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Show which Department Clerk Haywood buna Tip In the trees. This eccentric but practical prac-tical gentleman has contrived to make his stranKe dwelling place earn him asnutf little income. One must pay twenty-five cento to climb the stairs which lead to the vestibulo of niry castle, or to the dancing plutforui, thirty feet feet above the ground, which is so popular amoug the young people peo-ple of the neighborhood. Many visitors stop to see this tree habitation iu the midst of civilization, and Master liny wood smiles to himself and reflects that he is not as big a crank as folks think him. Another road out to tho country house whk'h the Clevelands made famous lies through old Georgetown, the quaint village vil-lage which Is now a part of Washington, but which was a thriving city long before Washington had been conceived in the brain of tho Father of His Country. This route, which is traversed nightly by huni dreds and sometimes by thousands of carriages, car-riages, leads by several landmarks which all strangers insist upon seeing. These are the Shoroham hotel, owned by Vice President Presi-dent Morton; the ruins of the house in which the wife nnd daughter of Secretary Tracy lost their lives; the Church of the Covenant, the presidential church, the British aud Chinese legations, the Hearst mansion, the chateau of Senator Sawyer and the old cemetery in Georgetown in which repose tho remains of so many notables. nota-bles. Arriving at Ouk View the visitor is a little surprised to find that the famous villa in which Mrs. Cleveland passed her honeymoon is not very much of a house after all, and that it has been plowed and gouged all round by the workmen who are creating a new suburban, town. Hero and there along tho road the strangers and the throngs of pretty department girls out driving with their admirers see big Bigns which rend: CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, j ; Former Suburban Residence of I I GROVER CLEVELAND, ! Ex-Preident of tho United States. I , LOTS FOR SALE, j The next popular drive in the environs of Washington is the road which leads to Glen Echo, the villa town iu which tho ladies of President Harrison's household have bought lots. This is about seven miles up the Potomac, and the road skirts that picturesque stream all tho way. As yet there is nothing at Glen Echo but a hotel, a novel sort of structure made entirely of ccdur, in rustio style. Here a dinner is surved every evening, both ina largedining hall overlooking tho river and in a number of privato dining rooms, each a little pagoda pa-goda of rough cedar logs. Hundreds of gent lemen and ladies drive nut there in tho cool of the evening, and hero again the de- fiartmont girl is seen at her best. A popu-nr popu-nr conveyance is tho big tally-ho which curries passengers for a dollar apiece, with the music of the horn thrown in, and this tally-ho gives us tho best of evidence of tho democratic nature of our people and their customs. Sitting on top of this swaggering swagger-ing vehicle, bowling over the country as fast as six spirited horses cau draw it, I have seen senators and their wives side hy side with young men and young women who earn $1,400 or $l,t!00 a year h clerks in the treasury or Interior department. The potent chairman of a congressional committee com-mittee invites for a ride on the tally-ho and a little dinner at the Glon Echo cafe, which the llurrisoiis . have mado so famous, a pretty department girl who, perchance, is front his state. He finds that lie has for a neighbor in the cross country ride the clerk of Iris committee, who, ns like as not, bos as guest for tho evening the daughter of a cabinet .officer or senator. And they all have a good time together, and we realize that this Is a republic of equality, and that love and the thirst for pleasure make all the world kin. Next to tho roads which an ex-presldent and a president's family have popularized the one most in favor is that which leads to Arlington cemetery. It is most patronized patron-ized by elderly people, and it is no uncommon uncom-mon thing to see u string of carriages a milo long crossing the Aqueduct bridge on this route, every other vohicio contuluing a sober looking, mature man with a Grand Army badge on his coat. On the way to Arlington is a deep, narrow volley, through which n little stream runs, and where the trees aud verdure are almost tropical in their luxnriousness. When tho carriage enters tl: valley a welcome current of cold air, like that which comes from a well filled refrigerator, is encountered. Here the summer sun never penetrates, and here tho refreshing coolness, and tho springs which everywhere gusli from tho ground at the feet of old trees, invite young and old to tarry. Scores of pretty drives like these are to he found in the environs of this favored city, and the pretty department girl knows every one of them. Hobert Graves. THE DEPARTMENT GIRL. Uncle Sam Has Many Gay and Vivacious ' Helpers from the Banks of the Gentler Sex, DEIVES NEAE THE CAPITAL CITY. The Women Who Work for the Government Govern-ment are Both Good Looking and Good. Special Correspondence.! Wasihsotox, Aurr. 11. Tho wife of a prominent ofikial. who has bnd much experience ex-perience in Washington society, where one sees all sorts of people, said to me the other dny: "Tho brightest and most interesting women in Washington are the department giris. 