St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-22
NOTE AND COMMENT.

Most Eastern visitors to Minnesota
during the winter are surprised at the
manner in which the ladies of the cities
are able to withstand the severe cold
spells. Yesterday lady visitor from
New York, W no was staying with her
husband at the Ryan, told a GLOBE re-
porter that she had been taken by a
lady resident of this city for sleigh
ride, and she was dumbfOunded at the
very little care her hostess took to eS-
cape the cutting and Keen air.
Nv by, do you know that Mrs.
did not even put on a veil, and her hat
was certainly no protection to her head.
Her seal coat, of course, kept her warm,
but what surprised me most was that
her face and ears did not suffer from the
cold wind"
1t certainly is surprising to note how.
on a cold day like yesterday, with the
mercury near zero, men VIII hurry
through the streets with fur caps turned
down and deep fur collar turned up.
On the other hand. ladies who
look frail and delicate will walk
ieisurcly along, some with dainty head
wear that Of a surely does not give any
projections: others with p city seal
toquc perched daintily on their care
fully arranged tresses. Short seal or
fur coats and ordinary kid gloves com
pete the extra clothing worn for out
door exercise, yet the dainty darlingS
do not seem to suffer the slightest i'll
convenience from 10 deg above zero
sharp wind, which sends the Sterner
sex, heavily clothed though they be,
hurrying along to reach their steam
heated Offices. Verify this is strange.
Ii was currently reported yesterday
that President Harrison had offered the
vacant secretaryship of the treasury to
GOV. Merriam but alas, the afternoon
dispatches from Washington announced
that eX-Gov. Foster. OF Ohio, had been
nominated by the chief executive. Mr..
Msrriam is a shrewd man of business,
and would have filled the office with
well known that Baby Mckee is a
power at the White house, and if
Mr.. Merriam had only placated that
young gentleman, he might have Sc
cured the dream of his life and ''gOne to
Washington" 1t is surprising how
easily some matters are arranged, and
yet. to some men, how difficult. AS the
United States minister to DahOmey says
in the Texas Steer" ''officeSeekin' is
mighty poah work"
Al Ull6 Jllllc a CRAZE eNlSIcU lOI play
ing Juliet among actresses who are act
resSeS. and actresses who are not.
Every society woman who went upon
the stage, every walking lady who had
carried q tea tray for one season of one
night stands, every woman who had
been through the divorce courts and
suddenly discovered she was possessed
of the art of acting, and was determined
toeleYate the stage; every silly school
girl who had spoken a piece" at the
graduating exercises, all seemed pos
seSsed of the one idea that their mission
in life was to play" the love-
sick NereneSe daughter of the
Capulets. Now, all this has
changed, and their ambition is to depict
before the public the character of the
lovely queen of the Nile who led the
great Roman general, Marc Antony, TO
his downfall. AT present Sara Bern
hardt the willOwy is playing the char
acter in New York, while the obese
Fanny Davenport challenges criticism
in The same role throughout the country.
Mrs. Langtry has given up society
plays and society dresses in or
der 10 wear the gauzes and
jewels of the Egyptian queen before the
members of the English aristocracy to
which she once belonged. Mrs. James
BroNn-Potter shares the patronage OF
the English upper ten in the same char
acter, and the last to join the list is the
Well-known actress Marie Prescott, who
last week played Cleopatra" in Brook
Ign in theater right across the street
from where Fanny Davenport was ap-
pearing. We may now look for rush
of Clcopatras, and Egypt and the Nile
will be so familiar that the ordinary
schoolgirl and cigarettelet young dude
will know as much of that country as
does Miss Amelia Edwards, the famous
Psychologist.