St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-02
EYES AND EARS.
There was a perfect speci-

men OF Jne StaSe-StTu ck
Serious woman loose in town last
week. Her home is in Den
Case. vel, Col, and she is a
wealthy widow. She is, by
the most charitable reckoning, thirty-five
years old, and has spent the last ten
years of her life following theatrical
Companies all over the country. She
was here in the wake of
the JAMES company, and she con
hdentlally told everybody she came in
contact with that she expects to assume
MARIE WAINWRIGHT's roles next sea-
son, and is travelling with the company
for the purpose Of studying Miss,
wRIGHT's methods and style. She is
ab0utas much like Miss WAINwRIGHTa as
a decayiug telegraph pole is like rose.
She is tall, thin and coarse in voice and
manner. But she dresses her part well,
even to the point of wearing on the
street ''tacky" looking gowns with the
spickest, Spannest and Frenchiest of
the French-heeled shoes that always
trademark an actress. She carries
with her four big trunks filled with
stage costumes, which are constantly re-
ceiviDg fresh additions. While in ST.
Paul she had an elegant black silk vel
vet gown made. The material was
lined with the heaviest and most expen-
sive satin. She paid $40 for a pair of
velvet slippers to wear with the dress,
and Tuesday night she was i'm box at
the Grand, attired in all the glory of her
black velvet, with an immense ostrich
feather fan that must have cost S25 or
$40, and diamond necklace and earrings
that would be years bread and butter
for large family. She never misses
performance, and after the perform
ance she honOrs the dudes who affect
her with Abundance to her hotel apart
ments, where she puts herself in cos
TIME and rehearses the play for their
delight and her advancement in his
triOnic art. Her husband showed his
sanity by going crazy six months before
he died. Nothing but fool could be
other than lunatic and remain the
husband of such woman. She left here
with the JAMES company Thursday
morning, and intends staying right with
them throughout the season.
~
On a cable car yes
Young terday couple of
ladies were discussing
America. the heirs of their re-
spectiye husbands.
Said one woman: FREDDIE is a sad
base ball enthusiast. He put his thumb
out of joint playing ball while | was at
the lake, anr / think he never was
was of that crippled hand. If don't
let him go to the games he is pretty
sure to come up missing in the
afternoon. and not put in an appearance
until the game is over. He takes the
whipping l give him with the patient
resignation of a martyr. feeling salts
fed. suppose, that he is suffering in a
noble cause. But his case never seemed
as hopeless to me as it did this morning.
/ have been trying to help him with his
cstechism of late, and to teach him
something of church history. This morn
ing / told him the story of st. Alloy
sIUs; how when he was boy at school
one day, during recreation hour, his
playmates fell to discussing what they
would do in case God were to let them.
know the world was about to come to an
end. One declared he would immedi-
ately go to confession, another that he
would say "Our Father" another that
he would tell his beads, and so on-all
would do some act of devotion. But
when it came to st. ALOYsIUs to tell
what he would do, he said, Il would
continue with my game of ball. have
done. the tasks the holy fathers set for
this day. and now it is with their
permission that l play. If the world
were coming to an end in ten minutes, L
would continue with my game was
just ready to point the moral of the.
story when FREDDIE spoiled it all by
st. ALOYsIUs' inning, don't youp / am
afraid | never shall be able to get any,
thing but base ball in that child's
head in my life," FKEDDIE's mother con-
cluded. and her friend quite agreed that
the prospect is discOuraging.
Poor Field Any one who saw
''Virginius" at the
for Tights. Grand last week must
have felt that men of
this day and generation have cause for
gratitude in the present style of dress.
LOUIS JAMES or FRED MosELEY in
tights and trunks is superb. But fancy
our average city man in the same cos
tune. The appearance of the supes on
the stage Tuesday night was a
hint of the painful sight. Their
knees stand out for sympathy.
and their starved-to-death look
ing legs are enough to turn stone into
bread to feed them on the spot.
LUTHER VIEWPOINTS splendid physique
would show to advantage in Roman at
tire, and so would ID. f. CoLvILLE'S.
G. V.BAcoN would doubtless feel I'M
comfortable coming down to business in
tights until he got used to it, but he
would always be followed by admlring
feminine chances. Lieut.. AHERN and
Mr.. PAGET might do Virginius, so far
as dress goes, on Third street without
exciting any emotion but admiration in
fair beholders. So might Mr.. SKIPwITH,
and DR.. STEWARDS perfect taste in
dressing is equal to making him RO-
man exquisite as well as American
swell.
Where Mime Perhaps it is the
modesty of true genius
apolis Leads. that keeps ST. Paul
women in the back
ground and binders organized effort for
the advancement of their sex, but there
really seems less of such effort
here than in Minneapolis. A recently
established Woman'S Press ass0ci-
alton is fourishing there for the
good of would-be petticoated journal
lists. Different secret societies that
have representation in both cities
nave ihSS1 ohomihS III mimic
apolis than IN st. Paul. The Masonic
order of the Eastern Star has only one
chapter here and five there, and the
Woman's Relief corps has but two
corps in the former place and eight in
the latter. There is corresponding
difference in the woman suffrage ele-
ment of the two cities. Minneapolis
has a society auxiliary to the National
Woman'S Suffrage association, and sent
a delegate to the International Woman's
council, held in Washington last spring.
Here women who would vote are not
consolidated for action and are few in
number. The most prominent suf-
fragistS in town are Drs. MARY EMERY
and JENNIE FULLER. They absorb all
the woman's rights literature published
in the country and are energetic work
orc for tho advapnamaDt of THAR oauca -