1 linve often thought that if I were n man, and were going to pick out a wife, 1 would want one of these women who have worked for a few years for Uncle fcani. They are women whoso characters liavo become settled, who aro practical without being sordid, and whose minds have some solid, enduring cultivation. Contrast these working women with the mere devotees of society, tho idle women ; who ure supported by their husbands in such luxury that even common household . cares aro not theirs, and it is the working woman who profits by the comparison. To my mind tho face of a society woman in ' time begins to reflect her mode of life. It lacks character, repose, deflniteiiess of ex- pression, becomes doll-like and dull. The . department woman has rubbed enough ; against the world to havo the silliness taken out of her. She is no longer romantic, foolishly sent imentii V At the same time she preserves all her refinement and womanly ' softness, for the work is not hard nnd tho . associations are pleasant, To my not ion the . departments in Washington make the Ideal , place for a woman to work in, It does me . good to walk through the great buildings and see such a large number of bright and happy young women earning their own 1 living, and helping their families along. - They dress well, behave well and look liko r women who know how to take care of , themselves, qualified to assume almost any responsibility in life. Some of these women are old, and not a few of them ' are maidens of such few charms and so many years that they will never marry, but 1 challenge you to find a greater num-. num-. her of really pretty women out of a like , number in uny walk of life than I c.tn show you in tho treasury or the interior department, or any other of our big hives ' of governmental industry. Stop Itito the corridors of the treasury department, for Instance, at luncheon time, and note the ; , women who pass you by, Nearly all are . simply but sweetly dressed, and make a , - ' Icaleldoscopo of pretty pictures in their i light summer fabrics. Nearly all wear " Sowers, too, indicative of homo lifu and of the country. As a mutter of fact," this observing society woman went on, "a large number of . our department people aro moving out to the suburbs of tho city and acquiring little homes of their own, . They, aro saving from their meager salaries, anil; the hours which they are required to keep at their work, 0 in tho morning till 4 in tho afternoon, give them ubundunt leisure for going uud coming. "Whenover I hear of a man picking a wife from tho department I feel like congratulating con-gratulating him. Now, thero is Mr. Jones, of The St. Louis Republic. Ho has just married and gouo away to Kurope with Mrs. Parsons, one of tho prettiest women of the census bureau. Mr, Jones inis mude great success of his paper. Ho came north from Florida a few years 4igo, und has won both fume and fortune 1 hear that Bomo of his friends here, senators ami members of tho house, endeavored to dis-Buade dis-Buade him from marrying Mrs. Parsons because sho was a department woman. They thought Bho was not good enough for him, did not have asocial station equal to his. As a woman who admires tho department de-partment girls und believes iu them I am glnd Col. Jones was not influenced by his friends. I well remember when Senator McDonald, of Indiana, married a clerk in one of the departments. His friends mado an effort to interfere, jut as Col. Jones' friends did. Hut I'll venture that Mr. Mo-Donald Mo-Donald has never been sorry that ho put all the advice of liis would bo friends behind be-hind him. Mrs. McDonald was and still is one of tho loveliest women in America. I visited her not long ago in her Indianapolis Indianapo-lis homo, and she is perfectly happy, tilie and her husbund nro still the lovers they were when married. At first Iudiaunpolis society was inclined to turn up its noso at Mrs. McDonald because she hud been a department clork, but she went along in her sweet, dignified way, asking no favors of nny ono, and uow sho is one of the most popular women of the Hoosior capital. ' "Of courso you cannot expect every mnr-I mnr-I Huge of a prominent man with a department depart-ment beauty to turn out well," concluded my lady, "for human nature is human nature whorever you find it. Once in a while thero will le a case like that of ex-Senator ex-Senator ChriKtiancy, who married only to got a divorce, but, in tho long run I am willing to back the department girl for beauty and character and womanliness against all comers." For my part, I am glad always to see love level ranks in this domocratto country. coun-try. Therefore, it is a pleasure to see the department girl, whom my society frieud has praised so highly, catching on. The loveliest womuii I havo soen in Washington, Washing-ton, next to Muttlo Mitchell, the queen of beauty, is Koso Alexander, a departmout clerk. There is Mrs. Senator Davis, herself her-self once a milliner, wdio hasubuut her in tho social season a bevy of tho prettiest girls to be found in the capital. Many of thorn uro from tho departments, aud just as nice and sweet aud well behaved as if they were the daughters of millionaires. Go out to tho country club house, or tho new Glen Echo cafe, or along the delightful delight-ful drives which surround Washington, and you will see tho department girl at her best. Sho is out, singly, by couples und quartets, with senators, members of congress and promising aud important inen in general as escort. The department girl is always nood company, vivacious, not too prudish, and with wit native or acquired by contact with the world. And sho is nearly always a lady. No wonder she catches a good husband. Probably thero is no city in the country more given to driving and riding than the. capital. In these (sultry days tho charming charm-ing country roads uretho resort of thousands thou-sands when tho sun is setting uud tho asphalt pavements bein giving off the accumulated ac-cumulated heat of the day. All round tho city are beautiful rouds, hard, not often d'-tsty, well kept and very, vory popular. It is odd how presidents set tho fashion even in driving. As soon us the Cleve-lauds Cleve-lauds hod bought and occupied the .Red Top cottage every one in Washington was seized with a desire to drive out that way. The Woodley road therefore became a prime favorite, and such it has remained to this day. It is ono of the drives which every visitor to the city is expected to take, Juat as ho must go to Mount Vernon and up the monument. The road lies through tho valley of Koclc creek, where the government gov-ernment is going to create a great national - park, and where oid trees overhang the path and the way winds in and out of dells aud groves and past handsome suburban villas. One may go out by a military road constructed by Gen. Grant during the war, a narrow path through the woods, but safe unough eeu In the night. This road leads PJ the famous sixf castle, the aueer-bouse j |