Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-03-06

doesn't let you up to the feed trough fast
enough
"My dear Mrs. Blank. I meant no offense, ~
said the New York dame stifiy.
MY dear Mrs. Blankty. you should not press
| . falling man too far" was the plucky answer
and today Mesdames Blank and Blankty don't
speak Is they pass by. just like men for all the
| world, and. like men with a social glass; they
viii make it all up over cup Of tea at Senator
AZ or Congressman BIS and 70 hunting Easter
bonnets in the same carriage.
WHY SHE CANE TO WASHINGTON.
| "what did you come to Washington for, il
not for the Inauguration ceremonies?" asked q
STAR reporter Of one Of the fair danes ct q
swell hotel. who had just declared that neither
Mr.. nor Mrs President interested her.
| "What did come for? To spite my husband
for one thing. He thought he was going to
come here and have good time with the boys
unhampered by my presence, but I check
mated him and he either had to throw ND the
game or bring me- l am here. Secondly, !
have three perfectly ravishing gowns and
want to show them. Dine with us tonight and
you may hand one OF these gowns in to dinner,
you can see me ruin the second one in your
! nasty Washington weather at the inaugural
| ceremonies tomorrow AMI witness how tear q
passion to tattlers the mob at the pension Of
fee rides round on the tail of the third gown,
4
less night to design"
''You came because you wanted to see
democratic President, didn't your" This to the
wife Of q prominent democrat.
"Oh. dear, no" she protested. 81 hate
| politics. My father is q republican and nv
husband democrat. which forces me to sit on
the fence, and consequently get the benefit of
the cannonading from both Sides 1 am in
Washington for the sole purpse of seeing that
blessed baby. l think it is cruel that there is
/ 49, a.. - -
because the whole world loves her. 1 saw her
| today. Isn't she dear little thing?" and the
| reporter was sat upon by every woman in the
party because Of the assertion that all .'year-
ling kids looked pretty much alike" That
woman will go home pleased with the inaugural
the state of her gowns. because she got exactly
what she came for, even if it was only fleeing
glimpse of q sweet baby face framed in a white
bonnet, tiny form in a short white wool cloak
and little frightened cry in the smallest Of
childish voices as the elevator jerked the breath
out of Baby Ruth's body, just as though she
was made Of the commonest kind of clay.
DON'T BELONG TO THIS ROUND Up.
ri beg to be ex cused. 1 don't belong in this
round up. I'm off my reservation
That was the peculiar reply a very stylish
and remarkably handsome young woman made
when society reporter struck her for q de
fetching" indeed with that girls splendid
brunette beauty inside Of them.
"Oh, well. most everybody is strange here
now" was the society reporters cheerful re-
Spouse. I'VE are very anxious to have all the
notable people"
"That's it! I'm not . notable" said the
brisk young woman. Dads not an Office
holder nor office-seeker. He's Just . plain,
everyday cattle baron. and we're not in 1t this
trip. We're stainpeded."
.'Stampeded!"
Isl, we don't feed with these kind of cattle,
you know. Our crowd is r.. these people all
belong to the ID dash range, and they'v
turned off the water, burned all the grass cut
all our fences and stampeded us in great shape.
Four years from now il you happen to be
around here you will find the national range in
the hands of the old bosses again and I'll have
no objection to giving you a description of my
harness. Just now I'm stray and object to
being punched with this outfit
The objection must have been Ineligible to
the s. r. for they were accepted. and the daugh-
ter of the "plain-every-day cattle baron" was
excused from being branded as mixing with
breed Of political cattle by which she de-
clared she had been "stampeded.''
THEY WEAR CLEVELAND BADGES
Most of the ladies are quite patriotic and
especially devoted to Mr.. Cleveland. Badges
sell on the streets bearing the pictures of both
the President and his wife, but the former is
most honored. He is skewered to dress fronts
with hat pins, pink celluloid roses and diamond
stick pins. He figures under dOwager throats
in a setting of pearls, diamonds and sometimes
bits Of white or colored glass. His face set in
rim Of tin on a background Of bright green
four-leaf clover is also quite favorite.
unique idea in pins is worn by good many
OF the Iammany ladies. 1t is yellow tiger not
an inch long crouching on four-leaved clover
'Ismmany isn't exactly in clover with this ad-
ministration,' said q jolly New York woman
who wore the badge to fasten a quantity of old
rose point at dinner last night, "but the tiger
will be taken care of. He is in luck even if his
claws have been clipped" Another favorite is
tiny baby Ruth standing in wild rose. A
favorite flower is the pansy, in Difference to
Mrs. Clevelands love for that blossom. Most
everybody, men and women managed to have one
or two pansies displayed conspicuously about
their persons. "Pansy' Butler would have been
greatly pleased with the adoption of his idea if
his congressional duties had not confined him SO
closely, but nobody saw his Goddess Of Liberty
straying around looking for her pansy cap.
WOMEN AS SIGHT sEERs.
Nine tenths of the sight seers about the city
| are women. The men get dead tired and sit
around and smoke, but the women are tireless.
They have worn the steps to the Capitol dome
thin. and nearly secured the resonant qualities
out of the whispering stones in statuary hall
with their boot heels. They calmly appropriate
the seat in the House gallery sacred to the
Speakers family and drop gloves and handker-
chiefs, official programs and wilted roses on the
bald headed men who pass below. They ask in
stage whispers for Gar Reed and Fireworks
Watson and after expressing surprise that one
is plain and the other insignificant learn undis-
mayed, that their remarks are heard by the
folks who belong to the subject of their
remarks. They spot Mr.. Springer and
his red rose, which isn't rose
and never went to be, but carnation instead
and ask the location of the kansas cranks. ~
They are mildly interrogative over the ''barber
pole, as they designate the sacred mace and in
dictate that if there was woman in the
! Speakers chair there would be less noise or a
harvest of hair pulling. They don't like the
Senate. 1t is slow, but they always ask to see
Brice's curls and Hills polished dome of
thought. Mr. Morrill's fine head comes in for
admiring comment and PETERS whskers never
escape criticism.
Women are always interested in the marbles
and bronzes in statuary hall, and their ideas of
statesmen are evinced in the suggestions they
make al to who should be there from their own
state. Nineteen times out of twenty regret is
that Mr.. Blaine is not there in marble Not a
few Of the buds" expressed disgust that there
was neither candy nor gum to be had in the
Capitol, and to a daughter Of Eve they pro-
nounced inaugurations great fun, don't you
know"
Trouble in a Saloon.