St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-11
Ladies Without Head Gear at the Grand
Create Mild but Pleas
ing Sensation.
a Bit of a Dissertation on Spring Styles in
Hats-The Mother Hubbard
Renaissance.
Impressed by Lent's SoIemnity and n
Pastors Word, Certain Ladies
VIII Modify the Waltz.
The Round Up of Parties, Weddings
and Progressive Euchre Seances
--Notes.
BELLIES AND REAUX.
Society in MinneapOlis--AmOn the
GnN..GnSsin aud Personals.

Society in NinneapOlis--AmOn the
Gay--GOssip and Personals.
A wild sensation was created at the
Grand opera on Thursday evening by the
presence of number of our leading ladies
in the English style of wearing no headgear.
They sat in the boxes and only their own
tresses. with the addition of a flower or
two. adorned their Shapely heads. The eff
feet was certainly pleasing. They seemed
to lose the air of rush and hurry which hats
and bOnnets always give and they could
not have appeared TO better advantage in
their own drawing rooms. This is called
English, but it has been in vogue in the
South for years. Ten years ago the ladies
of New Orleans sat bOnnetleSs at the opera
or theater. The custom is good one. The
perennial grumbler, who always gets be-
hind the very largest bonnet i'll the house.
will have no excuse for grumbling If the
hat is not there. Ladies may so dress their
hair that hats and bOnnetS may be removed
on entering the house; it will improve the
general-at-home feeling of the audience
and will leave no cause for grumbling.
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The hats this spring are simply out
rageOuS for opera house wear. Fashion and
style seem TO be eXerting themselves to see
now high they can get the crowns Nicol-
let avenue during the fine afternoons of last
week looked as though a procession of kegs
were moving along. 1t was only the high
hats. The extreme of style is at least as
high as Il silk hat II is a sort of Mother
Hubbard Renaissance in the way of hat,
and if it would only taper little more,
would make a tirSt-claSS witch'S hat. To
some of the ladies they are intensely be-
coming, but 10 Others they are-well, not
oil ff,.ats saffs tn, COW "a
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Certain young ladies, impressed with the
solemnity of the Lenten season, and also
with certain remarks on dancing recently
uttered by popular pastor, have been Sc
Iiously considering the matter of round
dancing. After prayerful deiberation they
decided that Waiting was too divine to be
abandoned, but the syle might well be
modified. They maintained it was highly
improper to dance too close to a part
ner or to approach the head too close to
his shoulder. a young brother of one of
the ladies was brought in to practice with,
and after several attempts the following
style was agreed upon: