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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
FASHIONS FOLLIEs.
Tight Lacing and Kindred Evils
luminous 10 Feminine Health.

Tight Lacing and Kindred Evils
RuinOus 10 Feminine Health.
Tight corsetsi They ruin the health of
six women out of every ten," exclaimed an
experienced physician, after examining a
beautiful woman who was recently brought
to the Roosevelt hospital suffering from an
acute pain in the side. which her physician
had failed to cure at home
Yes" said the doctor, my words were
only too true. Nobody but physician has
even an idea of the injury women suffer on
account of the prevailing tOrturing fash
ions, and tight lacing is one of the worst
of these and does the most harm. Think
of beautiful girl COMPRISING her form in
steel, making the upper part of her body
look like thTee-cOrnered tart The other
day a handsome girl came to me at my
honse.
Doctor said she, my face is flushed
most of the time, especially when l go out
in the evening. and thought perhaps you
could tell me the reason of it, / measured
her waist-eighteen inches-and her bust
measured thirty-slx! Just let your waist
out eight inches and you will never be
troubled any more / answered her. She
didn't believe me, but she will some time. -
Another physician interviewed on the
subject was particularly hard on the tonureS
and bustleS which are considered necessary
by most ladies for the proper adjustment OF
their back drapery.
The idea of women putting heavy little
hair mattresses against their spines and
bundles of mohaiT, whalebOnes and similar
things and expecting TO be healthy! She has
such pain in her back and her head feels
so heavy, and no wonder. The poor nerv-
Gus system has more than it can BEAR" said
the doctor. "a lady came to me few days
ago and said that her life had become a
burden. That she had a headache every
morning and backache every night and
when l told her that they were both due to
bustles and high-heeled shoes she looked at
me as though / were insane"
"High-heeled shoes are worn By most
women, and do not believe they do any
HARM" said fashionable shoe dealer, but
when one of his customers was questioned
on the subject she said: "Oh. they're not
comfortable, really, TO be truthful and
wish they were not fashionable. 1t isn't
pleasant to have to walk around on ones
toes all day, but when you wear low-heeled
shoe with broad toe your foot looks two
inches longer at least, and looks are every
thing, you know"
'.FashiOnl 1 hate the wordr' said we'll
known woman physician belonging to the
WOman's hospital. False hair used TO
any extent sOftens the brain; tight stays
injure the heart, liver and ruin the COM
plexion; heavy skirts hanging on the waist
break the back and are harmful 70 the ner-
vOus system. If American girls would only
try to be like the Greek ideal of beauty,
which they rave over, but never try to
initiate, they might all be fine, healthy
| women"
What is the Greek model?r
''Well. the waist should be twice as large
as the neck, and the foot one-sixth the
length of the body. The bust should be
about ten inches larger about than the waist;
but when viii you get most girls to believe
| this?"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14

shown in our Illustration. 1t has Just been
completed and worn for the first time at q
recent ball The skirt and train is of pink
silk with a decOllete bodice of deep garnet
velvet made perfectly plain. and lacing at
the side. The lace trimming. the tablier
and panels is the new Fedora lace, which
is most delicate in design, resembling round
point lace. The full drapery caught at one
side OF the pink silk, and feather fan, silk
slippers and q pOmpon in the HAIR, all a
delicate pink, complete the dress.
Speaking of trained dresses for ballroom
wear reminds one of the white skirt which
must be worn underneath. 1t was and Is
the fashion to a large extent to wear a
trained white pettieoat, very much starched
and trimmed, out as the two trains are apt
to become separated new method has been
introduced. The train of the dress is lined
with fiounces of fluted tarlatan from its
edge up to a half yard from where it
touches the floor. This has been found
most effective and does away with the long
white skirt.
Pretty dancing dresses have skirts Of
Oriental or Spanish lace, tulle or Swiss,
made with rather broad side plaitings,
reaching from the belt TO the instep. and a
bodice of velvet or satin with sash tying
in the back. An old dress may be made
over in this way and look nicely.
The fans carried this winter are extremely
large and made Of ostrich tips. Those en-
tirely of crimson with tOrtoise-shell sticks
are fashionable.
Humming birds and little white Java
sparrows are used extensively to ornament
ball dresses. and look pretty peeping out
from folds of tulle.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
DECORATIyE ART.
The Charming Manner i'm Which n
Young Girl Utilized 10.
Philadelphia Times.

