St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-03
THE CABINET ROSEBUDs.
Five Young Girls Who viii Make Their
Debut This Winter.
PRETTY FLORENCE WINDOW
A Cultured and Entertaining Girl---Her
Eyes, Hair and Voice---0ther
Capital Beauties.

The five girls, who will be thrown to-
gether so much this winter in Wash
ington are almost strangers. Miss Win
dom and Miss Blaine are slightly ac-
quainted. as are also Miss Proctor and
Miss Miller, but Miss Nanamaker has
met none of her companion debutantes.
The PRESIDENTS wife knows all about
one of the girls, who in sense she VIII
chaperon. Miss Wanamaker is favor
ite with her, as are also Florence Win
dom and Florence Miller. Hattie Blaine
has been presented to her, but Miss
Proctor she has never met. Although
not yet 'out," the quintet have nine
loyal knights. They are the president
and the members of his cabinet. Or all
these chevaliers, the secretary of agri-
culture will be the favorite, as he knows
lust the right compliment to pay to the
timid debutanteS.
The secretary of the treasury, too, has
a young daughter, who, i'll spite of my
lady's aSperSion, will be able to hold
candle to Miss Blaine, or to any other
patrician, for more sociable, quaint
and cultured young girl does not live
Il
ture to saw that at the end of the sea-
son she will be the favorite of all the
debutanteS. Especially will this be
true of older people. for she has mod
est, appreciative way of treating them
that fetcheS the grumpieSt mortal.
She is her fathers daughter. She has
his fine courtesy, his easy, entertaining
conversation, and considerable of his
deep. cultured nature. No one would
call her beautiful, for her nose tiptiltS
and her mouth is not of the miserly
size prescribed for the pretty face. She
has mass of soft, brown hair, which
curls little at the temples and which
she coils in shining braidS on the neck.
Her eyes are hazel, soft, rather spark
ling, her skin almost olive. and she has
an odd dimple or two that makes her
quite fascinating young woman when
she laughs.
She will be the petite debutante, the
others being either of the tall and viii
lowy or stately type. There is flavor
of the OId-fashioned about the girl,
whom her father and mother and
friends call ''FlOssie," and it shows in
her dress. She never looks like the
fashion-plate cOnventiOnality-t cold.
carved deity. graSping the convoluted
handle of her siX-foot parasol, holding
off rash public with leveled
lorgnettes and showing boots as narrow
as the line which separates the good
from the bad. No. Florence Window is
not like the unapproachable, before
which fallibIe man shivers. Her clothes
are always of excellent material, trinity
made, and deserving the epithet
meat" into which PhiladelphianS
throw so much meaning.
But her greatest attraction Is her
voice. A dozen girls may be chattering
in room, but the trained ear will easily
follow Miss Windom's lOw-tOned voice.
1t is the strain of symphony in jarring
discord. Girls themselves recognize the
beauty of voice that is always OH key
and soon stop chattering when its owner
begins.
A sweet voice may be a ''most excel
lent thing in woman" but it is an abso-
lutte necessity in girl, for she uses it
so constantly. How strange it is that
everything else about the dainty crea-
ture is cultivated and the voice ignored.