Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-19

THE DEpU TANTE
 tie more supple in the joints. Of course l can sec it all now, and with the deep p>t sorrow and romurse. Physically very attractive, and with long, 1.-the limbs, bright keen and merry eyes which danced with laughter. and especially at sono happy sally of mine own, full of mischief on a straw ride or molasses candy Scutllc rocking, as Imay say, with repHrtcc. with tho figure of an athlete, d well poised head and ;l deep melodiOuS voice. which would thrill tho very soul of a six mule team, l Was well fitted to shine in any social gathering, but the low price of wheat at the time, together with the loss of a COW during the win ter of lS64-5, followed by a heavy war debt and poll tax, combined to keep me out of society until years afterward.
 It is not surprising, therefore, now that at the magnificent receptions given hero this winter by the president and Mrs. Cleveland - to whom l desire, through these columns tO express my thanks for invitations to self and wife I havo a shy and reticenr atmosphere about mo which tempts me at times to flee as n bird to the mountains or to climb palm tree i'll the conservatory and be at rest
 do not speak of this because 1 wish to call attention to myself, but because my own case is only that of many Oth CTS and is tho outgrowth of our demo- cratic institutions which enable the young and ambitious American to rise by his own unnided efforts to the top of the social la(hlcr. where he suddenly dis covers that people of leisure are exam l ming him by means of these long han | dled spectacles.
 Some of the unpleasant critics said after tho diplomatic reception on the 10th of January that it was in rather poor taste for Mrs. Cleveland to go through tho two hours of state reception ungloved, but this shows the injustice peculiar to those people. They probably did not know that after her New Year reception her stained and begrimed gloves had to be cut from her hands.
 If Mrs. Cleveland could have pair of husking gloves, faced with carpet tacks, and wear them while shaking hands with tho critics it would please her con. stituents better than anything I can think of at this time.
 Looking at the beautiful decorations the other evening, the rich and bewil- dering effect of palms, smilax, roses and electric illumination, which made the parlors of the White House look like a sweet, sweet dream, could not help comparing it all with the days when | Ir,o ha~. s,, these rooms and the executive wood pile ran so low that the family had to go to bed tn keep warm, while outside the shy l cry of the catamount ill search of n new and tender postmaster could be heard.
 l Pennsylvania avenue was then a mud wallow and the stump puller moro pop ular than the stump speaker. Mrs, Adams coaid only get cord and hali of wood. and tho walls were still wet, There were no bells in the house and no mirrors When Mir Adams wished 10 police his face" as they say out vest, he had to go down stairs with q tir pail for hot water, strap his razor on 2 trunk strap and use the bottom of { new tin milk pan for n mirror.
 This was the day when tho baby re public was just beginning to sit up anC take notice. Now the full grown insti tuition wears trousers and does not g( to bed till after 10 o'clock.
 It has attained its majority and wear yellow shoes.
 By the way, paused yesterday at tn cornero of Pennsylvania avenue and Tcntl street to get a prosperous shine on Tn. common sense Jenness Miller shoes Just then q bright young blade cam , along, wearing pair of those lemon col ored shoes, and awaited his turn to hav ] them dealt with.
 The artist paused Q moment to look a . them and then remarked:
 ''I ain't got any stuff for them yalle shoes. You'll have to strike another DO ish lint somewhere else. v
 After the young man had gone sadl away the artist breathed heavily on III shoe, and it sounded like sigh. "Of course lied then," he said, "br we don't take to them bullet skin shoe none of us Youa .. you got to scru
 'em clean in the fir place. They're ger erally damp, so yoa have to put do lars worth of friction un 'Cm to get 'el } dry before you can polish em, and u dope we put on is expensive. A goo many of 'em are mighty cheap, too. an the feathers all sort of spongy. don !, reckon they'll be very poppler in a yei
 from now.
 ''They sny that last spring pairof 'eI
 got into the senate, but they called q
 extra session of the legislature in tn
 mans state and elected another man. :. ''How do you think Dan'l WehSt
 would have looked with feet like GU
 tard pie?'
 It is a good thing for one to spend d winter in Washington, especially d brighten up ones ideas of life and dres l. have had to get all new cloth :, throughout, l find, for my othercloth i, made me conspicuous. I had creases,
 course, in my trousers, but they we
 not in the right place.
 g So 1 had to discard my farm cloth
 in order to avoid being taken for