St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-12
BREMONT'S GOSSIP
Philosophy and Fashion Are
the Subjects Of His
Story.
We Would Not Like Our World
Quite Without It's Wick
edneSS.
A Tiresome World If There
Were Nothing to Gpum-
Bile At.
The Latest Fashion Fad Is
That Hips Are Being
Padded.

New YORK, Dec. 9.-There are times
| when we are quite natural With our
| selves, when we don't attempt to tell
ourselves fairy tales; these occasions
are rare certainly as we get past child
hood, but during these rare moments OF
honesty, we sometimes admit to our
selves that the world would be far
more pleasant place than 1t is, it it was
what people try to make it.
In the first place quite half the popu-
lation of the world would be short of
occupation, for fair half consist of
retormers and 'kickers" who after all
would be very miserable if the other
half provided them with no employ
ment.
In the second place. if there were no
goats left, no one to be reformed, if all
the wicked, picturesque. villainous,
surprising, run-off-the-track people
were to become as fatty faultless as the
reformers. why whatever sort of gray
Sahara would this not Such-a- bad-sort-
Ola world be.
We most of us have leaning towards
the goats-tlle old Adam in us will make
himself felt. And we are so frank that
we make no secret of the fact that We
find the goats infinitely more entertain
ing than the sheep. And to be we'll en-
tertained is the cry all round. 1t is not
the good, dutiful, deserving people
whom we seek as companions and
guests-not the people with blameleSS,
unshadoWed paStS, whose society we
seek--We find these restful. but rest is
for dotards-and while we are still
strong and vigorous, we like to enjoy
something with more life and movement
about it.
The actor who has power to move our
strongest feelings to make the unWlll-
Ing tears come at speech, which, if we
merely read we should sheer at as senti
mental, is not a sheep, he is not stand
ing on the right side of that severe line
that divides the rnformerS from their
living material, but we like him, aud we
like his society.
The sweet singer who can make a
hackneyed melody into message from
the angels is not the person, generally,
who is very stringent about the keeping
of the ten commandments; but we like
him. it's no use denying that.
The novelist who writes the book
which we have to finish at one sitting,
the spell of whose language chains us
to the magic pages, VINO writes the
popular modern novel of the unfaithful
husband, the interlopng friend, and all
the rest of the nineteenth CEN
fury novelistS' peculiar stock in
trade, has sometimes to draw
on his own experience. instead
of it's Imagination, and draws pictures
from his own SHADY life; but we like
HIM, he's very attractive, and ii we
number an artist among our friends,
have we not an affection for the careless
unprincipled, deeply-in-our-debt Great
ure, who shares his sausage with his
model, while be owes a years rent to
his landlady.
really, in our own hearts, do not not
we happen to be good ourselves we
value the Unreasonable advantage of
dark background. And while the liter
airy world goes on devOuring with
ever-increasing and voracOus appetite
all that comes in the way, vice and
crime are intensely precious to it,
Sometimes this artist world, with it's
own interests very much at heart, fears
that the retormers will really get their
way. and rob the picture of its values"
there will be no shade in 1.-THE picture
will be unSaleable.
They need not be afraid; that picture
with no ''values" will not be exhibited
in our time, or in our children's.
The most fashionable combination for
house gowns is black rep or cloth with
huge sleeves Of magenta velvet. This
color, which used to be despised and
considered the peculiar property of the
vulgar, is now raised to the apex Of
magniticahce. 1t is seen on the hand
soonest gowns, and, in conjunction with
jet, is very handsome, and carries a
peculiar style of its own. Hats show a
tendency to stiffness. the plumes still
stand upright, and the bows are large,
long and very straight. Buckles are
still very popular. Front trimming has
the most admirers, and strings are very
narrow.
The last fashion fad hurriedly
breathed from Paris is that hips are be-
ing padded, and that skirts are being
set out round the bottom. SO, really.we
seem to be getting back to the Eliza
bethan style without much attempt at
modification-for the wide velvet capes
with real stiff tufts round the Threats
point in the same direction and seem to
demand hat OF bonnet which have
some harmony in them. The bodices
have the abnormally large sleeves that
the pictures of Elizabeth and Mary Stu
art present to us, and we hear that
many of the fashion leaders of Paris are
having them wired to make them set
out. SO the fashionable lady will soon
have a strong likeness to a bouquet of
arrayed flowers, very much wired.