St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-28
A BOUQUET OF BRIEFS.


Argument is superfuous. If a woman !
wants pins within convenient reach, under
any circumstance and for any purpose, she
carries them in her mouth. She will take
care of half paper of pins more or less, in
that way, and carry on smooth conversation
at the same time. Miss Jessaline Rodgers, in
the statue scene of the "Clemenceau Case"
steps from the pedestal with an abun
dant supply of pins on hand-or rather in
her mouth-with which to fasten on her
dainty wrap. The pinning of her wrap oc-
cnpies several moments, during which time
she has to speak at least a dozeu lines, and
she speaks them, too, without any noticeable
break or inconvenience, only stopping at
period or semi-colon long enough to take
another pin from her mouth. Laura Biggar,
who flied the same role SO cleyerly at the
Metropolitan few weeks ago, didthe same
thing, and if the reader happens to
be a married man. this feminine
trick is an old one to him.
The furbelows required by the laws of
fashion-and woman rates all other laws as
secondary-would require more stitches to
hold them in place than could possibly be
taken in the ordinary day of twenty-four
hours and leave any margin of time over for
other things, and the little innocent, insig-
nihcant, three-cents -a-paper pin fills the bill.
Scarce human mind which is not laboring
under its racing weight of secrets and when
you see slight expression Of anxiety cross
woman's face it is because for one terrible
| moment she thought she felt something give
way, and the awful secret of the means by
which some indisp ensable garment or fetch
| ing gew-gaw had been fastened was about to
be exposed to the cold and critical world.
~
r i,ly tIa thor fba
of any other nationality. are given to distort-
ing our language, until. if grammar appealed
| to the sight, the errors would loom up like
cow in a parlor. Some time ago, remem-
Der, an American newspaper commenting
upon the popularity of an article of dress
worn at that time went on to say that ladies
who were at all stylish did not consider
themselves properly dressed even for church
| without large and sometimes unbecoming
hustle. A French paper criticising the activ-
ity of American women attempted to translate
| the paragraph, and had it that an American
newspaper acknowledged that an american
lady could not even go to church without
great and unseemly ado" short time ago
Crane advertised the fact that he had played
THE Senator 400 consecutive times, and
now see Paris paper states that Crane,
| the comedian, has been elected to the United
States senate 400 times"
~
| The fellows who annually exalt the pros
| poets for an enormous wheat crop early in
| the spring and then discover about the first
| of July that the crop is going to be failure
| for one reason or another came pretty near
| being caught without the slightest shadow
| of a reason for their dismal representations
this year. In years gone by they have multi
| piled the grasshoppers enlarged the chinch
| bugs and magnifed the awful results OF the
| drouth. after predicting earlier in the sea-
| SOM the most glorious crop record in the
history of the country until that sort of
thing became very wearying. Driven to des-
| perate ends they have hit on the smart
weed this year, and that ever common
| plant is running the wheat crop"
| until there will be a Every small and
rather poor crop, which will make prices very
| high''--in the market but not to the farmer.
| The most of these buncombe generators
| never saw an acre of wheat growing on the
Dakota prairies in their natural lives. If
! they had they would know that smart-weed
| has always grown very generally there and
| probably always will, but is not at all likely
| to affect the wheat crop. Some of the old
| ladies of Skandijohava or Ransom counties
| could give these crop experts few points
! that would be well worth their while consid-
| ering.
The average political argument is weighty
and convincing thing. l picked up couple
| of opposing-very much opposing-news-
| papers from the same city the other DAY, and
| the bitter editorial attacks of each on the
| party of the other under a veneer of mock
wisdom and dignity was about as meaty and
| edifying as a brief debate between two
| Hibernian friends just previous to the last
i T - -
oyerhear. This genteel and brilliant little
discussion ran something like this: Hello
| Moikel''
''Hello, Jiml''
''Well, who are yez goin to vote fer?''
sob, Oh doan know. / think Oill vote fer
| Cleveland Who are yous goin' to vote fers"
| "O'i think think Oi'll vote for Harrison"
| 'sWell, why is Harrison amy better nor
| ClavelandY'
s'well, why is Cleveland amy better nor
Harrisons'
''Oh, hip
| "'H-p who?"
| I'll, yourselfr'
you're dom foolr'
''The same to you, We blackga'rd!''
And then they turned and pursued their
| diverging ways, each satisfied, suppose,
| with the determined and intelligent manner
|
| candidates.
This is strange world. The following
little social sandwich being made of three
little paragraphs clipped from daily news
papers has flavor that is not altogether
palatable. Perhaps the upper and the lower
crusts are not favored properly, or possibly
the crusts and the filling are incongruous.
Someway there is no relish to it:
The most gorgeous of the new residences,
| with its broad terraces and stately
| pillars, is that which will be oc-
cupied by Mr.. and Mrs. ogden Goe-
let upon their return from Europe. The
hall is to be the ball room, and it is expected
that seventy five couples will be able to
dance there with perfect comfort. Some
few years ago Mr.. Goelet gave $4,000 for
small house on a handsome lot on the cliff
| belonging to J. Fred Kernochan, of New
York. The house was entirely unsuited to
the owner, and Mr. Goelet had 1t torn down
and the present palatial house erected. It's
cost is said to have been in the neighbor
hood Of 100000, and the furnishing will
cost over 100000 so that the entire establish
ment will stand Mr.. Goelet in something In
the neighborhood of 500, 000.- New York
Worlds Newport Letter.
John Ii. Waite, an hororably discharged
Union soldier. died Monday from starvation.
He was about forty-fve years old and greatly
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