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OUR BAB IN washington she likes liades I 1 the he N streets fre ets the alic darkies and Is ii happy A WOMANS IDEA OF A MEAN MAN MAH dressing after the cloers Plo ers A symphony in vale blue A word for tho the of washington rah ih would like to 0 n a colored Col oreil daby tho the of the capital bonic july it 14 1801 1891 pid did you ever tra ea on oil a railroad pass I 1 did once arid and although other railroads may so say to me come to us at reduced prices do dodou ou know I 1 am quite lione honest S t and honorable enough to keep on paying I 1 uy ray tare fare on tho the railroad that thai once gave tile iro it a pits pass ninino 0 af A PASS at this time than of t the lie year I 1 am always h onest honest find and I 1 may at as well toll tell the truth tire pats pass was not hot meant for mo me it was s for or somebody else but that somebody else clie living hiving a pocketful of passes said why pay and I 1 said because I 1 cant got out of it und and this pass was hurled at me and I 1 rodo rode ninety miles tor for nothing arid and I 1 felt fell as if I 1 owned the road as if I 1 were director and president and all tho the N lees ices that aro are included lit in that thiet and tho the con consequence Is when I 1 am going any place even it if the other road Is nearer I 1 still go on oil the road on which 1 I once had a pass and pay viny my way in tho the brI chest and most shining ducats dubats you over ever saw I 1 think the difference between getting a past pass for the theater and a pass for a railroad 1 Is that after ou oil have onee once had A pass for tire the theater ou on gocr nov or want to pay and after you once have had a pass over the railroad you always want to stick slick to that road because you foot feel it his been extra civil to you hile tho the theater his only dono done its duty funny iti it THE 1 HOMAK oaias oli 0 A E I 1 think tho the most visions thing living I 1 ever saw lit in all my life Is a woman on a bicycle and washington Vas hington Is 14 full of them t had thought that thai cigarette smoking was tho the worst thing a woman could do to but I 1 have changed my mind I 1 dont know why I 1 think it Is villous lt it Is just one of those things that I 1 cannot explain but if I 1 hall had a boy i who he was going to lobe be mai married ried and ho he came caino to lu me and said 11 mother JOL hor she Is the nicest girl ili the world and kho an rifles a bicycle with me I 1 should say 1 I forbid the bans and I 1 should get gel up in a church and nd do it arid and I 1 would bo be tho the worst mother ln in law thill that ever lived until the bicycle was broken you dont like it my friend any more mora than I 1 do irmay see seem to you jaunty it may look to you yen charming coquettish but I 1 duurt it but how would you like to see your mother ride a bicycle or how would you like to sea your grandmother ride a bicycle dont you think it Is just making her a little less it if she 1 Is young ellough to bo be called minnie dont doia you think it Is waking making hor a little less swoot sweet it if shri Is culled called lily arid and dont you think it Is taking away a bit from tier dignity if you call her dorothy hy I 1 know oil do you fan call imigine a girl who for fun you call jack bortow or boiu or dic dick on oil a bicycle but not a woman oil would want ant to kneel down before and say say bless me before I 1 go out into tile the you car can ask that 0 of a woman ho has committed a won lonians womans ians follies but you cannot ask it of t he woman whom you lino hao soon seen in a divided kart on a bley bicycle 10 oil noi 1101 4 t couie coui e tills this what C you and I 1 think but after all what you arid and I 1 think aud what hat onto fomo 0 other liver womans comans husband thinks ail and I 1 whit bat till nil the rest think Is what after lilt all decides vi what hat Is right and wrong in ili the lao world TIM THE bL HOH OMEnS tho the latest jad among smart women Is to dross dress after a flower it seems to you an daiy easy something that is because you are a aman man ll it Is because of your experience por lence lit in trousers waistcoats bl beater ater and white shirt fronts now dressing after a flower means having your underwear match it ft having your gown tile tho sanio same line hue having your bonnet ne t trimmed with the flowers using rising alwa ys the imo simo s flower and having your parasol in bar mony arid and slippers that aro are at least near hear it if they aro not the exact color I 1 know two women onion 1 who