The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-04-29
STREET TYPES IN WASHINGTON.
A Place Where All Kinds of American
Citizens Feel at Home.

Citizens Feel at Home.
When You turn the corner into Penn
s~ylvania 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 a very great, a very
picturesque and II very interesting
crowd that moves slowly up and down
before the little shops. There are In
dams in their blankets and the women
who lead the fashion, these latter snatch
ing a few hasty moments from what
they are pleased to regard as their
social duties"-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 a calm old age,
in regretful establishment. And you
will see, besides the Indians and the
women of fashion, the so~uthwesterner,
who wears his large-brimmed, soft hat
and his loose clothes and has the
chewing habit strong upon him, and
whose every movement is supple and
indicative of the freedom and independ-
ence of the frontier, of a familiarity
with the saddle and q contempt for
forms. There is n vast difference be-
tween him and his fellow from the mid
die west, upon whom the formalities
and conventionalities are beginning to
lay their heavy hand, who binds him
self up tightly in a frock coat that
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fers to sit through his working hours in
his shirt sleeves and still insists upon
wearing the heavy boots essential in
virgin countries and the soft felt hat
that has the virtue of comfort-nar-
rover as to the brim perhaps than
his of the southwest There is
very little homogeneity in the throug.
There is the smartly dressed Yankee or
New York congressman, with the pert
air of business or suggestive OF the last
ing influence of the legend of the
industrious apprentice and of the de-
pressing 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
Hdt, WSlFD uSHSu ClOIlcS, carry HOuTS
and a brisk step have often made a
FOOLS fortune in a ~God-fearing COM
munity. And you will meet this
man stepping out with his bust
ness stride on Pennsylvania avenue
and besides you will meet the gentleman
with n ~boutonniere, whose first task of
the day is to flash his dazzling manli-
ness into the pleased eyes of whatever
beautiful woman may happen to have
an errand on the avenue of that partic-
ular morning. And along with these
will move groups of slouching, round
shouldered, soft-hatted men, wearing
their overcoats as if they were cloaks,
and wearers themselves finding much
dressing incompatible with a proper
devotion of their time to nothing in
particular. And you will see many
women 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 ONE parts of this beloved
land of ours, strange as it may seem to
those of us who have such a high re-
gard 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. -lIarper's Weekly.