St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-11
The Queer Disagreement Between a Bride
And Groom With Which She Was
Made Acquainted.
How the Waning Season Is Enjoyed
AT swell Country Houses BY
Fashionable People.
Some of the New Fashions Which
VIII Be Popular-- Mrs. Potter's
Clever Slipper Device.

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tween bride and bridegroom. They gave
themselves away by their manner. She
pouted and turned her back on him. and he
had to eXppostulate half an hour before she
would smile OH him again.
''Tell me about it," said to her after
ward.
This was the way of it." she blushingly
replied. II was to call for George at his
Office in Wall street. l did so. He was
out and waited. 1t was after Office hours
and the office was deserted. | went rum
maging in the drawers. Suddenly pulled
out a piece of fine cambric-it was part of
a garment-a section of an undergarment-
a wOman's, and not mine. Whose was it?
How did it come there? Horrible con-
lectures filled my soul. Was my George
faithless? Well. no-he wasn't. as he has
at length convinced me. The fabric was
merely some that female amanuensis had
brought from home to clean the type
writing machine with
WATCHING THE YACHTS,
to tell the truth, is in itself dull amuse-
ment. A loneliness fills me, but l can't
get a hasty heartbeat out of the sight of
sailing craft which you can dash past any
time with your steamboat. The delights
! of social intercourse are requisite to make
! il a good diversion, especially when you
take it in from the beach. And then you
are as likely as not to get caught with a
noodle. who bores you intOlerably.
The programme of visit to bang-up
| fashionable country house Of exclusive as
sociatons embraces every imaginable re-
source for the days enjoyment This
October it is the fashion to provide amuse-
ment every hour. so that dizziness is an i'm
possibility, and the lives on the rack of
pleasure. so to speak. A horse is allotted
to each; new books are found every day in
the library; the gardens are filled with
games to suit all tastes; there is state din
ner always, with cards. charadeS, recita-
tions, and often professional
ENTERTAINERS FROM THE STAGE
to beguile the evening hours. Ladies make
three toilets daily; two simple costumes
and the elaborate dinner dress are all that
are expected. but these three are rarely
worn twice in the weeks visit. Flowers
are worn with each toilet as a matter of
course. and in this order: Wild blossoms go
in the morning, garden flowers in the after
noon and the rare treasures of the con-
servatory in the evening. Americans are
rapidly adopting the customs practiced by
both countries. and now entertain many a
gay house-party in quite the English and
French style. Perhaps these wealthy host
esses favor Anglo-SaXon hospitality, but
to play the chatelaine has its fascnatiOns
especially where the ''fayre ladYe" has
lived ''two whole weeks in one of the
noblest and most ancient chateaus
in France, and knows precisely
how it is done. To drop from that exalted
topic to a common one, the Saturday half
holidays have come to an end, to the grief
of the shop-girls: but it must be confessed,
from a selfish point of view, things look
much brighter to have them in their
accustomed haunts. The streets were for
lorn enough for two months, and everybody
will welcome this change. A great many
people have got home who are glad to be
there, for half the fun of going away is the
pleasure to return; and does it not make
work easier for them to know so many are
in the same boat. If the stores are not
kept open until the usual hours there are
plenty of customers to make them look like
old times. You can't rattle round in the
big shops as much as you did, and the
young lady who condescends to sell hair
pins doesn't
PULL UP THE MONEY
with such languid what-dO-you- bother
me- for sort of air, that you feel an apology
due her for needed hair-pins at all. On the
contrary, she is quite clipper, and, while
graciously handing you two cart-wheel
dollars and.20 cents in change, glowingly de-
scribes to another young lady the way she
means to have her new fall dress made,
lust like one she saw on the beach," Yes,
| it is quite like old times in the stores at
any rate. The return to town after three
months in the country is signalized by two
unpleasant, if not the most demoraliZing,
events in modern domestic annals. One
scarcely knows which is the most physically
upsetting to ''clean house" or ''go
to the dentist" for both are bad
as the shock of an earthquake. The
housekeeping operations may be shared
| by the entire family, while the dental OPP
Grafton is purely personal; in the one case
every body is miserable; in the other, man
alone is vile! Next TO the moral support
and satisfaction of knowing one is well
dressed for the occasion, the height of
bliss is to have survived this struck-by-
lightning period, which annually comes to
the majority of mankind, and once more
walk this little globe free and unhaunted
by pals and brooms, bare floors and scrub
women.
Features of fall fashions are marked.
They show the tendency to complete
change in the outlines of dress; return to
very full skirts. crinOline and long, small
waists may be expected in the course of
year. Waist-coats or plastrons, or laced
up fronts,
LoNG-POINTED BODICEs,
Y fronts and backs. turned back revers and
turned over side collars, very high inside
collars, sleeves large and loose above the
elbow, tight below it, small turned back
cuffs. full skirts, long, plated, unlooped
draperies side panels and many buttons,
big and little, are the features in new
frocks. The crowns of hats and bonnets
are very high, but there is a tendency to
drop curls or cartagon loop on the nape of
the neck. Two-piece fabric frocks are the
rule this fall, but one-piece suits are not
out OF date. Plaids will be worn, but they
are not the bright tartans nor the gay
French plaIds OF the past. They are in
large bars of indefinite shades of red blue,
green, yellow, white and purple, on
darker grounds of brown, green
blue, maroon and other dark
colors, into which they seem to melt i'll the
most indefinite, vanishing manner. Braid
will be much used in trimming dresses and
wraps this fall. The braid is used in various
widths, and put on in small ''all-over" pat
terms representing the links of chain armor,
in fsh-scales diamonds, trellises, wheels
within wheels, parallel, diagonal, zigzag,
vertical and horizontal rows, or any pretty
pattern the wearer or decorator chooses.
On sleeves it defines the cuff and forms
chevrons; on shoult e.s, epaulettes; on Jack
cts and bodice, it outlines the waistcoat.
and revers, t ie Y, or the square of the
neck, and decorates the high collar. Gold
braid is frequently mixed with black OF
colored wool or silk braid, for both silk and
wool braids are in favor.
MRS. JAMES BROW N POTTER
has brought bonnet from London. and oh
such bonnet designed by Alma Tadema.
No wonder her head is turned. ard half the
time she do SIT know whether she's on OF
Off the stage 1t must be confessed az a
milliner the painter of ant q e Romans is a
failure, and to make her head-gear 60 down
with an average crowd Mrs. Potter will be
obliged to have label with the Tadema
autograph attached 10 the crown. Mrs