Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-06
ON o. E N N G D A Y
Legislators Holiday Attire When Congress
Meets
They Always Wear Their Everyday
Clothes on Tuesday-Neck-
wear of SOlOns.

The House has often been compared to a
title than on the first two or three days Of
the present session. The members went
about poking each other in the ribs, play
ing jokes, chuCkling and grinning, like a
lot of boys who had just got back from a
holiday; but then men are but children
older grown. For the first day of school,
mother" always puts new suit OF clothes
on sonny" to make his appearance in,
though just why this should be done is past
mortal ken, for on the second day he usu-
ally reappears as naked of holiday attire
and dec GRAFTON as Ii Hung Chang. 1t was
just SO with members of the House. Most
of them chose to don long-tailed coats, with
lavish display of new neckties and pointed
toed Shoes but on Tuesday the new had
worn off and the old working harness"
put in its appearance.
Mr.. Reeds Striking Costume.
The Honorable Thomas Bracket Reed,
about the last man on earth that one would
suspect of catering to the gaping public On
opening day, got himself up regardless,
and looked every inch the presidential
timber that his friends are determined TO
saw him into. 1t must be confessed, too,
that Mr.. Reed In a Well-ntting Prince Al
bert and Mr.. Reed in a suit of hand-me-
down gray cheviot. with a cutaway coat,
two dlfferent-loolxlng people Mr. Eeeu
has a jaunty taste in neckties, too, ana &C.
caSionally INDUCES 1t in starting way.
For the opening his necktie was a dark
ground with red inquire. On gaia occa-
SONS he sometimes wears baDy Dlue one,
which quite accords with his infantlIe eX-
preston OF perfect innocence WHen HeOl-
Eating one OF his three-llne thruStS at the
opposition. All great men are said to have
fads. just as women DO, and Mr.: reeo
must be a fancy Tor necktieS. He has been
seen to stand for half an hour before
wlndowful OF neckties, studying coIors ana
Styles evidently attempting TO size himself
up in an assortment OF them. On very
brilliant OCCASIONS such as the day when
he delivered his speech at the close of the
tariff debate MIR. Reed adorned hiinsef
with a red necktle and his frock coat. On
Tuesday Mr.. Reeds spell OF dress parade
was over, and the familiar blush gray
clothes put in an appearance, with last
summers tan shoes very much in evidence.
Ncckwear of other Legislators.
Speaking of necktes, it seems quite odd
that gentleman 50 irreproachably groom
ed as Mr.. Bailey of Texas should still
cling to his white null ties for daylight
wear. Mr.. Richards of Tennessee has dis
carded his picturesque plaid ties with their
flowing ends and donned white null ones,
which ada greatly to his ministerial APP
pearance, though like Mir. BaileyS, they do
d
CoomDs OF New York, whose encarnadined
neckwear, like the oriflamme of Agincourt,
guidoned the Cleveland cohorts in the tariff
night, now appears In funereal black Mr..
Crisp still wears the narrow little black
string that used to get around under his
ear when the House assumed the appear
ance Of a bear garden. Gen. Bingham, who
looks all the time as though he might have
just been extracted from white satin-lin-
ed bcX, has thus far Shone Respondent in
a full suit Of mixed tan, with white ben
galine four-in-hand knotted over his i'm
maculate expanse of shirt front. Mr.. Terry
Of Arkansas sun clings to the gray clothes
he wore when sworn into the House three
years ago. Mr.. kigore of Texas Is all of
a color, from the toe of his pugilistic boot
to the tip of his pompadour gray hair, in a
suit of unbecoming gray.
That was a remarkable bouquet which
rested on the desk of the Hon. Timothy
Campbell Of New York on opening day.
wasting itI sweetness on the desert air,
as he did not put in an appearance to
Quets of flowers, formed into big mat
that covered the top of his desk. There
was a bunch Of white roses, which, in the
language of flowers, means Il am worthy
of you," Jacqueminot roses. mellow love-"
York and Lancaster roses. war" yellow
chrysanthemums, "slighted love-" And
" hite ones, truth" lilies, return of hap
piness; jessamine, transient joy" wild
daisies, II will think of it, ivy, friend
Ship and bunch of something, which
all the reporters said was a sheaf of wheat
but it wasn't. Populist wheat in Mr.. PEI
fers state may grow a beard like that on
the bunch in Mr.. CampbelPS bouquet, but
in New York it would be called plain bar
ley, and Mr.. Campbells constituents have
got its use down fine. In floral parance
barley means misery" Now, anybody who
wants TO make a case out of that could
round a very good one,