Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-28
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glance that his residence, the Capitol. 10 q
bachelors hail. since he never dusts his statues
ana orlc-a-brac. though manlike and with an
agricultural instinct thSt he possesses in COM
mon with some of the rest of his sex he keeps
| his grounds beautifully. But his interior.
Dear me! Do You know IT positively makes me
| quite Ill to look ut the representative of Peace
near his front door, she does need a bath so
dreadfully. always feel as il she were holding
her hand up to her neck not because it is a
| pretty position for that member-which was of
course the sculptor's idea when he placed it
| there-but because she thereby hopes that il
will conceal in q measure her besmircned neck.
II something isn't done for her soon shall feel
strongly tempted to go to her rescue myself
| with pail Of water and q scrubbing brush
queer as the proceedings will look. Her COM
panion War, on the opposite of the door, is
nearly as bad of, but his shortcomings aren' {
| quite as noticeable because, you know one
doesn't expect as much Of a man.
| Uncle Sam did give his groups Civilization
| and Discovery on the buttresses of the Capitol
Turkish bath last summer-had workmen
] there for weeks scraping off their epidermis
| and why he didn't do something for poor Peace
and War, whose sad predicament is only more
emphasized by the regeneration Of the groups,
| cannot understand"
| CELEBRITIES AT DISCOUNT.
| Speaking of the Capitol reminds ME Of my
| first impression Of Washington" said a caller
who was waiting for her hostess to appear, ~
| had always lived in the country and the trip to
Washington was the first of any length / had
ever taken. Now, certainly might have known
better, but would yoa believe that was sadly
disappointed in not finding the streets more or
less thickly strewn with people from foreign
nations In their native costumes. knowing of
course that each country had its representative
here. When had swallowed this sorrow | be-
gan to look around for our own celebrities and
promptly to imagine that every well-looking
man was the honorable and SO, and every
comely woman the wife OF the honorable this or
that. learned though after while that the
fact that Washington is the capital Of the ma
ton. though a very potent factor in its career
and OF course the one that gave it lite impetus
Is after all nowadays only a factor and that
Washington, aside from its political interests is
last becoming the chosen residence city of tine
country and is even threatening Boston with a
snatch at its literary laurel wreaths. So all
these dlstinguished-looking people that l met
while they might very properly belong to the
class OF chosen politicians, might with equal
truth be plain lay citizens.
IN THE RoTUypA
"This fact and the odd feeling that expert
enced upon first entering the rotunda of the
Capitol we're my strong first impressions of
Washington
ut is a surprise, you know, il one has never
been there before, to go from the rooms with
ceilings of not extraordinary height into this
at first seemingly rooaess place. l really felt
rs II might soar unless l kept firm hold
upon myself"
CONGRESS LIKE SCHOOL ROOM.
II am a school teacher" put in one hitherto
silent, land the first thing that struck me was
the resemblance OF the Senate and the Hofse to
my place of business school room-for the
President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
House are the teachers, the stenographers a
class evidently called up to wrestle with COPY
books, while the members are the bulk of the
pupils. They have their little desks-many
dlsorderly, just as in a school. Thew leave
their seats, too. without permission and whis-
per and some times are Indifferent to the teach
er's remarks, as well to the recitations of
their mates. They have holiday vacations oh.
well rpne could go on endlessly, for never was
ther@a resemblance striking between two
things totally different in aim"
Washington" said a young woman who
had been softly touching the piano and
who wheeled around on the stool as she
spoke, will always be associated in nv mind
with the first morning that saw it--a morning
when there was bright sunlight on snow. out of
which the Capitol. the monument and the
white government buildings rose like continue
tions of the drifts. Through this beauty was
plotted by girl tall and slim lily stalk
and with eyes the color of a wood brook where
the sunlight fecks it. The cold air made her
hair curled about her face a vines tendrIls
might overlap its flower. She was kind
hearted, too, as well almost angelieaIlv
pretty, and taking pity on my unacquainted
state had asked me If wouldn't like to drive to
Center market with her; that she was going
after flowers. She pronounced it 'foweahs
but the shade Of Noah Webster himself would
have forgiven her for thus numbering the r.
she did it so deectably.
IN CENTER MARKET.
81 gratefully accepted the invitation and as
we wandered through Center market never
saw meat and vegetables and all the other ma
terial products, so dense was the atmosphere
OF beauty she cast about me. At last we halted
before flower stall and to prove that the spell
she wove wasn't made up of my own imagining
let me inform you that the young man selling
flowers gave her just four times as many for her
money as he did any one else. doubtless reason
ing that anything more than mere nominal sum
in transferring one flower to another-for he
looked at her if he classed her among the La
France roses-was a sheer waste Of business
talent.
"'I don't know him. she explained as I
looked inauiringly at her huge tissue paper
parcel. but he really does give me such a lot
Of flowers for dollar that can't help rather
liking him: I've bought flowers of him now for
two years.
upon returning to the hotel she discoursed
to me-with her flowers in tall vase Just be-
hind her-upon the beauties of Washington, for
she, too, was in love with it.
And yet" said the speaker after slight
pause, 1.-THE cynics affirm that no woman was
ever known to admire another woman or to be
able to see her pretty points,
"All this is nice, very nice, indeed" said the
feminine Boston tourist Zone felt from her tone
that she meant just the reverse), but notwlth-
standing 1 couldn't be persuaded to live in
Washington il the town were to be given to me
outright"
"Why?" Intercepted an indignant chorus.
because" said the Boston tourist in meas
ured solemn accents,
at HAS NO LIBRARY.'
"No library calculated the brisk brunette
Historically. swell, I'd like to know what YOU
call the Congressional Library the sixth library
in the world. indeed,''
1.-The Congressional Library, replied the Bos-
ton tourist, (which is only wholly accessible to
government officials high in Office and a limited
number Of their retainers and friends. is only
an aggravation to the mass Of the people by
reason of its unavailsbiity, though set right in
their midst. The citizens of Washington are
situated much as was starving Tantalus of old.
who with tempting food within pla in sight was
yet obliged to starve since it was just beyond
the reach Of his finger tips, or to change the
figure, this deplorable literary condition re-
minds me Of Coleridges Ancient Mariner
with water, water everywhere, and not drop
to drink.