Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1889 — Society in Washington. [ARTICLE]

Society in Washington.

Washington special, Bar Harbor Record. He who cares to write on a subject so threadbare as drink will have a field of ripe promise in Washington. Yesterday afternoon I was passing one of the most exclusive restaurants in the city when I observed three young ladies emerge from the elegant vestiI bule and enter a public hack that had the curtains partly drawn. All three were very young and very beautiful women. I knew two—one the daughter of a United Stat.es Senator; and the other nearly related,and the ward, of a member of the Supreme Court. All were drunkTT’irey were not merely tipsy, but drunk. One dropped her hat and the extra exertion required to replace it so exhausted her that the vigorous assistance of the Jehu who drove the ramshackle was necessary to place her inside. Two helpless dudos who tried to start a quick flirtation with the young women were promptly snubbed, an action which cast perhaps one ray of sunlight across, their record. You may sing of the beauty of spring-time Ttiatgoyvs on the cheek of the young, But I sing of übehuty that's rarer Than uny of which you have sung. The beauty that's seen in the faces Of women whose summer is o’er, The uutum-ilke beauty that charms us Far more than the beauty of yore. But this beauty is seen too rarely. The faces of most women lose the beauty of youth too soon. Female disorders are like frosts which come to nip the flowers which betoken good health, without which there can be no real beauty. If our American women would fortify themselves against the approach of the.terrible disorders so prevalent among them, by using Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, their good looks would be retained to a “sweet old age.” This remedy is a guaranteed.cure, for all the distressing weaknesses and derangements peculiar to women. Dr. Pierce’s Pelletts, one a dose. Cure headache, constipation and indigestion.