St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23

Paris fact that adds TO their prestige, as
it were. A most varied collec tion of plum
age is provided for the home
and foreign markets. But whereas
amateurs and inferior milliners
make use of the mounts as they stand.
tirst-class milliners divide them and mix
them according TO taste and as occasion
offers. Now the wings are used alone, now
combined with birds heads or roSettes
made with breast plumage are finished
off with sprays of aigrette, single
wing or tail feather. The color
harmonieS are also prettily varied; the
favorite contrasts are green and red and
black and white, while the harmonies in
Guide several shades of brown or golden
brown, of moss-green and of gray. The
most fashionable shades for the coming
season, alike for foundation and trim
ming, are combined shades of
golden bronze. green and brown,
green and scarlet and gray with
black and white. The scarlet especially
sounds rather loud, but in practice it IS not
so. being tremendously sobered down with
duh green or rich dark brown. i also
learn that a good deal of use is To he
made of plush, though, SO far,
l have seen it applied but spar
mgly, whereas velvet on the other hand.
seems the fundamental material of a large
majority of the coming hats and bOnnets.
The crowns both of hats and bonnets are
covered with plain velvet, some kind of
ornamental tissue being used for the brim.
For this purpose bands of velvet are en-
broidered with tinSel, gold and silver
thread. the velvet forming Vandykes and
festoons on one side. and being laid on
like lace. Fine wooden lace, pro-
i'm, Of fc
worked in somewhat the same way. How
ever, it is not confined to edging. but is
made also in broad lace. applicable TO full
bonnet crowns and draperies.
| don't know but 1 shall have to stop
writing these letters. Not that / am tired
of them. or that the ever new and fresh
subject of women's dress can ever be ex-
hausted; but the fact is that l have opened
a canYess for
THE PRESIDENCY OF VASSAR COLLEGE
and in case of success my time will be fully
occupied by the duties of the position. The
place is now vacant. They talk of putting
a man into it. Nonsensel Nothing mas
culine ought to be permitted within the
walls which inclose the educational facili-
ties of two thousand girls. My claims are
varied, and, l may say, multifariouS; but
principally l urge my idea that especial
attention should be given TO the
culture of maidens in their knowledge of
man. Why are there SO many unhappy
marriages? Because of the lack of judg
ment on the part of girls. They select
from outward appearances; or rather they
submit blindly TO being selected by any
fairly presentable follow who gets at them.
That is all wrong. When i am in the Vas
Sar presidency / shall establish chair of
matrmOny, with the most competent per-
son possible TO lecture on the qualities of
man with reference to his desirability
as a husband. The matter of match
ing certain dispositions and temperaments
should receive especial study; and L would
try 10 make the students expert in discern
inc the good and the true in a suitOrs at
tentions from the bad and the false. How
does that program strike you?
There doesn't seem to be any need, / am
bound to say, of further learning on the part
of our girls as to the fascination of their
adorers. That appears TO come nStinctivly.
| sat on a summer veTanda close by an en-
amored couple. The chappie was glib
talker, though what he said was of no pos
sible account, and / couldn't help admiring
what | supposed was the girls skill in
STIMULATING SPECIAL INTEREST.
He was telling how he had been out
driving, how his dog had trotted
along under the cart and how at
last the beast had grown SO tired
AZ 10 lie down fiat in the road. Now,
that narrative doesn't excite you, though
pumped out in three lines; but how would
you stand it if drawled TO you in all minute
ness Of particulars for ten solid minutes?
This fair sufferer listened in demure endur-
ance until near the climax, when a subdued
animation palpably possessed her; her form
actually trembled, her eyes were strained,
her ears all but wagged, and clearly she came
To a high tension. just at the final catastro-
phe, where the dog lay down in the dust, she
seemed about to cry out in excitement;
and then, with clap of both little hands
on her knee, she quite collapsed, like a
shocked spectator of a killing of BESIDE
mona by 0thello. The fellow was de-
lighted by her intensity Of interest in the
miserable story. But she didn't fool me.
/ knew the truth at the instant. ard after
ward she confessed that / was right. A
biz. sharp-fanged mosquito had slowly
crawled up the surface of her
thin stocking, sampling her flesh as
he proceeded-liSe a grocer tries
the quality of butter by sticking i'm 2 sharp
prong-and to this was due the animation
which had looked like attentive engross-
ment. She might have crushed the insect
at once, but she shrewdly concluded that he
was too useful TO kill 50 long as he saved
her the eXertion of mimicry; but when the
narration arrived at its end she simultane-
ously smashed the mosquito and impressed
the sutton by slap of her palms.