Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17
WASHINGTON STORIES.
Fresh Gossip About the Girls and Beaux
of Our National Capital.
One OF Hrs. Clevsland's Autographs for Sale
Eighty Words for Five Hundred Dol
lars-The Meanest Man.
Special Correspondence of the Gazette.

Special Correspondence of the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE downfall OF the
wicked novelist, Tolstoi, has created surprise
and dismay among many of the ladies of Wash
ington society. For the past three years some
of them have been preaching him as the creates
novelist, and heard senator's wife the other
day say that she was going to take all Of Tol-
stoi's works with her into the country and read
them in the French, the French translations
gave more fully the fine distinctions and the pc
culiar beauties of the Russian novelist. They
upheld him as the apostle of realism, and are
disguised in seeing their idol shattered the
purveyor of dirt. The keeping of the Kreutzer
Sonato out of the mails has created 4 great de-
mand for the book, and at least 10, 900 copies
have been sold here. 1t is the same with the other
prohibited books, and not few of our most
noted girls are reading them on the sly. The
daughter of one of the most goody good and Pu-
rtanical Puritan senators has made neat cover
OF vellum which Just fits over the flaming title
page OF the questionable novels, and she has
printed in red ink on the back OF this the hcti
tious titles of other works. happened to pass
her in the capitol the other day and I after
wards took a seat behind her in the reserved
gallery OF the senate. AS passed she had this
book under her arm and 1 ted that it was la
beled Daniel Deronda. by George Elliott
As looked over her shoulder in the senate at
her father below my eye caught another title on
the head of the page, and this title was The
DeviF Daughter, ''and when remembered the
loud picture which has been put on the outside
of this novel and the social slush which is
packed within it, I did not wonder that she pre-
ferred to change the cover. have made some
inquiry Es to this matter since then and / find
that there are ten girls here, at least, who
playing this game their unsuspecting pa
rents. Each has her favorite title and the
books are SO carefully covered that they look
though their covers were made for them.
have Just gotten the following letter in re-
gard to Mrs. Cleveland's autograph.
PHILADELPHIA, July, 1890.
Ny Dear Miss Grundy, Jr.
In your letter of Washington Gossip OF s week
or so ago you mention an offer made bv gentle
man of $500 for the autograph of Mrs. Cleveland.
| have letter from this lady addressed to me
August IL. 1885, containing eighty words besides
the envelope. I received it in reply to q little
gift which sent to her on the return of her
birthday OF that year, together with one sent to
Miss Mollie Villas at the same time This offer
for sale to the highest bidder. II the person to
whom you refer IN your letter has not been graf
pond with him. Could you send me his ad-
dress or any other you may have a knowledge
OF. II successful you shall be remembered by
yours truly, Mrs. NJ. p. LAWRENCE.
am sorry to tell Mrs Lawrence that the $500
gentleman has left Washington and that ] do
not know OF anyone who is willing to give Sc. %
letters.
saw private letter yesterday from Mrs.
Senator Stanford. She and the senator have
spent considerable time in Europe this summer
in studying up N alters in connection with their
new university. They have found some i'm
provements in the lavartory system, and in the
sleeping arrangements of girls in European COL
leges which is improvement the plans
made for them here, and they have just cabled
direstions to Ca ifornia to have the work
stopped on the college there until these new
plans arrive. At present twenty six masons
and stonecutters are thrown out of work by the
stopping of the building and they can do moth
ing until they have the new plans. There are
in all about one thousand men working on this
Palo Alto university and the stonecutters num-
Der two hundred. The clear condition
of Senator stanford's mind is evidenced
by his work upon it. His head is as clear as
bell and the statements that he has paresis
comes from his weak an Gle. A number of years
ago in getting off a horse he stepped on n stone
and broke his ankle. The bones have Joined to-
gether again, but his left ankle is still weak. It
pains him greatly when he overwalks and afte-
walking a mile OF two his ankle will swell up as
big as the calf OF an ordinary mans leg When