Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-28


Bloods and Older Heads From st. Paul
and Minneapolis - Racy Interviews
Wherein Certain Stal Ting Propositions
are Enunciated-A Scattering of Cans
Caused by tho Globe" Missionary's TAX
Ing Notes-A Few Moraliz atoms Not ut
All Malapropos to the Occasion, Etc.
a newspaper, if it fulfills its mission ard
the true sphere of its existence, must be q
correct and impartial chronicler of the day
and its doings in every phase of human life,
from highest to lowest-from the pure and
innocent to the impure and the vicious. As
such, its duty is to enter the abodes of vice
and virtue alike, and to lay bare each and
every shade of human action wherewith to
'point moral and adorn tale" And if
the narrative tends to lay bare the hidden
thorns and stings of vice-to point out the
CHASTITY deaths head that inevitably awaits
those who stray from virtues path and fnd
themselves ensulfed in the maelstrom Of sin
and dishonor, from which there is no re-
treat save in death and disgrace. Then in
deed it is the bounden duty of the press,
true to its mission, to spread out the 'plain
and unvarnished tale'' to the end that youth
and inexperieuce, as we'll as ripper age, may
avoid the pitfall and steer clear of the quick
sands of immortality and corruption.
Philosophers and philanthropists of all
ages and all nations have alike been puzzled
over the problem of the social evil Theories
and plans for its prevention and remedy
have evolved enough to reach in extent and
bulk the peaks of Handicapped Olympus,
and yet the revolving crime against hu-
man nature and human existence pursues
its dark and forbidding career, aud is daily
sleeping in the Lethean draughts of sin and
dishonor the souls of pure, virtuous and un-
defled maidenhood; in too many instances
of tender and simple-hearted girls, hereto
fore unknown in the subtleties of VICE and
degradation. While the broad and even
path to sin and ruin is. daily being trod by
the faltering and uncertain footsteps of hap
less women, the world, with it's schools of
philosophers and Swans, stands aghast at
the contemplation of the horrid spectacle and
in vain essays to stem the rag ing tide by the
aid of theories and dispositions only. How
long this ever growing and steadily increas-
ing blot upon society of all ranks and con-
ditions is to continue is question
not easily answered. AS long, surely
as mans inhumanity to woman retains its
present form--to say nothing of the part
played therein by her own scornful sex.
COSMOPOLITAN CITY.
st. Paul is indeed a metropolitan az we'll
as cosmopolitan city. Not alone do her
magnificent business blocks, her palatial
residences. her vast marts of trade, her
mighty commerce upon the great lakes and
upon the mighty Father of Waters ever
flowing In boundless volume to the sea, pro-
claim this fact. Its truth is stamped here
and there-everywher throughout the length
and breadth of the Northwestern metropolis.
Not the least convincing evidence of the
above fact was to be seen last evening at the
so-called Diamond halfway house,
just outside the city limits. The
scene there presented was unique,
not to say, startling in many of its concomi-
tant features. 1t was a thanksgiving party
Of the demi- monde-the les inconnues of
society. The strict and complete police sys-
tom of the city had driven those social out
casts outside its limits for their carousals,
and here beyond the watchful eyes of the
laws guardians, they had congregated in
large numbers to give loose rein to tho few
pleasures denied them at home by the stern
requirements of decorous propriety. The
scene presented to the GLOBE representative
as he halted for moment on his homeward
journey from the city of the Falls, was one
calculated to arrest the attention Of the I'M
initiated passer by. The building was ablaze
with flood of light, and the soft and exhil-
Grating strains of music hoated out on the
evening air. Upon entering, the fact stood
out In bold relief to tho naked eye-the
grisettes of the Indian traders-of the earlier
days-had given place to the lorettes of to-
day, many, and indeed most of them, richly
and even Hastily clad.
Once within the portals, the GLOBE took a
le1surely survey of the surroundings. And
here, indeed, was picture worthy the pencil
of Hogarth. The front room, one side of
which is partioned off for bar, was filled
with motley crowd representing oil ages,
from the young gossoon of eighteen or nine
teen, complacently stroking his incipiv Mt
mustache, to the man of forty and forty five
and even greater age. The room was
crowded, and the fumes of tahacco and
other kindred and most villainous smells,
were we'll nigh overpowering. The smoke,
IN fact, could be cut with knife.
The great majority Of the crowd were young
men, representing all classes and stations.
Here were representatives of the jeunesse
d0Tee of st. Paul sandwiched in between
brakemen and hack drivers. All professions
and trades could boast Of one or more pro-
fessors in that promiscuous assemblage. All
were deeply and earnestly engaged in en-
deavoring to extract all the pleasure possible
on the occasion. The libations to Bacchus
we're frequent and there was no opportunity
allowed for the charge made by the Governor
Of North Carolina against his brother execu-
tive of sister State, of long time between
drinks. Presently slight commotion in the
closely packed mass is noticeable and in q
few moments, amid much showing and
elboWing, the dancers, each with his
female partner on his arm, are ush-
cred in and range themselves along
side the bar. The women call for their
drinks and quaff them with all the SANG
froid and elegant nonchalance of an habitue
of forty years. practice.
THE DANCE.
few moments thereafter the music again
strikes up and the floor was taken fo1
another waltz. Some eight or ten couples
are on the floor and in an instant are
threading the windings of the may" In
der the exhilarating influence of the occasion
and of the "rosy'' draughts inhibited but q
few moments ago, the dance goes bravely
on. But the assembly is intensely demo
cratic, or moro properly speaking, decidedly
mixed. Some of the dancers are exquisitely
graceful; Others rough, clumsy and boorish.
One or two of the young men who are graced
with high arched instep and neat, dainty
feet, patter over the floor as lightly as rain
drops upon the roof, while others. nearer al