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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-29
LIGHTNING LUNCHES,
Nothing Too Rapid for the
Counter Fiend Of the
Sanity City.
Some OF the Local Faciliti es
for Lunching tout de
Suite
Eating Faster Than a Light
ming Change Artist Can
Operate.
Lunches That Are Rapid But
Do Not Always Agree
With One.

Nearly 800 years ago the immortal
bard of Avon made Macbeth say at his
feast, which was so rudely interrupte d
by the ghost who made life burden to
him: Now may good digestion wait
on appetite and health on both" Then
the earth seemed to move at a slower
rate, people took their time AMI spent
half the day in feasting and the other
half in letting digestion do its work.
But at the close of this century, when
all are going at rapid pace and when
everything is done in hurry, the good
digestion and health which were
so kindly offered would either
have to hire a bicycle or rapid
transit car to keep up with the appetite
of the average hustler. "Time! time!
want of timeu' is the cry that seems to
go up from the mighty body who are
rushing pell-mell after the glittering
and almighty dollar. Everything seems
to be forgotten, and the millionaire
merchant, the banker, the clerk and
the Office boy scarcely take time to eat
Thus there has sprung into existence an
institution which belongs solely to this
age, and that is the little lunch room,
where cold luncheOns and hot coffee
and chocolate are handed out to the
busy and hurrying millions. Within
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-29

the past few years this class of restau-
rants has multiplied wonderfully until
there is hardly square in tie center of
the city where the little sign. Sand
witches and Coffee" is not displayed.
There seems to be now in vogue two
kinds of lunch rooms. mostly freQuented
by those who take only slight repaSt
in the middle of the day. One of these
is where some warm food, as we'll as
cold luncheOns, are kept, while the
other. which seems the most popular,
is known as the dairy lunch" This
plan of luncheon is both novel and orig
Inal. and a perfect boon to the indivi-
dual who does not mind eating on the
picnic style. The rooms are generally
artistically painted, decorated with
pictures, with display of snowy linen,
while the window is taStefully arranged
with an array of eatableS calculated to
tempt the appetite of hungry man.
Along the walls of the room ale placed
comfortable cane-Seat chairs. with a
wide arm on one side to hold your cup
of coffee or milk.
But" says the critical and careful
little wife of the business man who does
not come home to dinner, where are
the tables. George?" And George, or
whatever his name may be, will tell
her, as he swallows down some bread
with a wry face, that they don't have
tables, and, moreover, they neither
have knives nor forks, neither plates
nor saucers. There is where the time
is saved, both to the restaurateur and
the person enjoying his lunch.
The bill of fare at dairy lunch,
which is announced by fiaring gilt
sign, consists of coffee, cocoa, ham and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-29

This irritates Mr.. Prim. and he leaves,
vowing that he will not 90 into that
place again. But he does, and the same
scene is repeated.
Then there is the dyspeptic, some
who are in a hurry and some who are
slow. He always picks up the bill of
fare, runs his eye down the list of eata-
bles and wants to know why they don't
have fit things for man 10 eat. He
cools down presently, forgets his ails
and orders mince pie and milk. When
he goes home in the evening his old dyS-
pepsia has wrought him up to mood
which makes him delightful company
for the rest of the family.
Although there are lots of men who
lunch in hurry because they think
they haven't time to spare, there is one
class who are compelled sometimes to
eat against time, and they have to be
exp erts. too. These are the knights OF
the road. The conductor announces i'll
his musical voice that there will be fif-
teen minutes for dinner. The crowd
max es break for the lunch counter,
and on the strength of the fifteen min
utes order big dinner. Then, una
wares to them, the train dispatcher
thinks he'd better move the train, and
| just as the hungry commercial tourist IS
beginning his dinner the conductor
| cries ''All aboard" and general rush
| is made for the train. Rolls and sand
| witches are stuffed into pockets, coffee
| is gulped down and other things disap-
pear with lightning-like rapidity. The
rest of the trip is spent in abusing the
railroad company.
The man who lunches in hurry does
not go to place where he gets a dim
ner la Delmonico. with price in ac-
cordance; he defers this until he has
| plenty of time. A large number Of
those who are obliged to lunch in a
hurry are persons who, in former years.
| carried lunch-baSket. With the open
ing of so many of these rooms where
cheap lunches are sold this mode is dis
appearing, and the clerk who only has
short time for lunch finds the new
way by far the better plan.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-29
What a Wife Should Know.

