St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
LADY RAMBLER.
IN MINNEAPOLIS.
A Quiet. Shaded Week i'm Society,"
The Events OF Interest.

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A Quiet, Shaded Week i'm Society,"
The Events OF Interest.
July Fourth is a day of societies, but not
of society. The day is jubilant and hilari-
Gus, but not especially social in its charac-
ter, and the events which so variOusly
freight il are not matter for the social column.
Having survived the noisy and eventful
day in good shape, only slightly SCARED,
Minneapolis will this morning look quietly
down on the world, much as a spectator
/ views the field the day after battle, and,
| looking back through the smoke. reviews
the events of the week-a very dull sleepy
week it was, tOO-with a warmth suggeS-
tive of midsummer, making city life dull
and weary, and clothing the distant lake and
\ the still more distant eastern resorts and
watering places with additional and COM
| paratiye attractions. The Office slave
whiffs the cool breezes that seem TO blow
/ through the goSsipy reports from Min
netonka, furnished by each mornings
GLOBE, and turns with sigh to his work,
realizing his account is in no condition for a
two weeks vacation.
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Favoring breeZes will blow quite num-
/ Der of Minneapolitans To foreign lands this
| summer-quite an unusual number. The
social diary shows that at least fifty of our
people will wander through the galleries of
/ Paris and Florence. climb the Alps and en-
/ JOY the dolce far niente of Southern
I Europe this summer. David Blakely will
drink beer at Munich, study china at Dres-
den and music at Stuttgart. w. ID.
| Washbum will pore over British heraldry
and Prof. TOusey will study Hebrew at
JOppa. G. A. Widestrand and family Will
take chalet near Nice. and Prof. AIeaTkle
and family Will linger under the shadow of
VeSuviuS at Naples. Editor Lambert
Maggie, of the Freie PreSse, has had his
tour and is now busy telling what he saw
IN FatheTiand, and Hon. GregOr Manuel
and daughters show the benefeent effect
in their improved health of the waters
OF the famous German Spa. There are
others who will register from Minneapolis
ut the hotels Of various European points
and delight their friends with voluminOus
letters interlarded with foreign expressions.
but TO give their names at this time would
be premature.
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There are not few who will go to the
seaShore for the benefit of sea bathing and
salt bTeeZeS; Others have selected the White
mountains as their summer objective point.
whirlpool of life at Saratoga. with Excelsior
water mingled with dust. But MmnetOnka
and White Bear are good enough for most
of those MinneapolitanS who have time and
money on their hands. and they will go no
further from home. When the returns are
reckOned in the fall, they will find the
wisdom of their choice, and when their
friends return from Long Branch and Sara
toga TO recupeTate, that wisdom will be ap
parent. n summer trip. and especially
where il leads the thOughtleSS TO some spot
where the demands and dissipation of
fashion are insatiate, is one of the things
that ''come high and we must have it." but
the drafts it makes ON the purse are only
equaled by the draft on the constitution. \
week at MinnetOnka refreshes and in
vigorateS. y month at Saratoga means
two months at home, afterward, getting
rested. Let's go to AIinnetonka.
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With the lakes within an hours ride and
their delights so temptingIy near. there is
little enjoyment. at this time of year, in the
sitting atmosphere of the handSOmest
drawing room, and the natural result is that
Minneapolis drawing rooms furnish very
little news. OF parties there are none.
Strangers come to Minneapolis to enjoy its
there must be teas and cOffeeS in their
honor, but they are not on the winter scale
of magnifcence. Occasionally 4 wedding
fills handsome parlor here and there, but
not frequently at this season. There are
not many marriages. Loves fires seem 10
burn most brightly in winter, even though
the fuel is formed of ices. Lawn fetes,
fetes champetre, seem most popular, but
even they are dismaily infrequent just at
present. The lay of the sweet girl gradu-
ate has been stilled for another year and the
swish of her white dress is heard no more
in the land. In fact. society has settled
down to midsummer drowsiness all over
the city.
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The most notable visitors in the city last
week were the ladies and gentlemen from
Mexico. y Sunbumed gentleman in black
broadcloth is not an unfamiliar object on
the streets of cosmopolitan Minneapolis. so
the male members of the visiting delega-
ton attracted but little attention. With
the ladies it was different. and many were
the curious glances cast upon them by the
fair feminines of the city. Three of them
were notably pretty. being the two daugh-
tiers of President PaZ and the daughter of
Gen. de Anita. They were all typical
AndalusianS, with dark, olive skins, and
those large, glorious OrbS that look rs
though they must be luminous in the dark.
They knew how to Use them. too, as was
evidenced i'm the sly, eoquettiSh glanceS they
east over the tops of their claret glasses
during the banquet. Sonora MendiZaba is
blonde. That is to say, she has light
hair and bright blue eyes, though her COM
pleXiOn is a little darker than usually ac-
companies the other features i'm this part of
a. 4
ciSely as any American ladies would have
dressed under similar circumstances. Light
summer silks were worn by most of them
at the banquet, a few wearing diamonds
and other ornaments. but not one was
dressed but i'm the height Of fashion and
the acme of good taste. They were all
ladies by birth and education.
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On Wednesday last a party made up of
classes of IS and SO of the high school sue
ceSSfully carried out an excursion and picnic
10 Medicine lake. \ pair OF horses and n
pair of mules tackled 10 a large wagon,
four-in-hand, conveyed the party out. An
early start was made from the residence OF
Mai. Henderson. on Ninth street. and with
horns and bazoOs the trip was made eXhil-
| aTating. The day was pleasantly spent at
the lake, with boating and fishing, and a
sumpfuouS lunch was served AT noon. The
return trip was made a; dusk and the ex-
cursion throughout was a pronounced sue
cess. The party, chaperOned by Mrs. NJ.
G.. PuTviS consisted of the following per-
sons: Misses Hattie Haroes. Lizzie Cullen,
Matte Ankeny. Bridget HoyeS, Lizzie
| Payne Margaret Henderson, Bertha Tay-
Tor and Lille Harmon, and MeSSTs. Joe
| Cochran. Roy GOldsburg. John FAIRIES.
| Frank Downs. Arthur Higgins, Charles
Felt. Fred Mann, Arthur Mann and Grant
| Hamline.