Enlladelpnla Times.
The art of decoration is being taught the
young girls of the metropolis to point that
surpasses description. Work which was
formerly done upon silks and yeiyets is
now given TO their apartments. There is a
great charm in what and the way in which
women put things into their rooms. Any
body with money can buy rich furniture,
but it takes ingenuity and good taste to
make bed chamber look beautiful with
little things that do not cost much had
an Illustration this morning. MignOn Con-
nor, the daughter of Capt. Common. gave
me peep into her cosy little apartment
Just to show what tasty girl can do with
a few pictures. several fans, some glass
bottles, an occasional photograph, bit of
lace, handkerchief and few
other little trinkets that sort of
drift into wOman's life as
she Is growing from girlhoed towards wom-
anhOOd. The single brass bedstead which
stood in the corner has a beautiful can
opy OF cretonne about it, and over it, on the
wall the child's tennis bats hang Against
the door are two horseshoes interlaced. and
the little girl said: Il am sure re have good
luck. You know the gypsies say if you if
turn your horseshoe down one way all the
luck Will run out, and we Americans have
a superstition that If you turn it the other
wayall the luck runs out, so have two, TO
make sure that all the good fortune stays
In" There was an air OF confusion about
the decorations that amazed me. and yet
as the little girl pointed to each article and
recalled some bit OF history connected with
II could see how thorough the order was
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
What "A Lit1tIe Gir1,, MIA

A little girl whose father had been read.
ing to her story of a child who was eaten
up by bear could not seem to forget it. and
at night she said:
''Oh, papa, wasn't that dreadful story?
And then the poor child couldn't go up to
heavenp'
''Why not?"
why, there she was inside the bearr'
A little girl came running into the housG
and told her mother she had scratched an
other girl. why did you not stop and
take the consequences inquired her
mother. oh" she replied, II took the
consequences before l scratched herl''
A little girl was seated at the table oppo-
site gentleman with a waxed mustacne.
After gazing at him for several moments,
she exclaimed: ''My kitty mas got smelIers.
toOl''
A little girls father sang in a church
choir in Boston. Upon attending church
here she noticed that the singers seats were
in the rear gallery. She inquired: ''Does
my papa sit in the attic and sing, same as
they do here?"
A little girl asked her mother what she
should do if she did not have her Heavenly
Father TO tell everything to. Il don't
know" replied her mother, ''we should not
have half the good things we have now. -
NO" quickly responded the child, mot
even sweet potatoes"
A little girl. upon her first attendance at
Sunday school, was given the verse to re-
cite. Blessed are the peacemakers. y When
she returned home her mother INQUIRED
what the verse was. She answered, Blessed
are the dressmakers' pieces
y little girl whose conduct made her
mother say that she feared she did not pray.
replied: Yes. do; pray every night
that God viii make you and pa like my ways
better"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14

praised for it. IL may be remarked that
the garment which she weaIs is made of
white embossed velvet. and 5 in actuality
a thing of richness and beauty. A great
ado is now being made. by the way. about
the wearing of tights in the current bur
lesques.
Il am an experienced actress that has
seen a great deal Of the world and | may
speak plainly" said truly good actress TO
me at is not the tights that are doing
the most mischief. The
FULL AND FREE
display of the limbs on the stage is not de-
moraliZng. | have heard my husband say
that he had discussed the subject with a
on women so exhibited very much as
they do upon a picture or statue.
Reality becomes art, and publicity
and custom train the minds of spec
tators SO that there is little harm.
think, in these displays. But the evil of
the stage and the point at which reformers
should attack it is in those methods of APP
pealing TO the passions which we have bOr-
rowed from the French women who present
opera bouffe here. / mean the singing of
dubious songs and all that sort of thing
There is nothing but wickedness in these
things, and nothing but wickedness is
meant by them. The women who practice
these arts are not always so artistic as they
seem. If left to themselves, they would
nearly all go too far, for few of
them care farthing for what they do,
so that they make a hit The con-
sequence is that they practice their feverish
wiles before the men of their acquaintance
off the stage, and thus learn at what point
the most decentralization may be produced
Still, if dressed in a low corsage for ball,
the same women would resent the most
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14

