St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-26

red and green and yellow ugliness, like
some hOmely men who accenGGate tselr
lack of beauty by smooth faces
and middle-parted hair. See that ex-
quisite three-story Persian bronze vase
you really must pronounce it va-az-
and that lovely pearl-inlaid stool, and
that Turkish chair triumphing over its
fiendish colors and proving itself ar
tistic, and that Egyptian chair! seems
to me I'd be happy if | owned that
beautiful and curious chair, which, con-
trary to all expectations, is really com
Portable to sit in. MIR. Bradstreet got it
in Cairo. It's made of pear wood and
covered with camel's skin nailed on
through squares of copper and trimmed
with fringe tied through the same. Oh,
it's lovely; so, in a different way, is the
great Sevres vase in the next room at
S1S4. l believe that lovely gilt 5 o'clock
tea table is just a large round tray of
Benares ware laid on a low gilt table.
That French bric-a-brac case, hand
painted, plush-lined, glass-shelfed, is
1906 worth of sheer frivolity, in my
opinion. It's Just like Detti's pictures.
I can't imagine a really sensible person
owning either. The frieze is painted
in a lovely design OF Cupids hav-
ing a general good time, aud the
gas fixtures are beautiful, twisted vines
in gilt. In another place the firm ex-
hibits some handsome dining room and
Office furniture. Jengren & Co. also
show some artistic furniture, and D. NJ.
Gilmore. Isn't that elegant antique
pax, hand-carved bed room set shown
by the latter a credit so Minneapolis
manufacture? Also the extension tables
an SIGH from the st. Anthony Park
Furniture company? Something else
in the chair line is those curious patent
folding iron-frame ones. You can shut
them up perfectly fiat or extend them
like a lounge and take off the cushions
before sweeping, a bonanza to particu-
lar housekeepers.
edition de luxe" Vetter has some furs.
Oh for a sealskin like that to the bot
tom of ones gown, even if it does drag
ones life out. There's a handsome
mink coat. too, to walk out with it.
The prettIest thing in the Glass block
exhibit is that lovely embroidered baby
robe, French, of course. Olson shows a
cute little engine and cars in motion.
Everything about them, from the rolls
of tape wheels and pearl button win
dOws to the black thread coal and black
.ruching smoke, is a dry goods notion.
The Minnesota Street Light company
has an exhibit interesting to some.
This company it was that donated those
m~uch-needed street lamps outside the
Exposition.
One space is empty. 1t was to have
been filled by automatic figures, life
size and curious; but the mar whose
genius had formed them now lies as
quiet as they with their motive
power gone; his, too, has gone. A
paralytic, he lies awaiting death.
There are anumber of crayOn exhibits
on this floor; Winston's photograph
gallery, where you may have your
''picture took-en," and an artist who
will sketch you in crayon while you
wait. An annex to the art gallery is
formed by the back OF the great sound
ing-board, too.
You may have patterns cut free, and
you may be converted to the Annie
Jenness-Miller theory by admiring a
life-sized doll, if that isn't a bull.
Folds, Grifiths and Colver have three
rooms hung with handsome draperies.
One window, especially, is beautifully
draped. The yellow silk is drawn in
and out of a top screen of white and
gold.
There is a pretty fancy work exhibit
under a novel and airy canopy of white
hammocks. weighted with gilded wood
Ell balls, and an exhibit of artistic man
tells from Benner's. One of brown
stone, rough, and wrought iron, is very
handsome.
There are several we'll arranged drug
exhibits, Hoffiin's and Lyman-Eliel'S,
the latter surmounted by handsome
bottles, the corners gilt mortars and
pestles which are old enough in their
use to be mentioned in Proverbs.
Warren Hill shows a large exhibit of
Minneapolis made perfumes.
Annie JenneSs-Miller evidently hasn't
reformed all women yet, judging by the
large exhibit of Balls corsets. There
are a number of very handsome satin
ones, and the exhibitor takes great
pride in showing a number of medals
taken all over the country, and even in
England. half of their medals, too, he
explains, are now at the exposition in
st. Louis. Well. | suppose they de-
serve them. but Fve been bored too
street cars, which (the signs) compel
ones attention. to feel very kindly to-
ward the firm myself.
GriffithS has a beautiful exhibit of
woods employed in making his window
shades. The counter top is formed of
highly polished and well-arranged spec
linens of more kinds of woods than my
ignorant soul knew grew.
Then there's a department of banners
and flags; a display of Thiel's designs
in fresco and papier mache, and a hand
some showing of North Star blankets,
the best in the world. and manufact-
ured right here in Minneapolis.
L was amused at the Mellin's baby
food place. For a prize, there is guess
ing of the number of beans in a jar. l
thought everybody went it blind, so to
speak, but three ladies we're there who
evidently knew what they were about.
Said one, "a quart of beans holds
about 1000. I've counted them; coffee
about 1900" How's that for sys-
TEN?
Opposite is a pyramid of "Pillsbury's
Best" surmounted by the army and
navy. That's right; we must hold our
mills, even against the English.
Across a corner is an exhibit of
the latest imitation of
stained glass. 1t took a recent first
prize at the Brussels exposition as the
most successful of limitations.
But, dear me; there's everything. I
suppose I've left out half. If you're
not suited, lust see for Yourself,