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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
OUR HEALTHY GIRLS.
Quantities of Medical Twaddl
Written About Them.

Quantities of Medical Twaddle
Written About Them.
An eminent and considerable physician
lately published paper on "The
Health of the American Girl" He
says, with honest contempt, that
there is mass of Pecksnif-
tiian literature on this subject. He
might. indeed, have added that three
fourthS of the stuff that appears in print
in the speciOus dress of advice to girls
concerning their physical welfare. is
actually hurtful. Tfiis is largely due to
ignorance and superstition, says the
Detroit Free Press.
This icnnoclastic physician further
observes that the study of young women
by the average practitioner is about as
valuable as would be the study of bot
any from dried plants. Everything is
there except the life of tine subject.
This absence does not disturb the Sc
renity of the ingenious theOrist. who
tells us that in spite of the in
MIGRATING influence of intermingling
OF race, of favoring hygienic possibili-.
ties in the United States. of healthful
liberty that everywhere prevails in this
country, the American girl is not what
she ought to be physically. AS saving
of civilization is drawn into the discus
sion on the ground that she fails to
compare favOrably with man in point of
strength and is thoroughly unworthy in
consequence.
Sense and hygiene in the home during
the past twenty-five years have had
marked results. The maiden of today
is the outcome of this improved and
nObler way of living. Medical tears
may be shed for professional sins, negli-
genccS and OtfenSeS. but not for the
American girl, who is likely to hold her
own for some time to come
Since the chief end of civilization is
to specialize the individual, to increase
power and usefulness by training in
herent quality in order to insure variety
OF aptitude IN perfected form, is it quite
rational to t1out modern femininity with
the fact that it differs materially from
the other half of the world? Only
among savageS are men and wOm-
en- much alike physically or in
mental characteristics. This kind of
equality exists under conditions where
In women perform the most uninSpiring
drudgery, belonging to their last captor,
have neither permanent homes nor
rights over their children, and are liter
ally OF Ito account whatever. Such are
the good old times, the late lamented
paradise of the ages known as long ago.
One of the evidences that the world is
growing better every day is that men and
women cannot now be compared. They
have different aims. motives and point
OF view, different needs and natures re-
curing different satisfactions. Out of
this difference grow wonderful possible
tiles OF progress and real happiness.
10 compare the girl of the period with
man, American or otherwise, is sense
less proceeding that denotes ignorance.
There are many interesting medico-
social subjects of investigation, but the
health of the American girl is not one.
unless based upon facts.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
PUNCH BOWLS.
They Are Likely to Again Grace
FeStal Boards

The silver bowls. in repousse or plain
ornament, which are fashionable and
frequently given as presents, are, some
of them. antique bowls. often old punch
bowls, though it sounds more refined to
mention them in conversation as mon
teiths," the correct name, says the De-
trOit Free Press. The edges of these
bowls were generally made. either in
battlementS or i'll series of curves, to
allow, on festive occasions when it was
borne into the supper room, of having
the wine glasses hung all around. In
many Old families Evolutionary recipes
for particular brews of punch are still
treasured. The liquor was always com
pounded with certain degree of bar
onlal ceremony and science in the great
silver monteith, and then Labeled out TO
the guests, who drank from the smaller
glasses which had been brought in hang
ing OIL the edge of the punch bowl. The
present generation mostly know of mon-
telthS with fiinges of glasses from fam
lily records and as wedding presents.
Some of these old DO Wis had circular
silver sides, pierced or solid, with in
denied edges to match, made of silver,
with green baiZe on the bottoms, to
save the polish OH the mahogany tables.
Coasters, as these stands were then
called, are now very much in demand
for ornaments to hold glass of flowers,
but, be it whispered into ears teetotal,
coasters are likely to return to their
original use. Punch has reappeared.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

