St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24

embroideries. STARTS, cushions and covers,
the interior of too many of our modern
houses both in New York and out of it,
resemble curiosity shop or an ideal gypsy
tent more than a sensible, civilized human
habitation. All these thing are pretty and
nice in moderation and with careful selee-
ton. Fashion, like history. is forever repeating
itself but when il takes to turning somer-
saultS one doesn't know exactly what to
think. Lamp shades in the form of a
tulip are
\ PRETTY IDEA
enough provided the material is glass or
porcelain, but TO make them of sprigged
muslin. with the points of the petals edged
with fall of lace is, TO use the aesthetics
expression, ''inSincere' and tOpsy-turvy.
The same may be said of the new fall"
handkerchefS. which have plain hem
stitched borders and centerS, printed in
small patterns. This is reversing the usual
order of things in way to surprise the
least conservative nose. New designs IN
cut glass for milady'S dressing table are
squat and fiat as tOadS and the only I'M
prOvement over the oldea patterns is being
able TO keep their seats in the saddle when
any earthquakes get loose. The tops of
these fiattened bottles redeem their ugiineSS
crusted with Jewels or beautifully etched.
The autumn flower beds at LennoX are
sights for men and gods. A great eXpendi-
ture of ingenuity and taste marks them as
unusual examples of ornamental gardening.
Nearly every home has its bright flower
bed before its door, and adds just SO much
to the pleasure of the wayfarer who, per
haps. gives but careless glance as he
passes by. Like everything in nature that
ennobleS. this new development of art
arrests attention and unconSciously inn
plants a taste for the beautiful in the cal
lOus human being as nothing else has done.
Besides, it enables the girls to go out at
dewy morn in an
IDEALIZED MILKMAID COSTUME,
gather pOiSeS i'll a basket Arcadia fashion,
and bewltchinly present them to the young
mlliOnaireS. A good many maSheS have
been made in that way at LenOX this year
to my certain knowledge. Thousands of
dollars are spent to clOthe the walls of the
bathrooms with flowers, and | am told that
it sometimes happens that when the regular
ballroom is not large enough for special
party a new one is put up for the purpose
and torn down afterward. That has not
happened this year, but it did last year.
1t does not strike me that [ would care to
be
A FASHIONABLE BIILLTONAIRESS.
Every minute not spent in sleep is taken
up with dressing and following the round
of gayety. In the daytime there is tennis,
archery, lawn party, driving party, a
concert, and perhaps meeting at the La
dies club, all to be attended TO. At night
there is dance here, 4 dinner somewhere
else musicale at another place, or a pro-
greSsive euchre party. One young woman
assured me that the only rest she ever gets
is in crossing the ocean; and | believe her.
Il 90 across every autumn" she said,
''Simply to get by myself for eight or ten
days twice every year, with no one to tilrt
with. no need TO change my clothes once L
put them on. no excuse for drinking wine
or keeping late hours. no dancing and no
nonsense of any kind"
This young woman assured me that LenoX
society only appears to be what common
folks would call lax, but in reality is not so.
Yet the very next evening as [ suddenly
turned a duSky corner in my victoria, L came
upon her walking under the elms with
young mans black arm around her white
waist, and his face amazingly close to hers.
And she looked up as uncOncernedly
while the man pulled his arm away as
ever you saw kitten look at her mother.
and called out, ''HeyhO. Clarar' to make
sure that l should see her. However. in
this, as in ali other things have noticed
thus far. there was one good trait about
these idle and gilded folks. They are not
at all startched or frigid in their manners
Once you know them, they put you per-
fectly at ease. They don't dress as ex-
travagantly as the shoddy folks at Long
Branch, and they don't put on half the airs
with which the average shop girl envelops
all her actions. CLARA BELL.