have gono gone in ili for it ono one has mail made 0 up her mind that slid will dross dress always us a v met always me meaning a ning for tile the summer suma I 1 e time arid and the other kotlier as a forget nid in d not they aro are lilt mato friends ind and drie together anti and lite pale blue and the pale maue mako make the latest french contrast the violet young bonan has cb hiff ilTon on china bilk ilk or crepe gowns of pala lolet trim trimmed tried wl with th white A ill ta or mack blac k lac lari P us as the she mity may fancy a little coronet bonnet made biado of violets with avith a star J just vs t in ili front that Is of jet that sparkles almost like black diamonds iler her parasol Is pale violet silk ellk fill ahlo point laco face butterflies on it tier her gloves are arc violet undressed kid and tier her are of violet undressed kid arid and elio eho wears palo pale violet dalk stockings for under underwear slin has hai violet bilk vests 1 clet brocade cor corsets sots and a petticoat of white livion linen town lawn tied with N lolet folet ribbons tho the perfume silo sho lilies goll Is that wondrous von drous ono one which like real lobuts not hot hothouse violets but those that thai hive have como come from tho ho woods and filled tire the air with an odor that Is as aa alki ful at as it Is indescribable A 11 it PALE biluk tho the pythias to thia damon Is gowned golwas in palo bille blie bho wears gruy gray silk moc stockings kIngs gray undressed kid still aill I 1 rs lite lawn oat tied back with wua blue ri bbous blue illk ilk voal vest and blue brocade stays cpr bonnet Is as dur as only a forget can call be it Is a 1040 fitting lil II 11 UK ono one of chip like that faired by tire princess of wales vales mid and has forgot lne ino noab jutt just in front while tho the gloves are of ahito kid hid and the parasol of white crepe sone none of their adorers send them but forget me bots nots or bolets orchids are cast htide agildo in disdain robes aro are nowhere where and each woman feels that unless she 6 can 11 live e in harmony with her flower ufa life in ab absolutely q not worth tile the trouble to r mf way ol 01 thinking tho oung vio MO man who is lie selects elects a rose roae as her typical lower flower will have a much easier time of it because roses bloom all the oar ear round coltts havo a short season aca ion and forget me nots bots only last rl month or two queer ita it A goon COOT DRINK rolt FOIL BUlI FR II 11 li an easy ahing in this world to some people to forget it seems as if a groat sponge of the present came and blotted out everything of tile the past except the disagreeable arid and somehow that thai always lives wit with them TAY my friend it wo want to got rid 0 that wo han got to stop looking backward arid and ojust just look forward wo we want a glass of champagne wo want a glass of hope and after wo we have haio gotten absolutely full ot of hope vo can got get along well hope Is abood a good medicine ine dicine iniss it Is a good drink and it Is a good stay for ono always whether ono be a man or woman or ghost atall LIKES THE but to return to washington which I 1 I 1 ich wish I 1 could do dont aou ou think that tho the lord was good when lin created the darkles darales dar kles I 1 do it ilia Is not a question of politics with mo me it a question of anything with mo lite but pure pura like I 1 do if like ke them because they haye been good to nio thoy they always ro remember member mo me and I 1 would give more for or a smile and how bow dye from an honest dark face than I 1 would tor for tho the superficial greeting of french garcon who Is looking fo or r I 1 his I 1 tips from the stolid i who he wonders how much you are worth or from rom the iho g arry y italian who Is not quite cerl certain alMo whether ther ho he approves of 0 you or not I 1 liko like to come here arid and have them smile at mo me and remember w hit I 1 like to eat and know my as name in and I 1 feel eel like saying 1 I am glad when III tho 0 loid mado made man and embraced woman by bv the man iuan that ha be made colored people because I 1 was nursed in the arms of 0 one arid and they have always been alond to me and whet whether berthe tho people in tho the white house are arc republicans or democrats colored people can no more help being friendly to anybody they like than hall a lookingglass looking glass glas can help reflecting the cross or tire tho pleasant face ace that you put before it you rise up in a very dignified manner and say bab Is prejudiced I 1 perhaps I 1 am then again por haps