Do you women, who hold the destiny
of the world within your hands, prop
erly appreciate the monetary problem
of your life and cares? Do you know
whether your husbands could afford to
buy those pretty jewels that sparkle at
YOUR ears, or even the new rocker for
the sitting room? Do you know whether
he is living Within his income or wheth-
er. from his love for you and the pain it
would give not to crafty your wish, he
is preparing to take his lite some day
with his own hand?
If you do not know these things, lose
no time in learning all about them; and
some early night. after an exception
ally good dinner. prepared with extra
care, under your personal supervision;
after he has read his paper and laid it
down, go to him as you used to do in the
happy days of girlhoOd, and, taking his
hand and looking into his eyes, say:
Love, | want you to tell your wife just
how much money you are worth; don't
hesitate to be frank, for if you have
nothing shall love you all the more,
and if you have much mean to help
you save it. Let me be your partner in
the anXieties and savings as well as the
peace and spendings of your days." Take
no put off, no evasion, and let it be the
last day of all your married life that you
do not know whether your table should
cost you So or $50 week.
Become the bookkeeper of your huS-
bands fortune, and know at least every
half year whether your bark has clear
sailing or is to be wrecked in darkness
by unknown disaster In my early mar
ried life, think, the light of my homo
thought sometimes her spending money
was needlessly limited. | remember
we'll she brought few clouds into
charming Sabbath by calling my atten-
ton to beautiful SeaSack and muff,
worn by a lawyers wife, who sat across
the aisle from us; there was little SOr-
row in her voice, as she looked at her
plain but becoming velvet wrap and
mink hand-coyering. But when
twelve month after | mentioned, what
perhaps | ought not, that our lawyer
friend had just been sued for the price
of the SealSkln goods, she seemed. and
has ever since seemed, fully content
with her palmer things.
These wives of ours are very willing
to truly fill the station in life to which
God has assigned them, if they know
Just what it is, and the sooner there are
no secrets between husbands and wives
about it, the sooner safety will bar the
door against rum.
Each of us owe greater duty to the
household than to the world. Home is
the most sacred gift of heaven. To make
it heavenly and shield it from sorrow
and destruction is the sacred trust COM
| United to the women OF tO-day.-LadieS'
Home journal.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-29
IL sorts of people. with sometimes

all sorts of people. with sometimes a
goodly sprinkllng of cranks. The man
who is in hurry, and who rushes in
like some one was after him, always
does something funny, and in his ex-
element rushes up to the counter and
asks for "a piece of milk and cup Of
pie" Then the crowd laughs, the man
swallows down his lunch and rushes
back to the Office angry, and with the
impression that all the fools are not
dead yet. The crowd that did the
laughing also has the same impression,
but he does not know it; if he did there
would, perhaps, have been more excite
ment.
The man in a hurry always gets to
table presided over by thick-headed
waiter. He orders something the waiter
does not understand, and the colloquy
that follows is always interesting to the
impartial listener. The man, on the
other hand, who always takes his time
ana is one of those prim individuals
who likes everything done in certain
way, is Invariably the victim of the
rapid waiter who carries whole set of
china on his arm AMI bustles around
with the air of full-siZed locomotive.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-29

