Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-03
RAAIBLINGS.
HE rambles in his walks,
And likewise in his talks"

There is no better time to get an insight into
the human nature Of people than during and
AFTER heavy snow fall. The self-respecting
public-spirited citizen who has a realizing sense
OF what is due from one civilized being to an
other is prompt in having shovel and broom
used on the whole extent of his side walk, so
that pedestrians may pass and repass in front
OF his premises with some degree of comfort
and safety. On the other hand, the fellow who
believes in getting everything possible out of
NE ana giving nothing in return considers
h,s dnty to the human family fully performed
when bis own door steps have been cleared,
with possibly narrow path open from his door.
way to his carriage block. And Gid YOU ever
notice that the latter class are generally Of
those who are first and loudest in setting up
claims to high social position and superior
breeding? Not only that, but they have the
habit OF arrogating to themselves authority to
prescribe what is good FORM and correct
style for 3tbsFs- Queer world, isn't it9
BY the way, speaking Of snow. there is gen.
orally supposed to be somewhere in existence
statute, municipal ordinance, or Commits
sioners' order which requires the Washington
street railroad companies to keep their tracks
clear OF snow, and also to keep clean path
open from their tracks to the sidewalks at the
several street crossings. Is it popular delu-
sion that such an official requirement exists.
or has 1t been actually promulgated, to be
quietly ignored by our railway barons who can
count pretty certainly on the negligence or
want OF ''sand' in official composition for the
non,enforcement of nearly all regulations in
tended for the public comfort? The facts ought
to be correctly and definitely understood both
by the public and the railway companies; and
as good time as any for the settlement of the
question is during such spell of weather and
getting about as we have had for ten days past.
N or fhn Nd e.
miliar with the subject please rise and give
them to the public2
But, whether in any manner required to do
so or not, one would think that business consid-
erations alone based on decent regard for the
health, comfort and good will of their hundreds
OF daily patrons, would prompt the management
OF our several city roads to voluntarily keep a
clean open pathway between connecting lines
at their transfer points. if nowhere else. Moth
ing of the sort do they do however. II the late
Mr. Vanderbilt himself, who was the king hog
In railway management. were in supreme COM
mand here, with his well-known views of what
ought to be done with the public, the rights and
comforts o: that portion of community obliged
TO use street cars couldn't be more studiously
and effectively violated than they are generally,
and always in times of heavy snow fall
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1t is curious to note the late change of opin-
ion in the judgment of French critics as to the
artistic merit of Millets "Angelus" While
that picture was owned in America it was far
and away inferior to at least two other works by
the same artist. owned in France, viz: 1.-THE
Cleaners" and ''The Man with Hoe" Now
that it has changed owners. and is going back
to France, with probability of final resting
place IN the Louvre, things have changed and
greatly for the better. The fellows who ha vent
seen much merit in it for the last eighteen
months now consider it the masterpiece of the
18th century.
The queer things fellow sees when he hasn't
any gun are quite matched by the queer things
one can hear sometimes in what the late Mr..
Charles James Harrington Fitzroy Yellowplush
styled the "hupper suckles of fashnable life."
For example, the wife of a cabinet officer who
was interviewed by the enterprising Washing
ton reporter OF New York paper last week on
the momentous question whether dress coat
Is the proper caper in making New Year calls
places herself sQuarely on record by declaring
that mo gentleman should appear in full dress
after six O. clock unless he wishes to be thought
ignorant OF the proprieties." What will my
lady have?
why 90 society chronlclers and penny-a-
line reporters persist in applying the French
designation Madame to all ladies of foreign
birth, no matter to what country they belong?
II there were any excuse for styling them any
thing else, when here than plain "Mrs.." as
American ladies are called, the proper thing
would be to give to each the designation called
for by her own language or the custom of her
native country. But nothing of the sort is
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best usases abroad. Thus when an American
woman travels in Europe she is not given her
home appellation of Mrs." but is called
Frau" in Germany; MADAME" in France;
'.Signora," in Italy. and so on. Conversely,
therefore, married ladies of foreign birth. no
matter from what country they come, should
be styled and addressed as Mrs" when in the
United States. No higher compliment can be
paid to any lady than to address her as your
own mother or wife should be addressed.
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Another popularity in the same direction that
is quite as inexplicable and often comical. is
the weakness shown by millner or dressmaker,
Of whatever nationality. to set herself I'D as a
Madame as soon as she is able to open an es
Enlistment ON her own account 1t is notice
able. too, that when this point in ethnographic
is reached your nimble needle
plyer. though born in sight of the blarney
stone, Is no longer dressmaker, but a mo
diste," and has to do now with CONNECTIONS"
not dresses. Does this sort of thing lead GUS
toner TO pay an extravagant bill more cheer
fully?
The people Of Washington enjoyed q more
quiet and orderly holiday season this winter
than has fallen to their lot any time within the
memory of the oldest inhabitant. There was
almost no horn-blowing, and comparatively
little pistol and fire cracker exercise. Result.
More than the average amount of peace and
comfort for well disposed people, and less than
the usual number OF personal casualties and
tires. Just how the reform came about nobody
appears to know exactly. But that is little
matter. The great thing is that it came and
thanks are due, and rendered to the gods, ac-
,ordingly.
There were over eleven hundred visitors at
he night exhibition of the Corcoran Gallery
asst eve ming. 20 most of whom the large and
line exhibit of drawings by the students in
the several classes Of the Art School was both
surprise and a delight All the classes in the
school are full at present, with quite q num-
Der OF registered applications standing over
waiting vacancies. In fact. all the facilities
If the school are now tested to their utmost
capacity. and If its accommodations were twice
rs great it is believed that they would prove to
DO no more than enough at no distant day As
IN indication in this direction it NAV be mem
ioned here that the night class, which was or |
,anized only few weeks ago, now numbers |
'ne hundred members.
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