St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-14
STORIES OF THE STREET.

Charming Susie Kirwin, whom everybody
likes, has in her tiny box of a dressing room,
in addition to a particularly ugly pug, who
bears the name of Faust and for whose
benefit a barricade is built in the hall outside,
more toilette articles than most people would
know what to do with-boxes, brushes pins,
trays, hares' feet and goodness knows what,
all mounted in silver aud each bearing the
name Susie" They have all been given to
her, and it really doesn't matter to the donors
what the article is SO long as there's room on
it to engrave susie"
1t seems strange in these days of crusades
against all manner of Sabbath breaking
Sunday base pall, Sunday theaters, Sunday
newspapers and Sunday affairs of all kinds
that nobody ever thinks the gripmen and
conductors on the street railway ever need
Sunday Off. The eloquent minister of the
gospel comes out of the pu lpit where he has
waged war against everything that even
chips the commandment to keep holy the
Sabbath, and take the first car for home with
clear conscience. He will grumble, too if
he has to wait for car. He bids others keep
the Sabbath, and then goes right out and
compels them to break it.
man is not expected to have small feet,
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undermining rests on small foundations.
Not long ago somebody was delivering an
elaborate and carefully worded compliment
on Belle Hamilton's feet. George Fisher,
who can dance and sing at the same time
longer than any one L know, was standing
near, and instantly offered to bet that he
could wear the danseuse's slipper. The idea
seemed so absurd that quite a sum of money
was staked. The slipper was brought-a
satin affair of No. 2, or perhaps a halt-size
larger. 1t was a tight squeeze, but on it
went and now Fisher is looking for some
body else to play the same game on.
Although marriage is conceded to be
lottery, it is generally believed that the recent
stringent postal regulations concerning lot
teries will moi interfere with the sending of
proposals of marriage by mail
The prevalent summer girl wears her
brothers shirt, his studs, his cuff buttons,
his tie, and coat as near like his as possible
She gets on and off cable cars before they
stop, and is as much like boy as possible:
but, with all her assumption of masculinitv.
each and every one pins her boylsh sailor hat
on with the conventional feminine hat pin.
1t has often been source of surprise to me
that some of the transplanted Bostonese-
English purists i'll st. Paul do not rise en-
masse ana mob the street car companies. In
each car the grammatical absurdity is posted:
Passengers are forbidden to enter or leave
the car while in notion Until somebody
invents method of entering a car without
moving we and the grammatical street car
company do not agree.
1t is sometimes an excellent thing to pat
ronize secondhand clothing establishment
Representative Peterson knows this perhaps
better than most people do. He had a little
experience during the session of the leglsla-
ture last winter that proves this Some sneak
thief stole his overcoat. His per diem was
not due, and he is not a millionaire, and he
put off buying a new coat until Clerk Smalley
should have sent in the pay roll The gov
ernor's reception unhappily occurred mean
while, and he thought it not quite the proper
thing to go without an overcoat. Therefore
he visited a secondhand store, and to his
amazement his own coat was laid before him
for sale. He declined to strike bargain, but
instead went to Detective O'Connor. and an
officer was detailed for the purpose, and he
wore his own coat to the reception and with
out costing him cent