The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-03-12

.iua.a H.. .ur senators. tHe sentative.
tHn uuw. pepper UH.... .u.Ieuf. AS % rI'..
they aruH. earnest H. tHo column moving
ZOO Oh. Opposite. direction is curpIHs- THE
Statesmen walk down hy pairs. irIua and
Qurr.I- Na N.alsu1. they 1rr discuss
iua tHntuU ur Hawaii lnn' 1ro NOT "a,
we'll dressed u- the department clerks.
You will see among the lawmakers 10
suits of clothes chat do not 90 where YOU
see one among the department people The
statesmen ARE especially weak .u gloves,
bats aud uvc>W,ar Little trouble with
gloves lavpthey, because life is too earnest
or real to- bother with such trife-. While
the statesmen FROM the north usually wear
good .ilN or derby hats, those from the
south still affect the planters style, the
soft siuu.h. 90 Is the characteristic south
pru hat. and when accompanied by black
string upuAtie- lying fiat and stin ON ca
paciuus shirt husoms of plain or white
fnled edges mistake as to the locality Of
the ,yuarpr is impossible
And the peculiarly the southern states
man is his dislike for overcOuts. Fully one
half of the senators and members from the
southern states do not own topCuats at all,
OF 81 they do own them rarely put them on.
The very men who mosi need the protection
of such garments iu this climate, because
coming from a region in which they are
not hardened 10y exposure, leave them off,
while the men from the north, who could
more safely Withstand exposure here are
the more careful to wear warm, thick top
coats. one result Of this characteristic
. reck Ies-ucsS of the southerners is that many
7 OF them suffer with bad colds, while not a
few of them have been stricken with In
grippe. One of them indeed, Senator Wal
thall of Mississippi has felt constrained to
resign his seat ON account Of continued i'll
health due to AN attack Of this mysterious
and persistent malady.
Mark of the Southerner.
The southern men develop more striking
characteristics IN dress, in speech and il
manner OF living than their northern com
peers You can nearly always distinguish
a southern statesman by looking at him
IL YOU fail in this, YOU will easily right
yourself when he opens his mouth TO speak
The sourherner has an infection and pro
nunciatiou all his own. Moreover, if You
stop in the two big hotels which are situate
along the avenue about where the twC
streams Of humanity meet and miugle ev
cry afternoon, YOU will find them full o
southern senators and representatives
Thirty or 80 years ago the National and
Metropolitan hotels were southern head
quarters, and such they remain to this day
In each Of these houses two or three scort
of southern statesmen and their families
live Corn pone is served at every meal
and the pone woman--an old slaye-draw
pretty good salary for doing nothing els
than making the coarse bread which ever.
true southrOu loves so well.
An Unclussiied Crowd.
just as the National and metropolitan
u hotels, on the avenue. are the southern
. headquarters, so is Willard ;, farthcr ives
on the same thorOuJhfare, the Illinois rer
l. devious. In the lobby Of this house tn
Ilinoisuns meet every night to fight owe
their battles and exchange stories Of tn
hard luck they have met with in the fel
: of office hunting The New Highlander
meet principally at the Shoreham, while
you are looking for a New Yorker you ma
: save yourself trouble by going to the Al
! liugton, As for the crowd which meet
/ every niglN at John Chamberlain's, it defie
+ classification by states 1t is drawn iron
every part of the Union. About midnight