St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-25
A. GIRLS GLASSES.

= The pathway OF ones upward and onward
career in his world is strewn with the frag
ments of shattered illusions. Experience is
the veriest iconoclast. Ones enlightened
friends never allow one to believe in Santa
Claus any longer than they conveniently can
help, and everybody one meets is only too
anxious to tell how the moon isn't green
cheese at all, and the dolls are really only
stuffed with sawdust. l confess to having
parted with great many more of my illu-
sions than wish / had, all owing to the dis
belief some people knew had in the maxim,
where ignorance is bliss, etc." Butt really
was woefully and terribly disappointed when
l learned that the story-book detective is only
a creation of the story tellers brain. / liked
tethink of phenomenaliy foxy men with
impeDetrable DISCUSSES and wonderful facil-
ity for getting out of scrapes where "a black
cloak was thrown over the detectives head
and he realized that he was in the pitiless
hands of the murderers To be continued
he's always left till next week just there.
too. by the way. Now these delections
saw had been engaged i'll the dangerous
and daring task of going to a doctor s office
and trying to trap him into saying he was
somebody else. There was John Mason. of
Thiel's agency-fair. fat, ana probably forty
with eye-g glasses. and the eonfding look of
a Sunday school superintendent. Then
there were Halliday and Cody. of New York,
and not one OF the trio looked as detective
should look
In point OF fact we are all being educated
up 90 one conventional level in appearance.
The mani won't say a woman, for
wQ4pan's social status is somehow written in
heFclothes-next you may be anything on
earth from his looks. Even Capt. Jack, the
poet scout, whose flowing locks were known
ia and wide, has become like unto the rest of
mankind. He writes from Washington:
1.-The first thing or things l encountered on
Pennsylvania avenue were three of the most
disreputable long-naired gaioots l ever saw.
/ Immediately made a dive for barber shop
and wearing short hair now" Capt.Jack
occasionally lepses into poetry, but it is such
good poetry that il is really quite excusabie.
This is bit of his latest saw on a photo
graph day or two ago:
''Nobiest thoughts are oft mistaken,
Sunshine oft with shadow blends.
Hearts of oak are oft most tender.
Woman's hearts and warriors souls
Oft unite, and blending render
Sunshine Oh life's muster rolls
Il
The girls of the high school are set of
young women of whom st. Paul ought to be
very proud. Some time ago they began to be
interested in physical culture, not merely as
a fad, but as a serious and important part of
ones education. Last winter they organized
a class and collected funds for their expenses
from series of medical lectures to girls and
women. The lecturers were prominent ply
sicians OF the town, who donated their serv-
t1,a rlc aof al,
sum. This year they have turned their at
tention to lunches. Every day in one of the
large basement rooms lunch is. served in res
taurant style on neat little tables. True, the
bill of fare. as chalked on a convenient
blackboard, contains the inevitable pie and
pickles of fame, but at one side of the room
neat muiatto woman cuts sandwiches and
perhaps hot coffee and cocoa on a little oil
stove. In fact, very desirable lunches are
served. The room is i'll charge of a commit
tee of the physical culture class and all
money. after the expenses are paid. goes to
pay for gymnasium instructor for the girls.
The girls are very earnest and husiness-like
in their work, and propose the establishment
of an exchange, buying their cakes and pies
from the girls in the school. The lunch
room Is new thing as yet, and is rapidly be-
ing better fitted up. 1t ought to succeed.
in general and the high school girls in par
ticular that know it will
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Several mornings of the past week passers
have been edited by the spectacle of several
ablebodied, well dressed men on their hands
and knees ''grubbing'' upon the green sward
of the court house and city hall. Each was
armed with large envelope or paper bag,
and they minded each his own business in
silence, which is more than number of the
passers did. They were picking mushrooms
out OF the grass at no expense whatever
The mushrooms are said TO be plump and of
"a, fine flavor, and they may be had from the
1city's premises absolutely for the cutting In
consequence several more beefsteaks were
served UP with fiocks of little mushrooms
around them than would otherwise have been
the case.
i
1t is a subject of congratulation to every
body who lives in St-Paul that the business
men of this town are beginning to realize
that the fates aren't going to throw plums at
the town unless the town gets ready some
kind of a reception for those plums. st. Paul
has prospered, not because its business men
were energetic or pushing. but simply be-
cause it couldn't help it under the cireum-
see that good fortune must be encouraged.
The chamber of commerce is so alive now
that feel quite sure its members will not OBJ
ject if say they slept great deal longer
than was necessary. We are going to have
factories and new enterprises, and goodness
knows what else. The jobbers are not going
to continue the little tin gods of business
they have been, for the manufacturing in
terests of the town are to be made equa. to
the jobbing. Or at least there's most won
derful and determined spirit on the part of
the leading men of the town to have it So
and to bend all their energies to doing their
duty by the town they live in.
Il
This is a true story. and | am not response
BILE for it. 1t was told me by a contralto here
in town. and 1 give it on her authority. 1t
happened at the Peoples church one night
when Locke Richardson had read Twelfth
Night" Now, III the course of that play
somebody-Olivia, l think it is, though I'm
little hazy about it-says: Uncle, why this
occasion OF this tale He and she were dis
cussing the play as they came out He wasn't
a Shakespearea1 student at all. and he said:
It's queer, isn't it that Shakespeare should
use modern slang word in his plays? Now,
always supposed that expression was new
''What eXpression?' she asked. Then, and
hopeit won't be taken as anything against
Mr.. Richardson's articulation, he said why.
where she says, Uncle, why this lealhery
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