The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1905-04-21
TWO LEADING AMERICAN
CITIES.
WASHINGTON.

Women ride bareheaded and in
evening gowns to receptions, dinners
and to the theatre in street cars.
| The bars shut at midnight. That
doesn't mean five minutes past twelve
but twelve sharp.
Everybody dimes with everybody
else. Nobody eats at home unless he
is given dinner party. There is but
one fashionable caterer. The walters
get to be old and familiar friends be-
fore the season is over.
The street cars run two together.
The first car is heated and the second
car is cold. Take your choice.
No white man gets up in street car
to give black woman seat, and no
black man gets up to give a white
woman a seat, but every white man
gets up when a white woman comes
into crowded car, and so does every
black man when a black woman comes
in. No woman has to be a strap
hanger.
No mail delivery on Sunday, but
everybody can go to the postoffice be-
tween 10 and II and get his let
ters.
There are half dozen public mar
kets. Every woman who keeps house
does her own marketing.
Everything goes by precedence.
The butler of Cabinet Minister is
greater social parsonage at servants
ball than the butler of an under.sec.
retary.
Everybody knows everybody else.
Everybody also knows about the af-
fairs Of everybody else.
Most of the department people have
dinner at $40 o'clock in the afternoon
1t used to be o'clock. When the
President ordered the government
clerks to work until 4.30 he disarrang-
ed the domestic arrangements in sew
eral thousand homes.
Everybody goes to church on Sun
day. A man who hasn't plug hat
and tail coat is social outcast.
You can buy six street-car tickets
for quarter.
All the bars sell apple toddy. They
keep the roasted apple in q big bowl
on the bar, alongside of the Tom and
and Jerry and the eggnog bowls.
Everything is done by influence.
When q government employe says
"My influence is dead" he or she says
the saddest words that can fall from
Washington tongue or pen.
Snow is never cleaned off the side
walks along the government parks
and reservations. Congress will not
vote the money.
There is but one morning for a
population of nearly 100000.
Free omnibuses start from the cen
tire of the town to take people over in
to Virginia and Maryland to the pool
rooms. There isn't gambling room
in Washington.
All the hotels and saloons put out
their free lunches at 4.30. That is
the time the departments let out.
There are three hanson cabs. These
were vinted before the war. Some
days it seems as if there were mil.
lion automobiles.
Old negro women peddle lily hom'
my" from house to house.
Old negro women are the laun-
dress. They take their bundles Of
washing home in old baby-carriages.
BALTIMORE.
They yodel of the aproned "charing
fine oyle" (oysters) man is not the
most delightful music Tor the late
riser. It is a welcome substitute,
however, for Scrabble"
Many sparrow is eaten for reed.
bird and only the connoisseur can tell
the "Slider" from the diamond
back.
Eyes, indeedy," betrays the native
Baltimore girl.
A walk through Lexington Market
on any market morning will give a
glorious appetite to the dyspeptic Wis.
itor accustomed to buy his food from
stores.
The City Hall was built within the
appropriation. After its completion
surplus was turned back into the
city treasury. This example OF
"graftless" municipal building is be-
lieved to be without parallel.
The very first thing the Johns Hop
kins University authorities are con-
structing at Homewood Park, the
new home of the university, is the
athletic field.
"My, but you have lot of rivers
here" saws the visitor unfamiliar with