The lights are low, the dance is done,
The walters vanished. one by one,
And far away the Eastern sky
Prepares TO greet the rising sun
How fast the fevered moments Nv,
When mirth and pleasure speed them by,
And floating music, free from care,
Finds echo in the burning sigh!
The low sweet strains each joyous pair
Heard rise and fall in cadence rare
Are silent now. but still It seems
A mournful echo fills the air.
My saddened fancy scars. and teens
With airy and fantastic dreams
The silent hall, the gloomy place,
Suggest such melancholy themes.
Throughout my mind light visions chase
OF infinite and varied grace;
i see a form perfection owns
And, in the gloom, a matchless face,
hear subdued and winning tones
Such lustrous eyesl but, ah, my groans
Tell that for me it was no fun.
For all the night she danced with JonesI
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14


the footlights. Such is the influence of
custom. To me inexpressibly
THE MOST SHOCKING THING
on the stage is what have just described,
and it should be stopped or children should
be forbidden to go to the theatre; but even
that is hardly worse than what has to be
done behind the curtain before the women
are engaged. refer to the display women
who apply for employment have to make
before they are engaged. OF course, it has
TO be done. Scraggy and shapeless limbs
and forms can not be put on exhibition,
and so these women. coming right
in from the street in street attire.
are obliged to exhibit their limbs to mana
ayers in their offices. In some theaters I
am told that few men about town, news
paper reporters and other friends of the
managers, are regularly invited to be pres
emit and look on. To be sure, few of
the women mind it, but that is nothing
so long as there are those who do, and
who, coming to US for a living, must
needs have their modesty crushed at the
very threshold of the theater. But /
weary you. feel deeply on this subject,
and suppose talk tho much about it. But
there is one ray Of hope for the stage. 1t
is OVERRIDING the matter and will go so far
that, in my opinion, reforms will be forced
upon it. said to myself when 1 saw the
ballet in the Devils Auction moving about
with peacocks' tails affixed to the ends of
their spines-thes most degraded, coarse
and shocking thing ever women were forced
to submit to in our business-I said to my
self when saw that, well, this problem
is working out its own solution. Audiences
can't stand much more than they are get
ting, and the turn of the tide must be at
hand"
IT IS NOT MERELY
whether a costume is becoming to its
wearer, but if it harmonizes with other cos
tunes in the room, that decides its milln-
cry success. No one can go much into the
churches and jams of society without feel
ing that women are making stupendous eff
tort to dress UP to the idea of their dress
maker, and to be original at any cost
Many seemingly tastefully carried
out design has proved failure
when seen in juxtaposition with more elab-
crate simplicity. Select colors that cannot
kill or be killed; do not let them be pro-
nounced or elementary, and remember to
get away from those other gowns which do
not blend with the hues you have chosen.
A well-known artist was seen the other
evening grinding his teeth and wrinkling
brow generally smooth and placid.
On inquiry if he had an attack
of neuralgia he replied no. but he
was suffering because Mrs. A.,
who wore reddish brown. was conversing
with Mrs. B., who was dressed In violent
peacock blue, and the two tones quarreled
like cat and dog. Bridal wells of real lace
are now put on so as to come down to the
eyebrows only, leaving the rest of the face
uncovered, while at the back they only veil
the skirt In part This arrangements for
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
SAME THING.

