St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-09
PALMER Is ATTENTIVE
The Illinois Senator Watches
the Senate's Work Very
Closely.
Its Dull Routine Does Not
AZ Drive Him Out Of His
~ Seat.
All Washington Is Enjoying
70 the Beautiful Spring
Weather.
Discussion Of the Propriety
Discussion Of the Propriety
y Of Women Engaging in
Whistling.

most or the states, but the KIND or sea-
son that makes one realize the truth of
all the pretty things poets and lovers
have been in the habit of saying about
spring since the beginning of love and
poetry. The north side of Pennsylvania
avenue, where everybody walks
though why the south side of that
Washington artery should be so
snubbed and neglected, no man on earth
knows--is crowded all day long with
pretty women In almost summary attire.
AT every corner an Notwithstanding,
shiny-faced darby boy, with the essence
of flattery in his manner, and mouth
that couldn't smile wider without push
ing his ears out of place, Offered punches
of flowers for sale. There are
Flowers Everywhere.
even at this early date. Everybody
wears a tulip, or crocus.o or hyacinth,
or bit of the vivid yellow Towering
almond that grows in all the pretty little
parks and sQuires. The weeping will
lows at the British legation are droop-
ing sprays of the delicate green a
painter might dream of. The waXy-
looking flowers of the dwarf magnOliaS,
with their absence of green leaves, look
like artificial flowers pinned TO the bare
bushes. Up at the White house there are
great beds of purple and white GRO
cuses and pink hyaclnths. The White
house, by the way, looks more like a
private lunaIlc asylum than anything
else just now. for to preserve the
precious ecks of Baby Mckee and the
rest of the presidents grandchildren,
the second floor windows, behind which
goes calmly on the everyday life of the
chief executive and his family, are
barred. At the capitol the dark green
of the English ivy, which grows every
where about Washington, is thrown
into vivid relief by the delicate pink of
the magnOlias and the bright velyety
green of the grass.
The Senate
has the spring fever. With its array of
empty desks and scattered papers. 1t
looks more like schOolrOOm after
hours than ever. There is an impress
sion among certain senatorial cOnstitu-
ents in the rural districts that the law
makers are paid to stay IN the senate
and attend strictly to business. That
opinion, however, does not obtain in
Washington. One senator, in an I'M
guarded moment, declared yesterday
that his salary isn't large enough to pay
him for listening to all the stupidity
stupidity was the word he uSed-Of his
brother senators. So he is frequently
absent on important business or strolS
into the house, where fun is never
lacking.
Right where The eye of everybody in
the gallery falls on him, however, sits
man who really seems to enjoy the dull
routine of the day in the senate. He is
Senator John NJ Paine. He bears the
national colorS on his head, for his skin
is red with the rosy flush of perfect
health, his hair and the tuft of beard on
his chin are white and his eyes twinkle
as blue as bits of the sky. Senator
Palmer has forsaken the Elsmere, and
has come with his family to Gen. Dunn's
house on Lanier place, opposite the
east front Of the capitol. The Dunn
house, by the way, Is one IT the
Historic Spots
of the town. 1t is tall four-StOry
brick affair, in the plain old style. 1t
has been rem0deled, OF course, but in it
ale parts of the walls that sheltered
congress when the British fred upon
the capitol. During the last war the
house was used now and then as tenn
porary prison, and in one of its rooms
Mrs. Surratt was for a time confined.
The gloomy memories of the place, how
ever, do not seem to affect Senator
Palmer in the slightest degree, and he
walks to and fro between the house and
the capitol as briSkly as il his years
were a score less.
Washington houses with tragic asso-
Citations are legion. and the guide, who
haunts every corner, is only too willing
to point them out. No spot in all the
| town is more laden with terrible memo
ries than the house where the family of
Secretary Tracy was so nearly wiped
out. After the frightfu tragedy of the
fire there, the house was partially re-
| stored, and several attempts were made
vain. however, for nobody was willing
TO take tie house. At last it was
torn down, and in ITS stead a
handsome light brick house in the
quaint colonial style erected. 1t is one
of the charming homes of the city now,
and the tragedy connected with the
place is already forgotten. 1t is tie
wall of the Southern people here that
Washington is forgetting
Ante-BelIum Days.
and is growing entirely too much like a
Northern city. To a Westerner the
complaint seems groundless. There is
little of Yankee indifference and West
ern rush about the town. A more polite
place it would be hard to find. Al gen.
temen remove their hats Oh entering
an elevator where there are ladies.
fashion which in st. Paul went
out long ago. Nobody JostleS
you or threatens to run you down or
the street, and you may cross the clean
asphalt pavement whenever your fancy
directs. Nobody ever runs after a
Eistreet car, and the car drivers are OBJ
| 'liging to a degree that would make
Col Lowry's employees have spasms.
They will stop the car anywhere along
the block.
i The transportation facilities of Wash
ington are admirable, anyway. You
buy car tickets, six for % cents, and
get seemingly unlimited transfers.
Rates for cab and hack hire are sur
prisngly low, and are as fixed and az
unalterable as the laws OF the Modes
and Persians, so that not one OF the
thousands of tourists who drive about
the town every day is robbed il he
keeps his eyes at all open. If the ola
saw about
WhistIing Girls
| and Growing hens always come to some
| bad end be true, horrible fate is
hanging over the not at all pretty but
eminently stylish dark head of the
| daughter @? Ire secretary of state, Miss
| Hattie Blaine. The tall, plain. old
| fashioned red brick house facing
Lafayette place, or Jackson square, or
whatever the much-dispnted name of
the little park i'll front of the White
house may be, is always an object
of interest to visitors, and yester-
day afternoon when Miss Blaine
appeared just at the fashionable prom
| enade hour, there we're no less than
nlne tourists studying the house from
the park opposite. Miss Blaine was. of
! course, stared at fiXedly as she came
down the steps in blue cloth suit, W.
a blazer and white shirt, and bunch OF
| jonquils at her belt. Lafayette and
| jackson OH their pedestals she paid as
| much attention TO as 10 the people op-
| 20, lite, but pausing on the walk she
wi istled clearly. and loudly and boy
| -, for aaf actif which ic the