The times., 1899-12-08
NOT A PLEASANT PICTURE.
Washington's Treatment Of Mr.. and
Miss Roberts.
From the New York World.)

{FrOm the New ACFH " NOrId.l
Miss Adah L. Roberts, daughter of the
Representative-elect from Utah, is not
enamored of the East She had never been
further from her home than Denver be-
fore coming to Washington as her father
secretary and companion.
Her description OF the Capital and its
inhabitants will not make pleasing read
ing for those who boast OF Eastern Cul-
ture and refinement She thus describes
her experience:
In my home in Salt Lake City I was
a very unimpOrtant parsonage. 1 came
and went in the city. l visited through
out the State, went to Denver and other
places. and l was never regarded as a
freak or something to be stared at.
During my short stay in Washington
have been several times extremely EN-
barrassed. I have been followed on the
streets and snapshots have been tried at
me.
Time and again I have overheard the
rudest remarks concerning myself and my
father. In elevators, in the corridors Of
the Capitol, on the streets, I have been
made the subject of open comment as if
I were an object of exhibition.
These people seemed TO have no fear
that their remarks might be distasteful to
me. On the contrary l know that on
several occasions they were much gratiied
by the knowledge that heard and under
stood the significance of the jests.
Were I among the men of the West
not even the bitterest enemy Of my father
or of our cause would permit me TO be
so prosecuted. Men OF the style and
fashion OF the East do not flourish in
the West. There is a vigorous manhood
there which would not stoop 10 hurt
woman's feelings
Il believe il is customary TO say that
women delight in the sufferings of their
sisters Surely this proverb has grown
up in the East. ] am proud to say that
no matter how bitterly my sisters of the
West might oppose my father, or any
policy which he in part represented they
would never make me the victim. The
East is as different to me as foreign
country.
Il went into store the other day TO
purchase some necessities. When | gave
my address the polite interest Of the sales
people Immediately changed into seeming
conservation. The clerk who waited upon
me, after sending my bill 20 the Office
must have taken some Of the others in the
store into his confidence; at any rate it was
hardly a moment before / was the centre
OF a growing crowd.
Even the clerks OF the store asked
me impertinent and impudent questions,
The indecency of the behavior OF the
I Eastern people with whom ! have come in
contact is beyond description. II trans
cends all legitimate curiosity.
Our civilization is certainly different.
The human brotherhood is more strongly
marked and then there is vigor and asseT-
! tiou Of mauliness about Western manhood
/ which would make such things impossible.
A woman is something far more sacred in
my country than here.
| IF such things were to occur In he
( West there are big strong men out There
/ who would so impress a lesson on the
/ offenders that they would not offend again
| even if they were so dense and ignorant
/ that they did not understand the indie
/ cency OF their offenses.
i Notwithstanding all this which ] have