The morning call., 1891-12-06

the Congress Of tho United States should
turn its council chamber into a writing
room and provide a writing desk for each
individual member to put apples in and set
MS feet on does not appear. Parlia ments,
Reichstags and Chambers seat their mem
bers comfortably,
EXPECTING THEM
To speak or to listen while in session. Com
mittee rooms and their own quarters can
provide members with desk and table room
for their correspondence, and in this day of
the stenOgrapher and typewriter there is
less need for letter-writiug accommodations
in the hall of the House than a century ago
when the fashion began. Ii the members
were seated on benches or in rows of arm
chairs the whole body would be more COM
pact, could be gathered nearer to the Speak
er's eye and ear and hours of tariff debate
and empty speech-makiug would be saved,
since the seated members, being obliged to
give their whole attention to listening, would
find some way of choking off these weary
time-consumers, or else flee the chamber in
body and occupy themselves elsewhere.
Washington had touch of real Kansas
cyclone, a regular West India hurricane
for moving quarter Of an hour this week.
An intensely black cloud. not funnel
shaped. either. boiled up over Arlington
Heights and swept down upon the city.
In ten minutes it had blown down the
nearly completed walls of the new Music
Hall, unrOofed more houses than could be
counted, smashed windows, blew away
fiues and awnings, and blocked every park
and street with fallen trees and branches.
The rain came in as dense white sheets as
the spray on q foaming wave, and was
beaten as fercely. Nothing could withstand
its force and in two minutes havoc was
wrought in every part OF the city. One
man was killed by falling walls, hundreds
Of horses ran madly away, and ball of fire
invading crowded millinery store, caused
dozen faints. The miliner's immense
half-inch plate-glass windows were blown
out, and score of hats and bOnnets sailed
away with fiving strings and have never
been heard of since. One stout lawyer was
blown across his office, chair and all, and
through a glass door fifteen feet away
Window-sash and d0or-sash hung around
MS neck like wreaths and he survived this
hail and shower Of broken glass without
cut. But
HE WAS sPEECHLEss
And it was minutes after the door and win
dow were taken off him before he could eX-
press his opinion. The Minneapolis dele
CATION and this other real cyclone struck the
White House at the same time, and while
the President shook their hands the flag on
the roof was carried away and the heavy
stone balustrade of the roof, with sand
stone blocks the size of an express wagon.
was blown off like card-boards, but fell
with hundred-ton weight on the quaint
little colonial porticO on the east side of the
house. There were distinct flashes of light
ming, but none Of them struck the Blaine
mansion, and one may make what political
omen he wishes of the events which
wrecked the fateful day when the Campaign
Committee decided the city of the next
convention.
Society is assembling slowly. and since
there is to be such a long winter and such
long season it is gathering itself for sthe
unusual siege. The Bachelors Club have ar
ranged for four cotillons, and incidentally
AfrPmnfP0 reform Ia
which 1t moves. The Invitations are for
half-past 9 o'clock, and the dancers draw
for their cotillon seats as they enter the
room, which is ono premium upon prompt
arrivals. Moreover, the music stops ut IL 80,
and the late arrivals will secure back and
undesirable seats, and short chance on the
floor. And most sensible of all, no lady will be
allowed to carry bouquet into the ball
room. Never before have men been so
anxious to be members of the Bachelors
CLUB, and these aut0crats having decreed
against the bouquet that shameless levy on
the dancing mans pocket, may make il the
general fashion for other assembly aud
cotlllOn clubs to taboo the ballroom bouquet
Inc average young man In Washington So
clety has largo social position and small
income, and to dress and pay his club dues
Vexes him enough without being obliged to
Duy an armlui OF roses for any girl whom
he may ask TO dance the cotillon with him.
ANOTHER PROPHET
Has come TO proclaim Washington as the
real capital Of the country In all that its
best sense implies, and Julian Hawthorne
pronounces Washington the literary Paris
and center, and the IDEAL home for literary
people. He promises to come here and
live himself, which proves his belief in the
last of his statements, and the clever son
Of the great novelist will be welcomed
warmly. Mr.. Hawthorne. who is one OF
the New York World staff, has been here
for fortnight past and has written Of the
President and Secretary Blaine for that