St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-18
SUNDAY POT-POURRI.
What Some Minneapolis Men
and Women Do and 9th
ers Do Not Do.
Odd Bits Of Life Picked Up
About the Various Streets
Of the City.
Why Some Things Which
Have Been Done Have
Been So Done.

Peculiar Habits Of Some Peo-
pie Which are Revealed
to Every body.
a couple of weeks ago several mis-
guided ladies and gentlemen, who call
Minneapolis their home, conceived the
idea that they would make ornaments of
the dramatic profession. They forth
with bought several copies of thrilling
war drama called "Allatoona" and pro-
ceeded to metamorphose it into come
dy. While the production of the play
was in preparation its presentation was
extensively advertised about the city
and in the newspapers as for the benefit
of the Women's Relief corps, an auXili-
airy to the Grand Army Of the Republic.
Well. the time came when these new
stars were to illumine the theatrical
armament, but the illumination was not
a brilliant success. The histrionic pyro-
technlc pieces seemed to have become
dampened, and. instead OF going off
with flash and bang, they just Kissed
a little and faded out. The whole
affa il was fiasco. Now, here
Sert, in voices pitched long way above
middle G, that the W. R. g. had nothing
whatever to do with the production of
"Allatoona." They say that if there
were any proceeds from the production
of "AllatOona," they were all appropri-
ated by two ladies who had charge of
the affair. The w. r. G. ladies admit
that some of their number sold tickets
for 'Allatoona," but they aver that the
two ladies who had charge OF the matter
gave tickets to members of the w. r. @.
in order to insure good attendance,
the w. r. G. to receive 10 per cent on
all tickets thus sold. But, all other
matters aside, they close with the asser-
ton that the proposed connection be-
tween "AllatoOna'' and the w. r. G.
city The producers of "Allato0na''
are now. it is said, contemplating tour
of the state with the play, and hence
the members of the w. r. G. object
strenuously to its sailing under false
cOlOrS.
After the last council meeting had adj
jOurned the number of Minneapolis be-
levers In the old Brahminical doctrine
of TRANSPORTATION Of souls was increased
by about thirty-siX. The reason for this
adoption of an old Asiatic belief may be
found in the speech made in the council
by Aid. Vandewaker. An ordinance to
compel all persons wishing to carry fire.
arms concealed about them to take out
a license was introduced and read for a
second time, and the Dem osthenes Of
the Twelfth ward arose to make a
speech. There is reason to believe that
the TRANSPORTATION of souls is a correct
theory after VandeWaker's speech, and
if that be a correct theory, the spirits of
Demosthenes, Cicero. Edmund Burke
and Thomas Jefferson have all been
consolidated and re-embodied in the
corporosity Of the man from beyond the
motor line. Such an address on the
rights of man. the inalienability of
citizens ability to defend himself from
carson about to be committed upon his
person." infringement upon personal
liberty, ct cetera. ad infinitum. The
race of orators is not wholly extinct.
Now that the moving season is practi-
cally over, it is an opportune time to
speak of one of the products of the
great American habit of moving. This
growth upon the body of movers may be
classed as the house shopper. The
house shopper is always woman, and
the near relative of the professional
shopper who has become such terror
to the clerk IN the large dry goods
houses. But the house shopper is more
dangerous than the frequenter OF the
lace and ribbon counters. She is more
persevering, more inquisitive, more in
solent, more of an annoyance in every
way than the other. 1t is the delight of
the house shopper to get track OF some
house in which a family, the more
quiet and Well-bred the family the bet
ter it suits her, is still living, but from
which that family expects soon to move.
In such home the house shopper is in
her element, and, armed with a note
from the rental agent, she goes through
every room in the house from cellar to
garrett, from parlor to kitchen. peering
into every corner with the assiduity ola
private detective. But she does not
contine herself to the rooms alone. She
examines all the family portraits, fingers
the bric-a-brac, penetrateS to the dark
est recesses of every closet, hoping, no
doubt. to uncover a family skeleton;
questions the servants, critiCiSeS the
furniture and the carpets, and does not
hesitate to invade even the private
apartments of the mistress of the house.
Indeed, she not only does not hesitate
to do it, but she insists upon doing 1T,
and will even thrust aside curtains and
pull down the present occupants
dresses and comment upon their text
ture and fashion. All this the pro-
fesSiOned house shopper does. Some
ladies will protest that this is false
picture, but that it is the truth is still
fact. And the women who do this sort
of house shspping are not the ones who
do their own work because they cannot
afford to hire servants.
He was seen from the court house
steps when he was block away, slowly
mean dering toward the halls of Justice.
He acted m UGH like several Of the men
who want to be mayor of Minneapolis
not just certain of the path which he
was following, and extremely tired of
the whole business. He appeared even
more wearied when he began to mount
the steps leading to the Hennepin
county law foundry; and, as he sifted
through the doors, the odor of stale beer,
Indigestion, plug tobacco and Linn
toward the city's garbage dump,
and caused intense commotion
among the swells which inhabit the
neighbornood. In the hall he met one
of the register of deeds young lady en-
ployes and, in voice whose consistency
closely approached ''clabbered'' milk,
he inquired something, but she drew
back in alright and he drifted on. J. F.
Peterson was not in and the weary wan
derer who seemed to seek him per-
formed some evolutions in turning
round which would have done credit to
the drillmaster of the Flambeau club,
then propelled himself into the treas
urer's office. Treasurer James was too
busy to talk to him. Up the stairway
went the victim of many disappoint-
ments. sometimes falling back couple
of steps, but still braVely climbing on,