St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-08
those jewelers. who are tired OF devising
eccentric scarf-pins.


creatures in the history of New York. She
is small. yellow, heavy-eyed, and has
not particularly good figure. l have seen
her number of times. but never when she
was pleasing enough to cause casual OBJ
servers to look a second time. She has
fair education but no attanmentS, and her
origin is obscure. Nevertheless men have
gone crazy over her for years, fought
like beasts for place in her affections,
and sacrificed everything that bound
them to decency and responsibility that
they might be with her. The curious part of
it is, am assured, that she is not woman
who cares at all for money, but she seems
to be gifted with a romantic disposition and
every eScapade is matter of life and death
to her. Last year she got into the papers
because one of her discarded lovers, and
man OF position at that, waited on the door
step of her house and deliberately attempted
to murder her when she went out for a
drive. She was very seriously wounded,
lost all her money and was deserted by the
very men who had struggled so hard to win
her. Her husband, though he has long since
ceased to have anything to do with her, was
struck by her pitiable condition, and pro-
vided for her until she recovered from
her wound. She wrote him beautiful and
touching letters until she grew c0nvalescent,
and then she promptly went off to live with
a brother of Congressman Adams. All of
which has been brought to public notice by
the arrest and Imprisonment of Adams for
the theft of $11, 500, which it is said he
stole for her sake, and which has long since
been spent. | wonder who the next victim
of this remarkable woman will be. Age
seems to have no effect whatever upon her
remarkable powers, and there is no telling
how many more victims will mark the line
of her triumphal progress through life.
HOW MANY STRANGE STORIES
could be told about the women of New
York! 1t is a curious thing how few of
them arrive at any distinction other than
that gained from some sensational or tragic
escapade with men of more or less notori-
ety. There is no end of men in New York
whom the public knows by name, fame or
personal appearance; but it is impossible
for any man to pick out a hundred women
in the whole city of New York of whom
the world knows anything at all, unless
they are actresses or women of decidedly
shaky reputation. Just now we are talking
about poor little Dolly Adams, the girl who is
dying in a hOrribletenement on theWeSt side.
while a score of desperate and SoullesS men
and women reyel around her bedside. keep
ulS tlcu SIccuy eyes upOu lcI OldluOllu
rings and jewelry, waiting until she dies
that they may snatch them from her. People
who have never seen Dolly Adams, and
who are familiar with her only on account
of the thousands of photographs with
which the country has been flooded, have
no idea of the woman herself. The photo
graphs usually represent her in bathing
dress calculated to show off her figure to
perfection, and they usually give the i'm
preston of a big though decidedly hand
some woman. In reality she is extremely
petite, and might be described as delicate
and almost dainty little blonde. She is
quite ignorant, and knows nothing of the
world, despite her experience with the
rougher side of it. She was always good
swimmer, and when she made her first
appearance as water queen in the big
aquarium she took the town by storm. Her
beauty of face and figure drew hundreds to
the aquarium every night and among them
were the usual lot of men of pleasure.
Dolly Adams experiences from that time
forth were constantly attracting attention.
One woman poisoned herself in a boarding
house which Dolly Adams kept in Twenty
seventh street, and just as this scandal died
out, Mrs. Uhler died there under tragic cir
cumstances. The mention of Mrs. Uhler
calls up host of recollections-how she
left her husband and two beautiful children
to live with man called Hayerstick, he in
turn being killed by Mrs. Uhler'S brother,
who himself died
UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
in the West few months afterward, and
the series of tragedies being at last wound
up by the suicide of Mrs. Uhler herself.
Four or five years ago Mrs. Uhler was living
in magnificent style. a respectable wife and
a fond and happy mother, and Dolly
Adams was the pet of the town, with
money and jewels showered at her feet, and
everything at her beck and CALL The first
of these three women died a poverty
stricken suicide, and the third lies dying
under heart-rending circumstances in a
squalid tenement on the West side.
A PRIVATE LETTER
from girl in London tells me that the most
attractive women in London society are
Americans. Even the English are obliged
to admit that their own girls cream and
roses compilations can be matched by the
once sallow Yankees, whose delcacy and
grace throw the heavy English type of
beauty into the shade. English beauties, so
called, cannot hold candle to some of the
merely pretty women that have been ex-
ported from the estates" in the past five
years. Opinion of the clubs and drawing
rooms of London is well agreed to that
point, though it is
LIKE PULLING TEETH
to make the women acknowledge what the
men have already accepted as an interna-
tional fact. 1t is believed, however, that
some of the society women who have gone
over to London to be presented at court
will find themselves in the dsconsolate pos
ition of the peris at the gates of Paradise
The :'shut out' at Buckingham palace is
occasionally more forcible than fattering.
Beaded silk stockings are announced for
summer wear. They must be excessively
uncomfortable, and consequently exces-
Sively fashionable. Their merits will
probably be centered in the burlesque ex-
tremities, for it delights my aesthetic soul
to say that hosiery is now fashionable only
when very plain. Black silk is worn more
| than ever, although some are predicting
and trying to hasten the day of the white
| balbriggan. A tidy compromise is an ecrue
cOlored stocking with white sole heel anC
toe, of light weight and good value fol
| the money. In addition to the
| handsome black and dark-colored silk and
| Isle thread stockings, there are such mum.
bers and endless variety of silk and Isle
hose, in checked and barred, striped anC
blocked effects. as induces the belief that
we are going to have a revival of fancy
hosiery, and that stockings will again be
| bought to match costumes; but L think the
movement will fail. Time will tell. Many
who do not like the black silk stockings OF
who think it too expensive, buy Isle stock
ings in dark blue, slate. red or green.
These are generally the women
WHO TRY TO HIDE THEIR FEET
when taking Turkish baths, for much hos
iery is almost sure to stain the feet. Loud
checks, stripes and plaids are always pleas
ing to some, and can. of course, be found,
but they are not considered nice. For Slip
per stockings little more latitude is al
lowed, and gay colors, especially in silk,
are allowable. Still, the rule is for fine EN-.