the women is Mrs. Augusta Pope. She
orders new publications literally by the
dozen. Her taste i'll novels is very good
and, though she devOurS an incredible
number of stories, they are all the bet
ter, purer type of novel, and are nearly
all by American authors. She is an au
thority on modern writer's. and has the
relative merits of American and En-
gliSh schools at her fingers ends. Mrs.
Crawford Livingston is another lover of
novels. Walter BeSant is great favor
tie with her. She reads very rapidly,
but can describe an authors style and
story very correctly. Other authors
who treat of the conditions of society
Besant weaves into his stories are very
much liked by Mrs. Livingston. Miss
Newport reads Clara Louise Burnham.
as do great many other women. Miss
Ingersoll reads all sorts and conditions
of books. including German tranSla-
Auerbach is an inveterate magazine
reader. "Harpers',' - Century" Ma
tom and half a dozen others are at
home on her library table. Life
everybody buys, though the other
humorous weeklies, especially the ones
containing political cartoons, go
a-begging for feminine read
ers. Mrs. George r. Finch
keeps well abreast of current magazine
fiction. Jerome K. Jerome is great
favorite just now, and Mrs. George
Matheny has keen appreciation of his
wit. The number of women who read
a great deal would run up into the hun
dreds. The reading habit is on the in
crease and the standard of popular lit
erature is constantly rising.
-O-0-
The announcement that another book
by ST. Paul author is soon to be issued
is of especial interest to women. 1t
will be novel of about thirty-fve chap
tiers. 1t is, in plot and cololing, an es-
sentialiy American story, and is told III
a terse and effective style. The scene
is laid in one of the ioveliest imagin-
able spots along the Hudson and changes
to Chicago and New York. OF course,
there must be Above story in any success
full book, for all the world, except per
haps his rival, loves lover. In the
novel soon to be issued. there are two
love themes, and several situations oil
more than usual strength. The denoue
| ment especially is unexpected and Uni
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-29

close to the throat, with small pendant
of exquisite design. One pendant that
quite made me break the tenth COM
mandment was heart of amethyst,
surrounded with pearls. Another was
of white onyx, with a tiny wreath of
blue enamel forget-me-nOts. Longer
chains, with heartshaped lockets. have
taken the place of the engagement
bracelet. They are much more to be
commended, for while a bracelet was in
good taste only with rather elaborate
costume, the secret locket is always out
of sight. l do not use the words as
slaDgily disposed people do, but really
so many common phrases are stamped
as slang. that one is continually falling
over some such stumbling block. A
silver photograph frame is another
charming gift for tiancee. 1t may have
the eventful date engraven on one cor
ner.
st. Paul is not nearly half so bad a
place as some other cities try to make
the world think, but there are really
some things that ought to be seen to.
The city fathers. or the legislature. or
the government, or somebody. ought to
put tin gutter on the postoffice roof
When it rains. or when the snow on the
roof is melting, there is a perfect water
fall at the door. If you hurry you are
in danger of falling down these slippery
stone steps, and if you stop to lift your
skirt out of the lake your hat is soaked
and ruined. All the drippings of thu
whole building seem to be concentrated
on that Fifth street entrance. That is
one of the places where woman wants
to swear. A wild-eyed feminine public
who occasionally try to send money Or
ders yearn for set of new pens at the
desk i'll the postoffice. There is only
one pen that IS bald-headed enough to
be used. There is always man using
it, too. The other pens are simply cord
wood. One feels almost driven
to write with hairpin or ones
thumb. Somebody ought to invent
a code of signals so that it would be
possible to tell what are the intentions
of a cable car conductor or gripman.
They both cultivate statuesQue repose
to such an extent that it is impossible to
tell whether the one has seen your
frantic endeavor to stop the car when
you want to get in, and the other will
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-29
Ibid YOU EVER 2"

