St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-30
SUNDAY SALAD.

| SUNDAY SALAD.
| The weather signal flag is familiar
| object to our st. Paul citizens. and yet
| there are great many who do not I'M
derStand the signals. In the weather
bureau two classes Of signals are used
the weather signals and the wind yelOc-
| lty signals. Their colorS are white, blue,
/ black and red. A square all-white flag
| indicates clear or fair weather, and
square all-blue one, rain or snow. The
temperature signal is triangular black
| flag, and when placed above the white
| or blue flag indicates warmer weather;
when placed below it means colder
weather, and when it does not fly, sta
| tiOnary temperature. The square white
| flag with a small black square in the
| middle, such as we often see flying from
the top of the chamber of commerce
building at this season of the year,
| signifies a cold wave Is near at hand.
| The red flag with black center is a
storm flag, indicating that storm of
unusual violence is brewing.
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The press of the United States has
made every one familiar with the story
of the marriage of MARIE NEVINS
with the son of JAMES q. BLAINE,
and the husbands desertion of the
beautiful girl. She has been put in a
| position where it is absolutely neceS-
Sary to earn bread for herself and
| stage for her profession. Her beauty
| and the story of her cruel fate will be
advertisement enough for her to start
with. But in addition to this, the UNI
| fortunate young woman possesses real
dramatic power, and it is predicted she
will in time make as brilliant a success
as MARY ANDERSON achieved. Unlike
Mrs. POTTER and Mrs. LANGTRY, young
Mrs. BLAINE will not have to depend on
her social position and the fame OF her
beauty for stage success. Hers is
spirituelle nature, of the sensitive, emo
tiOnal type which gives woman pc
culiar qualification for dramatic work.
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MARIE NEvINs, or Mrs. JAMES G.
BLAINE. Jr., as she has legal title to
Her father, Col. RICHARD NEVINS,
formerly state printer of Ohio and pro-
prietor of the Columbus Statesman, is
an exceedingly handsome man, with a
gallantry of nature that wins him
friends wherever he goes. Her mother
is daughter of SAMUEL MEDARY. who
will be remembered by the older citizens
of Minnesota IN association with terri
tOrial days. When Gov. MEDARY'S
daughter married Col. DICK NEvINs
she was regarded as the most beautiful
woman in the state of Ohio, and to-day
she is all enigma to most people, for
her complexion is as fair as a
girls, and her hair is as golden as ever.
Mr.. and Mrs. NEvINs have four chill
dren, two sons and two daughters, all
fo, nd hn
with father and mother, compose a re-
markably handsome family. So far as
comeliness goes, MARIE is regarded the
flower of the family. She was educated
at Mount de Chantel, the famous CathO-
lie school near Wheeling, and when she
quit school went to Washington, whittier
her family had removed in 1885. While
living in Washington Miss NEvINs took
a prominent part in some private the
atricals which Mrs. Judge WAITE got
up for charity's sake. Once, on very
short notice, she took the part of Paul
in the opera of paul and Virginia"
under the direction of Miss DE No
GUEIRAs, daughter of the Portuguese
minister. Tom KARL, of the Boston
Ideals, had originally been cast for the
by his manager. Miss NEVINS dressed
and made great success.
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Miss NEvINs' success at the amateur
performance in Washington inspired
her with the idea of becoming a great
singer. so she went to New York and
studied a season with EMILIO AGRA
MONTE. Finally MoDJESKA, whom she
knew Intimately, induced her to be-
come a member of her company. Al
though her friends opposed it, Miss
NEVINs signed the contract; but, in de-
ference to parents wishes, Nine. MOD
JEsKA finally released her. Lit was
about this time she visited her brother
in Augusta, where she met young
BLAINE, whom she afterward married,
and by whom she has been deserted,
the husband leaving her without cent
of money, or even credit at the corner
grocery. She is now being coached for
the stage by BELASCO, and will start
out on starring tour in the spring.
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With all her notoriety and with all
that has been said and written about
her, no one has yet published the story
of how near AMELIE RIVES came to
being the daughter of an empress. In
1851, when her grandfather, Hon. WILL
IAN G. RIvEs, of Virginia, was Amer
lean minister to Paris, there appeared
in society there EUGENE MARIA DE
GUZMAN, Countess de MontijO, a lovely
person and aristocratic name securing
her brilliant conquests in Partisan So
ciety, and constituting her one of the
famous ladies of the French capital. 1t
was thought, and, indeed, freely re-
marked, that her mother was more am
bilious than herself; that the mother |
hnr al
while EUGENE herself appeared a |
model of simple sincerity-a girl who |
would choose to consult her heart in any
matrimonial affair. Her sister had Just |
married the Duke of Alba and Berwick, |
a lineal deScendent of JAMES III. of |
England; and the worthy Donna MARIA, |
no doubt, designed an equal matrimonial |
destiny for the more beautiful of her |
daughters. But the heart is not always |
to be controlled, even in the most aristo- |
cratic life, or to yield to its exactiOns or |
conveniences. EUGENE lost hers to a |
fine-looking blonde Virginian-young |
RIvEs, the son of the American minis |
ter. They were engaged to be married; |
but Aunt JUDY RIVES, Virginia ma |
iron, very decided and angular in her |
scruples, broke off the match. The |
lovely young countess was too fast for |
her old Virginia views of social SObriety. |
The woman for whom the future had re- |
served so much escaped the compare
lively humble match that her heart had |
decided upon-the destiny OF quiet |
Virginia housewife 10 ascend and |
adorn the throne of France. Young
RIvEs afterwards married one of his
own cOuntIywOmen, and the author of |
The Quick or the Dead was the first |
fruit of their union.
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Apropos to the holiday season. clergy
men would do we'll in their ser