St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-04
ST. PAUL SOCIETY.

The past week in social circles pre-
vented just such an aspect as might
have been expected of the week which
ended July and uShered i'll August.
City people are still at the lakes and the
season is at its height, but the cool
weather has caused the thoughts of
more than one to turn toward home and
the pleasures of autumn. At best the
lake season is short, and this years has
been unusually so, though it is more
than probable that August and Sep
TENDER will have their proportion of
warm, dry days. Two months at the
lakes on the Seashore are sufficient for
such people, as the incident pleasures
are necessarily more or less monotonous,
and even filtration has its limits. There
is a society prescription to the effect
that June and July should be spent by
the waters and August and September
in the mountains, to secure the COM
plete effects or summers vacation, but
in the high ATTITUDES the mountain pOr-
ton of the summer menu is generally
eliminated, and the lake sojourn is Suf-
fcient for all purposes.
Gossips are busy with their tales of
the results of this season at the lakes,
and the tales are unusually prolific
when it comes to Minnetonka. They
are pleasant. harmless tales, and finish
up exactly as usual, with the land so
they were married" Society. it is said,
will be startled by some of the engage
ments announced for this fall. with we'd
dingS to follow them very shortly.
Modistes, florists and jewelers. are on
the Qui ViVe for professional harvest
about the time of the winter holidays.
MRS. GRUMPY AT MINNETONKA
Mrs. Grundy has arrived with her
ancient corkscrew curls, elegant friZ-
Zles and fancy frills. She is now ready
to interview all the handsome and at
tentive reporters between fifteen and
forty-five. She is a bette nOire to the
Young fortune seekers of the lake. be-
cruise she is not only opposed to court
ing for money, but she hates the mash
ers who console themselves with loving
only where money is, and ScrupulouSly
concealing the line of demarkatiOn be-
tween affections for Ihe girl and love
for her money. Fortunes, she says. are
easier married than made. Maid and
money generally go together; Wh0,e
families get tender-hearted on this in
teresting subject, and reach for maid
and money with such aSSiduity as to
cause Mrs. Grundy to musingly remark.
''Oh, Doodle, Doodle, where is thy
puckering string; could you take boy
to raise? If the famous Gen Ward
with his sleek methods had only fol
lowed fortune seeking, what a stack of
Doodle he would have had" There is
another class of youths at the lake who
have not the nergy assurance to openly
confess - mamm0niSm and matrl-
mony, but who profess to be mammon-
istic Washers, by their gilded and
noveau-rich exhibit of superiority in
worldly goods; saddled with ease and
pleasures scarcely attainable by older
heads; doing the grand in foreign land
as it were.
Such spurts of quick ascendency are
only temporary. and consequently bear
able. When the bubble bursts the
g waters of Lake Minnetonka will still be
undisturbed, and Mrs. Grundy in her
easy arm chair will quietly observe, Il
told you So"
Then says Mrs. Grundy again, there
is another class of still smaller fry at
the lake, whose boSoms swell with mag
ulllcu plcdSuICS- dllNl WIN DOO u u III thC
ball room and mOnopoliZe the dancing.
They consist principally of red Shoes
white flanrelS and blue blazers.
Reverting to mammoniSm, maids and
matrimony, Mrs. Grundy WaXed warm
with the interesting morsel of current
gossip, and continues: Yes! there are
weddings to take place, if the prospect
i've bridegrooms can only curb their i'm
patience; and one case is i'll phase OF
development somewhat obscure as yet
probably previous SWeethearts inter
pose; clever and agreeable disposition
must be made to arrange for this inter
esting ceurtship, which may require ouI
tender care and careful watch.