The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-18
UP GOES THE PRICE OF FISH.
ODD THINGS IN WASHINGTON.
A Strangers Observations on Pecu
harities OF the Place and People.
From the Washington Star.

AdE2Dl0S Oh Inc EldC6 anu H0ODl6.
From the Washington Star.
"What struck me first as surprising in
Washington" said the stranger from afar
to a reporter, twas the beauty of the
women. had often heard of Baltimore's
petticoated loneliness, the unsurpassed
style of the New York girls, and the
pulchritude of Philadelphia's daughters;
but, though | have dwelt in all these C ties,
have lever before seen so much female
prettlness within seven days as
L have beheld at the national
capital during the week have spent here
The number of lovely young girls one sees
upon the streets, in tho course of few
blocks stroll, is simply amazing. They all
seem to lie 50 youthful too, that one is
tempted to speculate as to what becomes of
them later on; perhaps they all get married
and go off on perpetual honeymoon jour
neys, and never come. back any more
Most astonishing of all, to person who like
myself has been for some time past
a resident of Boston, is the fact
that these young women of Washing
ton actually have figures The Bost IN
girls figure, if such it may be called,
is usually zero in quality and unit in
quantity. In other words, She is the same
size all the way down-fat-chested ana en-
tirely wanting in those curves of grace
which are generally considered essential to
the attractIveness of the female form
divine. Doubtless it is largely matter
climatic. You cannot expect to find much
luxuriance either in the animal or the vege-
table Kingdom in a region where it is win
ter eight months of the year. Here YOU
are nearer to the equator, of which imagi-
nary line | shall never again speak disre-
specially after having experienced the
Inconvenience of residing SO close to the
pole.
GOOD MANNERS
"The second thing have taken particular
notice of in Washington is the gentle man
ners of the people," continued the stranger
Il have been stoned twice on the principal
streets of Chicago for no other offense than
wearing good suit of clothes. Had l en-
Joyed better acquaintance with that great
western metropolis, | should have been
aware of the fact that it is not the fashi n
there to be well-dressed and that anybody
who is SO is supposed to be putting on airs,
which are promptly resented with brick
bats or otherwise I have experienced the
want of courtesy prevalent in New York
city.
In Boston. too, I have had opportunities
for observing that the men never take off
their hats to the women and habitually
shove the weaker sex off the sidewalk And
so you can perceive wherefore it gives me
so much pleasure to see and feel the kindly
and gentle ways of the natives here. like
the voices of the women, too; the soft
southern accent is so infinitely more agree
able than the rasping nasal twang of New
England.
The very negroes 1 enjoy; they are so pic
turesque. 1t is the southern type of negro
you have here-happy, cbildlike and re-
spectful to authority-an altogether differ
ent creature from the African further
north. From the little pickaninny up be is
always interesting and frequently amusing.
In Boston they have evolved theory that
the negro dies faster than he is born-in
other words, that the race in this country
is dying out. 1t seems to me that if the
learned statisticians, who have formulated
this doctrine. would pay visit to Washing
ton they would modify their conclusions. |
was much astonished to see the way in
which the shanties of the poor blacks are
mixed IN with the handsome residences of
the fashionable quarter, but suppose that
strikes every new conner in the same way
By the way, a real estate agent was telling
ME yesterday about one colored family
that sold its shanty and small piece of land
in the most valuable district only last week
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