SHOE DEPARTMENT

There's great many manufacturers at the end of
every who have to sell the balance of their stock
at good deal less than COST not because they're hard
up, but simply matter of business expediency
They've made mistakes produced too many goods.
We are after these Bargains that bring "grist to
our mlll and rstclass merchandise to our customers
and at such prices will make dollar easily do the
work of two.
sand pairs of Ladies and Chdrens Shoes of one of the
very best shoe manufacturers in the country (Out of
special request we withhold his nancy
We simply ask readers to carefully read the follow
ing prices and decide for themselves whether this
store is Headquarters for Genuine Bargains
Children's kangaroo Shoes, worked buttonholes
&c. Shoe Store Price S1OO
Childrens Kid Button, 1Sc Good value at &c.
Youths Veal Calf School Shoes &c Worth s1OO
Boys and Youths Kangaroo or Fine Calf Shoes
all styles; your choice, 98c Good value at 81 SO to
$500
Misses and Children's Dongola Kid or Pebble Goat
Shoes all Styles your choice &c. Shoe Store Price
to 5000
Ladies French Kid Shoes, hand-sewed, all styles;
the finest and best shoe made; your choice s29 Reg
ular price $500 and $500.
Ladies' French Kid Shoes hand-sewed and hand
turned all styles; your choice s2.4S Good value at
$500 and $3.50.
Ladies' French Dongola Kid Shoes hand-welt and
handturned, all styles; your choice S1.9S. Regular
price $500 and S3.5
Ladies' Dongola Kid Button or Lace Shoes patent
leather tip or plain toe, all Styles your choice s14s
Good value at 1926 and 1915
Ladies' Dongola Kid Button Shoes 1923 Shoe
Store Price $500.
Ladies' Pebble Goat Button Shoes worked button
holes, 73c Worth s125 and $3.50.
Ladies' Rubbers, first quality, zoe. Shoe Store
Price 4Oc
Ladies' Low Cvershoes, first quality, 49c Shoe
Store Price, S5c.
All Felt and Flannel Lined Shoes and Slippers will
be sold at halfprce.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
NICOLINI AT PLAY.
PATHS Husband Diseourses
Upon the Great Game Of
Billiards.
Row the Ex-Tenop Once Took
Lessons of Little Wizard
Schaefep,
And Now Plays a Remark
ably Good Game for an
Italian Amateur.
The Windsor Billiard Room
His Favorite Place for
Sauntering.

When SCR. Nicolini does Anything he
does it fairly well. 1t will be remem-
bered that his singing was at one time
far from mediocre, and it is acknowl-
edged that he has tendency to succeed
in everything that he goes in for heart
and soul, says the New York Recorder.
As he succeeded in singing, SO he sue
ceeded in the affections of the great
diva, and now succeeds in the greatest
of games of skill, billiards.
Il play beelyerd.' said SCR. Niculini
the other day, but l do not play at all
we'll That is because he is so excess
lively modest The slgnCr in reality
plays an exceptionally good game.
"Ze game" continued he, "is one of
re grand gameS-Ze games beyond conf
pare. Eet is like re most intricate pas
SageS in the most intricate opera. Eet
requires study, thought, INFORM genius.
love, ones whole mind and Ze degree Of
devotion that is seldom reached"
SCR. Nuollni, gives it all-all.
AS the lOvelOrn maiden buries her
woe IN poetry, SO the signOr binds his
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

