Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21
BETWEEN OURSELVES.

rich garb which makes acquaintes, and
brings the fortunate possessor into happy
notice. Hospitality, too, dispensed with nice
| discrimination is an important lever. But the
| toilette brings a more direct and salts
| factory return to the majority. A sealskin
garment has been known to do wonders for
some people, and to be totally worthless to
Others. 1t depends. The sealed and unsealed
about town are interesting objects of scrutiny.
The most casual observation will show that
| sealskin helps some persons socially, and others
not the least in the world. The dame up the
street might just as we'll wear blanket shawl
| as that superb sealskin garment for ali the
eclat it brings her.
In bitterness of disappointment she COM
plains that poorly dressed people can go with
welcome where she is dying to go, and she once
admitted that the only crowd in town which
valued her above all others was the shopkeep-
ers. Perhaps tits a matter of locality as much
as anything else, for upper and lower town
have different rates of human appraisal. The
cynic might find in the sealskin a very appro.
pirate uniform. because it is a dyed article
when it gets into the market. Seal brown"
is delusion simulated by the cunning arti-
ficer in fancy furs. and so is the esteem where
in it is held.
Dyed things are not usually regarded de-
sir able, but if fashionable society says yea,
there must be exceptions. The rage for this
fur amounts to a passion with many
women. To have sealskin trappings is
the ambition which is frequently comprised
through lean iarder, and the economies which
" the afruoular for
ciate. An atmosphere of contrivances, of ma
neuvres and petty calculations is the daily
breath of the enthusiast who wasn't born to
the purple or to the sealskin, but who hopes to
achieve them.
If one could ever pity inanimate things it is
when they are perverted from the uses OF ele-
gance and refinement, to the lives and ways of
those who knowthem not in their appositeness,
Parple and fine linen, and precious stones,
have pertinence and value beyond market
quotations.
They are always within reach of money, bat
it takes more than cash to get the best fitness
from them. So when fashionable society lays
paramount emphasis on some particular ad-
junct Of the wardl ODE it is well for the aspi-
rant to get it. One must be in the fashion even
IL ~ W Il cOtil PROMISE Win Tue
whim.
When the fat goes forth for long sealskin
garments-those who have the bob-taii sacks of
by-gone season, must exc out with border
OF fur which is a tacit compromise vith utility,
gentilty and economy. But, alas. the longer
the rig the more costly, and the
shorter-why the shorter, the claims
to the original inference, although there is
enough of it like mutilated bank note to
have some concession made to its pristine au-
thenticity.
The best blood in st. Paul is warmed by
plebeian garments made of sleeps wool, and
it speaks eloquently of the tremendous com
meroial git of the town that the sumptuous
seal is worn by those who have hourished in
trade, and who have almost had the seal grown
to order in Arcticwaters to advertise their State
in this region.
person was once showing Prince Demidoff
what he fancied to be an extraordinary speol-
men of lapis lazuli. ''Yes," said the prince
YEARLY, 81 have a mantel piece of it," While
you are glowing in your wee sample of seal
made after the curtailed mode
of winters sgone, just think of the for
turate fellow who used to be-a plague on
Your used to be's!-who is robed from head to
foot in sealskin.
He is more impressive figure than the car
OF all the Russias in crown sable. There is
an aura of SUCCESS about him which the whole
line of Romanoffs could never equal. Because
he alone has compassed all this state, while
with them it has been thing of slow accre-
ton.
The disappointed dame afore mentioned
whose sealskin garment has warmed the hearts
of none of the elite towards her, has home
luxurioasly fitted up, and handsome income
to enjoy it, Yet is she more disconnected than
ever, because having no intellectual tastes and
training, her surroundings are a constant re-
minder of a plentiful lack' of that applause
which alone could make them notably enjoy
able to her. She cannot people her home with
soeiety's darlinga, nor yet fill her enviable
leisure with that other world of literature.
So she hangs, like Mohammed's coffiu, 'twixt
heaven and earth. A case of unrequited seal,
aud not alone seal. but all else of worldly
goods.
( In sooth, that sealskin is out Of place and
looks it too.
On the select back it hath fitness, but it
can likewise show an uncomplimentary dis
agreement between the wearer and
itself. For, you see, these things
have relevance, and unconsciously you get
the expectation of an expressive consonance of
conditions.
For instance, Lady Burdette Coutts has
among her jewels diamond tiara of Marie
Antoinette. Do you suppose you could have
the same regard for 1t worn by the benevolent,
plain old English woman as if it graced the
imperial brow of Maria Therese's hapless
daughter? Hardly. And yet you don't be-
grudge the dear old soul apything-even an
adolescent husband, when she fsnces him.
Only you believe in the fitness of thin sand
cunsorts-with dash of envy, perhaps. that
this rich old woman has the best pick of every
thing. from Jewels of the mine to Henry
Irving, and q theater to play him in, for her
amusement
The supervisors of society in lower town
have partiallty for sealskin and its accom-
paniments as requisites in gaining the favor of
society autOcrats.
In the Atlantic Monthly some years ago was
= noble sketch entitled, "A raft that man
made" which gave an interest almost human
to the seal by portraying it's suffering its feel
ing. and the touching expression of the eyes.