St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-14

ilEa%q of delight" Saratoga is
HfS 4 of the world, worldly
3ScN1 There are all sorts of men
- especially women. .
There are women who are painted up
to their eyes. and inside them; there
are those who triumph antIy announce
that they can take a wet towel, wipe it
over their faces and still retain the
same brilliant color, as if we did not all
know that there are rouges that do not
fade: there are ladies powdered pale
blue, who wonder how women can use
rouge, but above all there is the girl
who has gone in for "making up" and
defies anybody to discover just how she
does 1t.
Fin du steele! We are back to the
days of Lady Betty Modish and the
prince regent, and a clean face would be
quite out of the common, most certainly
not to be found among the gentle folk.
What is the matter with the women?
Their one aim seems to be to look like
the women they ought not to, and to be-
have like them as we'll. In this they
think they initiate the Parisienne, but
they do nothing of the sort. She may
initiate their gowns, but she never looks
conscious, and always appears in abso-
Lutte ignorance of their existence. But
who they are, has a little of their his
torres at her fingers ends, and will
discuss them. Madame. or mademoiselle
for sometimes it is the latter, you
would be wiser in your generation if
you only realized that there are so
many things that had better be left I'M
said. *
If you have drop of gambling blood
in you. you will be happy here. Between
the races and the club houses your OPP
portunitles are many, for who knows,
among so many, when you drop in to
play that seductive game, roulette, and
W ho can say nay when clergymen are
reported as being winners at the races ?
Something funny happened the other
evening at a roulette table. A young
man came in and lost Seventy-five dol
lars; then he said in a quiet way to him.
self" ''NoW it's sisters turn Sisters
money" was put on l, 3, 81, and Is, and
black, and won i'll such way that even
the old gamblers watched nth great in
terest. When the last of the four num-
bers had been played the winnings were
gotten, and the girl who played on Lena
DeSpard's numbers and colors was richer
by deal than when the day began
Another sweet young thing was plav-
lng poker at private house and flirting
with nice young man at the same
time. She friyoled and laugh ed, and
the real earnest poker players were dis
gusted with her, but were too polite to
say so. In a fiippant fashion she an :
nounced that she did not want Singl e
card, and everybody believed she had a
straight. She giggled and kept raising
the bet, and then giggled with the
young man, and said, ''Wasn'tit awfuliy
nice?" And he giggled. lawfully
nice" The old stagers had dropped
out, and the one left. who had four
AT that time he thought she was fool
later on he changed his mind. At
last he called her-she laid down the
most beautiful royal flush in diamonds
that you ever saw. The frivolous look
disappeared from her face and she took
in that pot with an air of triumph that
was interesting. If it was not lovely.
Sweet woman does not shine well at
the card-table if there is any money in
the question, and if she had an idea how
greedy an grasping she appeared she
would not indulge even ia a little
ante"
Out at the race track she is not quite
so bad. for her alteration of the horses
is the real reason. But she makes such
well, | might as well say lt-a holy
show of herself, that you wish her piety
had been greater and she had stayed at
home. She overdresses herself-some-
thing that she does not commit at
Sheepshead or Monmouth. and there is
sort of hard line about her mouth that
you would not like to see about that of
any one you loved.
Societies of all kinds are prevalent
here. They come here because of the
Gr1d 10 nj, o.; nhf
full, and for every other reason than the
real one, which is because they like to
see the people. Most of the societies
are composed OF crankS pure and SIM
pie, | say that, but never saw a crank
overwhelming either with purity or SIM
plicity. If they come to be temperate
they take the youngest lamb of the
flock and drink the waters with her un-
til ''bustation" seems likely. If they
are course-of-study cranks, they take off
the girl who has gone in for Italian lit
erature, and find out from her what she
considers the real stories of the Decam-
eron. If it's scientific crank, he is
trottiug around showing how if the
world began round like an apple it was
afterward changed by pair. Then he
is so delighted at his attempt at joke
that he yearnS to see his name in
comic paper. If he is here to discuss
whether dear little babies shall ever
know what heaven is hate him so that
| put on my best scowl, assisted by my
lorgnette and lemonade with stick
in it. that Mr.. Adams has given, and L
firmly announce that in the fortress
about which he talks so much and
knows so little he will pass his time
among mongrels and bats.
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Rv the-hye what is q cranlk9 A crank
is man who does not agree with you
or me.
A crank is man, who. while you APP
prove of John Collins, does not APP
prove of you.
A crank is man who believes that
the world was arranged for his ideas
and those alone.
A crank is a man who worries you
with fish stories, with his valorous