adozen. The furniture
stores were much of the same char.
acter, and ii anything really fine was
wanted the customer had to go to the
larger cities for it. Now you will find
as good dry goods stores here as there
are in the country, and we have a
number of art furniture stores which
keep handmade furniture. The
japanese store and the Turkish vender
Of rugs and altar of roses is now doing
business in Washington in the winter
as he does at Saratoga in the summer,
and the ieWelry stores sport MANY
fine diamonds. The fashionable pop
ulation which is rapidly settling al
Washington and the crowds which
come here now to spend the,winter
for the sake of the society, are lavish
buyers, and they pay good prices, and
as for markets, Washington has as
good as you will find in the United
States. The prices are not as dear,
compared with those of New York
city, and rents are much cheaper.