Evening star., 1898-07-08
GUESTS OF THE CITY.
Ardent and Eager Trainers of the
Youthful Mind.

BY their badges ye shall know them
Them means the trainers of the shoot
Ing ideas of young America-the women
and men whose intellects and energies are
ali directed toward the enlightenment OF
the nations children. Many of these men
and women past the prime of life, nav
ing grown gray IN the service By far the
larger number are young, however, ana
most of them are making their first visit
10 Washington. They are ardent and eager
alike. They are proud of the section OF the
nation from which they come, and don
mind telling you Lest you may not
stop them and make the iAquiry, they wear
badges shat he who runs may read
Michigan has a white ribbon. with the
. American and Cuban flags lovingly en-
twined the while ribbon bearing the name
of the badger state. Old Massachus~ It's,
with her Plymouth Rock, sends monster
delegation. decked out with Boston baked
bean pots. her historic state house and
small representations of the historic rock.
Kansas pedagogues wear plain yellow
ribbon of the richest hue with the name
of the state in plain black letter.
The yellow is for wheat and corn.
said Prof. OIin of the University of Kansas
Now we stand complete-first in corn, first
in wheat" he added, quoting from a Kan
sas poet. When you find a Kansas man or
woman in the crowd, you find state BOOM
er. 1t seems to be in the blood
California teachers wear tri-color and
golden bear. Vermont has a sprig of green
on neT pretty pdugeS, W lScONSln wears d
canary yellow badge. with the name in
black letters, and so il goes You can
place a guest of the city almost instantly
If you but look at his decorations.
The Capitol was the focal point this
morning. Congress being about to ad-
Journ. the visitors feel that half the pleas
ure will be gone if the two great bodies of
law makers cannot be seen in session 1t
was feared that Speaker Reed would not
be present. and the expression of disap-
pUintment was keen.
I'D rather see Mr.. Reed than anybody
else i'll Congress exclaimed one ardent
school ma rm.
Why he is just a man." remarked a
man in the party. - don't admire him"
.-Pigmies seldom admire giants" was the
cutting rejOinder, and the man didn't cheep
for five minutes
The regular process of trying the
Speakers chair kept it whirling till it near
" had a hot box. The remarks on it
were often comical A tiny mite of organ
died wUmanhOod settled herself back in it
and said, with long-drawn breath, 'Lfy!
l wonder if Tom wins his shoulder straps
in Cuba if he mighten't get TO be Speaker
some day.
Another woman was surprised that the
chair was not more capaciOUs The men
tried that chair, too. and a youthful sprfs
from Nebraska, with a good head on his
shoulders and the chin OF a Napoleon, Eaid
to his chum:
Ten years from this fall l propose t. be
elected a member of this House from the
second Nebraska congressional district.
One old gentleman who looked a ghost Of
the past in his prim attire, and with his
antique manners, looked over the House
somewhat sadly. He wore no ribbons save
that Of the medal of honor. and he would
not give his name OF state.
Il am loOker-on only, he said. Forty
five years ago l was page here. 1 won
this, touching his ribbon, and d captains
straps. at Gettysburg. I've just been over
that battlefield. Now, l have come to look
over this House. Of which ] was a member
twenty-five years ago. 1 just begin to rea-
old
Old before my time And he turned away,
apparently overcome by meditations not al
together pleasant There were many of the
visitors at the Capitol who had not been
here since the war. They were oyerwhelm-
ed at the gigantic strides that Washington
has made since then.
The street cars were crowded with jolly
parties OF school teachers who were doing
the sights alone. Some of these western
born and bred men and women know more
about the real history Of Washington than
people who retail it at so much an hour
a guides.
one OF these bright young girls turned a
Capitol guide down very neatly. He was
getting of his story very carelessly and
was corrected on his data two or three
times Finally one OF the teachers said, i'm
patiently:
Here 1 didn't come here to teach pri-
mary class Of one. and pay for il myself.
Let me- have your badge and I'll tell you a
story that isn't garbled." "
The monument was stormed as early as
s O'Clock, and big crowd awaited the first
elevator The departments were thronged.
The mail had brightly dressed groups of
young people by the time the gates were
opened. and many parties took their break
f2sts and ate them from lunch boxes out
under the trees in the parks.
The Senate galleries were bright with
many -hued organdies, ribbons and silks all
day. The comments or the grave and rev.
erend gentlemen Nere often most comical
Hanna, the venerable Mr.. Morrill,. Mr..
WOcJtt, and Senator Stewart were the
most inquired for. In the House Mr.. Cous-
irs of Iowa Mr.. Grow of Pennsylvania
Mr. Bailey, Speaker Reed and Mr.. Dingley
were asked for most often. Mr.. Cousins
was often voted "a darling" which shows
that school teachers have up-to-date ideas
about statesmen.
Taking the teachers as a whole, they are
q bright. patriotic, pushing, going-to-get-
there lot They seem quite up to date on
every subject. and don't propose to let any
thing get away from them.
Mrs Peters. wife Of Representative Pet
ers OF Kansas. will entertain the Kansas
teachers and Kansas people in Washing
ton Monday evening at her home. near 10th
and l. streets northwest. Mrs. Peters is a
graduate Of Wellesley and a lady OF rare
culture and refinement.
The University of Kansas is represented
by Prof. Olin. one Of three brothers, all OF
whom stand high among educators. Prof.
Olin is an ardent wheelman. and is divid-
ing his attention between the sessions of
the educational congress and stealing hours
from sleep to glide over the smooth asphalt
pavements on the silent steed."
Miss Helen w Ball of Lawrence, Kan.
represents the second largest Indian school
in the country. Haskell Institute. where
she has been an instructress for ten years,
Miss Ball is also mistress OF the art pre-
servative being a practical printer and is
sole editor of the Indian Helper the or
gan of Haskell. bright sheet. filled with
quaint stories and incidents of Indian life
Miss Ball is the guest of her sister Mrs
Isabel Worrell Ball
Electric fans in the National Theater
would probably make IL more comforta bic
for sweltering humanity
Mr.. Webster Davis gave some of the
teachers a sly dig last night when he asked