The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-30
WASHINGTON LONG AGO
Impressions Made Upon a Visitor
TO the City in 1910.
Fia1tering Tribute To the Feminine
Portion of the POpGIation-NearIy
irish OrigIn-The sIgE of n snddIcr
and Its Destruction by VaudaI.

Description of the Territory of Column
bia-" is the ti,Ie OF little book which
was published in Paris in the year 1916
The author of the volume was the late D.
B. vs. den The population Of the Terri
tory G Columbia in 1910 is given as "a
o23. At OF the city OF Washington as
gees. n the year 1890 the population Of
The District, according 20 the author, was
1868
n another part the author says: Near
y oae-haH OF the population of Washing
ton is of Irish origin. The laboring class
is chiefly Irish. and many Of them have no
acquaintance with the English language
They have cut The canal, made and repaired
The streets. and executed most Of the man
ual labor Of the city
In one Of the streets OF Washington
We observed a sign board with the follow
ing Inscription: Peter Rodgers. saddler,
from the green fields OF Erin and tyranny
10 the green streets OF Washington and
liberty See Copenhagen; view the seas,
It's ell hIockade-'tis all abIaze. The seas
shall be free-Yankee Doodle, keep it up"
1t appears thai this saddler is a native
Of Cork from which ne vas banished at
the age Of seveuty-fve for no other req
son, as he states, than that Of having worn
a green HoiOTed coat. ard vented signs for
his dear native country This sign board
was attacked by some malicious hand. and
the poor old man. deeply mortified at this
outrage in land of freedom. published
his complaint in tie National Advertiser
Offering dollar lii was all he possessed).
as reward for bringing the offender TO
Justice
Speaking Of female society of Washing
ton, the author says:
The state of female society at Wash
ington does great honor to the sex. They
have been accused OF sacrificing too
much TO the empire Of fashion. but as we
have not been able to verify the extent of
this tribute, 1t would be dangerous 20 de-
eide On so delicate a subject. They are
certainly superior women generally high
ly gifted in mental, as they are adorned
with personal. endowments- They have
hitherto wtthstood the iamentable raw
ages which art and luxury have in other
great cities produced upon the sex.
There is an evil however. which is
deeply lamentable. II is natural to love
those who are made to be loved; and no
sooner do the young ladies of Washington
arrive at the hubble state than they give
their hand to some wooing stranger. or
member of Congress. who carries them
OF in triumph to his distant home The
young citizens, who have been daily coz
templating the regular advances Of these
shoots into perfection, disappointed in
their ardent intentions, sigh and exclaim
mot without reason) against the corrup-
tion Of the times, against family interest
and an unnatural and disheartening pref
erence to foreigners. Washington thus
resembles a nursery, whose fine plants are
annually transported to foreign and less
congenial soil
In cities and towns the motives to
marriage are not so strong as in the
country; and, on this account, members of
Congress have the advantage When the
author of The Enquiry Into the Nature
and Causes OF the Wealth of Nations
wrote hat admirable work in 1776 it ap-
pears taat a young widow in North Amer
lea with four or five young children, was
considered as a kind of fortune The
value of children he observes, was the
greatest of all encouragements to mar
rage
This is no longer the case, as is evil
dent from the increasing number Of bach
elors. and of window frames of a certain
color. which they readily recognize How
far preferable the sweet Illusion Of moral
lovei With all our prediction for the
Columbian fair, We have seen with regret
amcng the ladies of Washington, fond
ness for play. that bewitehing passion
which extinguishes the best sentiments
of the heart and creates a dislike TO every
pleasant or useful occupation. When In
dulged in from motives OF gain the vio-
Ience of hope. fear and other worse pas
sions changes the very features in ef-
facing thu divine impression of the fe-
male cou5. ,enance which is so often ire
sistible.'