St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-04
RANDOM GOSSIP.

There is an amusing story in regard to
why a certain young lady who resides on no
less thoroughfare than the Rue de Summit
did not hear Sara Bernhardt, Friday evening.
as she had planned that by accident has al
ready gotten to the ears of few intimate
friends and will of course. sooner or later,
be everybody's joke. At the present time
many ladies who do not need TO resort to any
Of the articles of making up" still find
few lotions for the removal of tan and freck
les to be practically essentials of the toilet
The young lady in question: who is blessed
with beautiful share OF good looks, in fact
is emphatically pretty, is especially proud of
her clear. delicate complexion. The damp.
raw winds of the past few days had proven
too much for her tender skin, and disagreed
BILE little shades and freckles had crept over
it. which she planned to remove by the aid
of some perfectly harmless vegetable com
pound" which she had in her collection.
Friday evening came. Visions of Bern
| hardt and a s'sweli'' audience danced
| through her brain. and, of course, she
! pictured herself in the midst of it all. look
! ing quite as well as any one present, and why
shouldn't she? A pretty gown had every
crease taken out of it, lovely bouquet had
arrived from the florists; dainty laces and
| gloves and all the odds and ends of an ex-
| quisite costume had been laid out. Nothing
remained to be done but to don them put
curl here and a touch there, only resort must
| first be had to the freekle lotion and remove
the i'll effects of bad Weather The young
lady has some of the artistic touch, and does
not little i'll the way of amateur decora-
ton. Mixed with the little jars and pots and
! bottles on her dresser in an absolutely reck
! less manner were Two or three bottles of
very penetrating stain. One particularly
! dark connection was in a bottle so closely
resembling that of the freckle eradicator
| that under the intoxicating excitement of
the moment it was picked up, bit of soft
| sponge saturated with It. and one side of that
lovely face carefully rubbed over with it,
In thirty seconds the young lady could
have secured almost any salary at
museum as a spotted girl One side showed
its customary cream and pink, while the
other was deep. rich mahogany, which no
amount of alcohol. SOAP warm water or rub
bling could do more than half remove. With
tears, she resigned herself to her dreadful
fate, and there was one seat at the Metropol-
itan opera house which had a sad. vacant
mein about it. 1t will be two or three days
more before all traces Of that deep. mahog-
any, are gone
If Gen. Lew Wallace should receive the
appointment of secretary of war; he would
at least have the advantage over the present
incumbent, Redfeld Proctor of having Ben
Hur'd Of before his appointment.
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One of the most provoked men l ever saw
in my lite was an elderly German gentleman
whose cause for temper would have thrown
Job into frenzy. 1t was Saturday; he had
some urgent business to be done at Mime
apolis bank, and had just sufficient time to
get over there and attend to it providing
close connections were made on the inter
urban line. He had received a transfer to
the line, and awaited somewhat anxiously
for his train OF the corner of Eighth and Wa
basha streets AS is generally the case when
one is hurried, the ever-in-need of repair
electric car did not putin an appearance. He
walked up and down, nervously pulled his
watch out great many times, and still no
car came in sight. Finally, it arrived, and
he boarded it with an earnest alaerity that
that indicated that he thought that the only
train running on the line. 1t was some five
or ten minutes past the limit of time punched
in his transfer check, and the conductor de-
clined TO accept the check for fare. "Vot!"
said the Teutonic passenger. You keeps
me Waiting more as half hour, und den you
| doand take my sheck?'
now"
mime Got und himmel, but you fellers hat
nit you your gall. You keeps me Waiting dere
und den ven you vas yourself late you wants
me to pay more fares already. You shust go
to blazes mt your tam oil car, walks first"
And he struck out up Wabasha street at
gait which. if he maintained, brought him to
Minneapolis long way ahead of the car.
~
No matter how much trouble and care and
money are expended in getting together a
mineral collection they are bound to be
rocky affairs.
| Yon Yonsen in an excellent play of its
| kind. The character Of the title role gives a
| pleasing and reliable idea of Swedish char
acterstics, and if you have ever lived for six
months in North Dakota, Heege's lingo
| sounds perfectly natural, and you can not
| help thinking how many times you have
| heard them talk lust that way" l would
| like to see more Swedish characters brought
| into the plot, and it seems pity that Miss
| Connelly's excellent Irish part. Mrs. Latin,
should be abruptly shelved at the fall of the
| curtain on the first act.