St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-16

Sortment, thought it was monotOnouS,
and he had for the first time in his life
bought fur OvercOat, and had no
chance to use it. He said he spent sew
eral wears in one of the South Ameri-
can states where there is absolute uni
formity in the weather at different sea-
sons. and no one thought of remarking
upon the matter. 1t would be like not
ing the fact that the sun rose or set or
the world turned round. 1t would not
serve as the Introductory to converse
ton, or small social change. Only
those, he remarked, who have realized
the difficulty of talking to strangers
when you have nothing to say can real
iZe the society or social value of the
weather. 1t has been particularly Serv-
iceable SO far this season.
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Won't Suit the Speaking of the
weather recalls mixed
Young literary ana social re-
union in the north part
Ladies. of town, where the
subject was brought
up of the novel conditions of the will of
Rev. WILLIAM WRIGHT, wealthy
clergyman of England. who died not
long since. He devised large sum for
the foundation of college for women,
were admitted to its benefits should rise
early in the morning and take cold
bath at all times of the year, and con-
versations should be held in the college
building four times year, at which
two-thirds of the invited guests should
be single gentlemen. The young ladies
present all agreed that the last Stipula-
ton was commendable, but doubted the
propriety of early rising, and especially
the fixed ablution. 1t might do for
England, but not Minnesota. The
opinion was freely expressed that cold
baths were not beneficial, and often
quite otherwise. A physician present
did not dissent to this, but related his
early experience in st. Paul, before he
commenced to read medicine. With
number of his young associates, he had
imbibed the notion that the system
could be toughened and inyigorated
by subjecting it to extreme hard
ships and exposure. All the win
ter, which was a very severe
one, the thermometer getting down 40
or so below at times, he slept with
open windows near his bed, and could
break Off large icicleS of frozen breath
in the morning. The browning expert
ence. however, was getting up and TAX
ing bath in the cold room, using snow
and ice for Scrubbing the person. This
was taken before daylight, and he stated
that he himself aud others of the party
more than once went out and Jumped
into d big snowdrift entirely destitute
of clothes. Steam arose from the per-
son as in putting snow on a stove
mildly warm, and the most vigorous
activity was necessary to prevent a
shock to the system that would be Seri-
Gus, and perhaps fatal. There was no
steppage to pick corns or pare finger
nails. No one who knows the doctor
would question his strict accuracy. He
stated that this regimen was kept up
several weeks, and none of the party
suffered injury, and he never was more
vigorous and buoyant with life, but it
| never became an easy thing to take
such bath. and it soon was abandoned.
| He would not recommend any to try 1t
| now, as it was full of danger. A lady
present said she was baptized through
the ice, and even a pious ecStacy did
not prevent hayward longing Tor the
warmest post-mortem climate. 1t was
believed few young ladies i'll st. Paul
| will be likely to go to the Wright col
| lege without definite adyiceS as to the
natatory requirements.
| The Puritan As pertinent to this
subject an old lady
Regimen. present said she could
remember in her
young days in New England when such
| thing as stove was almost unknown.
| They had not come into use. Fire
! places were the means of warming, and
/ churches were not warmed. She re-
| membered that her mother carried to
| church heated stones or bricks, wrapped
| fu ch
was old; but it was regarded as dudish
| for men TO need any artificial warmth
| in the meeting house. The sermons
| were long then, and the pewS only left
| a chance to see over the top. One of
| the Puritan edifices that came down to
! her time she speaks OF as the ''old
| North church." in Concord, n. H., now
| used for literary institution. 1t was
| the general expression that those good
| old times" did we'll to pass away before
present posterity got along, or they
would have Jared badly.
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Anti-Treating 1t is conceded that
the perniciOus use of
Society. liquors is largely due
to the prevalent habit
| of treating. There have been numer-
| Gus efforts to establish anti-treating So
! cieties. Some are not, perhaps, aware
| that one of these, with complete or
| ganization, and rigid enforcement of
| its rules. has been in operation in st.
| Paul for six months or more past.
| There are about forty members, mostly
young men. They more frequently
drink alone; but two or three OF them
may often be seen going into saloon;
but, while they drink together. each
| pays for his own drinks, and very rarely
is more than one taken.
A Novel In conversation with one
of the older and very esti-
Idea mable resident of st. Paul.
who is regarded as little
| peculiar, he stated that about three
| wears ago he and few friends were en-
| gagged i'm discussion of the matter of
| wearing mourning in public, ard as
| result it was decided to inaugurate
movement in opposition. All pledged
| themselves TO never wear Grape on their
| hats or other badge OF mourning. They
| have adhered to the pledge and added a
| large number of names: but few ladies.
| however. consentiug, as il was agreed
| that the innovation might subject them
| to unpleasant comment. A good many
reasons were assigned for disapproying
| the prevailing cuStom-a prominent
one among them being that it was OBJ
| truding private griefs upon the COM
mnIlity, and was an advertisement that
! the flow of lite must be hushed and
| the chill damps of the tomb must be
! recognized in the melancholy insignia.
/ lit was needless parading Of the heart
upon the sleeve, and made the wearer
| unG'eleome outside of the circles OF
| common bereavement. 1t was an ex-
| hibition of seltishness, in that it was
| demand that the public should disqulet
itself over the individual loss. with
benefit neither TO the dead nor living.
! One will often see, on funeral occasions
in the city, some of the proselytes of
this movement, with no emblem of
mourning, however nearly related the
I Ja,ar+ad NOR no I adipS will nor he