The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-07-18

Men--Some Eccentricities.
From the Washington Star.
Homespun has obtained the approval
of congress for summer wear. Tom
Reed appears day after day in full suit
of il. and he leads the fashion always as
70 hot-weather costume in the house.
Nearly half the representatives have
adopted the material to greater orsc
extent. 1t is a sort of towelling, made
of flax grown in Kentucky and Ten
uessee. 1t is very coarse and nj yer wears
ont. Before the war it was considered
only good enough for negroes, slaves
being commonly dressed in it. Though
scarcely pretty it is very cool. The web
of it is so loose that the breezes blow
freely through.
The big man from Maine makes no pre-
tense to fashionable tttire in the ordinary
sense of the word. The leaders of the
house in that respect are Gen. Bingham,
of Philadelphia, and Maj. Franklin Bart
lett of New York. Those two cities
send the best dressed men to congress
usually. Naturally the rule does not in
variably apply. Tim Campbell looks
like farmer with white tie. John
Clancy,lof Brooklyn, is costumed in THE
style of the Bowery boys of 1850-double
breasted frock coat, high white hat in
summer and very tight pantaloons with
a ''fne fall over the boot" Clancy has
what he calls nice leg and he likes to
show it.
One of his friends from the Quaker
city dropped into see Gen. Bingham at
the house day or two ago. He remark
ed that Washington was new to him and
that he wanted TO be introduced to the
town. Shaping him on the shoulder,
the genial Philadelphia congressman,
paraphrasing Beau Brummel, replied:
''My dear fellow, will make you ia
NOUS will walk down Pennsylvania
avenue with you twice."
ONE OF THE WORST DRESSED MEN.
One of the worst dressed men in the
house is Stevenson, of Michigan, the mil
lionaire lumberman. To look at him
one would suppose he hadn't dollar in
the world. Just at present he wears
t'hickory shirt" and suit of pepper and
salt that could not possibly have cost
more than 81. Other men come to con-
gress from far away with strange cloth
ing and perhaps hayseed in their hair,
yet take hint from fashions at the cap
ital and spruce up a bit. There is Meik-
lejohn, from Nebraska, for example. He
arrived with cowhide boots and "pants
tucked into them. Now he wears a
long tailed Prince Albert, runset shoes
and trousers with creases in them. On
the other hand, style has no seductions
for Bryan of the same state, who clings
to the forbidden combination of light
coat and dark pants.
During the last two congresses The
position of dude of the house has been
vacant. Now, happily, it has been oc-
cupled by Quigg of New York, who parts
his blonde hair in the middle and smokes
cigarettes. He is the youngest member
and is very breezy. Coming from an ed
itorial writership on the Tribune, he
does not hesitate to tackle anything. 1t
was great fun the other day to see him
argue a difficult legal point with Judge
Culberson of Texas, who IS the greatest
lawyer in congress since Edmunds has
left.
r:1McEttrick, of Massachusetts, was the
first man in the house this summer to
appear in warm weather garb-straw
hat, striped negligee shirt, dark alpaca
coat, striped pantaloons with cinch strap
and loose flowing tie. Cogswell from
the same state, tries to keep cool by
wearing no Waistcoat. His sack coat,
with Loyal Legion button on the lapel,
is thrown open and discloses half an
acre or so of white shirt front, He is
stout man, and every now and then
somebody mistakes him for Grover
Cleveland. Then he uses swear words.
Boutelle of Maine finds relief in seer
sucker suit-the real material, made
from kind of grass that grows in In
dia.
But, after all, the coolest looking rep
resentative is Gen. Harmer of Philadel-
phia. He wears white duck trousers
and a we'll fitting black sack coat.
Though more than 70 years of age his
hair and mustache ore raven black. His
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