The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-14

crowded rooms. She knows no one and no
one knows her,
She makes an early exit and goes back to
her boarding house to tell her husband of
her first days experience. She does not
know whether she likes il or not She goes
TO sleep that night with a distinct sense of
disappointment. which has worn away a
little by morning. 1t is succeeded by little
glow of pleasure when she SECS in the society
column of the Morning Post among the
names Of those who were calling the day
before MRS. Representative Blank"
Her next dissipation is probably q white
house reception, to which she has looked
forward as the very acme OF social bliss.
The gathering is made up mostly of people
prominent in official and social circles, mem
bers of the supreme court and bar, of the
Senate and House. citizens and strangers,
distinguished foreigners and leaders of fash
ion, with sprinkling Of the leading profess
sions. ., s..-
How crush like this bsiittles greatness
Here Is a gallant admiral, one Of the COM
pressed mass; there brave general, wedged
in corner, cut OF from supplies here a
man whose breezy air of self-consequence
betrays the westerner still new to bis sur
roundings; at his side his daughter, timid
and uncomfortable, getting, perhaps, her
first glimpse oil. Washington society.
The new congressmans wife looks admir-
AbEtJ Abh ChNlOobiy ~ LUG 1dDO5OLQ0s we'll
dressed women about her, who move with
that easy, noiseless grace which she feels she
can never achieve either by study or re-
hearsal She feels out of place and pain =
fully realizes her insiguiicance. She recalls
with feeling OF inconsistencies her promi-
uence and Importance in the little gatherings
at Blankville, where no social event was
considered complete without her.
When she has been to two or three recep-
tions see will feel little more confident, and
in time she will begin to look about her for
some one less experienced than she whom
she can patronize in a mild wav, as she was
patronized at first. The air of patronage will
come very natural TO her In a year or two,
and In time she may become AN important
constituent In society at the capital. or de-
ceive herself into the telief that she is For
the present she deceives only her neigh.
pors who come to visit her and her friends
whom she sees on her return home To
them Congr essman b ank's wife, taken at
her own valuation, is one OF the leaders of
Washington society. and the consideration
she has received at the hands of the CAV
world las recounted to an admiring group
Of women)is feather added 70 the Raud v
display in the political cap Of her husband.
This is the most common type of the new
congressman's wife. There are others whose
personalities are more unique and perhaps
more interesting. The wife of the congress.
man from the eastern states brings with her
not more confidence perhaps. but wider ex-
perience in social matters. She has visited
large cities and has seen more OF life in gen.
eral. She takes house and prepares to en-
terrain. To her the prospect OF making first
calls has no terrors. She PUSHES in where
her western sister fears TO tread. She does
not limit her first calls 20 those who rank
her officially, but makes them indiscrIml-
nately upon people in private life-all this
TO make good showing at her own recep-
tions. know of one case where she went
so far as to leave cards at the homes of the
members of the corps diplomatioue, uncon-
sCious that many of them are bachelors.
Her toilets are gorgeous and in marked
contrast to the shabby cab which she en-
cages by the month during the calling
season. She makes lively business of her
social duties and performs them at break
neck speed. ID. She gives entertainments
which are attended By half the people she
invites and twice as many whom she did
not invite, whose prime object is to devour
her croquettes and drink her punch. And
perhaps half Of them ridicule her and her
reception in her own dresslng-rooma
Some OF the senators, wives claim that
they rank the wives Of the cabinet officers
because the members OF the cabinet are
confirmed by the Senate but this is nice
distinction which is not generally recog-
nlzed. The Presidents family make no calls.
The senator's wives come after the cabinet
people and the congressmen's wives come
last in the official list So you see the con.
gressnsn's wife Is not so important a person
as she expects to be. But for that matter
her husband 10 q very small unit in the
House, and in the shadow of the ''big men,
OF HE party his light Is apt to be entirely
obscured.