St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-06

brown beaver, unplucked otter, PERSIAN
lamb and sable. Others have no other fur
or plush OF trim inning, and but little Of their
own material used as trimming, even the
buttons with which they are fastened,
which are sometimes OF seal and again n.y.
ured metal in bronze black, frequently
being concealed under the overlapping front
of the garment. Bonnets and turbanS OF
seal are also shown, with the muff and boa
or stole to match. In some houses even
entire costumes of seal are sold. but as
these cost from $500 to $500. and even
more, few ladies can or care to indulge i'll
luxury that can only be useful as a sleigh
ing costume i'll the coolest weather. Entire
dresses of seal plush. however, can be
bought or ordered for half or less than half
the money.
WOMEN ARE MOI
the only martyrs, after all. There are
some other people who have good deal
harder time OF it trying to make themselves
pretty than women do. | 20 good deal
on science and generally swallow whatever
it says wholesale without much salt, but
lately. when | think about natural selection
and of what the scientists say about the
way it works to make the animal world
grow more beautiful and then look upon the
final product Of nineteenth century civilIZa-
ton. the latest flower of social progress
called the dude. my belief in science sud
denly experiences cold shOwerbath. L
say lately that is so, because it is only re-
Gently that discovered how much even the
dude depends upon artificial aids to his
prettineSs. 1t was my privilege
the aother day to see dude. not
exactly au naturel. but without any of the
furnishings that would tone him up and set
of his peculiar points to their best advan-
tage. 1t was an awful sight. and it shook
my belief in natural selection and the prog
reSs of the race until the chimneyS all
tumbled down and the plastering came off.
1t was in a place where the poor little crea-
lures go 10 get themselves improved by
gynlnaStic exercises, and where | saw all
the secrets of their toilets. You needn't
ask me how happened to be there. or how
| managed to see all l did see. just read
and be grateful.
Well, about the dude. He was develop
ing his form. And it needed it. I've seen
girls pad, who looked about as much like
their dressed selves as a Thanksgiving
turkey. all ready to be carved. looks like
the struttng lord OF the barn-yard that he
once was. But that was nothing to the
TRANSFORMATION
there had been in this creature since | had
seen him coming down Fifth avenue few
minutes before. He had on the usual attire
for athletic exercises. and was See-Sawing
away at some kind of a cOntraptiOn for de
veoping the muscles of his arms and chest.
His poor little lead pencil neck looked as If
a sudden Whit of air would snap it in two,
and without the support Of his big white
collar his ears doomed out like wings. The
r. IL 4lo% or hot
kind of work were supposed to fit him skin
tight, but they hung around him i'll such
folds and wrinkles, like drapery. that it re-
lieved all my embarrassment in looking at
him. His arms were bare, and they were
the thinnest, skinniest. sallowest, most
Notwithstanding pair of arms that you
ever saw. Let him tug away at his best
and he couldn't get up bulge Of the blceps
bigger than your thumb. He gave it up
after he had pulled and bObDed around and
bulged out his eyes and got red in the face
for about five minutes.
WEAKLY, now, you know, I'll have to
stop. I'm beaStly blown"
The attendant suggested that if he found
it too difficult perhaps he'd better not try
that form of exercise any more. But he
shook his head sadly.
mo. I'll have to keep on. for. weally,
don't you know. my tailor has to put so
much padding in my clothes 1t makes HE
tired to carry it. l must keep up this
beastly thing"
They wanted him to take cold sponge
bath. but he shook his head in terror and
declared it gave him chill to think of it.
SO they took him away into SecusiOn to rub
him down with almOnd-oil instead, and
proceeded to dress him.
Later he went to barber who makes
speciality of identifying the swellS. There
they trimmed his eye-laSheS, pulled out
the scattering hairs between his eyebrows.
rubbed his face all over with some kind of
a gentle cosmetic, curled his poor little
pretense of mustache with an iron, gave
his head perfumed shampoo, extracted
some hairs that came down too low on one
side of his forehead, spent an hour shaping
and polishing his tingernailS. and when he
was finally ready to come out from their
hands what do you think they gave him to
take home? 1t was machine that looked
as if it might be first cousin to clothes
pin. and the fellow was to wear it on his
nose at night. He thought his nose was
too big for the rest of his face. that if he
could only reduce it a little his features
would ''weally be quite wegulah," and so
he was going to put this corset on it at
night. CLARA BELLE.