St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-19

waves could reach them. Low DIRE sses. low
slippers, silk hose, not a shred of wooden
visible beneath the laceS of the sleeves, fire.
quently not even suspicion OF sleeves,
thin wraps. frequently no wraps, open car
riages, everything summary, or summer
like. and all this in December. They do
say. though. that Winter has his evil eye on
some of the girls, and will catch them I'M
awares soon. Several of them are paying
the doctors already for their imprudences.
But it is the custom of the people here
away, you know. to have
A PERENNIAL SUMNER,
or at least keep up pretense of 1t. For
Washington is great winter resort for the
wealthy. The Letters. of Chicago. have
been installed in Washington society. They
are especially intimate with the family of
the postmaster general, although they are
also recognized as au fat by the secretary
of war. There was rumor started last
year. by correspondent, that the Letters
could not get the entire which they desired
in the society of Washington. But suisse
quent facts seem to have demonstrated the
falsity of the statement At a recent din
ner party given by the Letters, there were
present Miss Endcott. Miss Bancroft, Miss
Eustis. Miss Dwight and many other of the
event in society will be an afternoon tea. at
which Mrs. Villas will present herdasghters
formally to society. This is expected to be
the grand affair of the ante-C Christmas sea-
son. and many are the representations and
anticipations among the young ladies. Mrs.
Villas is
DESERVEDLY POPULAR
herself, and her daughters are both very
pretty and attractive. Miss Daugherty,
the daughter of the celebrated Philadelphia
barriSter. was present at handsome lunch
con which was given by Miss Cartwright
on Wednesday afternoon. What are
termed unofficial families are those who
manage to exist without an Office and with
out love of an Appropriation. They are be-
coming exclusive being a grade higher than
the society which is termed official" be-
cause of its dependence upon appropriations
and official tolerance. Here is war of
roses for you. There are newcomers who
do not know just which is the better class
for them to tOady TO; the official or the I'M
official. Social influences in the official
families are often the means of reaching an
Office. But for society, pure and simple,
the unofficial families are those who rank
away up in the cloundS. Yet. while jeal-
Gus of their standing and prerogatves,
THESE CLASSES INTERNuNGLE
quite often. but it is with tacit under
standing that it is only because they have
to do so. Meanwhile, the official families
are going through their annual quarrel
about precedence. The ladies of the family
of secretary Of state. and those of the fami-
lies of the president of the senate, speaker
of the house, chief justice of the supreme
court and the secretary of the treasury are
unable to agree which is which and who is
who in the matter of precedence. OF course,
they all recognize that Mrs. Cleveland is
the first lady in the official land, but who
comes next? There's the rub. And it is
rubbing the ideas out of their social crania
to solve the problem. Meanwhile, the I'M
official families those whose votes and cash
create these official people, are enjoying
themselves in solid Philadelphia-like con-
tentment and peace. By all means the I'M
official families are best and by far the hap
piest
THE CHRISTMAS CLUB.
organized and conducted wholly by ladies,
is absorbing great deal of time and atten-
ton on the part of the fair managers. They
expect to feed not less than five thousand
poor and deserving children and provide
little presents for all of them. The teach
CTS VI GIlo pubic ScIlOp1S are UuSy SolocIIlS
the most worthy and needy among their
pupils. and Their names will be put upon
the list of those who are to be favored. 1t
is the opinion of the ladies that the wor-
thiest are those who can be found going to
school and trying to improve. But means
Will be taken to find those who are worthy,
but too poor to be able to go to school.
Many little ones have to work from early
dawn TO deWV eve while others are unable
to procure apparel necessary. and hence are
unable to 90 to school. The Christmas
club is one which it would be we'll for the
ladies of all cities to organize annually, for
thereby do they enjoy themselves. spend
their time probably and acquire the keen
self-consciOusnesS of doing well.