St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-14

cited on Holly avenue. Their abides a
mistress of mansion who so objects to
any pretension at elegance on the part
of her servants that girls who enter
her service with ornamental names are
rechristened the first day she assumes
control of them. The one who is known
as "May'' to her friends becomes
Susan to her mistress; she who re-
spends to her lovers caresSing Mag
gle" answers to the name of ''Jane" in
my lady's kitchen; and the latest vagary
the dame has shown in her efforts to
suppress the rising maid servant is to
insist OH having a cook who was christ
ened Jane at the baptismal font
submit to Nora" because somehow
or other it seems more appropriate"
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The time is at hand when the ''old
girls" the relics of better things, must
pull themselves together for the Win
ter's campaign, for one more desperate
onslaught on the enemy. 1t is said that
several contemplate spending the win
ter in Salt Lake City. Better bad
bargain than no bargain at all!
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Amelie Rives Chanler. while in New
York city, instituted the idea of having
a boy in livery precede her to her opera
box and fill it with flowers just before
she entered. What st. Paul belle will
be the first to draw on her husbands
purse for the same purpose?
Heard on a cable car at midnight
Thursday: "Wnat wide swath mann
ing an Eastern importation of mascu-
Unity very popular with the ladies'
what a wide swath - is cuttingi By
Jove! nobody would guess, would they.
that not many years ago he was figuring
in Cincinnati as interlOcutOr of female
minstrel show?"
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Failure to pay the rent, it is wills
pered, is likely to cause a handsome
St. Anthony hill house to be vacated,
and the retirement from the list of
prominent entertainers of a couple
whose dinners will be greatly missed.
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The establishment in a newly opened
dry goods house of pretty lOunging
room, where women, worn with the task
of shopping, may repair to rest and Cos
sip, will result in the death of so many
regulations that Mrs. Grundy will find
it a difficult matter to attend all the fu-
neraIs.
1t is perhaps charitable to suggest to
young women of uncertain age who are
to be married this fall that, pretty as
are autumn leaves in floral decorations.
they are too symbolical to be used at
the wedding.
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The female philanthropist who adj
Vanced funds to aid handsome man in
incarceratlng his wife in a lunatic
asylum, with the understanding that
she was, in time, to sOothe his widowed
heart, was sorely grieved when, the
man failing to return to the city, she
learned that he and his suddenly-cured
. wife are living together at her expense
in a town in Dakota.
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Mrs. Lane K. Stone has the woman's
satisfaction of knowing that the long
feather which will drOops from innu-
merable winter hats is old style with her.
She wore shaded green one on a hat
all summer.
Inside of three or four weeks women
will have become so used to the glory of
new winter wraps as to be able to walk
the streets with survey of themselves
in only every other show-window.
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In the dotted red gauze gown worn
by Mrs. Fred S. Bryant at the Smith
dancing party Wednesday evening,
evidence was given of vino is to be one
of the most charming of the many brides
that will figure in society this season.
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Alas for the rarity of woman's
charity! When DR.. Kate Bushnell was
lecturing on Social Purity at Central
Park church Sunday, she referred with
little sympathy to the justification of
sin many women claim to belle in strong
temptation. She said she is persuaded
that few women need be tempted, aud
verified the statement with II never
was tempted" Il believe you. my dear;
look in your mirror and learn the
reason why" came promptly a soto
voce from one of her feminine hearers.
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The yOungster probably keeps abreast
of the divorce court records. A st.
Paul man babe his seven-year-old
daughter, Come here, Nellie. and con-
graduate Miss Brown. She is going to
have brand new husband" Nellie
stood off, eyed Miss Brown suspiciously,
folded her hands behind her and de-
manded to know, ''What has she done
with the rest of 'em?"