St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-01

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the sparkle, the life, is all gone out of
her. Every time | see that fur great
coat, that dazzling ring, that fast horse,
there is murder in my breast. With
much less expense than these cost him,
with club and dance. and dear knows
what else, he could have cosy home,
loving wife, and be a man. Now he is
simply a noodle, minus the FitZ, and she
is brOken-hearted girl. Don't talk to
me of young men fighting shy of matri-
mOny because of the girls eXtrava-
gance.
NEW YORK HAS BEEN UNUSUALLY
LIVELY
In musical way this season. There
have been many more concerts than the
public cared to support, and as a conSe-
quence the pockets of various managers
are suffering sadly. German opera
comes about as near to meeting eX-
penSes as in seasons past. and that
means deficit of over 100000. This
tritfing sum is cheerfully paid by those
whose chief delight appears to be to go
to the opera and chat with their friends
during the entire performance. Some
of these same people and few others
have had an interesting war among
| themselves on the very topic that
arOuses the greatest enthusiasm. A
month or so before the season began a
score of gentlemen, representing great
wealth, musical taste and brains, got
together and took the first steps toward
| forming a society for the promotion of
the Wagner cult. Director Stanton, of
| the Metropolitan opera house, was at
the head of the movement, and not the
least result of the Society'S work would
have been the effective booming of Mr..
| Stanton and the series of operas now
being produced by him. The gen.
eral plan proposed by the society was
the teaching of Wagner'S theories by
performance of his works and lectures
and publications of critical, analytical
and historical nature about them. 1t
was also proposed that membership
should be practically unlimited, so as to
include as many enthusiasts as possible:
and it was further agreed that not
| Wagner alone, but other composers of
modern times and progressive tenden-
cies, should be studied and eXpounded.
| The preliminary arrangements were
made with no more than the ordinary
difficulties that attend such OrganiZa-
| tons as church choirs, labor parties,
and movements looking to the reform
of society. Two or three cranky young
men had to be sat upon, and the force
and promptness with which this
was done augured we'll for
| the harmonious and powerful
work of the society. One of these young
fellows possessed of a troublesome idea
was Walter Damrosch, son of his
father, whose prominence in musical
matters results solely from sentiment.
The patient patrons of high art music
have been looking for some latent tai
ent in him, and some of them think they
have found indicationsuof it. Others
are quite discouraged. However, the
| Wagner society continued its work in
| secret, and one faction of it in doubly
distilled secrecy. This developed itself
one day when the younger members ex-
ecuted coup detat, captured the or
| ganiZation, and elected themselves to
office. They thought they were shrewd
i'll including on the ticket few
les. musicians, etc., but the
| plot failed. The administration
made an issue out of Herr Anton Seidl,
the orchestral conductor who is en-
ployed at the Metropolitan. For some
reason not entirely clear the admins
tration took up fight in his behalf.
just what they proposed to do is also a
matter of doubt, but the most influen-
tial men in the society undertook to
! persuade the incumbents of office to
resign. The influence was not strong
| enough, and therefore minority of the
| officers, those representing the diScOn-
| ciety has gone to smash. Seidl himself,
seeing how things were going, resigned
in time to escape any injury from the
| crash. He is recognized by all as very
| great conductor, but he is an iraScible
man, and one whom the WiSeSt feel is
| best when kept under control; and a
slapped face was one of the results of
| the Wagner row. 1t was a semi-public
slap, too, and the excitement has with
difficulty been kept from publication.
AT THE OPERA
the dressing is rich and snowy, but I
have not space now to dwell at length
vi eAiO huiiOCl VI uCiISll uON-
elites. although must mention one in a
rich shade of ruby MORE, frightened
with self-colored satin spots in two
sizes, and Ornamented on the bodice
with V-shaped trimming of jetted
passementerie. The gown is entirely
novel in shape, the draperies of the
skirt being made all in one with the
skirt itself. By way of hint as to the
newest mode, must also tell my read
ers that many of the forthcoming skirts,
for visiting, as well as for even
ing toilets, will be made TO rest
some few inches on the ground,
a fact which will add consid-
erably to their graceful elegance. 1t
was at the opera that / saw the most ar
tistically shameless bodice ever ingen-
iously invented. The usage with many
wearers of decollete waists is to have
the upper edge untrimmed, so that the
line dividing the fabric from skineiS
| only so marked as the difference be-
tween the cOlOrS of the two surfaces.
Some scandal was caused last winter by
the fact that a society matron wore
| corsage of very light pink, which. viewed
from distance, gave an impression
| that she was bare to the belt. Well, in
the present instance the risk was not so
great in that way, because the dress
was blue and the skin, of course, was a
delicate pinky white. But the daring
| young woman had decorated the bodice
with figures in silver, and these ex-
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