St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-29

is under instructions to have a tepid
bath ready for me every hour until fur
Their orders, and | think | have taken
seven separate and distinct baths since
this morning. Now do you see through
the scheme? It's the greatest way of
keeping cool ever heard Of" =
Must be very troublesome to dress
and undress so many times" l ven
tured. glancing at the loose white wrap
per which enveloped her form. r
''The fact is" she replied, pulling
the drapery closer about her, ''the fact
is, that-er;" and then she blushed a
little pink blush and concluded to ask
no more questions about how she kept
cool.
1t is curious to note how differently
the heat affects different people. Who
is there who has not met the aggravat-
ingly fireproof Individual, he who can
sit undisturbed in even the most tropi-
cal heat without even willing his col
lar, and who smiles with commiseration
upon the fat man in the same office as
the latter mOpS his forehead and cusses
element. Winter withers him with its
icy breath. and he is miserable as long
as the mercury hangs down around
zero, but this tropical heat is his long
suit, and he has the laugh on the rest OF
creation for the time being. 1t is
strange, but nevertheless true. that
those who suffer most with the
heat are the ones who perform
the least physical labor. The street
laborer shovels away all day long, per-
spires freely and is cool, while the fore
man of the gang stands near doing
nothing beyond maintaining general
supervision OF the workers, and if any
get sunstruck he will be the first to fall.
My lady of the mansion on the hill fans
herself vigorously and cannot keep cool
even then, while her maid buStles about
doing thousand and one things that
maids have to do, and would tell you,
should you ask her, that she scarcely
feels the heat at all.
The heated atmosphere of yesterday
was directly responsible for an acct
dent which, but for the evident dismay
OF the half-dozen fair victims of
capricious climate, would have been
laughable in the extreme. There was a
picnic at Bald Eagle lake, and bevy
of pretty girls of the lower town set had
dOnned their airy summer Iegalia of
white. The lake was reached without
hitch, and it was not until the middle
of the lake had been reached that one
of the valiant OarSmen in charge re-
marked that it looked like rain. His
remark was quickly followed by the
rain itself, and such shower as it was!
1t seemed that the 1oodgates of heaven
had been pulled wide open, and
when the boating party reached
the pier from which so gay start had
been made short time before, each
member of the aggregation was sight
for fond father. Those lovely white
dresses were drenched through and
through. They could not come back to
town in that cOnditi0n-it was not to be
thought of for moment-so the next
best thing was to make a raid on the
wardrobes of the vicinity. Kindhearted
old Mrs. Smith, the farmers wife,
trotted out mother hubbard which
once had adorned her own portly form,
| never saw anything funnier than
the efforts of we'll known young
lady to appear at ease when attired in
that mother hubbard! 1t was very
short and frightfully broad in the beam,
but there was only one thing to de--she,
must wear that rig to town. A rather
tall young lady, whose weakest points
are her ankles, dawned on the world
after period of seclusion got up in a
cotton dress, the property of the farm
er's fourteen-year.old daughter. The
dress was about nine inches too short
for her, and those ankles were exposed
to the gaze of an unsympathetic world.
Another young lady Of the party app
peared in an ulster of some brown
checked stuff, the winter wrap of an
other member of Farmer Smiths FAM
lily; and so it went.
A more thoroughly subdued crowd Of
young ladies was never seen, and as
they boarded the train for home the
car was interested in their quaint garb.
They had to stand it until St. Paul was
reached, and then couple of hacks
were chartered to convey them to their
respective homes.
met one of the party again last
evening at tennis party, and asked If
there had been any evil result from her
experience of the afternoon.
s'None," she replied, Except that l
have struck Bald Eagle off my list and
registered a solemn VOW never to 90 to
a lake again without a gossamer, COM
plete change of clothing and special
train"