St. Paul daily globe., 1893-06-12
TYPES IN WASHINGTON.
A Place Where All Kinds of
American Citizens Feel at Home.

A Place Where AL Kinds Of
American Citizens Feel at Home.
Harper's Weekly.
When you turn the corner into Penn
sylYania avenue life takes on a different
hue. Here are men and women whom
you know. others of whom you have
simply heard. and others still who are
strange to the civilization of the East.
1t is almost always very grea at, a very
picturesque and very interesting crowd
that moves slowly up and down be-
fore the little shops. There are
Indians in their blankets, and the
women who lead the fashion, these
latter snatching few hasty moments
from what they are pleased to regard as
their 'sOcial dutles'-meaning thereby
their social vocations and pleasures-fOr
the shopping that is made necessary 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 regretful aStoniShment. And you
will see, besides the Indians and the
women OF fashion, the Southwesterner.
who wears his large-brimmed soft hat
and his loose clothes, and has the chew
ing habit strong upon him, and whose
every movement is supple and in
dicatlve of the freedom and
independence of the frontier. of fa-
miliarity with the saddle and con-
tempt Tor forms. There is vast
difference between him and his fellow
from the Middle West. upon whom the
formalities and the ecOnventionalitieS are
beginning to lay their heavy hand, who
binds himself up tightly i'll IA frock coat
hot nloC n nlx hn Ilxy
prefers to sit through his working hours
i'll his shirt sleeves, and still insists upon
wearing the heavy boots essential in
virgin countries, and the soft hat that
has the virtue of comfort-narrower
as to the brim, perhaps, than
his of the Southwest. There is very
little homogeneity in the throng.
There is the smartly dressed Yam
kee or New York congressman, with
the pert air of business or suggestive
of the lasting influence of the legend of
the 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, well brushed clothes, early
hours and brisk step have often made
munity. And you will meet this man
stepping out with his business stride on
Pennsylvania avenue, and, besides,
you will meet the gentleman with
boutonniere. whose first task of the day
is to flash his dazzling manliness into
the pleased eyes of whatever beautiful
woman may appen to have an errand
on the avenue on that particular morn
ing. And along with these will move
groups of Slouching, ound-shouldered,
soft-hatted men. wearing their overcoats
as il they were clOaks, the wearers
themselves finding much dressing in
compatible with proper devotion of
their time to nothing in particular. And
you will see many a woman with the high
color that is believed by no one, 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 be-
loved land of ours, strange as it may
seem to those Of us who have such
high regard for smartness, 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"