Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-09

and take note of the proceedings of both
Houses of Congress, and, moreover. criticise
and condemn when needful. In these days OF
| cheap excursions men and women should
make 1t point to supervise their legislative
| department. The earnest business man
would soon detect, with but little trouble,
| the incapables, the individuals whose per.
\ sonal gains and ends were put before the
| public interests-the men whose aim was
| principally how not to do it. 1t the lawmak-
ers were seriously and intelligently super
vised by their electors,
THE UNRULY ONES
might be subdued. As it is, Congress an
pears to the observer TO be noisy school of
overgrown boys, whose teacher has no power
of control, and the pupils, ignoring ali au-
thority, make of themselves a spectacle for
gods and men and-we may add-women.
The noise, the confusion, the racket, the
prancing in and out, to and fro, the utter
show of disrespect to those who make
speeches, the disregard for the galleries who
come to hear, the all prevailing disorder
show that reform is needed and should be
enforced.
Then another matter to complain of is the
smoking. The House is badly ventilated to
begin with, but when members begin smok-
ing on the floor they make state of affairs
wholly obnoxious to those above them, even
II the cigars are not mean. These men have
not the instincts of gentlemen, since they
have plenty of smoking rooms in which to
indulge their desires without making them
selves offensive to others. These men should
be taught good manners. Speaker Reed
should "go" for them and enforce such dis
cipline as would remove from their minds
the idea that they are privileged to be hog s
in The peoples Capitol. Even in our own
Union station ''all smoking is positively
prohibited"-a mere railroad station, how
much more should it be so prohibited in the
public halls of Congress? We have no ia
natlcal objection to the weed-some of the
very best of men smoke under proper condi-
tions-and if there is in it all the comfort,
delight and solace that Ingersoll declares
there is, when he lauds and magniies it as
one of the best gifts of heaven TO man, we
can see no good reason why
WOMEN SHOULDN'T SHARE
it, for they stand in as much need of COM
fort and solace as anybody and should get
all OF the joy of lite that is going. But,
when, as everybody knows, its odor is
sickening to many, and it's stale fumes are
obnoxious to everybody when shut up in
an ill-ventilated room like the Hall of Rep
resentatiyes, it seems that 'sno smoking"
should be rule most vigorously enforced.
On the occasion of our visits there was one
smoker who leered up at the ladies' gallery,
as much as to say: 81 am an awful big
man-bigger than old man Reed-I can do
as darn please, and if you don't like it
what are you going to about it?'
Some papers that talk of the Treasury
girls and other women employed by the
Government service as beautiful beings
given to flirting, making much of them
selves, doing very little work for big pay,
and finally marrying grandlY and hence
forth being great ladies give very errone-
Gus statement. The Treasury girls, as we
saw them, are mainly middle-aged-not
pretty-who are more intent upon their
business than upon mankind. They seem
to work steadily and hard, and their duties
seem scarcely less wearing and onerous than
those of a teacher with 40 or more youngsters
to manage and instruct. Many of them are
widows, others are old maids-worn and
wrlnkled, but their services are valuable.
SINGLE FROM CHOICE.
It is said that many of the single girls are
old maids from choice. They prefer their
own money-fnd life more ENJOYABLE upon
a hundred or more dollars a month, than
the mingling of misfortune in matrimony,
the drudging of housekeeping and the
shaving tor children on a small income.
This is all out with accepted notions and
in which a man is all that is to be
desired by women, but the pressure of liv-
ing and the extravaganza of the age are al
together out with the old idea of beginning
married lie with dollar and coming out
as a millionaire. The pleasure of the hour
and the felicity of the present count for
more with people nowadays than the ulti-
mate outcome in old age of 1abor1ous years
Of toll and the saving/o of pennies.
Benjamin Franklin's idea that those who |
would thrive must rise at 5 and work like |
all possessed and save every cent not re-
luired for mush and milk, has gone out |
particularly in Washington.
Nobody rises at 8 anymore, but they thrive |
al the same. The colored people furnish
evidence upon this point. Upon their plan !
alton homes in old DAYS they got hog and !
lominy. Now as ''tip" they think |
quarter or half dollar mean and stingy-
"dollah" being about the lowest ''igah."
Making so much money they live high. A |
.rocer told US they were his most extrava- |
,ant buyers. They wanted the finest of fish |
md poultry, even when they live in novels |
70 rising at or living on cheap food tor
hem.
THE AVERAGE LENTEN DINNER,
The chief Lenten diversion is dinner
living, and such dinnersl Elegance, lux
ry, 13 courses, seven wine glasses at each
late, ferns, roses, violets, tulips, cut glass
nd silver make such brilliant and striking
rray as enchant the eyes. The wines are
t the rarest, the viands the choicest and
chest, the decorations most charming and
eautiful. They cost, we are told, from S25
, $40 plate. 1t is not stylish to have a
aterer. To be right you must have a
chef" and have everything done at home.
his is more expensive, but that is the
My way to be original, and produce effects
OF to be reached by everybody. Roswell
). Flower and Mrs. Flower gave violet
'inner." The magnificent "spread" OF
.ndrew Carnegie given to the tiresome
Pans" was doubtless 'Thistle Dinner"
The story as to Mr.. Quay has not died out
/ the proper nine days. 1t is still prime
inject everywhere-in the drawing rooms,
/ the museums, in the House, in the rotunda,
. the White House-everywhere. 1t will
ot down, unless he downs it.
BESSIE BRAMBLR