St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-08
Edwin Booth Still Refuses to Go to Wash
ington on Account Of the Great
Tragedy.
The Dude Styles Indicate 81 Mild Win
ter--Autograph Fiends at the
White House.
weddings, Balls, Dinners and Sur
prise Partfes--The Proper Styles
of Beauty.
Washington DOings.

dirty, picked up the damaged headgear.
Alter brushing it with piece OF dress
Wnlcn hung from her waist, the female
gaiilin handed it to the lady. who said very
sweetly: Thank you little miss. Here
Is quarter for you. Tell your mamma
that Mrs. Cleveland gave it to you, for
keepsake" The delighted child, open
eyed and Open-mouthed stared after the can
terlng sorrel with its graceful rider for fully
hVe minutes. Then, breaking into 60
as-you-p please canter she ran home and
Durst Into the howell breaehlessly. exclaim-
ing: "Ere, man. Miss Cleyelun done
gimme this" Meanwhile, Miss Kate Field
RODE on into the city, feeling that she had
done noble act in dispensing quarter,
and dispensing with the truth SO blthely.
Our theaters and alleged opera houses are
paying TO the poorest kind of business.
Mlnstrelsy and that frequently of the
poorest sort, is the only kind of stage bust
ness winch draws here, except when con-
greSs Is III session. Then. to be sure, we
have metropolitan city and make metro
polltan demands upon our places of amuse-
ment. Ordinarily. however. Washington
Is pretentlOus village When mana ger
can get AIr. Cleveland or his wife. or Oorh
10 attend performance there comes a
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land goes anywhere now; and the president
IS too absorbed in his work to leave the
White house. except under feminine orders.
Our Washington boy, Louis James. is quite
star, and during the past week he has
done very fair business in legitimate
tragedy. Not little OF his success is due.
to his brilliant wife, Marie Walnright. She
divides the hOnorS with her husband, es-
pec.ally i'll Richelieu. Edwin Booth. who
recently favored st. Paul and Minneapolis
with his wonderful tragic delineatons will
be at Baltimore soon. Washingt0nians go
there in great crowds to hear him. He
has never been in Washington since his
brothers fatal mistake. Neither privately
nor publicly. will he visit this city, Yet,
before J Ohm Wilkes Booth
STARTLED THE WORLD
by his crime, Edwin Booth was the most
popular actor this city knew. He had
many friends and acquaintance here. and
was ilOniZed III society. But lie buried his
Washington life in the grave with his mad
cap brother.
Unless all the old Indian signs fail. this
year we will have mild winter in Wash
ington. All of the dudes are having their
overcoatS made short enough to show their
swalloWtailS. Moreover, the double eve
glass is beng discarded for the single.
These signs are infallible in this latitude.
! Col. William T. Cody, the manager of that
unique aud highly instructive, entertaining
and recherche combination, vulgarly known
as the ''WId West" Is at the Ebbitt house
for a week. He has been elected an honor
airy member of our Veteran corps, and has
been the recipient of many social attentions
from the veterans and their families. Aside
from the fact that William wears an I'M
usual amount of hair on his throbbing
| brain and carries his legs around in leather
trousers he is as handsome a man as
ever led the lancers or scalped
an aborigine. He is. withal, one
of the most entertaining takers one would
care TO ind in drawng-room full of dudes.
Some time ago two little girls at Hagers-
| town, Nd, sent pretty bouquet to Mrs.
| Cleveland, accompanied with childish let
! ter. They received very nice autographs
reply from the mistress of the manse, and
of course highly priced their letter. 1t was
| shown to er5rybody. and soon found its
way into local paper. The result has
been peculiar. Every young miss and
ancient maiden in Hagerstown has been
writing to Mrs. Cleveland; some of the
young men also have been writing to Mrs
| letters have become nuisance. and are in
the files of correspondence never to be an
swered. The good people of Hagerstown
are not discouraged, however in their en-
deavors to get autographs letters. They
write, apOlogiZng for their former letters
and regretting that they wrote at such a
busy season, yet hoping that the return
mail will bring some answers. The auto
graph hunter is almost as greatly dreaded
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
as an insurance agent or lightning rod
man to a farmer ON the prairieS. After
all weer to have a gay season. As gay
as it can be without the White house for
the center and circumference of it ALL
You see we've been so accustomed to fol-
low the executive mansion that it is like
learning to walk to get along without it.
| But there are so many little determina-
tons cropping out. for jolly times, that
there seems now but little possibility Of
| any dullneSs. Everybody is so thoroughly
prepared for it, you know. SOmany we'd
dings are being announced; and you know
that weddings make brightness and gaiety
when nothing else can, Then cards are
coming out every day for receptions, balls,
dinners, surprise parties, and SIGH" that
already entertainment enough for month
ahead is promised. A West end young
lady says ttat we are to have three
months carnival of fun. Matches are
making and being made by the score.
They say that Mrs. Logan has no less then
four matches now being made. all under
her own direction. She has selected the
couples and is making them fall in love
SO fast they don't know just what is
happening to them; except that
they are always together, and wishing for
each other, and looking for each other at
every reception. and getting lnseparable.
Strange, isn't it, how people can be thrown
| together so much, and such innocent and
suggestive things said to them. until they
are clean gone on each other?" Yet it is
done all the time Half of the marriages
are brought about by third parties, and not
by the principals themselves. Terpschore
is potent agent. There are numerous
balls announced, and when soft eyes look
love to eyes, which speak again. as they
mingle i'm close embrace to 1.-The laSciviouS
blessings of the Lutte" Cupid is always
lingering near, shooting love glances and
wedding arrows into those eyes and pierre
ing their very souls. On. yes, Terpschore
is potent factor in merry making and
MATCHMAKING.
The ladies are wearing whole flower
gardens this season. A bouquet in the
hand. an immense corsage bouquet, bout
tonnieres la breast-pins, headgear tied
with floral strings-fowers everywhere.
They wear them in the streets. at home.
at church, at the opera. Indoors the air
is redolent OF the sweet perfumes which
actually become offensive BY their Excess
sive exuberance. Your American girl
overdoes everything, if she can. Thank
the Lord hats have had tumble There
will be less of the pokey- poke bonnet
shaned mnnstrnsitias for the men to com