'.Let the boat drift" said she,
''O'er the sea the light winds fretting,
BY the world forgotten, we
The world in turn forgetting"
And hand-sought little hand,
And the breeze the whisper bore
OF the blue waves to the strand:
''We've seen all that beforep'
Yestreen beneath the shade
/ sat beside the sea,
And, as recalled the maid
And her faithlessness TO me,
Ny tears fell down like rain,
And the blue waves to the shore
The whisper breathed again:
We've seen all that beforer'
Il From the French
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
HORSES WITH HYDRoPHOBIA.
Well-DevelOped Cases of Rabiess
acknowledgement quines.
Omaha Rec

The brain of horse which is reported
to have died at Kearney last Friday from
hydrophobia was examined by DIR. Thomas
yesterday, and said to be badly congested.
An autopsy was held on the animal at the
time by DR.. Ramaccotti of Omaha, and the
interior organs found in good condition.
The horse was one of eighteen bought by
Cutting, Miller and johnson of KeaTney in
Illinois last month. When they reached
Kearney the horses were separated. Last
week Cutting lost four and Miller and John
son one each. The symptoms in every in
stance were alike. The sick horse would
suddenly show signs of aversion to water,
act as though badly frightened, and gem
orally drop off after four or five hours suf-
fering. Messrs. johnson and Barnhardt of
the commission, and DR.. Ramaccotti reached
Kearney Friday in time to see one of the
last cases, and agree in pronouncing it
genuine rabies. How or when the animals
were impregnated with the virus is not
known.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
FEATHERS ON FAIRIES.
Dainty, RainbOW-Hued Robe, and
Ostrich-TipPed Fans.

Although Lent is only a month away,
new ball-dresses are being ordered every
week, some of them extremely expensive
ana novel. Bonnet-silks, which are heavy
in texture. yet very soft and suitable for
draping. are being largely introduced for
trains and bodices, and come in the new
shades of primrose-pink, saffron-yelIow,
sea-foam-green aud dusty blue"
Velvets and brocades. as well as laces
and tulle, are combined with the silk. One
of the most artistic of these costumes is
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14

q Red Swiss peasant bodices are again
quite the thing for young girls. They are
laced in front over stomacher and
trimmed with bows at the shoulder. A
sort of plated blouse serves as compile
bands are made of the same ribbon as the
shoulder bows the blouse is especially be-
coming.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
NULL AGAIN GUARDS TOTS.
Little Maids OF Acadia Made TO Look
Old-FashiOned.

Simple little party dresses of null and
lace are again in favor for children, and
certainly seem more appropriate than silks
and velvets. For a tot of five or six the
dress of white French null and Valenci-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
Opera Inuendoes Principally to Blame for
Stage immortality, an Actress
Tells Clara Belle.
Pronounced Oostuming of an Abbreviated
Nature, However, Working Out
its Own Solution.
Pretty Wedding Gowns in Which
Fair Young Brides Set off
Their Charms.
Curious but Comfortable Toboggan
suit Which a Belle Devised Re
gardIess of Expense.
Clara Beliefs Gossip.
New York Letter.

New York Letter.
Here is a fashionable womsn of New
York commercially rugged ont for the opera.
There is a special meaning in what say as
to her propriety, because she is covered to
the throat. Maybe she has throat too
bonv TO think of exposing in public; per-
haps she was burned to soaring degree
with a fIat-iron or something, and that's
why she wont uncover; but if she is non
disclosiye on principle she ought to be
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14

How n Clever Young Girl Beautified
Her Mountaineering Odds and
Ends From all Quarters
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
THE WOMAN'S GLOBE.
Toilet Mysteries of Partisan Bellies Which
Serve Them Instead of the Foun-
tain of Perpetual Youth.
Dainty and Costly Garments in Which
Fond Mothers Oloths Their
Pretty, Spoiled Darlings.

Tight Lacing and Other Follies Ruin
Gus TO the Health Of Would-be
Fashionable womankfnd.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14

