Evening star., 1901-05-25


| women! And they printed the most alb
! surd details illustrating" this jealousy
stories Of how notably affable and high
| hammered women in the most exclusive cir
| cles of the national capital had ''delfber-
| ately turned their backs" when the pair OF
| nice New York society women were pre-
sented to them. and all that sort OF slush,
! And 1t seems-according to one Of the sen
sational moo Iawks''-that the pair OF
| New York women took great umbrage over
| their treatment along toward the end Of
| tho social season In Washington so that
| when they were invited to a dinner dance
| at the home OF the wife OF a cabinet off,
| Ger. they both OF them appeared at the
| dinner In their street clothes and sat
| throughout the meal in their hats, Farti
| And they read this sort OF thing over here,
| and, worse, they believe IL, The paper that
| printed this story considered that the two
| New York society women did just right
so they did, in keeping their hats on at
| the dinner, and II printed a huge picture
| of them bending over their clans with tre-
| mendous hats. with noddng plumes on
| their heads. while women with dinner cos
| tunes sat aghast all around them. and II
as much as said that the thing just served
| the Washington women right for its treat
| ment of the New York women,
Don't Approve of Diplomats.
Another favorite hack that the New York
yellows take at Washington is administered
at the corps of diplomats stationed at the
| national capital. If one were to believe the
| accounts of these gentlemen that are percn-
| nially published in the sensational papers
| of New York he would be compelled IL
! regard them a sorry collection OF
| swtndlers and roysterers. They are IN
| fallibly portrayed Mephistophelean-
| looking chaps. long and lean. with very
much pointed mustachios and sardonic
| grins, and not infrequently engaged I'm
| bending over the chairs and settees OF
handsome young persons whose destruc-
| tion they are clearly contemplating. They
are pictured forth as pack of rum-crpzy
carousers, riding around in cabs and kick
| ing holes In the cab windows and inso-
| lently declining to pay any damages what
\ ever when brought before the desk OF the
| police station. They are represented as
walking up to Washington policemen and
planting Knockout blows on the chins or
| the same. Just because they know they 4
| are immune from arrest" as the yellows-
put 1t. They are blithely written up as
| getting unlimited thousands OF dollars
worth Of jewelry and-and- things from
| Washington tradesmen. politely refusing
| to settle up when they are recalled by then
governments and as kissing their hands
| satiricaly at the perspring tradesmen.
Awhile back an obstreperous coachman,
| driving diplomat through the streets OF
| Washington, declined to obey an officer who
ordered him to pull up and dashed the cop
with his whip. and ever since that time the
New York yelows. on the very smallest
| occasion, have been printing pictures OF
| Washington diplomats jehus attacking
| cringeing cops with Notwithstanding con-
| trivance5 that bear a shocking resemblance
|
device of the artist of the yellow sheet
| to picture diplomats carriages running
| over Washington citizens, with other cit
\ liens fleeing for their lives in the offrg.
| And the tremendous havoc that the yeliows
| cause the younger set of Washington dip
| lomatists to create in the f1uttering bosoms
| Of Washingtons debutantes-nay, in the
| less agitated bosoms of Washingtons older,
! firmly established social queens
Gambling I'm Warrington.
| Another fctinn of tha New
York yellows is that each and every homo
in Washington. especially the homes Of the
| aforesaid social queens" is a gambling
| hell" We are regaled with pictures OF
| sumptuous drawing rooms" in Washing
| ton. converted into Monte Carlos. not to
say Jackson Cities. on small scale
! There are the gorgeously attired-if some
! what decolette-"social queens" bending
over the tables with the gamblers glare
! in their eyes. stalking their ALL They are
| playing faro bank, it would appear-no cX-
allied female personage's education is con-
sidered complete in Washington. we are
given to understand until she has become
past mistress of the insidious art Of play
| ing faro bank. True, there are roulette
| wheels set up in some of these drawing
| rooms of famous Washington women, but,
| somehow or another, the roulette wheels
| appear to have less patronage-eXcept from
! the aforementioned Observation-Disclosures
| ing diplomats with the up-twisted mus
tachioS-than the faro tables. The social
queens are all for faro in the pictures.
Oddly enough, none Of them are represent
ed shooting craps in these double-pase
illustrations of articles describing Wash
ington's exclusive gambling hells.' but the
craps shooters Will appear in time, no
doubt.
"Staked Their ALL"
Off in corners of these pictures noble
looking. dress-coated youths gnawing their
finger nails, with expressions of extreme
despair on their faces, and our imasina-
NV
with the six-shooters they always carry
with them, out in the back yard, later on.
The texts accompanying these weird pic
lures relate horrifying stories of rich
young men seduced into stalking their an
that's one of the favorite phrases-on the
turn of a card" in the 'drawing-room
gambling hells" of these social queens or
Washington" and 1t would even appear
that such Sedate persons as members OF
Congress are frequently broken upon the
wheels of fortune that increasingly revolve
in the "gilded hells" OF leading society
women of Washington the very mention
of whose names would preciptate scandals
of international consequence-to follow the
verbiage of the saffrons. And Nnrah and
Bridget and Katie. below stairs in the New
York kitchens, not the only readers
of the yellows who believe this sort of
balderdash and set down Washington as
the most fascinatingly deviish community
this side of the western ocean,
Predict a Race War.
No black gin-sodden coal-cart driver OF
Washington ever tries to shoot Washing
ton cop that certain of the New York yell
lows do not shrekingly announce that a
| terrific race war is liable to break out In
Washington at any moment. They depict
the entire colored population of Washington
as arming themselves secretly for the in
evitable fray'-those are the words-and the
white citizens are exhibited covering in
corners. tremblingly awaiting the extinction
Of themselves and their families. The fears
of the yellows over the probable results
Of these race wars in Washington do not
prevent at least two of them from fire.
Quently publishing, on their editorial pages,
long, solemnly worded communications from
Dorsey Foultz. one Of the most prominent
citizens of the national capital'-as they
put it-on heavy matters OF current interest,
such as the method of capturing Agulnaldo.
and so on. These letters, being written by
Washington humoriStS and fired over mere
to the yellows, have time and again aroused
the risbilities of ex-Washingtonans exiled
for their sins to New York; but the obtuse
yellows go right printing them.
1t is fair to say that very little OF the
sensational rot printed In the New York