Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-07-01
THE coNeRessMANs DAUGHTER.
pspid's Chances I'm Washington Society.
Callers and Calling

Callers and Calling
We have all read that ''two young
ladies, admired and esteemed in WASH
ington society, " have just been married,
and doubtless a good many young women
who would not object to being married
and a good many young men who would
like very much to be married, have
thought that the capital city must be the
most favorable place in this country for
Cupid TO work in.
But some observing persons, who are
not always cynical, think differently.
They say there is too much society" in
Washington TO be admired and esteemed
in; that the hotel hops and the dinner
parties and the theatres ere all right in
their way, but that everything about
them is superficial and unsatisfactory to
those who have hearts and brains; that
there is, in short, in a winter in Wash
ington nothing which reveals in young
people of right tendencies the stuff that
wives and husbands are made Of. 1t is
true, no doubt, that love is the same
always and everywhere, but il is equally
true, no doubt, that if love is not encour-
aged somewhat it has q hard time Of il.
Take the case of the average congress
mans dauL hter-the daughter, let us
say, of the nan who has little but his
salary of $1,000 to live on, and a family
Of three or four or five. Some of these,
perhaps, are at school Mt home, but one
of the girls, at least, spends the winter in
Washington. Her father has been re-
elected two or three times, and she has
spent four or five winters in the capital.
She has graduated from school ut II or
IS, and has had her little love affairs, but
she forgets all about them in the whirl of
society" away from her old home. She
lives with her father and mother at a
hotel or a boarding house and goes to the
hops andthe theatres as much as possible.
The sons of the members. her most
natural associates, are away at college or
Studying law OF entering business-try-
ing TO amount 10 something, and so keep-
ing out Of Washington-and she doesn't
know them. Tie private secretaries and
the newspaper correspondents are gen.
orally married, or If they are not,
are practical fellows who question
whether any Of the girls really know
anything about domestic accomplish
ments. The department clerks she rather
looks down upon as unambitious and COM
monplace, and they, having twelve or
fifteen or eighteen hundred a year, and
short hours and a pretty ''sure thing, J"
don't care if she does. Still he dances
with her and takes her 10 the theatre.
and she is willing TO dance and go 10 the
theatre; but the conversation cannot
break away from shallow nothingS. The
congressman's daughter rather likes the
young naval officer, or the young lieu
tenant in the army, but he knows If she
doesn't that it is the gold lace simply,
and lets it 60 at that.
Then there is the calling. 1t is often
no disappointment If it suffices TO leave
the card. If the young lady is at home.
though, she talks about the dreary round
Of social events" and that, too. in no
romantic corner, but in a big parlor full
of dull people. She is pretty and dresses
well, but She hasn't read much and has
thought hardly any and it is a bore TO
stay more than fifteen minutes. There
is no chance for friendship wen. If the
congressman keeps house Of course the
congrcssnan's daughter is n different
sort of girl; but ask any candid young
man or woman of sense, who has lived in
Washington. if the other kind is not the
rule. Ask if Cupid has half a chance in
Washington New York Press.