Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-13
THE SOCIAL WORLD.

Apropos to the present hifalutin ten
dency Of the quicksilver globule that
agitates the glass tubes, usually the orna-
ments of drug store and summer board
ing house entrances, and the high pres
sure condition Of society, is the quaint
tradition of jolly and festive order of
heathens, that at this season Of the year
when Sirius rises and sets with the sun,
and makes il hot for humanity in the
meantime, mankind shall he possessed
by species of disorder described in
the treatise Of an eminen: writer and
commonly known as the rabies.
The distemper, or malady, for such it
may be called. affects principally the
adolescent male and female biped, but its
symptoms are not unfrequently mani
tested by those Of ripe years
and presumably settled judgments.
The symptoms of the disease are not
such as can be postulated to the satisfac-
ton Of the understanding any more than
the most erudite logician could demon
strate the exact number of pulsations his
thoughts may have traversed ere they
had crystallized into a proposition.
In the milder forms the rabies are sell
dom productive of more harm than &C
companies any innocent kind of lunacv,
but when violently manifested the pos
SCISSOR is capable of infiicting great deal
Of perniciOus mischief. The workings of
the spirit of cussedness, which some
students ascribe as having its seat in
the blood, is to be best observed amid the
fashionable throng who patroniZe the
summer rustic or watering resorts.
The comparatively harmless species is
eXemplified by the reckless fiirtations
and 'taffairs'' of the nosegay giddypates
and Messeurs. Tenderskins to be met
with at any of the charming pleasure re-
sorts about st. Paul. For these a vege-
table diet and frequent cold baths is said
to be a sure specific. But there is a more
dangerous form and easily recognized.
Among the merry heathens aforesaid,
it is considered the proper caper during
the period mentioned to roast, broil
friccasee, parboil and eat any stranger
within their midst, and when guest is
lacking the toothsome and fanciful Hot.
tentotS eat themselves.
1t is curious to note how the jewellers
in the beau monde have refined on the
vulgar tricks of the heather; with what
exquisite delicacy and dainty discrimina-
ton they dispose Of each other. But cuE
bono? The amusement comes high, but
as Qullldig remarked, they must have it,
The past week has Tivaied any of Its
predecessors of the season in point of
number and brilliancy of It's festive
doings. There have been picnics, hops,
concerts, amateur regattas and the like
till you can't rest. The result is below
in brief:
Mrs. Rose Shepler will return to Den
yer, Col, the ensuing week.
Miss Emma Herschler, ofRed Wing, is
the guest of Miss Title Sterrett
F. P Plumage, St. Louis, is a guest at
the Hotel st. Louis, Minnetonka.
Mr.. Skidmore, the New York banker,
and daughters are at Spring park.
Mr.. Duncan K. Major and family, Chi.
cago, are rusticating at the lakes.
Gen. Bishop and sons will go into
camp at Spring park the ensuing week
James j. Healey, q Chicago court
official, is spending his vacation in this
city.
Miss Winnie Murray. who has been
visiting Lake Minnetonka, has returned
to town
Mrs. j. FL. McGinnes and Miss Susie
and Mr.. Chas B. McGinnes, are at the
Windsor.
Mrs. Edwin Best and daughters Ida
and Ella, of Dayton, Ohio, are at the
Windsor.
Benjamin Goodkind. of Mannheime1
Bros, goes east this week for his summer
vacation.
Mr.. Dyer and family, of Dyer 6 How
ard, are summering at Spring park, Min
netonka.
Mr.. and Mrs W. NJ Tilleston have &C.
cupied their charming villa at White
Bear lake.
Mrs. DR.. Edison, of Quincy, Illinois, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. E. N. Stone,
of St. Paul
Mr.. David Stapp, rising young lawyer
of Aurora, Ind is visiting his cousin,
Mrs. L. Hart.
Miss Lila Mckay, who has been spend
ing week at White Bear lake, Will re-
turn this week
Miss Jessie Holmes, of La Crosse, is
visiting the daughter of ex-Sheriff King,
on Robert street.
A. Magnus, Esq, and daughter,
Chicago, are among the visitors at
White Bear lake.
Mrs. F. M. Plato, who has been stop
ping at the Lake Park hotel, returned to
the city Saturday.
Mrs. j. T. Haig, Miss Ida Haig and
Miss Lizzie Plomant, of St. Louis, are
visiting at st. Paul.
W. W. Cantwell leaves Monday. to
join his wife, who is visiting her relatives
in Mansfield, Ohio.
Mrs. NJ. A. DeGroff, of Poughkeepsie, N.
Y, is visiting her daughter Mrs. Plato,
at 49, Wabashaw street.
G. J. Kruger and C. A. Anderson leave
this week for Dakota on tour of inspec.
4ion through that territory.