The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

ture and the affectation exhibited by many of
the different devotees of this fashionable
thoroughfare This broad, magnificent ave-
nue., stretching away from Farragut Square to
Dupont Circle, reminds one of a conservatory
for the propagation of the English form and
manners. Embryo princes OF the royal blood
sport the top-coat and the London stick, the
eyeglass and the West End drawl. and talk
about horses and women, while the bronze
features of the bluff old Admiral who stands
upon the pedestal with his back toward the
scene seem to wear thankful expression that
he is not condemned, like his brother officer
in bronze a few squares above, to be forced
forever to gaze upon this inane show of the
affectations of the modern American youth.
But up and down the sunlit avenue every
Sunday the same crowd saunters, swallowing
itself, cobra-like, at each end of the prone
made, an endless, ever-moving chain of human
ity. These reflections passed rapidly through
the mind of the observer as he found himself
in the centre of the promenaders. No doubt
he would have kept on moralizing to the end
of the chapter had he not discovered just in
front Of him that wicked little beauty, the
heroine of the mornings episode. She
was alone, but the experienced eye
of her admirer soon detected that
a tall athletic-looking young fellow, with
handsome, manly face and magnificent
physique, was rapidly, as the boys term it,
catching on.n He pursued the familiar old
tactics of passing and repassing the object of
his intended 'mash," and, finally mastering
up the necessary courage, he drew up along
side and began, with an ease which proved
him an old hand at the business, converse
tion which seemingly had never been prefaced
by an introduction. She seemed nothing 10th,
and those who paused to look after the hand
some pair never doubted but what they were
friends of long standing. 1t was noticed,
however, that while the maiden evidently en-
joyed the excitement of the thing, yet she was
not completely at her ease, as certain furtive
glances rapidly cast around indicated that she
was on the alert and perhaps fearful of being
found in the company of her present hand
some escort They had just reached point
where the features of Old Dupont could be
made out sternly and reproachfully gazing
upon them, when landau drawn by pair of
housekeeping bays rounding the bend of the
circle threw her into the greatest agitation,
and, to the surprise of her attendant, she
hastily and in tone distinctly audible babe
him ''leave her instantly He seemed to
comprehend the situation, for he Immediately
fell back a few PAGES and seemed absorbed in
contemplating the architecture of the sur
rounding residences. The tall-stepping bays
approached, and leaning back among the
cushions the reporter discerned the sedate old
| citizen of the mornings adventure and his
wife eagerly scanning the crowd of idlers.
| His benign old countenance seemed to light
| Ioto ila I,
| pied the maiden, walking so demurely and
modestly alone and unaccompanied in the
midst of the throng, and as the carriage passed
close by the curb he gave vent to a chuckle oi
evident satisfaction, which caused the respect
able-looking old coachman on the box tc
wink his eye at the off horse and drive littlt
slower. At the next corner the carriage
turned down side street, and square
further on the maiden and the chappie agair
approXimated