St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-07
CLUB HoUsE-M1NNEToNK YACHT CLUB.

of dancing and sailing. and she should
know how to look pretty in an old straw
hat and flannel blouse. The girl who
possesses these characteristics is a
bowling success. IT there is anything
she wants and she doesn't get it,it is be-
cause she doesn't ask for it. But this
season the lake girl has not
become numerous, and the young gen
tlemen who mark themselves eligible
are much concerned in consequence.
This is the first year that she has hot
put in an appearance by July1. Usually
there are a great many more of her
than there is of the nice young man.
Still no one is worrying to any extent
They are sure she will come by and by
In the mean time the plain girl is hay
ing no end of fun. She is surrounded
constantly by host of young men, and
she and her mirror have become upon
the best possible terms. But her con-
quests are nothing to those of the few
pretty girl who is at the lake. | saw
one the other day. She was pretty,
plump and charming. Her face was as
brown as berry, while her lips were
like coral. She wore bewitching blue
and white yachting dress that fitted her
to perfection. A commonplace hat was
perched so jauntily upon the dainty
head that it made it appear the most
captivating bit of millinery imaginable.
She was surrounded by no less than
eight young men, and they followed her
about the whole afternoon. She is
barely seventeen, but the manner in
which she lorded it over those unfor-
tunate young men and yet kept them
all good natured, would have done
credit to society woman of thirty. She
is the daughter of a Minneapolis con-
tractor.
But | said something about the low
water. 1t is exceedingly low; in fact
there is less water in the lake than was
ever known before. 1t is something
over four feet lower than it was last
year, and the manner in which reefs
and bars are sticking their ugly nose
out of the. water makes the life of the
yachtsman and steamboat pilot a bur
den. More boats have been battered
this season than were ever known be-
fore. Everybody at the lake is making
row because the Minnetonka Mill
company is using the water, and the re-
cording angel has had to keep pretty
busy in making a record of all the oaths
that it has called forth. There is vast
and what ought to be done, and some
of the cOttagerS talk of taking the mat
ter i'll their own hands, but they won't
do anything of the kind. 1t will cost
mint of money. But all the same some
thing must be done or Minnetonka will
simply be few holes in the ground.
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The lurid Fourth was something of
disappointment to those who make
money at the lake. 1t was the dullest
for hall score of years. Not half as
many people as was expected came out.
Still, the hotel men say they did better
than they expected, and if you ask them
the reason why the crowd did not come
they will say it was too cold. But the
greatest sufferers were the small steam
launches. These little crafts are great
money makers on big days. Last year
there was hardly one which did not
make from $40 to $50. This year there
was probably not one which made that
amount of money, and there were few
which made S25. The big boats Jared
no better. Speaking of these steam
thirty of them on the lake, and nearly
all of them are owned by men who are
more than we'll to do. Yet, with three
OF four exceptions, they all do regular
passenger business, and most of them
make money. 1t seems strange to some
people that men who have great deal
of money should frame out yacht
which they ''keep for their own pleas
ure'' in that way. 8
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One of the most noticeable ladies at
the lake is Mrs. A. E. A. Tovey, of New
York city, who is accompanied by her
son. She is magnificent blonde of the
purest type, tall and stately. Mrs.
Tovey is the wife of the publisher of
the Brewers Gazette, the weathiest
trade paper in the United States. Mrs.
Toyey has awakened no end of interest
among the ladies at the lake by hervery
swell costumes. and yet she has not
worn very elaborate gown since she
has been there. But all her dresses are
made very beautifully in the oldest and
most artistic manner, and they fit like
500 bill in mans hand. Mrs. Tovey
is at the Hotel Lafayette for the sason,
and will be joined by her husband i'll
few days.
Talking about dresses reminds me of
the fact that there have been very few
of them exhibited at the lake this sea-