St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-23
DOTS AND DASHES.

1t is thriving, paying business to run an
ice cream restaurant these days, which dry
and parch the very soul of man as he thinks
of the more So to follow. Did you ever
watch the transient crowd and guess the
flavor each would take? Yon can do italmost
to q dot. TO begin with the man-one always
does. | suppose since the world began with
man. 1T Will have to go on in that way TO pre-
serve the harmony of things. Men always
take vanilla. You can put up your whole
stack of chips on il, unless he happens to be
a namby PANTY and takes what his girl does.
He isn't true American and needs devel-
oper for his independence. And the girl
never takes vanilla. When she's in her bib
ana pinafore she wants strawberry flavor,
because Its pretty to look at" If she re-
tains her infantine graces through the period
of sweet sixteen and indefinitely it is the
same insipid mass. Chocolate Is the
pet of school girls and shop girls,
but the pet aversion of pure blondes
who are wise enough 10 preserve
their alanasier skin from its muddy effects.
Pineapple belongs to the spinster period. to
specialized blue stockings and straight hair.
Matrons always take lemon. They were
brought up on it, and to depart to any other
would be as rank heresy to their foremoth-
ers as Briggs doctrine is TO the Westminster
declaration of faith. Then there is the girl
in mannish attire, skimped bell skirt, soft
SLOUGH felt tightly strapped umbrella, brown
leather shoes and spats, shirt waist suspend
ers necktie and blazer. and perhaps curling
locks. What does she take? Well, from her
air you know she enjoys life, detests COM
mon places and monotony. She doesn't like
a second dose of anything. 1 doubt if she
could eat a straight ice to save her, ana so
she takes her cream, as she does everything
else, mixed.
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In my travels about town don't think
have failed to notice the suspenders feminine
humanity is taking on its shoulders. have,
and to be up with the times and prove l am
q fin de steele newspaper woman, must take
my fling al them. Well, they are there; to
stay I'd hesitate to state, knowing that
women ere variable as the June skies, but
there they are. right over the shoulder blades
and crossed in regular man fashion. They
are to be taken like all dress fads
only at the proper time and place.
do think they are nobby. swell, and, Oh,
adjective dear to the feminine heart man
nish. SO much SO that some people VIII
look reprovingly at their daringness, but just
tell them they hold up the skirt. And for
the sake OF the starry-eyed goddess OF reform,
who broods over dress as well as Democracy,
do let them hold the skirt. When you've
got a good. sensible thing in the name of
fashion. do make it useful And by all means
cross them and wear suspenders if you in
tend to; don't wear straps.
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There is one thing the business part Of the
city lacks. Women aren't as constitution
ally tired as men, but they do get weary
tramping over the unyielding payements in
search of just the spot or plaid or stripe they
want A resting room would be a boon to
shopping women. To be sure. the merchants
have opened ladies' parlors. where easy
chairs may be found; but it is to their ad-
vantage that they be whiting eyeshot of the,
counter, so that the displays OF goods may
have full effect and it is impossible
to rest when the little god of
desire is Juggling at your purse
strings 1t would be a charitable venture il
some one would open retreat where tired
mothers could find easy cOuches on which to
relax the overtired muscles away from noise
and dust. l never walk block in the ship
ping district but what | ever hear some
weary woman exclaim, ''Oh I'm SO tired"
and she looks it and almost takes the starch
out of her neighbor by her general wilted-
ness. Not being fnancier, can't answer
for the plans whereby this might be carried
out. l will leave that to some woman's So
cietv which lacks a mission, but do lets
have shoppers retreat.
I'll
Every one who has a kodak has photo
graphed one Of his friends in the position of
a donkey with pedal eXtremitieS for ears:
that is, his head appearing between the feet,
which are nearest to the camera and so APP
pear in enormous proportions in the per-
spective. If you happened to be the said
animal sacrificed on the altar OF your
friends craze, you will hear the sentence
eternallY. I'D have known those lectures
any place. Would the kodaker get
a collection of the shoes which wear
out our city pavement he would
ind no more fruitful spot than the plate
glass fronts of hotels. He will lind all sorts
ana conditions of boots around the lodges
those Just brought from the shop shelves,
boots in q medi-evil condition. and boots de-
cidedly the worse for wear. II the kodak
fend would only vent the plates of his ma
chine on these aspiring members it would be
blessing for the soles of most men aren't
things of beauty and we might be rid Of the
sight.
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Now when every one is longing for
breath of country air, fresh with the fra
GRANGE of flowers, sweet with the breath Of
cows it is a welcome sight to go in dry
goods store where a huge bouquet of roses
meets the eye On the table of the lady's
parlor in Wabasha store yesterday was
large rose bowl filed with great crimson
peonies. Their glowing color was like an
oasis of life in q desert of mancreated sub
stances.