St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-23
WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
mot Creature Was Stirring, Not
Even q Mouse"

Even Mouse"
The Russian entertainment given
under the auspices of the board Of man
ayers of the Milford house, at the
chamber of commerce last Monday
evening, was pleasant departure from
the beaten path of charity social efforts.
If Miss Flora McFlimsey would have
preferred dance without lecture and
Miss Blue Stocking said that to wash
down an intellectual feast with tea, and
conclude it with frivolity, is deplOrable,
that is neither here nor there, since
large part of human delight lies in an
opportunity to criticiSe somebody or
something. Though the privileges Oft
evening were extended to everybody
on the payment Of a modest sum, as is
the way commonly with whatever is
under the patronage of society people,
the audience that greeted Nj. Ivan
Panin was almost exclusively fashion
BILE" The gentlemen who acted as
ushers, Messrs. Pect, Gordon, ThOrne,
SkipWith, Howe, Armstrong, CutcheOn
and BigCl0w, perform similar duties at
weddings so frequently that to be met
by them at the door. set the wedding
march from "LOhengrin" running III
ones head, and when Mr.. Panin was
introduced by ID. r. Noyes one was
half prepared to see bridal veil and
bouquet of Puritan rosebudS go with
him. The Russian gentleman, who, by
the way, is an American TO the extent
of a ten years residence in this cOun
try and a diploma from Harvard col
lege. exhibited in his bearing and voice
the dominant characteristic OF the Rus
sian spirit-perfect passivity. His lect-
ure was the more pleasing, perhaps,
that it contained little or nothing a per
son who marches along with the times
does not know and think. The ScreneSt
satisfaction the average man enjoys
is to find his own ideas and i'm
preSsionS in another man. Mr.. Panin
spoke in such COntcmptuOuS tones of
the relation literature in England and
America bears to bread and butter rs to
establish the belief that he has never
gone hungry. Only the great soul that
is gold-platcd rises SO gracefully above
its companion on earth, the stomach.
On the conclusion of the lecture, the
persons assembled were dropped from
Russian literature into Russian tea. \
large booth in one corner of the room
that was drapcd with Russian COlOrs,
was presided over by the board OF man
ayers of the Milford house, assisted 10y
MesdameS W. X. Merriam, Fland-
rau, Furuess and Newell. Here the
tea was breWcd Ia Russo, and several
by the only and original beVy of Russian
maideuS ever imported TO this city from
St Anthony hill. Individual taste was
exercised in their costumes, which We're
still in the main Russian scarlet skirts
trimmed with fur, white blouse, black
velvet bodice and high cap. The young
ladies who gave distinctly American
charm to the odd dress were Misses
Gordon. Bigelow, Newport, Taylor,
Gotziau, Moves. Flandrau, Wilder,
Smythc and Alice Newport. After a
time spent III social converse. Miss Blue
Stocking went home and 10 bed. with a
volume of VolStoi Rugged 10 her
heart. while the others plunged
their literariness in the may dance.
Among those present during the even
Ing were Mr. and Mrs. Moves, Mr.. and
Mrs. \. Z. Clarke, General and Miss
White, Judge and Mrs. Young, Mr.. and
Mrs. Forepaugh, Mr.. and Mrs. W.
Il. Merriam, Mir. and Mrs. f. b.
Clark, Mr.. and Mrs. Stanford
Newell. Mr.. and Mrs Fred Nicols, Judge
and Mrs. Giltllan, Mr.. and Mrs. Dal-
rymplc, Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Hill. Mr.. and
Mrs. Upham, DR.. and Mrs. Senkler, Mr..
and Mrs. Z. w. Johnson, MIR. and
Selmes, Tarboy and Gilman, Misses
Sturgis, McQuillan, Cook, Maud
Smith, BealS, Banning, Dean. Mann,
Mason, Katherine Dean, Constans,
Messrs. Prince, Reed, Skipwith, Howe,
Gordon, James, Nanderburgh. Wright,
Tighc and Stewart. The ladies who
conceived the idea of a"RuSSiaG even
ing" and successfully carried it out,
must feel that the utmost was attained
since their entertainment received no.
lice in the New York Sun. They were
credited with making an effort t0-as
the sun has it-"raiSe Chicago at the
culture game"