Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-02-01

You will see among the lawmakers 10
suits of clothes that do not fit where you
see one among the department people. The
statesmen are especially weak in gloves,
hats and neckwear. Little trouble with
gloves have they, because life is too earnest
or real to bother with such trifles. While
the statesmen from the north usually wear
good silk or derby hats, those from the
south still affect the planters style, the
soft SLOUGH. 1t is the characteristic south
ern hat, and when accompanied by black
string neckties lying fat and stiff on ca
pacious shirt bosoms of plain or white
frilled edges mistake as to the locality of
the wearer is impossible.
And the popularity of the southern states
man is his dislike for overcoats. Fully one
half of the senators and members from the
southern states do not own topcoats at all
or if they do own them rarely put them on.
The very men who most need the protection
of such garments in this climate, because
coming from region in which they are
not hardened by 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
recklessness of the southerners is that many
of them suffer with bad colds, while not a
few of them have been stricken with la
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 in
manner of living than their northern COM
peers. You can nearly always distinguish
a southern statesman by looking at him.
If you fail in this, you will easily right
yourself when he opens his mouth to speak.
The southerner has an infection and pro-
nunciation all his own. Moreover, if you
stop in the two big hotels which are situate
along the avenue about where the two
streams Humanity meet and mingle ev-
cry afternoon, you will find them full of
southern senators and representatives.
Thirty or 40 years ago the National and
Metropolitan hotels We're southern head
quarters, and such they remain to this day.
In each of these houses two or three score
of southern statesmen and their families
live. Corn pone is served at every meal.
and the pone woman-an old slave-draws
pretty good salary for doing nothing else
than making the coarse bread which every
true southron loves so we'll.
An Unclassified Crowd.
just as the National and Metropolitan
hotels, on the avenue, are the southern
headquarters, so is Wizards, farther west
on the same thoroughfare, the Illinois rem
devious. In the lobby of this house the
nlinoisans meet every night to fight over
their battles and exchange stories of the
hard luck they have met with in the field
of Office hunting. The New Eng1anders
meet principally at the Shoreham, while if
you are looking for New Yorker you may
save yourself trouble by going to the Ar
lington. AS for the crowd which meets
every night at John Cham berlain's it defies
classification by states. 1t is drawn from
every part of the Union. About midnight,