you are I 1 have always felt elten in my heart of hearts that I 1 would LIKE LI he TO OWN OW A COLORED B k BY they look no matter how young they are arc as if they know everything in ili tile the world as it if they could tell you the secret ot of tile sphinx which aich Is to so jealously guarded and as if cleopatra and marlo maria stuart and catherine berala and lillie langtry and all the wonderfully beautiful women were as nothing to them they look as it if they had seen everything in life here and as if they could give you a full account of heaven arid and tire the other place if they do not like ou ell aby put out their hands toward Y you a t it if to bay 11 go away ou are of 0 no use n and if they do like you they put out both arms they show whatever tooth they have got and there Is a wonderful smile or the face that seems reems to siy say I 1 am over ever so glad you have come and I 1 hope belie 3 ou oil will stay 11 hen ican see even tills this much in them do you wonder onder that I 1 want to buy a colored baby the rho colored baby Is one of the charms of washington another Is that you go right tiler the streets and feel lor for once in ili your life 1110 AS it ou oil ti were ere in a civilized town in ili new york 0 wo o have a lot of cobble tones tone ton on which are cats who have hava known all of life and are moro more than dead dirty piece of paper I 1 marketing that nobody wants and bl may liae have happened to baso flown flon out of tho dut dust cans calls but in NV washington ashington you ride over a smooth smooth pa pavement vemont kept clean and therefore ion oil give special thanks THE of IP washington I 1 dont know exactly what hat the gov government at Is Is whether it Is tho the president who A he runs it or ali whether ther the people have tile the care of it or whether the obliging darky who sits up on oil the box or seat anil and tells hills ion hath Is mr maines ISla luos house where here tho chinese embassy 1 arid and fifth is tire the british legation and where a mighty beautiful brandful lady used to live arid and hero a gentleman who 0 ns a newspaper bought a lovely playground and builta built a little house that his bis children might have a good time tima in it 1 1 confess I 1 dont know who runs ito it wit but whoever those thoo p pavements vernon IS ought to write it 11 leltie to mayor grant a and 1111 all the hie rest of the tammany ring eing and nd in vito them to come on oil and see w what bat pave merits menu are like that la is 0 I 1 upon which gentle folk are suppo supposed iono t to O drive Sonjo Soi nobody body could collid give thorn points I 1 dont know but it seems to me they might tind lind out if thoy they made a a 8 amount ol of inquiry jo it Is a mighty mean man mail who 1 wont t have a good in tile the city but then there are lots of moan mean men in tho the world hul but not its as many mem men as thoro there are moan mean t w onion IV bat Is f a mean man mail urn ing or OF A MAX MAN well he N isa a mean incan man who he does not give the woman who ito hears his name quite half of the money lie ho earns carns lie Is a mighty moun meun man who does docs not let his women folk folic see sonic some of 0 tile the pleasures of 0 life who does docs not nol let them their know what A hat fun full at the theater Is and a aho dues duct not food feed sherston th erston on whatever hat oer a they want ant whether it Is ice fee creavin cream or champagne lie is isa a mighty mean man who does not lot a appreciate a woman when ben she Is doing tier best to him film with fill til all the ibo odds against tier her us as they generally are lit he is a mighty mean mail who be cannot say nay a kind word or two mi as tic ha ments meets with sever other man or who alio Is a filand of bers because kind words do not cost him oue cout cent lie ii 14 a mighty olean mean man wil alio a dont like dour our friends if le ito likes you to bo be absolutely absolu loly honorat I 1 think ho he 14 1 a mighty mean man mail ail ull the way ay through lio ho la Is not just usa as good and jut just AS sweet air and just as generous anti and just as chat living arid and just at a to lovely ply us as can call bo be am I 1 going for all the iho mon men no j thorn there aru are tuu too things that I 1 stand bland by I 1 three things four things three of the lite hum ill and id lobel liobel lion lien and the fourth Is mankind man kind but I 1 am ni just giving thorn a little tip as to what a mean mail can be and I 1 know lie he wont bo be that for tho the sake ol of his liter dally cally BAT BAB |