Written for the Globe.
Did you ever get up in the morning,
With the mercury forty below,
And find the furnace on q strike,
And positively would not go:
Did you ever ride on street car,
Being lucky to get Il seat,
And have the obliging conductor
Tread upon both of your feet?
Did you eveS go into a barber shop
Exhausted and weighed down with care
To be asked, "Cip:1 shaver" shampoo?
''Hair-dye?'
If not, that barber is rare.
Did you ever depend upon Lyons,
The genius who makes all our weather,
And go out on Il seeming nice day.
To come home with soaked patent leath
er:''
Did you ever. when to see your best girl,
Take chair, lay your tile on another,
Find. when you take your departure,
1t was sat on by her mother?
Did you ever, in muddy springtime,
On a crowded thoroughfare
Slip down upon banana peel,
And use language choice and rare?
Did you ever, in making your toilet
For the theater. club, or Dance
Drop your collar button under the dresser,
By mere. uniucky chance!
Kind reader. has it been your pleasure
To experience part OF this joy,
If not, you have missed a great deal
BY not being born a boy?
&C. L. Frye
St. Paul, MIMI, March %.
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que. The text of the novel, so to speak,
is never marry a man 10 reform him.
The ordinary novel heroine invariably
succeeds in reforming her lover, and it
will be interesting to see how the new
author manages the theme. OF course,
none of us are at liberty to mention
names. but-well, if the public doesn't
find it all out before due time, it will
forever refute the popular idea that
woman can't keep secret.
The tan-colored shoe is thing of
yesterday. Nothing but black footwear
will be seen on the street this year. The
latest evening slippers are of gold or
silver leather. They will be worn with
gowns embroidered in the prevailing
tinsels. The average size of shoe in st.
Paul is So.
These are the days when we fancy we
hear the fairy footsteps of spring all
around US. We wear spring wraps,
wade in ice water, ride on grip cars and
cordially invite pneumonia, la grippe
and goodness knows how many other
spring ailments. We Systematically
neglect the ounce of prevention, but
when it comes to cure we take pounds
of it. The ailments in themselves are
ilOl 81 DdC. Dul VIC lciuc(tltS are EIIOuSu
to ruin the constitutions of wire dunn
mics. There is hope for the woman
who takes an overdose of morphine, but
the case of the woman who takes the adj
vice of her friends is absolutely hope
less. Each particular friend knows the
only sure cure for that dreadful cold,
and no two people by any chance know
the same sure cure. Apropos, one
breeder of coughs and unruly noses is
the white petticOat some women still
adhere to. The white skirt is out of
date for wear with street frocks, and to
wear one at this season of the year when
fashion begS you not to and common
sense suggests that its damp and be-
draggled folds are neither beautiful nor
conducive to health, is really criminal
A great many women have dispensed
with the under-pe tticoat altogether,
wearing in its stead equestrian drawers
but for those of US who feel lost with
out something of the skirt kind. the di-
vided skirt is a boon and blessing.
The gown hangs well over It,; it does
not wrap around ones knees in wind,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-29

and not name that their mothers read
in sentimental novel.
The modern fashion of writing a
woman's name so one may know wheth
CT she be wife or widow, is an eS
pecially commendable one. Mrs. John
Smith signifies that John is still OF
earth. Mrs. Mary Smith betrays the
fact of widowhOod as clearly as mourn
ing veil. Matters might be still more
simplified if all women would adopt the
custom. which is becoming quite gen
erai, of using no middle name unless
they are married. and then writing the
maiden name as middle name. 1t
would save endless muddles. Apr0pos,
when some admiring friend or kinsman
presents you with a nameSake, the
proper thing to give the little one is no
longer the silver mug, but large pap
bowl of silver. lined with gold, and
accompanied by silver spoon with the
name engraved thereupon.
80
The wife of Senator Davis has had a
very successful social season. Her tact
is none the less famed than her beauty
and characteristic dressing. Her fash
ion of returning social obligations is one
that steers clear of the Scylla of slight
lu8 SO!llc OitC,d blC OtldA ONtio VI III
ring the entertainment by having un-
congenial spirits together. For the day
on which Mrs. Davis intends to enter
tain she issues two sets of invitations.
One set reads from to 81 the other,
from 5 to ~ In this way Mrs. Judge
So and So, who hates Mrs. Senator
Somebody. is not snubbed by being in
vited to a second day entertainment,
and is not ruffled by being .in the same
company with the woman she detests.
Mrs Davis having set the fashion, less
ingenious women will fall in line and
follow her lead.
A popular adornment for tea tables
Just now is fern dish. Ii is a long
oval dish of embossed silver. containing
an inner removable dish, in which the
ferns are planted. Chatelain clocks are
shown in porcelain and gold bronze,
with antique brass chains. They are
really only the familiar chatelain watch
very much over-grown, and swing from
brass hooks, but are very desirable time
keepers. The 0Id-fashionea fine gold
chain is again III favor. 1t is worn fitted
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-29
Some Idea Of the Literary
Tastes Of Ladies Of Social
Reputation.
Mrs. Senator Davis Tact in
Arranging Her Reception
Invitations.
Another New Book by a st.
Paul Lady Soon to Be on
Criticism.
Some Matters in This City
That Ladies Would Wish
Regulated.

