St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-12

made chiefly in visite and jacket fashion,
and trimmed with black lace and hand
some ornaments, put on separately and
not in one continuous band Of passe-
menterie unless of
SOME NOVEL AND UNIQUE DESIGN.
The Jackets now to be seen in the rooms
of the ultra modsh makers are short, tight
fitting, double breasted garments. with a
very high collar that may be merely
standing band, or else rundown collar
MAY be sewed to the top of this high band.
The front may be fitted by one dart, or by
two, as the figure of the wearer requires.
The backs have but one side form, and are
plated fatty at the end of the middle
FORMS The sleeves are close coat shape,
and the pockets are inside, with band or
mere slit for an opening. Two rows OF
small buttons. either plain lasting or braid
buttons. or else of wood. trim the front.
For tailor gowns cloths will be used in checks,
| stripes, bars, plaidS and the large blocks
that are now considered more suitable for
ulSterS and jackets. Among the autumn
fabrics are soft wool goods in new arrange
ments of color and weave, and also mOdIfl-
cations of existing designs, all giving
promise of stylish gowns. Among these
are wool diagonalS, shot with two and
silk wrap SergeS. frightened with brilliant
hued stripes of velvet or of frise bands
forming the stripe; dark colOred canvas
and basket-cloth goods in olive brown, dark
blue violet. violet and Baltic blue with
lines of gold crossing the fancy weave, or
with bars of raised velvet in cOlOrS Of
cardinal, eeru and golden bronze running
in and out. Velvet and plush tufts appear
upon smooth wooden surfaces, these fabrics
to be used as long Russian polOnaiSe over
velvet skirts matched to the color of the
tuft.
1T IS NOT THE SEASIDE
so much as it is the summer atmosphere
that generates this state of love affairs
about which l wrote above. | happened to
sit beside four or five young women on the
piazza of hotel in Saratoga waiting for
the music to begin. They must have
thought me deaf, for they talked aloud.
They were talking of love- and talking OF
it exactly as SO many medical Students
would be apt to discuss the symptoms OF
rheumatism or dyspepsia.
1T gives me sinking sensation, said
one: Just as If l was faint or frightened.
Do you feel it that way?"
NO" another replied; but l don't know
my own mind. don't know whether really
am in love, and then am afraid he is not
in love. or l think he is not going to be
true, or that l can't keep on fascinating
him, and--oh, dear. it's so very disturbing
l wish was out of it."
1T reminds me of when had terrible
fever" said third maiden; Il am burn
ing one minute, and all of a tremble the
next. and l can't sleep, and my appette's
all gone, and. oh, SO many things are odd
about it; but / rather like it, all the same. :"
But that is all l care to repeat, in fact. it
is about all | heard, for l moved my place,
as you can imagine. This morning l was
pouring out my lamentatiOn to young
girl, the younger sister of a dead friend.
She is at least II, and rather beyond the
kitten love period, but [ thought it would
do no harm to let her know the truth about
this imitation of the noble passion by little
chits. She quite agreed with me, she said.
and then she went on:
But l have confession to make,
Clara" said she: am in frightfully aw-
full situation. You see | am engaged to
be married in New York, and when l came
up here got engaged to young fellow up
here. you know, just for fun. He is rich,
you know, and quite distinguished III ap-
pearance, but it wasn't that which made
me let him engage himself to me so much
as that all the other girls, that is, the nice
girls, were head over heels after him. 1t
was so pleasant to cut them out. Now,
you see. had done the same thing last
summer. l was engaged to the same young
gentleman in New York then (really en-
gagged. you know, and 1 got engaged up
here
For mercy's sake!' 1 exclaimed; ''what
sort of a story are you telling me?"
"Why. it's quite customary Clara; that
is, among girls of any life at all. You get
engaged up here because it's better all
around. You select a
REALLY NICE, PROPER YOUNG MAN,
and you are both Devoted to one another,
and it takes up all of your spare time; and
then at parting you manage to quarrel Cts
quite easy to do it,, and off he goes to Chi
cago or New Orleans and you go home to
your real beau. Well, as [ was going to
say, managed it beautifully last season.
quarreed all right, and never heard any
more about it. But this year things are
going to be different. l am in an awful
scrape. This young man is Southerner,
and he talks of shooting anybody that looks
at me, and of killing himself if 1 reject
him. and oh. my! 1 can see that I'll never,
l did not Sympathize with her. / might
have suggested that she write to her New
York young man to attend shooting gal
lery and take lessons preparatory to an en-
counter with the SOutherner, but did not
think it just exactly tit subject for joking.
But | am only telling you what success at
tended my efforts to get away from the
scOurge of the summer resorts. To make
it very short, it is just simply no success at
all. Why, 1 strolled into the pretty and
ancient graveyard just at the edge of the
village, and if there were not at least six
couples tucked away on the grave-stoneS in
the by-paths. and all counting at 100 pounds
pressure, l am no correspondent of yours.
Butt like Saratoga. and 1 like it better
and better the more | see of it. l always
used to wonder why l liked it and why it
was so popular with New Workers. 1t does
not do to say it's on account of the springs,
because One-half the people here don't
touch the springs. Once is enough for a
good many. and Pm one of the number.
And it is not because it is such a pretty
place, for between ourselves we have not
great many prettier places a great deal
nearer home. No, the real reason why
New Workers flock to Saratoga so is be-
cause it is so like New York. You find
your millIner up here and your dreSSmaker,
and the people wear the correct cut and
/ style Of clothes, and you run across your
family doctor and your next-door neigh
Dor and the same walters who serve
you in town in the winter, and all
that sort of thing. Why, 1 half expect to
see Fourth avenue horse-car every time
open my window in the hotel of morn
ing.
1t seems funny. doesn't it. to go in the
country and live almost exactly as you did
in the city, with a Wall street ticker and
Wall street brokers' offices down stairs and
hot and cold water in your rooms and the
New York morning papers only few
hours late. But that's what makes Sara
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