Show I i ito Change in Washington Girls i Washington girls have distinctive traits i we can believe a correspondent I of the Albany Evening Journal who writes as follows I find that poker chips are sold at some of the fancy stores and am told that there is a great demand for them This reminds me of a i letter written by a young French officer who was vistiing here when Washington was in its earliest infancy of mud and steppingstones He mingled in the best society there was very good society here then as now though not much of it j I and appears to have been impressed with I Washington life which even then had its distinctive characteristics He describes I the teas that he attended the education and refinement he met on every hand and the quickness of wit displayed in conversation dwelling particularly on the fascinating manners and fascinatng appearance appear-ance of the ladies I see here he says some of the wittiest wit-tiest and most beautiful women it has ever been my pleasure to meet Some of them are ravishingly beautiful But I notice two things that grieve methcy nearly all gamble and those who are single want to marry foreigners This I quotation is merely from memory but I presume it is about correct So if the I Washington girls like to play poker they may claim it as an inheritance from their most remote greatgrandmothers The love of American girls for entangling foreign for-eign alliances must have sprung from that same source The same young Frenchman French-man writing more fully upon the same subject speaks most pathetically of the brokenhearted misery of the Washington Washing-ton youths at seeing their fairest flowers i plucked from under their eyes by foreign lords who generally turn out to be impostors i im-postors |