St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-22
FAT HOME"
A Quiet Week in society---some
Pretty A8airs---Elegant
Receptions.
Now For the Fashionable Audiences
at the Ideal Operas--Opera
Parties.
Ice Carnival Hints--The Costumes
to be Worm Winter Sports
and Spectacles.
AT HON e.
Small But Elegant--The Ideals--lce
Carnival Costumes.

The week lust closed has been one of
many quiet, elegant affairs, with nothing
remarkably brilliant to mark it. After the
splendid charity ball, the exquisite fancy
dress ball at Sherman hall and the several
exquisite weddings, society people appear to
have subsidized, and relied for their pleas
ures on the gentler pastimes found in their
own homes or neighborh0ods. This week
will be marked by the visit of the Boston
Ideals, that charming opera company that
has gained such hold upon the affections
of this public that they might almost be
termed St. PauI's idols. Quite term of
years has now elapsed since the Boston
boys and girls first visited us, and many
Will remember the grand work Col. Charles
Hams, the genial and talented manager Of
the opera house, did to assist them to gain
recognition. His efforts were appreciated
by the talented manager, Miss Ober, as was
shown by the generous benefit given him.
Year by year the Ideals have gained on the
hearts of this public, and the result is that
the receipts at the boX-office for their en-
gagement this week, far exceeds any ever
before known in the history of St.
Paul. We have been accustomed
to hear them in a light class of operas,
but this year, while they do not essay the
heaviest style, they have advanced their
standard in musical sense and will pre-
sent a repertory consisting of compositions
of high degree of artistic excellence.
Nearly all of the old favorites remain with
the company and those that have resigned
have been replaced by artists that are sure
to prove acceptable. We shall hear charm
ing Marie Stone, the pretty Lizzie Burton,
those inimitable comedians, Barnabee and
Epnth hot cralnn
singer, the handsome Macdonald and the
silver-voiced tenors, Karl and Morsell. and
besides all these, the delightful De Lussan,
bewitching Agnes Huntington, and stately
Hutch Clark with his fine basso profundo.
The costuming of the operas to be presented
will excite the admiration of all and every
detail will be as near perfection as possible.
The simple statement that Mr.. Studling
still yields the baton is sufficient to satisfy
all as to the orchestral excellence.
The approaching winter carnival affords
a never-failing source of conversation
among our people, and in fact the interest
in it is not confined alone to our commun-
ity. for from every direction come inquiries
in regard to the details. The festival is
certain to produce greater sensation than
anything ever before attempted in the West
and st. Paul is destined to see a greater in
tluX of visitors than was ever before con-
vened at any place in the Northwest at any
time of the year. During the month of the
carnival there will be a perfect revolution
in social pastimes, in customs and in cos
tunes. Instead of trusting to the slow,
cold, old horse-cars, dignifed merchants
will be seen seeking their places of business
on pair of fur-lined snow shoes and clad
in long listers of striped blankets. Our
diet will be changed to correspond
and fashionable menu will
be incomplete without the oily
dishes and fatty meats affected by the Es-
ouimauX and Icelanders. Silks, SatinS and
broadcloths will give way to heavy fabrics,
and pair of Mackinaw blankets will afford
material for the clothes of family of ro-
bust kids. Just imagine a report of grand
carnival ball,
Miss Regina Rosebud was radiant in a
robe of rich Manitoba scarlet blanketing.
! trimmed with cords OF bright yellow Shaker
flannel A tiny SNOWFALL hung from each
of her little ears, which were eXquisitely
frosted.
Miss Lily Lightfoot charmed all by the
exquisite grace with which she bore her.
self in charming costume beautifully de-
signed from warm-coIored pride of the
West' blanket. 1t was decorated by a
pretty and effective garniture of sparkling
icicleS.
Miss Amy Armful appeared in Worley
costume of heavy Royal Fleece" blanket
ing, cut bias, and with full, square train.
Seventeen-button mittens covered her little
hands and reached above her biceps.
Mrs. COMFY Commerce (nee Dimplechin),
the bride of month, never looked lovelier
than in her elegant costume produced from
three thickneSseS of white Canton flannel,
artiStically trimmed with real mosquito net
ting of delicate blush hue. The crystals
pendant from her dainty ears were frozen
for the occasion by her devoted spouse, and
her lofty tournure, which represented a
massive wedding cake, was a splendid speci-
men Of that wonderful artist, Jack Frost.
The stately Miss Susie Sweetlips
made great impression in her perfectly
fitting tailor-made suit cut from an artistic
lap robe in black and white checks with a
fierce tigers head on the front of the mar
row skirt.
/ might go on with the costumes en-
regle for the gentlemen, their dress suits
from horse blankets, their seal skin crush
hats, their patent-leather arctics and their
lavender mittens but l must reserve my
descriptive powers for the real events. at
any rate 1 have suggested scope for the
ingenuity of our sanity bellies, and l hope
they will take advantage of it.
Anent the ice carnival everybody ap-
pears to have taken hold in earnest and the
result will be something quite exceeding
the most Sanguine expectations OF Its warm
est friends (eyen an ice carnival must have
warm friends) The WabaSha club, just
organized by some of the brightest young
men of st. Paul, will take the initiative in
the tobogganing sport, and on tomorrow
evening will form a club which will include
young ladies. There are in this club a
number OF gentlemen who understand the
sport thoroughly and who will enter into
1t with the truest SPORT knowing it to be
''wildly hilarious fun"
had pleasant interviews with several
gentlemen OF foreign nationalities last week
and CLEANED from them some ideas of the
paStimeS they suggest for the carnival. Mr..
p. J. GeiSen has the design for a grand
professional spectacle to represent the four
seasons. From one hundred and fifty to
two hundred and fifty people will
be required in the representation.
which will introduce the goddess
of spring-June, with the first violet; sum-
mer, the festival of roses; autumn, with
the red, ripe tintS, and winter, with its
glare of crystalIZed blooms, holly and ever
greens. The attendants will be knights,
flower-girls, athletes, harvesters and all
sorts of representatives of winter sports.
The idea will be to have this gorgeously-
arrayed procession move to music through
the grand ballroom of the ice palace, and
from thence to proceed to and around the
spacious rink. then to dispense and mingle
with the dancers and others. For another
evening it is proposed to arrange fancy
dress party, to occupy both the ballroom
and the rink. the participants alternating
as they choose from the pleasures of the
terpsichorean art to the charms of the ''out.
ward rollu on the glistening steel. The