St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-30
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flow They Are Looking and What
They Are Doing and Saying.
The door of the pOStOffice witnesses
numerous DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde
transformations wrought in women.
''1ou would be surprised" says post
Office emplOye, ito see how many women
get mail here under assumed names.
You can always tell them. There is
Self-cOnSciOus air about them that be-
trays them. if their calling for letters
under two or three different names
did not. 1 suppose they think
that in the multitude of faces
we see here at the window
theirs is not likely to be remembered,
but that is where they fool themselves.
1t is usually respectable women, too,
who resort to this means of carrying on
clandestine correspondence. Some
times it is the daughter of well
known man, continuing a questionable
acquaintance begun on the street or at
the theater, perhaps; and again, it is
married woman communicating with
her lover. 1t is more often women
than men who call Tor mail under as
Sumed names, probably because a man
can do pretty much anything he wants
to without getting himself into trouble,
while a woman is always in danger.
Rich men who have no place of business
sometimes have private boxes to keep
their letters from being sent to their
homes, where their wife has chance at
them. Rich women, who carry on
clandestine correspondence, usually
have private boxes, too. They avoid in
that way all diSagreeable features of
the pastime. and you wouldn't believe
it if were to tell you just how much
richer Uncle Sam is for patronage of
this sort. and who the women are that
pay for it." Maybe we wouldn't be-
lieve it; but, nevertheless, Mother Eve
within US would feel better did she
know.
There never was more touching pict-
ure of canine modification than one
seen on WabaSha street last week. A
dog led by a woman is always a sorry
spectacle of dignity in chains. The lit
tie animal in question, in conventional
state of nudity, was rather pretty, as
black and tan dogs 90. But his deluded
mistress, not content to let well enough
alone, had rugged him out in a
black satin blanket that was fast
ened to his chin by one huge
pink bow, and on the top of his
back by another. At distance the
baact had tho opnaaraDaa Of on aDi-
mated pink rosette. He was led by
narrow pink ribbon to match his cos
tune, and he glanced at every man who
passed him with an expression that
plainly said, Don't laugh! AS am
now so you may be-"
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The poor satin beridden dog would
have felt more resigned to his looks
could he have seen a young woman as
she walked down Fourth street the next
day He would have been convinced
that, in the eyes of the pnblic, he was
not solitary exhibition of perverted
taste. The young woman was guilt
less of bang or fiZZlet. Her hair was
cOmbed slick and smooth in a small pug
at the back of her head. Her black
Derby hat was adorned with two severe
quilts. A plain white linen band was
the only glimpse of light above the hem
of her sOmber-toned, tight lifting, hustle
less gown. The aforesaid hem did not
hang straight all around, and nowhere
more than halfway between her knees
and ankles. Her dress was conSidera-
bly, shorter in front than behind, after
the approved fashion of the English
cousin. She was an uncOpyrighted
edition of her. But her chief glory was
pair of light gray CATERS, buttOned high
over a pair of lOw-heeled, brOad-SOled
English street shoes. As she went
swinging down street, her umbrella held
10y the middle of the stick in one hand,
one was assured that things with her
are never unpleasant, but "naWsty;"
that she knows no "lOOtenants," but
''leftenantS;" that her friends are never
either brilliant or smart, but lawfully
CLEVER" that the weather is never bad,
but beastly; that ''my cloak" is ''meh
coat to her; that she wears no dresses.
but ''frOcks" and gowns" and that she
never takes a bath, but ''tubbing."
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A woman who lives on Pleasant ave-
nue. and is Carlyle at his best in petit
coats in her half-seriouS. half-comic re-
bellion against the established order of
affairs. Enthusiastically defines the
standard of excellence which all per-
sons set up, many unconscious of rela-
tivity and absurdity. II was more than
usually tOrmented the past summer
with stupid people, which means, of
course, people who are not bright
enough to like my views of things. In
despair one day finally declared l did
wish the Fool Catcher could be induced
to call my way. Then, on second
thought, l concluded l didn't mean
what | said. He would leave me so ter
ribly lonesome. you know"