impress a stranger curiously. One is the number of "Colonels," to be mot with at every turn. The American army must be made up of Colonels, Generals and Majors. Inever heard of a private soldier. They are probably all dead, if they ever existed, Again, one sees scores of well-dressed women with slender, well-kept figures, who are evidently prematurely grey. How else can one account: for their white hair, elaborately dressed, crowning fair faces which show neither wrinkles nor crows' feet? Or, is it that they are white of locks because it is full time and are withal skilful in their selection of ladies' maids, who know the art of facial "make-up." Whatever the cause the result is magical. The young women, on the contrary, are often gawky, old in looks and manners and somewhat irritating in worldly wisdom and pessimism. Like old wine American women improve with age, The children, I mean the sort who infest hotels, are simply atrocious, perky, saucy, and rade, else as old and blase as the hills. Washington fairly swarms with negroes. They had an "eniancipation day" celebra tion last week and it seemed as if a black cloud rested over the city. Aged Americans say freedom has not improved the negro. mentally nor yet morally. But doubtless he is in the transition stage, always succeeding an old order of things.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.