St. Paul daily globe., 1892-07-02
ABOUT THE TOWN.
What the Town and the Weather
Suggest for Women.

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Some st. Paul woman who wants to
become for all time benefactor of the
town has glorious opportunity to dis
singuish herself by setting the fashion
for driving Oh certain hour in a GER
tam place. In London and New York
of course everybody drives in the park
at O'clock. In Washington the pa
rade is on the White lot, hut in ST. Paul
people drive just when and where they
please. III these summer days, when
there is next to nothing going on, the
fashion for driving in the afternoon
ought 10 be inaugurated. AS for
places, their name is legion. There's
Summit avenue, and there's the
circle about Summit park, and if one
cares to go so far there's the altogether
delightful boulevard at Como park.
There are so many handsome carriages
in the town that daily parade would
be not only very pretty thing to see,
but very welcome break in the monot
Ony of summer duilEess.
And 20 you know think the weather
bureau, or Jupiter Pluyius, OF whoever
else it is in charge Of the weather, is
quite too mean to live. There have
been summers when one didn't mind
not being apleto get into their clothes,
but,it's positive deprivation this year.
for rnever since Eve ste the apple and
began at once to think of clothes, bas
60 dainty OF Nbecufhing. There are tints
we never saw before, save in the
opalescent CLEAN of a sea shell
lining, or the petals folded about
a flowers heart. There are filny
gauZes and crisp muslins, and pre-
Raphaelitish crepons. but the st. Paul
woman has been compelled to choose
between mackintosh and cold in her
head. 1t is annoying. and it is worse
than that. 1t is eXasperatlng in the eX-
treme.
Apropos of the pretty fashions of the
year, what can be daIutier than the
white gowns, with hose, shoes, hat.
snowy hue, that Dame Fashion ap-
proves? There are so few cities where
white shoes would do at all for street
wear: but every summer but this they
would have been just the thing for ST.
Paul, and every summer but this they
could have been worn.
And the rains lave made painfully
prevalent that to-be-dreaded creature,
the woman with the umbrella. You
come down town With her, and she let's
her wet instrument of death and de-
struction SnBggle against your petit
.oats and drip its cold shower into your
boots. Then. when xon leave the car,
size manages to have that umbrella just
at such an angle that, unless your guar
dian angel has firm hold on your col
lar, you're sure to fail over it. Ia the
street she walks very fast and holds
that umbrella firmly so, is edges rake
TOur eyes. 0 course she never sees
you, but you learn to hate her with a
ieep-green hatred, which is intensified
f she happens to walk up stairs in
front of you. Id that case you had bet
ter say your prayers before you start
up, for if you escape with all eye you
may thank your lucky stars for it. She
sa very common fiend, and she ought
% be eXterminated-that woman with
he umbrella.
suppose the summer girl wouldn't
be summer girl at all if she didn't eat
ce cream: but there are those among us
who, being of the kind OF the wet bIall-
Sets. are continually dinring into our
.arS that ice crram is suicide. 1t isn't.
l've always said so. and now l know it
)n the authority of medical friend of
nine. He actually prescrbes it some
lines in typhoid fever. always insisting
t SHALL be of the purest make. TO the
stories recently going the rounds in
print of the entire cure OF case of
alcer of the stomach by the sole and
persistent use of ice cream may be
idded that of one of my friends pa
ients. She suffered from a serious af-
lection OF the eyes directly traceable to
digestive disturbances. and lie finally
put her on ice cream as a sole diet. For
eleven months she literally lived on ice
cream, with the result of effecting a
complete and permanent cure. The
theory is that the cream furnishes
noursliment, while the, diseased in
testines, chilled from the low tempera-
ture of the food, are prevented from
getting inflammation during the pro,
cess of digestion carried on by the
healthy nartS.