St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-17

other day and we dropped into a cafe for
lunch. l noticed that she looked a little
peculiar when j ordered a cup
of weak tea, but didn't know why till
heard her tell the maid 10 bring a
bottle of porter; then l of course knew that
it must be the correct thing for ladies to
take porter at lunch, for Esmerelda is moth
ing if not eminently fashionable and proper,
and l felt so awfully Old-timey with my
weak tea that L wasn't a bit reassured by
the maids announcing that the porter
would have to be sent for, as there was no
saloon attached to the cafe.
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But, while waiting for Esmerelda's
porter, my attention was attracted TO the
| young lady who sat at the next table. She
was gotten up in the latest style, and she
seemed one of those fair and fragile Great
ures who are commonly supposed to live
upon fresh air and sunshine. Imag-
inc then my establishment at hearing
her order light repast of bacon and liver,
pork and beans, corn, tomatoes, charlotte
russo and coffee, and picture my amaze
ment at seeing her get away with il all as
coolly and unconcernedly as if such spreads
were everyday occurrence. as perhaps they
were.
The short, closely-itting jacket of seal
that is this season affected by young ladies,
while perhaps less comfortable. is much
more becoming than the long, loose cloak,
and mparts an awfully jaunty air TO its fair
wearer.
But ones social status is not, as formerly,
determined by her possession or lack of pos
session of a sealskn coat, and we are going
in for fuTs chat cannot be easily Initiated.
Extremely beautiful are the wraps of nat
ural beaver, while mink is fast regaining
its Old-time prestige, and astrakhan or Per-
sian lambs wool is constantly growing in
favor. 1t must be confessed, however,
that we girls have not as yet taken
kindly to astrakhan, although we are in
formed by all the fashion journals that it is
the correct thing both tor wraps and the
accessories to cloth costumes; our gentle
men friends, however. have quite taken it
up, thus proving themselves the reader TO
adopt new styles, and it rivals mink in
their affections.
There was once a street car driver who
died. 1t was certainly a peculiar thing for
him to do, and offer no apologies for his
conduct. but simply state the fact as il Oc-
CURED. He was an ordinary driver.
and so I'm quite sure that he
had often addressed extremely bad
language TO his mules, and per-
haps even lashed them numerically; and l
think it highly probable that he had many
times declined TO notice the frantic gesticu-
latiOns of well-dressed females who wanted
Nto get down town to catch a train, and yet
the angel who had contracted for
his soul bent plying eyes upon
him, and saving never word. took him by
the hand and departed for the celestial city,
The gate of pearl, at the touch of the an
gels wings, swung upon its golden hinges
and the two entered, but the street-car
driver paused, for coming down the spOtless
pavement was form well known to him on
earth, that of the good deacon who always
sat still when the car went off the switch
and talked pleasantly about the stupidity
of drivers while the mules tugged and
strained to get back upon the track
And close behind him came a num-
Der of female figures, and he recog
niZed in them those benevolent women
who used to attend all the missionary meet
ings and were members of all the beneyO-
lent societies, but who always entered into
some animated discussion with their friends
after ringing the bell, and expected him to
cut short his fifteen minutes for dinner i'm
order that they might finish their
arguments. he also saw the dear good
good lady, who used TO make a point of
forgetting her umbrella. seemingly for the
express purpose of making him stop after
he had gone half a block, and wait while
she leiSurely overlook him and rescued
her property. He espied two or three
of those amiable gentlemen who had a
habit of banging the car door so wide open
that it was almost an impoSsibility TO shut il
again, and he caught glimpSes of those
lovely individuals who used to insist upon
frantically pulling the bell when the car
was rounding a curve and wondering why in
the world that idiotic driver didn't stop.
"And are all these people inhabitants of this
realm?" asked the car driver, strE * with
amazement. ''Why, of course" repli
the angel. a little impatiently, and rather
repenting of his kindness TO this miserable
person, who evidently didn't appreciate
good society when he met with it. well
excuse me. please" responded the driver.
Il had quite enough of them on earth, "
and without doubt he was excused. No
moral.
Wear your furs under, not over, your
tobOggan uniforms, young ladies, that is il
you have any regard for the feelings of the
On-loOkers.
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A pair of tOp-bOots. a tight-ftting great
coat. with a cape. and hat shaped like an
inverted loaf of Boston brown bread, that's
what the stage hero puts on when
he particularly wants to make
mash, and that there is something pc
culiarly taking about the costume we all
admit, and have always felt its charm.
Well, our young men haven't as yet adopted
the hat and boots, but they are affecting the
coat with its little cape, and awfully swell
and English they look. L do assure you.
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But Fra Diavolo himself was never at
tired more becOmingly than the blonde
young man l met yesterday. His tOpcoat,
that displayed to the best advantage his
manly form. was of hunters green, with
collar and cuffs of rich brown fur and a
military arrangement of frogs and
loops of cord down the front. A
fur cap was set jauntily on the side of his
head, adding much to the general effect, and
if his manner did indicate that he consid-
cred himself one of the original possessors
of the earth-well, he certainly had cause
for his good opinion of himself
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A young acquaintance of mine has been
tobogganning. He collided with eight or
ten other parties and got his sleeves full of
snow, and was mussed and crumpled gen.
orally, and he wants TO know why people
will insist upon sliding down hill on boards
when there are obtainable plenty of sleds
that will 90 further than any