Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-11-28

To see how much her guest enJoyeu sne
the dainties, and gfter wards spent the
remainder of the noon hour walking
with her up and down the corridors.
TuIa noticed that her companion seemed
70 have only small acquaintance among
the ladies, while very few OF the young
er men passed them wit hout bowling.
AMID SUCH SURROUNDINGS
the unsophisticated young woman from
Missouri began her work. Col. Thomp-
SON had marked her for his own, the
author soon brings US to know. The
onset of his advances is told as follows:
| "Aud Tula-thoughtful, too-worked
on till a shadow fell across her desk,
and looking up she saw Col. Thompson.
He had lust come to see how she liked
the work to remind her that she must
come to him IL anything went wrong.
But something about the fresh young
face seemed to attract him, for he TOOK
a half hour to say all he wanted to say,
and he left her pleased and olushlng
over a compliment to her handwriting
and congratulating herself that she had
been placed under the supervision OF
such q pleasant chief"
Letcher Thompson often walks home
with lula Fairleigh. His attentions
command the notice of others in the
Office. MIR. Pointers, that valuable In
terpreter of smiles and frowns, forgets
TO give her work so often that she actu-
ally has to ask for it, and even the
ladies' of the section, skilled In dlplo-
macy by years Of service, make over
lures to the chiefs favorite. Danger
ness notes with pain the game Col.
Thompson is playing. She tries to
warn lula, but this young Missouri
woman is so innocent that she cannot
understand her friends hints. Miss
Dangerness, honest and praiseworthy
as to motives, does notdare, has not suf-
ficient moral courage to speak oluntiy.
Col. Thompson deceives his wife and
daughter and makes them help In his
trickery. He tells them Tula is lonely,
advises them to befriend her and gets
them to take her to the reception OF a
Senator's wife. lula enjoys the recep-
ton immensely until she overhears
some women discussing her and won
dering how she, a clerk, ever had the
effrontery to intrude at Senatorial re-
ception. But she meets Herbert Brown,
a thoughtful young man, the one who
saw her on the train coming to wash
ington, gets talking with him and final
ly asks him whether it is considered a
disgrace for q girl to be in office. His
answer gives Mr.. Bogy's view OF some
phases of Washington society.
NO NOT AT ALL.
But the women you see here live in
little world of their own, which they
call their set, and which they think
better than any other set. Some OF
them go il for art, some for literature |
and others for religion, but it is all In
their own little world. Some OF them
90 in pretty heavy for philanthropy,
and give big sums to associated char
tiles, and help to found hospitals, and |
give fairs and balls for charitable OBJ
jects. But at the same time that they |
found homes for widows and orphans |
and establish reading-roomS and sewing |
circles for young women, they very |
seldom come into contact With them
personally, and they don't want their |
own select circle encroached upon"
Herbert Brown expresses more Of Mr.. |
Bogy's ideas about Washington life and
then talks Of the young man in society |
as follows:
"Then there are the young men, and
on that score society Is lenient, for
they are necessary article. don't
know just why it is, but there is a
NAV be because a good many young fell
lows whose sisters spend the season
here are engaged in business at their
homes in other cities, but at any rate
there is shortage, and the supply |
doesn't equal the demand. There would
be no use giving parties If the girls
couldn't have partners, and so any young
man who dresses well, dances well and |
who is not O boor, can secure an entree
into Washington society. You see that
dark, handsome man talking to Miss
Catton?"
Eyes. That is Mr.. Wright. He boards
at Mrs. Bottoms, where do"
"Well, nobody knows who Shepherd |
B. Wright is. He owes everybody in |
town, and that very coat he has on is
borrowed one, but then he waltZes like |
a dancing-master and makes love to |
every girl he meets, and that gives him
carte blanche where merit would have
grown gray waiting for recognition.
You see the pretty girl looking at him
while she preteudS to be talking to Mr..
links? Well, that is the daughter OF
Senator Whitelock, aud she is head over
heels in love with him, while l know
she thinks JinkS a bore. JinkS, by the
way, is one Of the best fellows in the
world-a working, earnest young
man, but be waltzes abominably and l
am afraid will not be a success in So
ciety."
So much for the first five chapters Of
SIN Office" The next takes us to
restaurant which Mr.. Bogy calls
'Solarl's," where, ''if you have lady
with you not one of the ton, for they
are not supposed to frequent Solari's
you can have bright, cosy little
dining-room all to yourself, as priva tie
as you please" In this accommodate
ing restaurant Mr.. Bogy makes us ac-
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