Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1882 — Women in Washington. [ARTICLE]

Women in Washington.

[Washington Letter.] The crowd of women who made it a regular duty to spend the day at the Guiteau triafl beiug now deprived of that iuteiesting method of wasting their time, will uow fill the Senate and House galleries for the rest of the season. Because a few prominent west : eud ladie% were cuiious enough to spend a day now and then watching Guiteau s antics, it suddenly became a fashion to do so, and to many the scene was so faciuating that they rarely missed a session of the court. Indeed, Washington is particularly well supplied iu the matter of genteel loafing places. The public buildiugs invite inspection, while other places here ofenational interest, watching the proceedings of Con gress aud wandering throughdhe Capitol labyrinths,afford a pleuty of opportunity ior this class of well-dre.-sed men and women, who seem to have literally nothing else to do. Thecongressional proceedings are, of course, the most attractive, and the accommodations for the loungers restful and convenient. Well, this is a free country, aud talkers must have audiences.