St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-23
SOCIAL MINNEAPOLIS.
The DulleSt Week Of the Sea-
son in Flour City Social
Circles.
st. Patrick's Day Gives Lenten
Observers a Chance for
Enjoyment.
Card Parties and Receptions
the Only Pleasures Farm
ished HabitueS.
Various Spring Styles and
Some Of the Nuisances
Spring Brings.

Society has had severe set back for
4 week, and the young people are haV-
ing little breathing spell between
dances. Club affairs were few and far
between, and aside from number of
card parties, few atter-dinner recep-
tions and afternoon teas, there has been
nothing of note going on. Even the
Young people that have been disregard
ing Lent. and getting married at quite
rapid rate, have suddenly stopped mat
ing, and dull aching void has been the
result in local society circles. Among
q certain class ST. Patrick day came as
an oasis in a vast desert. Of course
there could be no dancing or anything
of that sort, but 1t was such relief
Tor the dear ladies to put on once
again their best clothes. brush up the
silk hat for the male escort and go out to
an entertainment that parto0k in some
manner of social affair. VI course it
was little veXatiouS when the orches-
ira struck up some lively air. not to be
able to get out on the floor and Step
few measures to the S0ul-Stirring
strains. but it had to be borne with. and
I'm the mean time such enjoyment
drawn from the occasion as could be
obtained by an evening spent with the
amateur performers, in their frantic at
tempts to draw SMILES and tears FROM
sympathetic audience by q portrayal of
the woes and miShapS of Kathleen
Mavourneen, or pyke O'Callighan, and
there is 10 miStaking the fact that they
succeeded fairly well.
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Once or twice during the week the
sun came out warm and bright and the
streets were filled with pedestrians. out
to get the first faint breath of spring.
Here was chance to get look at the
GrSt advance guard of the spring styles,
and each particular lady on the street
placed herself i'll danger OF spinal
trouble from the pivoted movement
kept up by her head in the attempt to
study each article of dress by her rivals
rs they passed by. From the spring
bOnnets and hats shown Oh the warm
days in question. it is certain that the
prevailing shades in headgear is to be
of all sorts of uncertain green tintS.
One bonnet was covered with no less
than seven shades, from the deep
sea hue to the bleached pea green.
Very few blossoms are worn, most OF
She trimmings appering to be in feath
erS and ribbons. Some OF the most
pleasing effects are i'll the trimmings of
different hues of ferns, the feathery ef-
feet being eXcellently given in the arti-
ticial branches. The weather has been
hardly warm enough as yet Tor dis
play of the light col0rS of ladies suit
ings, although it is probable that the
various local dreSSmakerS are busy
building them for the first break of ac-
tual spring weather. From 4 casual
muddy day glance, the prevailing style
in hCiSery seems to be the favorite
Sombre block. without speck OF any
color, and from the window displays in
dry goods stores it is evident that their
length depends only upon the length of
the limbs they are to adorn.
There is some little complaint coming
from the fair sex IN regard to the way
i'll which the deep-hued saliva and eX-
tract of Virginia weed is hurled about
on corners where hack and eXpTeSSmen
most do cOngregate. Some of these
gentry, 1t is claimed. have grown to I've
quite proficient in their workmanship,
and display of white skirt or a poem
III hosiery is temptation rOt to be re-
sisted. LII consequence, the wash bills
OF such ladies' as pass that way are said
to be too large for comfort. aside from
The fact that tive stains do not always
conc out with the first wash. 1t may
be that the soiling of the aforesaid APP
parcl is only accidental, but
even in that case, it is any
thing but pleasant. There are
those who say that there is another rea-
son why brown lake Of tobacco juice
is kept upon the sidewalk at these par
ticular corners, reasons that arc at
tributed as not being strictly moral on
thC part Of the perpetrators. They
were disappointed the other day, how
ever, a more than pretty lady came
into view. and the byStanderSS cast con-
SciouS glanceS at each other, but they
were doomed to disappointment, for she
was prepared for them; and. as she
passed, the audience was made aware
of the fact that she wore rubber boots.
Perhaps she was justified in the tiend-
iSh smile of triumph with which she
passed them.
There is Que thing connected with the
coming summer that mankind will not
hail with delight. As soon as the sun
begins to pour down in warm rays every
lady i'll the land and all her daughters
will come out in force. with the soul
destroying parasol. and the business of
the local ocuiiStS will again be on the
boom. 1t is claimed that a local gentle
man has advanced the idea of putting
boXing-gIoves upon tie points of the
rods. but the idea is not popular with
the ladies.
SOCIAL MUTATIONS.