St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-15
.FADS And FOIBLES.
Bah Discourses On Matters
Relating to Her Own
Sex.
Not Many New York Women
That Know How to
Walk.
Recent Novelties in Station
cry and Other Feminine
Devices.
Slippers as Gifts Of Senti-
ment--A View Of Cleo
patra.

| Bab's New York Letter.
1t is not exactly the proper quotation.
| but it is true that ''all things come to
| her who knoWeth how to walk" and by
knowing how to walk mean to go out
| in all sorts and conditions of weather
and keep your eyes open wide, so that
you see everything, from the shop win
dows to the pretty girls, from the sun
shine to the clear blue sky, and you can
get absolutely intoxicated with the
fresh air.
Now, the material side of knowing
how to walk is unknown to the New
York woman. When she goes in for
being stately she takes two long steps
and three short ones. and when she is
in a hurry she t1ots. A woman trot-
ting. especially if she is waving muff
to stop a street car, is much more ridicu-
lous than the woman who is doing an
amateur tobogganing down high
stoop and she ought to realize this and
cease her frantic rush. A French
woman can hasten and you are never
conscious of anything ridiculous in her
walk.
The best walkers in this country are
the Southern women, VINO, from nat
ural Incidence. put the foot down with
ease, and are taught early in life that
they must land first on their toes and
not on their heels. The Western woman
walks with emphasis, as if she meant to
get there, and usually, l think, she does.
The Philadelphia woman has little bit
of all inclination to mince, and an occa-
sional startled air about her as if she
were afraid of being quick in her move
ments. To walk well, have cOmforta-
BILE shoe that fits the foot, with medium
high heel, and always put the toes down
first; this gives a good carriage, throws
the hips in the proper position, lnten-
sites the springy movement, and makes
the man passing by you very conscious
of the fact that you are well shaped
about the shoulders, and have grace
full curve from the waist down. A
woman that walks we'll is pleasure to
look at, and ever man who knows her
feels himself honored by being seen
With-her.
The real fin de steele is for the man of
your heart to give you not gloves. not
flowers, not sweets, though these may
all come in due season, but slippers.
Slippers such as Cinderella wore; Slip
pers that glitter with buckles of gold or
silver, sometimes of precious stones and
that have the highest of heels and the
narrowest and most pointed of toes.
With them always comes wish that
your feet may go in pleasant places, or
the slippers come with hope that you
may walk through life beside him who
loves you with all the intensity of his
heart. It's very touching. But | think
the most touched girl in New York was
one who got pair of white satin Slip
pers, and on the toe Of each, instead of
a buckle, was beautiful diamond but
tertly, that might be used as brooch or
hair ornament when it was not doing
duty on the slipper. l consider those
slippers the first excuse [ have ever seen
for anybody putting their feet on the
mantel-Shelf; but the funny part OF tbs
that the young man believed his own
darling wore No. /, whereas she found
it difficult to get into No. 3. She
couldn't change the slippers. for she
couldn't find out where they came from;
but she bought herself pair exactly
dances around and over that young
mans heart with perfect unconcern.
Another pretty pair of slippers sent to
a fiancee were of gold brocade with
buckles glittering with topaz. These
were to be worn at dinner where the
engagement was announced, and the
gown with them them was one of deep
yellow chiffon. The man who sent these
slippers will certainly make good hus-
band, for with them came lovely yell
low gauze fan on tortoise she'll sticks
with a monogram wrought out IN topaz,
pair of pale yellow gloves that reached
far up over the arm, while very far
down in the toe of each slipper was a
pale yellow silk stocking. These all
came together with the note from him;
and later in the day without any card,
presumably not from him, arrived a
box in which were encaSed pair of
carriers, one black, the other yellow, the
buckles set with topaz, and On one was
the monogram of the wearer-that was
on the black garter-while on the yell
low was engraven Luck comes through
me-" The girl was so happy she couldn't
tell whether it came from the garter or
the man who sent it, but Of course she
knew he did, and she intends to thank
him in the prettiest way possible after
her marriage.
Everybody can't have ancestors-that
is, of course. everybody does have an
cestors, but they are not always partic-
ularly vain of them, nor anxious to in
trodnce them to the public at large.
Several times millionaires may not OBJ
ject. to having thieves and liars and
fergers and men who die on the wrong
end of the rope among their progenitors,
| but plain, ordinary, everyday people
have an idea that they would rather
their 'sparients" far back should be
| more OF less respectable. presumably
| more. A bright woman, with no blue
| blood to speak Of, has solved the anceS-
| trail picture fashion in very amusing
| way She herself is very beautiful
| woman, and she earned her living by
| her needle and her brush; that is, doing
| very fine embroidery for various dec
orative societies, and by painting menus
and cards for the large shops. A man
| whose riches are great, and whose blood
is most cerulean, fell in love
| with her, and made her his
| wife. His family had a slight
| inclination to scott, not because she
| had earned her own living-thank God,
| that is credit to women nowadays
| but because she hadn't come OF gentle
| folk. She never seemed to know this
| had the tact to ignore it in the most
| beautiful manner. At her first after
| noon tea the members of the family and
| her intimate friends were invited into
| her own special room to see the pictures
of. as she funnily put it, 1.-THE women
| who have preceded me-" and there she
| had, either in cGlOrS or photographs.
! the picture of almost every woman who
has triumphed through her beauty.