the front to the Cigale silk skirt A large
pocket adorns this apron. and out OF 1t
hangs bright-colored handkerchief. The
bodice is made of the striped skirting. but
is almost hidden by the bib of the apron
and fichu of Algerian silk striped red and
biscuit-colored. A white muslin cap covers
this half Of the head and ties under the
chin with the neighborIy mantilly. The
hair under this cap is quite smoothly
banded Offering piQuant contrast with
the waving locks at the right side Inc
feet and legs are, of course. as much at va
rance as the two sides. The Cigale leg Is
eneased In red silk stocking matching the
dress on that side and little shoe OF black
satin. The Fourmi. on the contrary, has a
stocking of dark blue yarn and q wooden
sabot-a very uncomfortable arrangement,
should think. The right arm, in a long
Olack lace mitten, holds guitar. The left
arm. gulltless of sleeve or glove, is en-
numbered with huge round loaf.-GirlS'
Gossip in London Truth.
How Beauty Preserved.
1t is stated that a well-known society
woman of Baltimore, who preserves her
beauty and freshness remarkably well, de-
spite her many seasons pursuit of excite
ment in the social whirl. attributes her good
| fortune TO the practice of drinking a small
cup of lukewarm water every day on leav-
ing her couch. So strong is her faith in the
efficacy of this remedy that its omission is
sure TO cause depression and languor
In speaking of this few days ago a we'll
known matron of Baltimore said: Il
have known many ladies to be equally de-
voted to some article which could not pos
sibly have benefited them except through
| their Imagination. One lady know has a
glass of toast water placed beside her bed
by her maid every morning. Another uses
Tablespoonful of tincture of einchona
in goblet of water; still another takes a
pinch of table salt into her mouth before
/ leaving her bed. Lots of ladies resort to
such common articles as oranges and lem
ons and Apollinaris water, or TO cool
plunge baths, but the most singular freak
/ ever heard of was that of Philadelphia
belle who every morning regularly gargled
her throat with soapsuds made of white
CASTLE soap, which she believed was abso-
lutely necessary to the preservation Of her
health. "-BaltimOre News.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14

lace Yeils. which are never so wide as
plain tule ones. The latter are al
ways worn TO envelop the figure
entirely in the back and often COM
ing down below the waist in front, al
though this latter arrangement is optional
Satin is less and less worn for bridal
dresses. faiIle and soft. lustrous gros- grains
having usurped the place of this often be-
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-11-18
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

TIE imports into Great Britain of cotton
during the week ending on the 18th were
1856 bales and the exports b,3i6 lales.
Since January 1St the imports OF cotton
have teen 2,975,G55 bales and the exports
GGS,3j5 bales.
THE ofisial figures for mayor of New
York are: Hewitt 90.552, George Is, ITO,
Roosevelt 81, 0,435, and Wardwell 5Sc.
GEN. CHALMERS is getting ready to con-
test Hon. j. b. Morgan's election in the
Sccocd Congressional District Of Missis-
sippi.
TIE attempts to Gust United States Mar
shel 10 lvins of the Eastern District OF
Tennessee, have proven failure.
THE wooden mills at Jackson, Tenn,
manufacture bl ,nkets worth 80 per pair.
THE workingmen of New York City who
voted To- Henry George have organized
for the Presidential campaign, with n view
of putting labor candidate i'll the field.
THE Clerk of the present Hous" of Rep
resentativcs has made n carefully pre-
pared roll of members elect, which shows
that the Democrats will have lao votes
and the Republicans 1872.
MRS. MIRRIAN PUTNAM, of Danvers,
Mass, celel rated her l02d birthday on the
l4th. Mrs. Putnam is the mother OF twelve
children. five of whom are now living.
Her memory goes back to the death OF
Washington.
THE Secretary Of War has approved the
allotment of $4,000 for levee purposes Tor
the levees of the Yazoo delta. This VIII,
it is believed, complete continuous leVee
from Memphis to VicksturG.
JAMES D. FISH, the man who rnned Gen.
Grant, financially, and spent millions OF
borrowed money in fruitless speculation,
is about 10 die in the New York State
prison.
The Executive Board of the Knights Of
Labor on the 18th ordered the Chicago
strikers back to work at the old hours.
THE dead body of an unknown man was
found in Wolf river, near Memphis, on The
18th. He was about five feet six inches
tall, weighing about 100 pounds, some
As years of age, and apparently German.
LOUISVILLE had a $4,000 fire on the
18th.
BUSINESS failures occurring throughout
the country during the week ending on
the 18th number for the United States l9S,
Canada SO, total 23I, compared with 1SG
1856 last week.
MooDY's CHURCH In Chicago was burn
ed on the 18th. Loss $4,000.
The official count in the Seventh South
Carolina Clngre ressional District gives tbs
election to VIM. Elliott, Democrats over
Smalls, Republican.