Show WA GRESSMEN their five anil and icara I 1 cars ago hen ben purely in liia his bobtail correspondence thus thui alludes allu lej to the alove alava tori topie five and twenty years abio afio there were beldam over giveand twenty con can grasman who brought their wives wires to and kept them there dw dar ing iko vl tu ault tile the senator sand representatives lually ally lived here in what they llcy callej called Ita oses from half a dozen to fifteen congenial a on genial spirits spirita woul boull 1 tilt take rooms at some board ing bouse with the understanding that no one else clao would be admitted find and the party thus thua formed a family fam ily circle in many of these messes ito DO ladles were tolerated while iu in others the he chief attraction was the wife of some eoma bonal Sc nilor or or representative who was virtually virtu ill elio tho was waa it to be wondered at that so many congressmen used to pass pisa tile the cacnio id fiket fi bt inz ini tho the tiger at somo some of ilonia comport bolt alile able gaming belli or in ci cirou als at tho the gorgeously fitted up UD near dear washington city cily was theo then an immoral city and matly many a fine intellect failed to preserve the owner arout temptation now wa a ays matters laatt era lave changed there aro are today in washington lorty forty five senators out of seventy two and ore hundred anil and six out of two hundred and thirty five who aro are accompanied by their wives wipes and sheso one ona hundred and fifty one wives wires of can pressmen exercise exercise a potent influence gambling and other I 1 w winch which it is ia not necessary to hero here once so common among anjool senators and representatives are arc no not t now openly practiced if bract iced at all by atay any of ahem about forty congressmen keel keep house and are arc benefited by the social influences of home while the others board at hotali or boarding house where agree alla circles are formed Ligh eighteen teen senators rind and teeny four kop have also a here with daughters who go into society others arc accompanied by female or frienda friOn fri endi Ji land thirty lave with eb ildren too tocayo young ungto to RO out so the successors of men laca who used ascii to pit ansa their evenings tit nt firo fire lank or poker tatlo table clort daughters to balla or remain at homo flown and frolio frolic with their children all thil his is ii a decided change for the tha better |