St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-21

Stunned as you would shun mad dog. If
your spoon at the hotel table has not been
thoroughly cleaned with acid you may take
rabies from the man who used last before
you. If. I'm moment of extremely kindly
feeling toward humanity, you pick up and
restore a dudes cane you may get rabies
from the frosted-silver head which slipped
from his mouth, and the act of courtesy
may cost you your life. In rural places,
where it Is customary for all the wedding
guests TO kiss the bride, there is
NO TELLING
how saturated with hydrOphObic venom
she may become in brief space OF time.
The table-fOrk of an envenOIned guest at
an eating-house carries particle Of saliva
to the shred of meat he leaves Oh his plate,
and on the following day you are served
with the germs Of rabies in your plate of
hash. or later you get the mOrsel i'm link
of sausage-thus realizing the humorist's
dream of getting hydrOphobia from a bO-
Iogna. Even a casual thought Of the pos
sible perils that may arise in this way is
sufficient TO raise the question whether it
would not be best TO head up those Newark
children in casks and feed them through
the bung-hole til Pasteur decides that they
may safely be turned loose.
Did you ever see a fashion started? You
know how mysterious are the modes? To-
day you are wearing collars and cuffs. and a
little while ago neither were worn. To-day
you have on hat of shape that no money
could buy year ago simply because IL was
not made. Who made these changes? They
are instituted in London and Paris. you
say; very true. but how, why and by
whom? Some fashions are easily traced TO
the Princess OF Wales limp Of a few years
ago, for instance, of the present Newman
ket shaped after a peasants coat the Prince
put on 10 shelter him from a storm one day
while hunting. but in all my experience /
never was so close upon the very starting
Of style as have just been. You know
the tobOggan fever is new here. and it is
newest at Orange, y. j. The young men in
charge Of the chute did not. and do not now,
know enough to employ men to stand at the
end Of the run 10 stop the tobOggans and
get them out OF the way while their
passengers leap off the track and save
themselves from flyers coming after them.
The consequence was that very often Just
as a couple of girls would be digging their
heels into the snow for purchase by which
to lift themselves to an erect position
along would come another tobOggan load,
and send the first ones flying. That was a
rare place for a study OF hosiery, i can
tell you. and even the most modest young
men could have told you that plain color
stockings, especially Of dark shades, are
now the rule: indeed. more Of the art and
science Of female apparel than the mere
stockings was often harshly cOntrasted
against the pure white snow. Well, one
of the girls. an ingenious and
INDEPENDENT MISS,
was just in that position the other day;
knees up, heels ground i'm. and hands up
raised for lift from the gentleman, when,
flash! came a swift tObOggan, and away
she went, still seated, but flying like a swal-
low. The end Of her flight found her with
her skirt well no under her arms, and moth
ing between her and the ice but single
garment. But what was that garment?
You should have seen the girls flock around
her, pretending to shield her from the gaze
OF the male tobogganers, but in reality all
striving to see what on earth she had on.
As they lifted her TO her feet and her blan-
ket skirt fell in place, one put the question::
"Where did you get them?"
They're the style at Rideau hall" she
replied.
That was enough. Half dozen of her in
Inmates from that time on asked her every
fifteen minutes when she was going home.
and when she did 90 home they went with
her, and they" as the garment was called,
was taken off and handed around for in
spection. They" were simply a pair of
trousers made of brown toboggan blanket
ing, with the red border at the waistband
and at the ends Of the legs. a pair of
trousers, say, but they would never have
been put on by a man by mistake, for two
reasons: first, because there was a large
ness and loOseneSs at the upper end. not at
all characteristic of tailor-made garments.
But they were cute. The red border was
made to ornament 'they" at the waistband
and at the bottoms, and
TO FIX THEM on
were very cunning leather belts at the waist
and leg bottoms, each ending with three
little morocco straps fitted to silver-plated
buckles. They reached just below the
knee. That was three weeks ago, and to-
day not only have nearly all the girls who
are fond of tobOgganing at Orange got
them, but friend belonging to ''the Ridge
field set" at Albany, who keeps me posted
as to country fashions, writes me that the
case is the same there. She writes me that
the idea is Canadian; so that is once L have
seen the origin of a fashion.
what L said about their being worn at
Rideau hall may be true or may not" said
my friend, the inventress. II don't know
how that is. but am certain the ladies
there, from the Marchioness of Landsdowne
to the humblest Canuck belle, will get on
to them, or into them, sooner or later, be-
cause they are just the thing. With ribbed
bicycle stockings and these trousers a girl
can stand anything, from climbing a tree
to falling through the ice into the river,
without them we were always cold
and always-well, shocking each other
But, as 1 was about to remark, l said Ri
deau HALF because it's English, you know,
and knew it would give the trousers a
prestige they could not obtain from poor
little me. I'd have said London or pa
ree.' only they don't tobog in those centers
of fashion, you see. Clara Belle in Gin
cinnati Fnouirer