The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-02
sTREur TYPES IN WASHINGTON.
Tho Picturesque Crowd soon Daily on
Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Pennsylvania Avenue.
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When you turn the corner into Penn
sylvania avenue life takes on a different
hue. Here are men and IN whom
you know, others of whom you have
simply heard, and others still who are
strange to the civilization of the East
It is almost always q very great, a very
picturesaue, and a very interesting
crowd that moves slowly Up and down
before the little shops. There are In:
dams in their blankets, and the women
who lead the fashion, these latter
snatchinG a few hasty moments from
what they are pleased to regard as their
"social duties"-meaning thereby their
social vocations and pleasures-for
the shopping that is made neces;
sary by the wear and tear OF
the rush in which they take
part, and upon which many OF them
will no doubt look back, when they shall
have reached calm old age, in regret
full establishment. And you will see,
besides the Indians and the women OF
fashion, the southwesterner, who wears
his larce-brimmed soft hat and his
loose clothes, and has the chewing habit
strong upon him, and whose every
movement Is supple and indicative OF
the freedom and Independence OF the
frontier, OF a familiarity with the saddle
and a contempt for forms. There is a
vast difference between him and his
fellow from the middle west, upon
whom the formalit!es and convention
alities are beginning to lay their heavy
hand, who binds himself up tightly in
n frock-coat that clasps him snugly,
while he really prefers to sit
through his working hours in his
shirt sleeves, and still insists
upon wearing the heavy boots essential
in virgin countries, and the soft hat
that has thevirtue Of comfort-narrow.
CIR as to the brim, perhaps, than his OF
the southwest. There is very little
homogenity in the throng. There is
the smartly dressed Yankee or New
York congressman, with the pert air OF
business so suggestive OF the lasting II.
fiuence of the legend OF tho industrious
apprentice, and of the depressing fact
that In certain parts OF the country an
alert and smart air is often the accepted
sign OF mind and conscience and OF the
development Of the deeper attributes OF
the soul. A tall hat, we'll brushed
clothes, early hours, and a brink step
have often made a FOOLS fortune in a
God-fearing community. And you meet
this man stepping IL with his business
stride on Pennsylvania avenue, and,
besides, you will meet the gentle.
man with a boutonniere, whose
first task of the day is to flash his
dazzling manliness into the pleased
eyes OF whatever beautiful women may
happen to have an GRAND on the ave.
nue. on that particular morning. And
along with these will move groups Of
slouching, round-shouldered, soft-hat.
ted men, wearing their o%vercoats as ii
they were cloaks, the wearers them
selves finding much dressing incom-
patible with a proper devotion OF their
time to nothing in particular. And
you will see many women with the high
color that is believed by no n but she
who thus decorates herself to bear the
slightest resemblance to the hue OF
health. But you must not mistake the
character OF these foolish virgins and
matrons. In some parts of this beloved
land of ours, strange as it may seem to
those OF us who have such high regard
for amartness, the women have been
carefully trained in the art Of painting,
and she who neglects the rouge-pot
would lose caste. Some OF them will
learn better soon, and all OF them will in
time.