St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03

Grated. House robes have grown more and
more nocturnal i'm aspect, and simultane-
ously the night-dresses have been embel-
lished, until in calling on woman in the
morning it is sometimes difficult to tell
whether she has or hasn't completed her
forenoon toilet. White fabrics are no
longer the only suitable and sanitary mate
rails for underwear. Lace-trimmed gar
ments are elegantly made and exquisite to
look at. but one visit TO the laundry would
ruin their look of pristine beauty.
Elegance is fashionable in everything
concerned in the sleep Of the heiress. l
have Just seen the bedroom of a rich friend
of mine. Ii is in mahogany. and has some
special features i'm the furniture that makes
part of the framework of the room, such
as handsome chests of drawers. brass
mounted, and, again, flush with the wall,
drawers TO be pulled out, intended for par
ticular properties. The overnantel is i'm
posing, with its frames and arches. In the
end of the room is pier-glass, framed In
oxidized metal, and above it is a panel in
which a mermaid, with her head lifted from
out the waves, holds hand-glass. that she
may dress her flowing locks. This was
modelled for its place, and makes a
pretty detail. Carrying out the gen
eral color intention, the walls are
covered with a cOpper-coiored French
paper, one of those splendid produc-
tons that counterfeit in texture and luster
the beauty of silk, and reconcile to the use
of paper rather than stuffs-certainlR has far
as appearance goes. The ceiling IS elab-
orately painted in the usual fashion of
French ceilings, which, however attractive
in detail, have too general family resem-
blance for separate description. Nightmare
ought never 10 come to girl asleep so lux
uriously.
GROUP
of dressy tailor gowns seen to-day shows
several new and stylish features, such as
the military effect given by braid
ing, the polonaise dress, panels and
lapels of plush, combined with
cloth, and the straight skirts
without drapery. The tOQue and bonnets
worn with such gowns are made of the ma
terial of the dress and its trimmings. Smooth
cloths, plush, Scotch tweed homespun and
serge are the fabrics used. One was of sim
pie design for homespun Scotch tweed and
serge that require to be made up very plainly
and without drapery. The front of the skirt
is box-plaited, and the back is gathered TO
hang straight and very full. A dress of myrtle
green Amazon cloth is given in the military
effect now so fashionable by cross rows of
frogs of black braid put on the habit bodice
and on a panel on the skirt. The bodice
opens single-breasted, with a fly fastening.
Dark cardinal red cloth is made in this way,
with either red, blue or black braid for trim
ming, A cloth and plush dress has the habit
bodice and long full drapery made of gar
net vicuna cloth, trimmed with bronze
green plush. The plush is employed in the
side panel, lapels, cuffs and buttons. A
polonaise dress may be made of cloth or
entirely of plush or velvet.
Last year, after the holidays, a few peO-
pie who are undeniaby in society, went to
Florida for the remainder of the winter.
This year also after the holidays, there will
be considerable exodus to that alleged
''land of sunshine, flowers and oranges"
of people who are not undeniably in soci-
ETY., but who have quite as much money
as those who are first-class socially. If
the first-class had gone 70 Alaska last win
ter their
MoNEYED IMITAToRs
would have gone to Alaska this winter.
This latter class is quite as particular as the
class whom it flatters by imitation with re-
gard to hotel accommodations and will
probably have hard time of it this winter,
except at Jacksonville, st. Augustine
and one or two other places. Most of
the winter hotels in Florida are run by
NOrtherners who go down to help pluck
the ''sick Yankee" They seldom stay in
one house more than a single winter
Many of these winter hotels have had a
different landlord every season since
they were opened. These transient land
lords get there about two weeks in advance
of the general run of Northeners, and by
the time the latter arrive they can eulogize
''our climate" as el0quently as though they
owned it.
"Ah, good morning! How do you like
our climate?' said one of these landlords TO
me couple of winters ago. happened
to know that his regular business was keep
ing tavern up on the st. Lawrence river,
and that he had not been in Florida much
longer than had. He was born
with snow-shoes on, and this was
the first time he had ever been fur
Their south than Lowville, n. Y. Yet ne
was rubbing his palms together and asking
me how liked ''our climate" | had Just
been to the breakfast table. and told him
that ''our climate" might do on pinch for
breakfast, but the ordinary boarder wouldn't
care to have it warmed up for dinner and
sliced up cold for supper. The keep
ers of the few good hotels in
Florida don't care rap how you like
the climate. Beware the landlord who
begins passing around the climate. He in
tends to feed you on it and make you feel
honored, as though it were something he
had grown in his own garden while he
tended it with his own hands.
OUR CIRCLE
has been scandalized blythe statement that
the Scribners guessed the author of
the novel which young William Wal
dorf Astor submitted to them anony-
mously, and that they were greatly
aided in making an accurate guess by
an asterisk that was marked conspicuously
Oh the title page of the manuscript, and
which might be construed to mean that the
effort was an Astor-risk
1.-TWO solutions of the riddle are posi-
Bile, remarked a bright society girl; lit
may turn out that the star more properly
might have signifed that any publisher
would be an n his money in the book. -
Clara Belle in Cincinnati Equirer.