St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-22

probably by the observation of most
men and women of the world. In their
''small vices however. the two sexes
are getting to more and more alike every
day. The woman who tipples is by no
means as rare in New York to-day as
the woman who smoked cigarettes was
ten years ago. Drunken women are I'M
usual sights except in the slums. The
tipping matron and the exhilarated
maid are to be seen any day on upper
Fifth avenue, which is the New York
millinerS' paradise; on Twenty-third
street. between Broadway and Sixth
avenue, and on the latter thorOughfare
from Fourteenth street up to Twenty
fifth. t
The personal advertisement columns
of New York newspaper had an agon-
lied sort of paragraph day or TWO
ago in which woman of wealth begged
for the return and mo questions asked"
of gOld-headed umbrella. Her name
and address in full were on the handle
and the umbrella was an expensive one;
but that wasn't the reason the owner
was willing to pay so we'll for its return.
The fact was that this apparently use
full articles was one of the new Partisan
fancies and had a sherry flask deftly
hidden away in it. The gOld-mounted
umbrella handle wasn't as long as
mans thirst the day after feast or las
deep as WE'LL" but it held pint of
sherry, or brandy for that matter. quite
comfortably. and there are plenty more
such Partisan fancieS doing duty for
fashionable shoppers.
Having the fair owners name and adj
dress on it, a sherry flask inside of it.
the combination was compromising
enough TO induce her to offer fat re-
I'd fOr tIhnSn mr. Los
believed to be on sale here yet. but they
are vastly admired and highly priced.
Everybody knows what odds forms
umbrella handles have been taking on
of late, some of them resembling tot
let box, some golden calf, some
book, some a dagger, rams horn, a
scent bottle and what not. They are
big enough to accommodate in their
hollow interior, with ease, a half-pint
and over of their owners fayorite tip
pie. And it's the work of a moment
only to unserew the flask. take nip,
return it to the umbrella handle and go
Serenely on.
''Seven out of ten women who come
here to be treated. Z. said DIR. Hamilton
Burch, the throat specialist in the free
diSpensary on South Fifth avenue,
shave what is called smokers throat"
That is percentage of smoking women
that seems positively alarming to
thoughtful students of the humanities.
Throat specialists are, of course, most
likely of all medical men to detect
| smoking and tipping women. Among
the better classes who consult physi-
clans and who send for them to make
family visits, the percentage of smok-
ing women is of course much smaller,
say three in ten. But nobody is so alb
surd nowadays as to say that it is a
crime for women to smoke. What has
this TO do with tipping?
Just this: The smoking man gen.
orally tipples; so does the smoking
woman. The Odor of LIQUOR of some
kind is perceptible about the persons Of
the smoking women of South Fifth ave-
nue.. The odor of cachuus, the I'M
steady step, the flushed face and SuS-
piciOuS fOndnesS for their umbrella
| handles are perceptible about most of
the fashionable smokers of Fifth ave-
nue. proper. 1t IS absurd to say that a
woman can't smoke without drinking,
but it is probably accurate to say that
nine women out of ten who smoke
cigarettes are not ayerse to nip be-
tween meals, and take it pretty regu-
| larly.
When you see the glittering neck of a
of reliable bottle peeping out from
the velvet-lined pocket of a handsomely
| appointed carriage or coupe. you may
| be reasonably sure that there is dainty
| little silver or crystal cup down at the
| bottom of that same pocket, and that
| Mrs. Van Slammacken Slash or Miss
| Pocklington Jones knows what's good
| in the way of pocket pistol and likes
it too. The tippler's coupe is recog-
niZed pattern of vehicle now. Ask
| Brewster If he knows the brand and
| he'll say no: that it's none of his bust
| ness what his customers put In their
carriage pockets. But some of the
| Quieter shops on Sixth avenue curious
stories could be told of the pockets
made specially for tIpplerS' coupes
and equipped, regardless of expense,
with brandy, sherry, absinthe and
| chartreuSe: of how Mrs. AS monogram
adorns two pint TASKS in chased silver
made to fit into that pocket, and how
Mrs. B has actually had little locker
made in the front of her coupe, and
| keeps half-dOZen bottles, a lump of
ice. hard crackers and bonbons besides
in it. The New Yorker who keeps his
eyes open in the shopping district or on
the avenue or in the park needn't wait
long to spot tipplers' coupes.
| For the purpose prosecuting study
| of this kind a young New Yorker some
| days ago hired. a SecOnd-StOry front
| room on Fifth avenue and sat at the
window from II a. m. till 6p. NJ, watch
ing the doors of the swell bonnet shop
| just across the street. That there were
tipplers' coupes in abundance there
should need no assertion; there were.
But if there hadn't been, the pretty
| creatures in their ruStlIng silks and
voluptuous velyets needn't have gone
thirsty. They knew the way to the
sidebOard in curtained alcove in the
| rear room of that bonnet shop as well as
the man tippler knows the way to his
favorite art gallery. They knew what
they'd find on the milliner's sideboard,
| too-vichy, and ice in a bowl of ham,
mered silver, brandy, Jamaica rum,
| sherry, half-doZen cOrdialS, sand
| wich or two, plate of water crackers
and dish of olives.
Most of the fashionable milliners
| keep decanter of sherry and biscuit
for the refreShment and delectatiCn of
their best customers; the milliner's
| sideboard, however, is comparatively
new in New York, and like the brandy
flask umbrellas, is of Partisan origin.
Ladies have been known to faint after a
long siege at trying on new dresses. and
dressmakers found it advisable to have
dish of spirits handy toreviye their
overcome customers in an emergency.
| Once introduced for such emergencies,
smart women have never found any
difficulty in making emergencies to fit
the milliner's sideboard and the dress
makers spirit decanter.'
Drinking at dinner is matter, of
course, for many women of the world,
and as such, is matter for their ply
sicians and their pocketbooks. Tip
ping between meals, resorting to we'll