St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-12
SCENES I'm RICE Park.
An after Bark Stroll In This Pretty
LittEe Oasis.

kIEtee Oasis.
Don't lay you head on my shoulder,
Jim, you'll cover my dress with hair oil"
These words came i'll low tones from a
shadowy corner of Rice park last night, and
fell on the ear of a reporter who CHANGED to
be standing by, and, glancing into the
apacious depths, he saw seated on rustic
seat fair-faced girl. and by her side how
cred a dudishly dressed young fellow,
whose hair was parted i'll the
middle. She was radiant in
her fresh young beauty and
shining costume of white muslin and on her
bosom rested water lily, whose softly
tinted petals contrasted sweetly with the
rich glow Of the young girls cheek. Evil
IDENTIFY Jim had attempted to deposit his re-
course for bread on the girls shoulder and
she protested, not so much because she
couldn't bear up the weight, but she didn't
want to go to the trouble of giving her dress
benZine bath when she got home. jim
lifted his head at the girls words and
looked up into the blue eyes that smiled
down into his two-for-a-quarter face.
Aren't you little particular, birdie?" he
said.
WAL, I should say not. baby" replied
the girl, ''you know this is the only summer
dress I've got, and heard last night that
the restaurant was going to close and |
don't know where Pll get job, so I'Ye got
to be careful of what clothes I've got; amt
that right?"
dead right" murmured jim, and the
girls glowing cheeks bent down to his,
there was moment OF deathly silence, when
suddenly sound as though mule had
kicked hole in his stall rang out on the
night air and the reporter knew that the
two spoons had unsnarled their lips.
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Rice park presents very many curious
sights to the eye of the careful observer
between the hours of s and 10 o'clock p.
NJ, especially Sunday evenings There
soft-hearted girls congregate to pose ON the
rustic benches to be admired. The pref
test of them carefully select seat as near
the glare of the electric lamp as possible,
while the less attractive settle back in the
seadows. They go there to firt and to be
fiirted with, and as there is usually horde
of young and good looking men drifting
through the park they can easily satisfy
themselves with that sort OF amusement,
and these Sunday night visits not infre-
quently result i'll acquaintance and
eventually matrimony. 1t is q
noticeable fact that while the fair
faced girls while sitting alone
manifest strong liking for the light, when
they have ensared one of the opposite sex
they quickly seek the shadows, perhaps,
because as Bayard Taylor has written
Darkness if full of opportunities and
kiss could he easily stolen without the thief
being detected by the passer by.
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The park presents a beautiful picture at
night, with the brilliant rays of the electric
lamps threading the shadows that deepen
into blackness i'll some parts of the park,
and casting the outrageous foliage of the
elms with shining armor of silver. The
fountain losses its running waters high above
the marble basin which catches the shining
glebuIes as they fall back in & conuscant
shower; the flowers look up through the
Hood of dazzling light and smile and cast
their fragrant breath into the arms of the
night wind to be scattered abroad like in
eense from the censers OF heaven. Above
Ibis scene the moon looks down on the
quiet earth with a face pale with envy, as
eer beams are melted and drowned in the
glaring effulgence of the electric lamps 1t
1t is a beautiful panorama.
Big Excursion.
Yesterday afternoon the steamer Cantau