St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-12
MINNEAPOLIS.
ABOUT THE TOWN.


ing its recent engagementin this theater
was a regular attendant on the per-
TOrmanceS of the Boston Opera COM
pany. Of the chorus and principals
there were but two women whose hands
aid not look, when contraSted with their
faces and arms, like animated Holsters.
a few years ago actresses paid especial
attention to their hands, and were fond
of having them photographed. Maud
Changers hand on the stage was her
prettiest feature. 1t was shapelv and
always eXquisitelv made up Photo
graphs of Miss Granger's hands orna-
mented the lobby of the Onion Square
in New York for an entire season, ana
one did not tire looking at them
either"
Kate Castleton understands the art of
making up She not only dresses APP
plcpriately and picturesquely, but she
has decent regard for her hands, and
makes telling use of them. AS impor-
tant auXliaries of her characteriZations
they are next in Importance to her feet.
Ada Melrose, who played Siebel dur
ing the short run of Faust Up to
Date at the Grand last week. dresses
in rare good taste and makes up
equally as we'll as the blithesome Kate.
and the EabyiSh tones she affects when
singing are in entire keeping with Der
personnel. She looks like bit of brio
a-Drac when posing as Siebel, and her
performances are favored with the
saccharine of bon-bOns."
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The continued and lively protest now
being made by the stockholders of the
National Building, Loan and Protective
association has given delegates to the
several meetings innumerabe oppOr-
tunities of witnessing the results Of
mOret than one strategically clever
scheme of the financierS who really con-
troll the unions affairs. President Cole,
who on the first day of the stockholders
deliberations was in apparent imminent
danger of being deluged with abuse and
mistrust, is to-day to some extent mas
ter of the situation. His is the whip
hand in the fight, and the probabilities
are the most recalctrant of the indie
pendents will feel, If they have not al
reaey done so,a application of the lash.
Judge Kelley. of Milwaukee. gave the
independents taste of it late Saturday
evening. He did not lecture his
fellows, however. until it was aScer-
tanned his name was included in the list
of fifteen names selected by the nomi-
mating committee, from which seven
directors will be chosen to-day. Judge
Keley's flOp-over is said to be regarded
in Il favorable light by the men who are
vitality interested Ill the unions affairs,
and his rebuEe, administered without
gloves to the independents, regarding
the diScOurteSy with which they have
treated President Cole is highly COM
mended.
Fish alley opens into Washington ave-
nue., on the west side, between Seventh
and Eighth avenues south. 1t is the
outlet of cul-de-sac, a congregation of
dilapidated buildings, tenanted by the
vilest of persons, surrounding small
open space. Orgies Of the most degraded
and widest character are common in
this hive of disreputables, and Fish
alley, with the men and women who
nightly use its narrow limits as thor
oughfare leading to places of asSigna
lions and criminal rendezvous. is under
constant police surveillance. The neigh
borh0Od is source of continued annoy
ance to the police department, and the
riotous conduct of its people
constant menace TO good order.
Officers have often been attacked
and seriously injured by the frequent
erS of the alley, and an unaSsisted pO-
Iiceman takes his life in his hand when
efTecting an arrest in its locality. Sun
day morning at an early hOurtwo young
tOughs ana the mother Of one of them
were arrested for diSorderly conduct.
They were occupants Of SQualid apart
ments in house off the alley. The
trio and a daughter OF the woman, a
girl of some sixteen years, were Waging
war of vituperatiOn and diSguStingly
plO1fhntc n
n bottle of cheap wine when appreheDd-
ed by the police. The undutiful son had
punctuated his remarks by 'blacking"
his mothers eye, and, while being
searched at the station, exhibited the
brayado Of an old criminal. The cir
cumstance is typical of life in Fish alley.
The neighborhood is splendid field for
practical mission work, but Its entire
demolition would be considered bless
Ing by the police department. Property
owners who consent to let their houses
with a full knowledge of the purposes
TO which they will be put are morally,
if not legally, responsible for the COLI
duct OF their tenants.
80
A young unmarried woman quite we'll
known in circles of fashionable Mime
apolis society has just completed the
work of writing q novel, The manu-
script has been submitted for revision
and criticism TO local writer equally as
we'll known, not only for his literary
attainmentS, but as well for his knowl-
edge of the inner history of the ''old
families" OF this city. The story is said
TO be written in vein of good-natured
sarcasm, if such literary procedure is
possible, and is reflex of society as it
was a score of years ago, and as 1t is to-
day, in Minneapolis. The novel has its
basis on facts, and the central fig
estate, her daughter and Bos-
tonian, young man with
q mission and one intensely interested
in the history of the Indian tribes of the
Northwest. A result of the latter'S his
tOricai Investigations is the discovery
that the young woman of whom he is
enamored is the direct descendant of a
squaW whose face was quite familiar to
the pioneers Of st. Anthony. The
novel, it is said, will reveal without at
tempting senSationalism, the large
number Of persons now residing in the
Twin Cities who are the offspring of
"half-breedS." The chiefeSt motif Of
the story, which dominates plot and I'M
derplot, is to demonstrate that the bit
ter feeling against the Indians of to-day
more bitter, it is alleged, in this sec
tion of the country than elsewhere, is
the result of mixture of the blood of
the paleface and his red brother. leav-
ing upon the eScutcheOn of the direct
descendants of the former the bar sim
lister. The novel is said to be cleverly
constructed. gracefully and Interestingly
written. 1t will be published during
the coming spring.
"Do you know" asked a druggist
day or TWO ago, 'who carries about
with him larger stock Of other folks
secrets than any other fellow"
1.-The family physician, or, maybe,
the family lawyer. Popular hackmen
are frequently the confidants of men
about town, land policemen know thing
OF two"
Eyes, that's so, but none of them is
the repository Of SO many family secrets
as the family druggists-not even the
family physician himself. Now, don't
mean the druggist whose establishment
is located in the cenral portion of the