St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-20
MINNEAPOLIS.
Additional City News on Page s.
PEKsoNAn OPINIONS.

L. s.. Taylor-ln the summer months
there is always great increase OF bust
ness in restaurants which make 4 spe-
atty of serving up light lunches and
other meals. In the winter months most
of our customers eat heavy meals once
or twice day, but directly fruits begin
10 come in season quite large number
swear off meat altogether. and laugh
and grow fat on diet of milk, light
confectionery. eggs and fruit.
Manager McCadden-Ihe time was IN
this country when 4 good ventrlloqulst,
with a Punch and judy stage, could
make 500 a week easily as salary, or
more il he ran his own show ana traV-
eled about from one town TO another.
II be can make $50 a week nowadays
he's very lucky. and often he gets much
less than that. VentrilOQuists are
made by the score, and every small
show has a Punch and judy OUTFIT
with il. ] worked with snap show
once, and had a man to give ten ten
niLate shows r day with Mr.. Punch
and his companions. ana ne hau, De
sides. to lecture about the freaks III the
museum. For all this he got SO a week.
The work of a Punch-talker Is not
pleasant or light, either. 1t is very
hard on the threat. 1t strains the vocal
chords and breaks the voice in few
wears. | have noticed that P0nch men
become either owners OF small SHOWS or
ticket-takers in large ones.
The Man W ith the Bass V0ice-Ihe
physicians code of ethics is 4 remark
able thing. / consulted the other DAY,
a well-known MINNEAPOLIS specialist IN
throat and lung diSeaSeS-a man VINO IS
famous in the country tor his original
investigation. Chatting with hlm after
nv business was disposed of. he casual
" mentioned a discovery he had made
year before. by which he was
able 70 cure the falSett0 voice of
men. u thought it was incurabie.
said I. ''Oh. no." he said. he cure
is a mere matter of training certain
idle throat muscle 10 do itspropef Work:
You know Mr.. Blank and Mt. Dasn ana
Young b. | showed them in ten min
utes how 10 cure the falsettO voice, and
afte. a weeks exercise they all came
back TO me talking in full. n AMY bari
tone and bass Voices "But 1t IS not
generally known that yOn have discov-
cred this" | said. why don't you
write something about it?' "Weli, ne
said. - can't afford TO antagohlZe the
profession. as | should do If advertised
that | could do something other pnysl-
-'iaps could not do
asked teiA. DruggiSt-NheneVer am
pTOnt j invariably dnSLS5HH ne - etIo ~
The trade in these is enOrmCu us. aRo
nearly 90 per cent OF the price is profit
for manufacturer and druggist. Here
IS registered preparation which re-
tails at sl.50 a bottle and is very
popular. 1t is composed of less
than an ounce of calOmei and
about ten ounces Of water, with
Just a sprinkle of perfume. The most
costly item is the bottle, which prob
ably cost the manufacturer 20 cents. |
make up a cheap preparation, very
similar to this, and sell it for 80 cents,
but there is little demand for it. NV
weekly takings for cosmetics amount TO
an average of $40, ana if you could
make canvass OF all the drug stores in
the city you would find the annual total
away up over 81, 000,0 900.
r. F. Jones-lt h as generally been a
popular idea among hOTsemen that a
thoroughbred could do no good work in
cold weather. and that it required a hot
sun 10 bring out his latent power This.
however, is not always true, as recent
PEI tOrmanCes OH the ice around the
Lake OF the Isles prove that in the cold
est weather the horses may do good
work.