trees is TOO we'll known to require COM
ment. Like the ant, he lays up in the
time OF plenty store of food for him.
self and family in the bleak days of
winter, when snow lies deep upon the
ground. Many improvident animals
are more than half starving at such
times, while the squirrel is fat and
happy. 2oa
The gray squirrel provides for his
house rent, as we'll as he does for his
table, although the house is seldom of
his own building. The crow builds
strong and comfortable nest, but it sell
dom, OF never,loccupies one more than
one season. A great number of nests
are thus left vacant for the benefit of
any creature which may want to take
possession of them. The second occu-
pant is almost always squirrel. The
mouse is already prepared for him, but
the furniture is lacking. So, before a
pair of squirrels can consider 1t their
home, they must furnish the house. The
nest is filled, and partly covered over
with the tender part of bark finely
ground up by the sharp teeth of the
squirrels. Then the little squirrels
have as warm and as safe home from
most OF their enemies as they could de-
sire.
The young of squirrels, however, have
not near as much to fear as the young
of birds. 1t is only when they become
fairly well grown, as a general thing,
That their enemies appear. Then, be-
ginning with the sportsman, and de-
scending through several grades, they
have many dangers to encounter. The
sportsman likes to pick them out of a
tree top with small-bore rifle; the
"culle'd .gemman," in passing through
the woods, even if he is going to or from
work, has his musket and cur dog with
him, and it goes hard with any squirrel
which may be in his path. The cooper's
hawk, one of the fiercest and most rapid
flying of the birds of prey, is always
sharp-shinned hawk is perhaps the most
dangerous of his enemies except
his human ones. The gray squirrel
is never attacked by the sharp
Skinned hawk except when the lat
ter has male with him. The squirrels
agility in lodging about a tree makes it
generally impossibly for hawk of this
species if alone to strike gray squirrel,
for this little quadruped, uni e t e rab-
bit, is not terrified into stupor by the
mere appearance of its enemy. So the
lively and plucky squirrel is only at
tackled by sharp-shinned hawks when
two or perhaps three of them are in
company. One of the hawks makes
''stoop" at the squirrel, which lodges
to the other side of the tree only to find
himself obliged to dodge again with
greater rapidity from the second hawk,
which has been waiting for him. The
poor little squirrel may dodge success
fully several times, but it is only
question of few moments when one or
the other will strike him before he can
get to place of safety, and then it is
all over with the squirrel.
In some .tree-top the two marauders
quietly enjoy their meal.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

waistcoat across the hard edge of the
billiard table; as Madame is charmed
and charms with music. so the signor is
charmed and charms with his skill with
the cue; as he had genius as Romeo, so
he has genius at cushion carOms, and as
he practiced in the old days for the
most intricate passage in the most in
tricate opera, so now he practices for
that dazzling masse that is to antonish
Jake Schaefer, his master and in
structor.
When Jake" says. Good boy - and
pats him on the back, and "Brava."
with the idea of conceding something to
foreigners at large, then NicoIini is as
much pleased as in the old days when
the Academy of Music rang with APP
plause and New York'S rank and fash
lon stood up in its boxes (now it would
be bad form), and Peter Marie was able
TO make as much noise as any one.
Zee one great thing" continued he,
'in beelyerd eeS TO practice. Zee great
trouble with ME ct s that do not have
Zee time. When am at zee castle l
feesh and shoot. Some days l feesh
and some days l shoot, and when come
home l am too tired to practice One
should practice at least five hours day
well, perhaps not fil e hours, but three
or four hours. Eet ees zee only way to
learn.''
Sgr. Nicolini has, however, had enough
practice to make him very clever anna
seur. and it is doubtful if there is an
amateur in New York who can play
him hundred points up and beat him.
lie is thorough enthusiast. Six or
eight years ago he took a liking for the
game, and he has had every facility to
make the most of his natural aptitude.
The billiard room at Craig-y-Nost
the castle in Wales, is all that i.
should be. and pictures of ithave been
printed again and again as billiard
room of typical excellence. When
asked if it is all that it has been cracked
up to be, the signor said: "Eet ees yer
good. We have zee French tablesfor
re French game, and OF course like
EOS re best. We have English guests
constantly and eet is yer funny how lit
tie zey know of zee French game, which
ees played SO exclusively here in Amer
lea. For re great English people we
have re English tables wiz pockets. but
l Go not play that game from prefer
ence."
Two years ago, when in Chicago.
Nlcolini met jacob Schaefer. and from
that day he may he said to have become
professional amateur. Jake's cool.
collected way and workmanlike man
ner. combined with his rare brilliancv
OF execution, took Nicolini by storm,
and he decided that Jake was the only
teacher for him. He approached the
great professional on the subject, and,
as Jake was not averse to having so
distinguished pupil, contract was
entered into then and there. Since
then Nicolini's billiard education has
been going on under Jake's skillful
guidance. Since then, as the new
beauties of the game have been re-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
SHOPPERS,
A Claim That Men Are Better Buy
erS Than Women.

