St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-03
TOPICAL TALK.

Where Noble 1t is quite clear that
Supt. Porter and Sec
and Porter rotary Noble have not
caught on to the spirit
Were Off. of Northwestern de-
velopment. They have
no conception of how cities grow in this
wonderland of progress. Because there
were no houses in certain localities last
year they have taken it for granted
that there were none there this year,
and accordingly proceeded to rub out
the st. Paul census returns where per-
sons were located in new buildings.
Secretary Noble must have an idea that
our towns up here are stationary
concerns like ST. Louis, where il one
new house goes up in year there is an
immense flourish of trumpets over the
event. Buildings from six to twelve
stories high go up in st. Paul and Min
apolis with so much frequency that the
residents of the city pay no attention to
it. Those officials must remember that
over $20,0O0.000 went into buildings
in st. Paul last year, and fully
that much, if not more, will be eXpend-
ed this year. In cities like ours. where
new people are coming in all the time,
of course these new buildings are going
to fill up. And yet, because the census
enumeratOrS found lot Of people liv-
ing in blocks and tenement houses
where there were no buildings last
year, Mr.. Porter jumps at the conclu-
sion that there was widespread sys-
tenn of fraud in this city. 1t would be a
revelation to Mr.. Porter and to Mr..
Noble if they would make us visit.
They would go back wondering how it
was the enumeratOrS missed so many of
the st. Paul people and failed to get
them in the census returns. We would
be willing to submit it to their honest
Judgment if there are not all of 160, 900
people living In this city.
Street Car The question of man.
ners on street cars has
Manners. often been discussed
in this country, and it
is believed the general verdict has been
that the American ladies do the genteel
act in the public conveyance more COM
monty than their sisters in the more
courtly European cities. The London
writers charge that the English ladies
on the trains are as rude as Americans.
The comparison is, of course. due to
inOrdinate local conceit. One of them
in the London News relates his eX-
perience as the victim of insolence and
bad manners that, he says, did not pre-
vail in the ''good old times" Out of
five ladies on full Fourth street cable
yesterday morning who were given
seats, only one failed to express her
thanks to the gentlemen rising, and she
had an English expression, and two OF
them bestowed smiles that made the
men happy. Somewhat protracted OBJ
servation upon the street cars in this
city shows that more than four-ffths of
the ladies have good manners.
Hot Weather There has probably
been no day this sum-
Sense. mer when the rational
person would give
more attention to his diet than yester-
day. Yet it was observed at the res
taurants and eating houses that the
great number bolted down hot victualS,
Just as if it was in winter. Few took
cold tea. coffee or milk, or made their
repast of cold articles. concluding with
berries and cream, or the cool and re-
freshing watermelon. This is contrary
to hygienic laws, and violation of ra-
tiOnal theories. With the partial eX-
ception of the English, no other civil
lied people have the same food and
drink in summer as in winter. Still
worse is 1t to sandwich in the hot things
with ice cold drinks. There is "a
tional way in adapting the internal
economy to cold and hot seasons as
there is in clothing. No one was seen
with an Overcoat on yesterday. Still
common sense has hard work to break
up old practices.