St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-26
WOMEN OF CHICAGO.
Wealthy Ladies Who Delight in Works Of
Charity and How They Live.
The Paradise Which Abides in the
Home of Mrs. Pullman.


gods OF old, sees everywhere The first on
the enrolment sheet of fashion is the name
OF Pullman, which was international almost
as soon as it had local fame. Years and
years ago George M. Pullman made a few
thousand dollars keeping a grocery store out
III the mining districts, with which money
he laid the foundation of the colossal car
company which bears his name, and report
mas 1t that the patents which protect this
system OF travelling palaces are not his by
right OF invention, but by purchase, and
that that genial New York politician, Ben
Field, was the real ingenious motor who
mated his brains with
PULLMAN's DOLLARS,
not knowing at the time their actual value.
However that may be, it was in those DAYS
that he met the dashing Miss SAWYER, now
the elegant Mrs. Pullman, whose name
leads, and who, if she cared to dictate.
might have host of apostles. As it is. she
sets the fashion in many instances and her
modes are never criticised especially by
those whom she favors. Mrs. Pullman is
the mother of a pair of beautiful twin bows
and young daughter, and is mistress of
DroWn-stone palace on Prairie avenue which
has the reputation of being the best-man-
aged home on the avenue. Not only are
servants chefs in their line, but she Keeps
her own accounts and audits her household
bills with as much system and intelligence
as any business man could.
Mrs. Pullman's home is lovely. No other
adjective would do it justice. In entering.
the visitor finds himsel in a broad hall the
floors and walls of which remind one of an
essay in mosaic. From a low easement
window, cushioned with plush. one can
look no lob in
the court is open and the scene
FLOODED WITH ELECTRIC LIGHT
it does not need very vivid imagination to
dream OF being back in Venice Off this
grand hall, with its fiuted columns of ebony.
are the library, done i'll black moquette, the
draWing-room, with its wealth of sillken
tapestries and costly works of art, and the
Egyptian parlOr, historical in it's minutest
| detail. 1t is in this room that now and
then a half-starved artist is received, and
who loses all thoughts of any other heaven
| in contemplation of the stutfs and curios
that would lend inspiration if he oculd but
borrow them for the accessories of his last
daub in color.
MIS-. Pullman is a plump little woman of
| about 40, with beautiful blue eyes. black
hair, teeth of cOcoanut whiteness and dear
little hands and feet that were only made
to wear jewels and walk OH roses. She
dresses eXquisitively in the houSe-most of
her dresses being mported-but on the
street is severely plain, wearing neither
colors nor jewelry.
Mention should be made of the miniature
theater in the top story of the Prairie ave-
nue. residence, where concerts and private
theatricalS are frequently given during the
winter.
Mrs. Marshall Field, wife of the million
alre dry-g0odS merchant is at once envable
and wretched. Enviable because of her
vast possessions and social rank. but
wretched because of the few DAYS on the
calendar which bring her health. Were ma
ture as kind to her as fortune has been she
would be the leader of leaders in
ALL SOCIAL MATTERS.
Unfortunately she is cut off from the ranks
of the vulgarly well, and it is a day of great
rejoicing when she is able to preside at her
own elegant mahogany, where sits her
kindly husband with his crown of silver
hair and beautiful little son and daughter.
The residence on Prairie avenue is built of
stone, with a circular wing on the south
fairly windOw-bewitched to catch the sun
light. On the north side is a court leading
to an arch triumphal, where every day the
handsome brougham for cold weather or the
mail ph&ton in sunshine rolls up with the
silent, stern master All the window seats
are cushioned the toilet articles are price
less and the scent i'll the cut crystal bottles
is so seductive as to make one long to take
one more smell and then die Her baskets
beggar description, but when by secret
drawers the gems are uncovered one is
obliged to question his own senses before he
can believe he is not acknowledgements
black, white, pink and yellow that have
been brought from Persian, Arabian and
Grecian seas; whole strings of garnets, ONYX
and opal for the neck; diamonds from all
the noted martS in the world, some in combs.
others in pins and bracelets, while the rings
for ears and fingers would fill q cOffee-cup
The rare bits OF jewelry in gold, filigree,
mosaic and antique modelling could not be
duplicated in years travelling. She keeps
a French cook, an English butler German
maid,
FRENCH GovERNEss,
English cOachman and Norwegian fOOtman,
besides kitchen girls, busting maids and sew
ing girls that give her household represent
tative from nearly every civilized nation on |
the globe. She dresses in a style peculiar |
to herself, all her clothes coming from the |
art establishment of Nine. La Farier. of |
Paris. She has a great fondness for odd !
handmade aces, and notwithstanding her
cedar cases are packed with specimens of |
lost art she cannot resist the purchase of |
any web that takes her fancy. This forms |
the main trimming of her robes and gowns.
which are all long and clinging and made |
after the style Of Sarah Bemhardt's swoOn-
ing clothes. She keeps an almOner, whose
business it is to make the rounds Of the city
in search Of the worthy poor IN this way
she reaches the family Of gentle but INDECENT
people, whom she aids in getting an educa-
ton or supplies them with means for pul-
suing a chosen profession. From her u-
divdual allowance she pays s., 900 year
for educating poor but promising pupils.
Another good as well as fashionable lady
in Chicago is Mrs. n. K. Fairbanks, who
has face like madonna and does much
for humanity. Long ago her husband laid
bricks for a living, but fortune was good to
him, and kept on being good and as her
aims kept pace with the gifts Of the goddess
it is not strange that she should have ac-
quaintances in 50 many circles. At a rough
estimate Mrs. Fairbanks aims amount to
so, 900 a year, exclusive Of
THE MONEY BESTOWED
by her husband for promoting the general
welfare Of the community ar
tistically and politically.
Mrs. Dr. Clinton Locke, wife Of the rec-
tor Of Grace Episcopal church, is not rich
because there is not as much money in the
cloth as in other commodities, such as lard,
wheat or dirt, and, besides, her heart is too
big to save money even though her husband
made it. Mrs. Locke is a lady Of about 80.
with brown eyes. white hair, fine figure and
very commanding address. She is very
arduous in parish work and her ministra-
tons are abstract rather than concrete.
That is to say when unable to render tangi-
bic assistance she visits the poor and shows