St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-02

ladies call for different perfumes for
each day; others adopt one style and
use it constantly. May bells, jessamine
and cherry blossom are the fayorites,
though violet and white rose hold each
its own. / have one fastidiOus customer
who has passion for perfumery. and
who orders $50 and $75 worth of the
stuff at once. She uses quantities in
her bath, and rubs her hair, feet and
ears with it at every toilet-making.
Other ladies think only slight tinge OF
it as more refined, but they make up
for the lack of the liquid by using great
pillows or sachets of powder and
placing them lengthwise in drawers
of dressing case or wardrobe.
A craze now is to burn scents and
scented oils in the house. 1t is syba-
ritic in effect, but much used in hand
some homes. AS to the truth of cologne
being taken by ladies as a stimulant,
that is not so. They have taken it Oc-
casiOnally. but it is very rare. The
greatest extent to which it is put to use
for an alcoholic substitute is as an ''eye-
brighteDer." Just after the toilet is
completed they put drop or two Oh a
lump of sugar or swallow the drops
without. They think it will add vivac-
ity to the glance, but it isn't a general
thing. Whisky or brandy is less harm
full than taking cologne atall internally.
OF course, it is the alcohol i'll it that
makes the "brightener."
An Optimist am inclined to think
that Americans pile up trouble for
themselves by exaggerating dangers
political and Otherwise-which threaten
them. We all know that if few days
OF dry weather come in the summer
there is chorus from the farmers that
the crops are ruined, and the annual
late frost that kills the crops is always
On time. The rust blights all the oats,
the chinch bug and the hog cholera get
in theirfatal work, and everything goes
wrong as regularly as the years come
round. Then the political Jobs COM
forter is constantly at your elbow to re-
mind you that the bulwarkS of the
country are being undermined,
and the birthrights of American
freemen in imminent danger be-
cause this or that party has been
defeated. For this class of people there
is always pestilence in the air and
StOrm-cloudS on the horizon. The most
helpieSS-becauSe the most unreaSOning
of the whole mournful crew, however,
is the man whose theme is the foreign
immigration specter. don't mean the
man WHO thinks immigration objection
able because large class OF it Of late
years is of low moral and mental char
acter, and is thus menace to our social
life; but the man who trembleS for the
welfare of our political institutions, and
insists that the country has been cap
tured by the foreigners. This man is
real sufferer from morbid patriotism,
and generally does his level best to
make his neighborS equally unhappy.
But his truble is all unnecessary. The
country is in no danger. In the first place
the great bulk of foreigners who come
here are honest, inoffensive, industri-
GUS people, who are trying to better
their own condition. Then the percent
age of foreign-b0rn population is really
small. In 1880 there were, in round
numbers, $4,000, 900 people in the United
States. OF these, also in round num-
bers, 100000 were of foreign birth.
That is, about II per cent, or one per-
son in eight. were foreigners. And It'll
easy to show that by natural causes this
percentage will constantly decrease.
Death carries off its proportion each
year, and the children born of immi-
grants add largely to the natural in
crease of the population. Then. this
natural increase itself, among people
as numerous as the Americans now are,
is in constantly growing excess OF tine
Notwithstanding comparatively
and in proportion to the whole pOpula-