St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-15
QUEER CRAZY QUILT
That Will Appear in the Min
nesota Show at the
Worlds Fair.
Style in Hats Set by Act
resses on the Streets
Of st. Paul.
Aunt Polly Discourses for the
Benefit of Women
Readers.
Various Bits Of Gossip Of
Interest to the Gent.
Ter Sex.

Time was when every bit of silk or
velvet, every stray necktie end, and
every scrap of ribbon was seized upon
and boarded as a precious thing, for
crazy quilts were in fashion. Women
even bought pieces of silk or velvet to
cut into wild looking pieces, and even
hat Innings were not safe. Fortunately
for art and humanity. however, the
crazy quilt fad went the way OF all
other crazes, and, dare say, there's not
q crazy quilt to be seen in any house In
town. Even silk Quilts-in fact, patch
work of every kind is out of date-and
silk pieces go into the rag bag, to hob
mob with cotton scraps and carpet rags.
There is not a woman in all st. Paul
who has not any amount of silk scraps.
This letter. which has been sent to
Mrs. F. B. Clarke. will suggest means
of disposing of all the silk scraps, and
helping a good work at the same time:
NV Dear Mrs Clarke: Among the exhibits
for the world fair to be prepared by our In
dian Industrial school here at Morris, is sllK
curtain to be woven by Indian children. The
completion of the curtain depends upon the
amount of silk scraps collected, and nave
promised the Sisters of Mercy, who have the
school in charge, TO furnish the scraps. BITS
of silk and satin any size, very small,
very large. soiled or clean. will be ac-
ceptable: old scarfs and cravats old sashes,
etc. l come to you for assistance, asking you
10 use your influence through the state TO AID
in this collection. Thanking you in advance,
believe me, very truly yours,
NANCY JUDsoN.
President stevens County Auxiliary.
Morris, Mimi, Sept. IA, lSg2.
AS the Indian exhibit will naturally
be the one Minnesoiais expected TO eX-
eel in, it is eminently DESTROYS that the
women of the state help the Indian
school children out. Any woman VINO
has silk scraps to spare is asked to
bring them or send them to the office OF
the worlds fair, Room sos. New York
Life building. The secretary, Miss
Dassel, will take charge of them and
see that they are delivered to the right
address.
Aren't you fearfully tired of yachting
caps? Don't you wish people who wore
them had to pay tax as for dogs? Why
on earth women should elect 10 wear
on dry land and iii city streets head
gear suitable only on the water is past
finding out. The average Young wom-
all doesn't even know how to wear the
cap.
If you will wear it, dear girls, do wear
it properly; and properly means
sauarely on top of your head, so that
the>visor will shade.yOur eyes, as it was
intended to do. We have rage for caps
of some kind or other every year, but
the yachting cap fad is a little the most
absurd we have had. a happy release
was suggested by two actresses of the
"Hoss and Hoss' company, who were
OH Wabasha street yesterday. They
wore cloth caps very similar to the Ok
ferds, or mortar boards. One corner
was just over the middle OF the fore
head. and the corner over the left ear
was elongated so that, having no stiff
lining, il fell to the shoulder, and was
finished with tassel. The caps were
very becoming, and what is better, were
decided novelties.
One of those actresses had OH one of
the new Russian coats, made in rough
cloth. with woven border. 1t had a
sash knotted in front. and hood at the
back of the neck. Such garments, they
say, are much worn farther East. They
are, of course, very stylish, but they are
not at all taking. In fact. they look
like the tobOggan suits we used to wear
when Minnesota winters were cold, and
one looks to see the Accomplishments of
knitted toque and mOccaSinS.