The cry goes up semi-occasionally that
st. Paul women are not readers-that
they are too much devoted to social
duties and fashion plates, and that they
have no fonGness for culture. spelled in
the Boston way, with a capital c. 1t is
every woman's duty to have reason
able knowledge of the current fashions,
and to return first calls within fort
night, but when these duties are at
tended to, there is still time to be liter
airy, and st. Paul women improve the
time. There are reading clubs innum-
cradle, and more women VINO prefer
reading alone. About year ago, the
demand for erotic novels and for trans
lations of the realistic French school
were eagerly sought for. Now the de-
mand is for the purer class of fiction,
and ''Frenchy'' novels are not sold to
the better class of women at all.
One of the greatest readers among
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-29

and it does not drag in the slush. So
many women have adopted the reform
style of undergarmentS that when one
sees an embroidered and mud-splashed
white skirt at a crossing it sends
shiver up the backbone of ones sense
of the eternal fitness of things.
Thanks to certain New York women,
Mrs. Cleveland among them, it is now
correct to be intensely American. The
study of the constitution is a distinct fad,
and one must brush the dust off of ones
revolutionary ancestors, and be proud
of them, not because they were British
subjects, but because they stood at
Bunker Hill and banged away with
their old flint-lockS when they saw the
whites of British eyes. The first effect
of the fad in st. Paul is i'll the riding
whip. For a long time equeStriennes
rode with riding canes-EngliSh crops
with loops on the ends to open gates
in cross-cOuntry riding. There is really
no cross country riding here, though
the country is excellent for it. and aniSe
seed is cheap, so we have reverted to
the plain American riding whip. In the
British novel the heroine drives down to
the races on the rich lords drag. My
idea of drag was decidedly vague till
the other day. A drag is simply heavy
mail phaetOn, with top over the seat
| where the heroine and Lord FitZbang
sit, and small seat for the coachman
behind. A trap is really a L cart-of
course very catchy one. There are
! fashions in carriage robes, as in bon
nets 1t is incorrect TO drive dog cart
without one, and the spring colors are
lighter than usual. They are in soft,
fine cloths. quite fine enough for gowns.
A novelty in silk to be used in COM
/ binations is groS grain, with MORE,
or rather swiveled, effect in satin.
| Moire is returning to favor, and bro
cades IN large figures are much shown.
| BengaIines and grenadines have
| superseded lace net. a very odd fabric
is wool grenadine with a plaid effect
in rough camel's hair. Other wool
grenadines have the rough camePs hair
! spots so popular in heavier goods.
| Ginghams will be made with delusiye
simplicity, and trimmed. not with silk
or velvet as misguided modiSteS
! showed them last season. but
with wash lace ana em9r5iderie5.
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ural-looEiug wave to which the epithet
of fuzzy" could never be applied.
However, one would have to get some
obliging sister to do this, inasmuch as
the iron is rather difficult to manage by
ones self. and burned set of tresses is
not desirable.
The woman who can part her hair in
the center. wave it and draw it back
over the tips of her ears, and then coil it
in loose knot low on the back. Is a
woman who really has her hair ar
ranged in the most fashionable manner.
Pictures of Mrs. Kendall or Jane
Hadng show this arrangement SO per-
fectly that a deft-fngered woman can
easily adjust her couture after them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-29
Avoid all Substitutes for
Royal Baking Powder.

No other Baking Powder Gust good the Royal either strength
purity whoeomenes The "Roy superior all others all
houekeepers and
Investigations officially The
chemist "Roya" undoubtedly the pu reliable baking
powder offered to the public"
If grocers sell another baking place the Royal
they do because they make profit the ohe good
of the superiority of the Royal To profit the other
POWDER with cheaper
andin materials
Royal highly refined expensive materials
other baking powder but correspond
purer avening accordingly greater
although the retail price them generally the
full their and therefore will
wise, substitute for the Royal"
Unfortunately only these woube substitute powders made
unwhoom materials they placed before public
printed its label all the ingredients
upon analysis four substances
LABEL of which lime and suhurc acid Most of the
powders raudueny sold of goods
danger powders substituted for the Royal
will be apparent consumer