St. Paul daily globe., 1885-05-31
LADY RAMBLER.
A Discourse ON MatrimOny--Gettin
Off a Street Car.

LADY RAMBLER.
A Discourse ON NIatrimOny--Gettin
Off a Street Car.
1t was perfect May morning. all green
grass and blue sky and floods of sunshine.
The crab-apple trees just outside the palace
doors were transformed into enormous brl-
aal nosegays, and the lord chamberlain on
his morning round had stopped, not SO
much to admire their beauty as to calculate
the number of glasses OF crab-apple Jelly
that might be expected from each tree. for
both he and the king had an especial weak
ness for crab-apple jelly.
The king had no time for apple blossoms
nor sunshine, you may be sure, particularly
at present, when half his subjects, dlssatlS-
fed with things in general, were clamOrlng
for reform and insisting that the first step in
that direction was the dismissal of all the
court pages who were dark aDd wore gOr-
geous liveries of crimson slashed with pink,
and the substitution of fair pages with suits
of blue and orange.
AS it was Friday he was seated in his
parlor counting out his money lowing to an
early disappointment there was no queen),
attired, as usual when so engaged, IN his
everyday crown and last summers robe.
The parlor was cool and comfortable, and,
wearied with so much counting and the
thought of having his orderly palace SO
shortly overrun with lot OF stupid new
pages, he had just dropped into a light
slumber when he was awakened by the loud
tones of the lord chamberlain expostulating
with some unknown parsonage. Indignant
at being so rudely disturbed he fastened to
the window which overlooked the courtyard
intending to order condign punishment in
flicted upon the intruder, whoever
it might be, when his eyes were
greeted with such vision of lovelinesS that
reproof, pages. money, everything in short,
even his early disappointment, was on the
instant forgotten. 1t was only beggar
girl holding in her fair hands some sort of
musical instrument, but every rent in her
poor old gown revealed some new beauty,
and her bare feet shone like pearls in the
green grass, and it was clear case of
mash. ''Come, now! we don't want any
beggars around here; off with you'll" cried
the lord chamberlain. ''Nayw calculated
the king, for by my crown and scepter that
beggar maid shall be my queen," and down
he leaped from the window lit wasn't a
fourth-story) with the agility of youth,
alighting gracefully at her feet with undis-
turbed crown. Neither the remonstranceS
of the lord chamberlain, the horror of the
housekeeper nor the sneers of the pages al
tered his determination; he wouldn't
even wait for the court dress
maker; to be sure, he only had
on his last years robe, but sent for the
priest and had the ceremony performed at
once, whereat the new queen went into the
kitchen and began eating huge bowl of
bread and honey as if she had been to the
purple born.
49,
So rms the story; but times, alas! have
changed; King Cophetua long, long ago was
gathered to his fathers, and the youth of
this present generation laugh him to scorn.
Marry beggar maid, forsooth! They have
thing, and fight shy of a girl, no matter
what may be her beauty, mind, manners
and morals, till assured that she can bring
to them father-in-law with more than a
fair bank account, making no secret of their
opinion, but frankly ayowing that they con-
slider arich wife one of the necessities of
life. What strange reversal of
positions, and how queer the
poetry and fiction of the future will sound.
we shall have the love-lorn damsel sailing
off to far countries to win name and fortune
for her swain, who sits signing at home
wondering how his tailor is to be paid
stern parents of bewitching young men will
oppose their betrothal to fair but penniless
maidens, and insist upon their marrying
old but rich widows; and instead of King
Cophetua and the beggar maid it will be
Queen Portemonnaie and the beggar lad.
49,
Black and white, combination both
striking and pleasing, is this season more
popular than ever. When affected by
ladies with pale complexion and dull or
dark hair however, it should be relieved
with a dash of color, knot of bright-hued
ribbon at the throat, or bunch of crimson
flowers at the belt often changing an Ordi-
nary toilet into perfect picture.
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People never seem to experience any diff
ficulty in getting into a street car, yet in
passing out they always duck their heads as
nimbly and eXpertly as If, instead of being
citizens and citizenesses of great, free,
glorious Republic, they had been living all
their lives in hourly expectation of the gull
lotine.
Summer may now be regarded as an es-
tablished fact, for the gentlemen are begin
ming to blossom out in straw hats. The
ladies always rush into their summer head
gear while still shivering in fur, but it's a
warm day when man can be induced to
get out his, though he always looks particu-
larly well in it.
#x*
The girls would do well to remember
that it is much nicer, and gives one much
greater air of individuality, to choose a
single favorite perfume, and use it, to the
exclusion of all others, than to have every
article of ones clothing exhaling different
odor.
~
Of all sad things in this melancholy world
the very saddest is to fall desperately in
love with charming girl, only to discover
either that she is engaged or is just going
to be. So, at least, says one of our sweet
est and dearest young society men, and he
ought to know, having just passed through
his third experience Of that sort of thing.
LADY RAMBLER.