Men are better shoppers than women,
simply because they will buy good arti-
cles and are very cautious about exam-
ing these tempting goods. Did you
ever hear a man declaim about his great
bargain in shoes or the overcoat he got
below cost? Not he. He buys the best
his purse will permit, and in conse-
quence the average man is better
the st. Louis Republic
1t is economy always to buy the best
I one can possibly afford. Especially is
this true of wearing apparel. The
cheap, sleazy gown costs as much to
make as the strong, fine cloth. The
well-made, handsomely finished shoes
will outlast two pairs of cheaper ones,
and cheap gloves are an abomination
which it were idle to remark upon.
The women who shop six months
ahead make great mistake. You know
them. In February they are buying
ginghamS, challies, muslins and foulards
for the summer wear. In August they
are pricing sealskins. Six months after
date things look very different. Styles
change rapidly. And the bargain count
erS are responsible for the crowds
of badly dressed women one sees
pouring i'll and out of the shops; respon-
sible for the tawdry effect of cheap furs,
cheap feathers, cheap artificial flowers,
cheap hats, and, saddest of all, imita-
ton lewelry. 1t is said that the word
tawdry is very properly derived from
st. Audrey, on whose day fairs were
held when the bargain-loving danes
were induced to buy worthless stuff be-
cause it was cheap.
Do not buy anything just because it
looks pretty. That is foolish plan.
/ knew woman who was not happy
until she possessed pink bonnet which
was offered at very low price. She
frightened herself when she put it on.
and, returning to the miIiner, begged
her to change it. "Oh, no." said that
astute person, 81 had too much trouble
getting rid of that bonnet; don't want
it back" "Why, what was the matter
with it?' ut was so unbecoming to
every lady who tried it Oh that | was
obliged to markit away down to sell it,"
Beware of pinks, violets, lavenders,
pale greens and blues, especially when
very cheap. Something is rotten in
Denmark, and the clever shopkeeper
understands you better than you under
stand yourself.
Buy the best you can, but do not buy
one article at the expense of another.
do not be eXtravagant on the gown and
pinch Oh stockings, gloves and shoes.
A frock of medium texture with good
accessories. is better than very ele-
CANT one with cheap finishing details.
The woman who shops we'll and to good
purpose will steer safely past the Scylla
OF extravaganza and avoid the CharybdiS
of bargains.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

His daily routine is as follows: Tub.
dressing. breakfast, two hours billiards
on his own table in the hotel, luncheon,
drive with madame, HeiSer'S at p.
M. for practice with Schaefer, dressing,
dinner, Heiser'S for more billiards,
either as pl yer or spa ctator.
The writer had the privilege of see
Ing one of the afternoon games the
other day.
Nicolini was promptly on hand at
O'Clock. He chalkS his cue as Pagauini
sonier might have mixed paint. They
string for lead as if performing some
solemn Druidical rite with human blood
in it. Schaefer wins the lead, and,
playing only brilliant shots, SO
as to instruct his pupil, he misses
by fraction of an inch at forty
three points. "Brava" says NIcolinl as
he again rellgously touches up the tip
of his cue. Then he makes some SIM
pie caromS, and at ten points loses con-
troll Of the balls and leaves himself
difficult masse. Here Is where Jake's
teaching comes in. 1t is an exciting
moment. The signor is on his tiptoes,
posing his cue as Neptune might poiSe
his trident. Schaefer watches anxious
ly. "Ver goodn' says Nicolini when
the double click is heard.
Yer good. Eet has made"
Then Signor gets them into a corner
and nurses them as mother might
babe. They are good for 90 points be-
fore they break. Now there is another
nervous moment. 1t is long draw
straight across the table. and needs 4
very ceremoniOus chalking. Schaefer
Is anxious, but again his pupil does him
proud.
Good boy" says the master. and
Nicolini shows keen satisfaction. Then
come seven easy caroms, ana on the
eighth shot, difficult all-around table.
there is hitch. mon Dieun 1t was
bad and missed.
Not enough reverse English" says
the master; but it was Il run of forty
seven points. Then Schaeter takes his
turn, and so it goes on.
And when Sig. Nicolini gets back to
his hotel his valet wonders why he
smiles so broadly and is SO easily
pleased.
1t is that forty-seven-point run. Not
so bad. "Mon Dieu!"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

been made scarce in many parts of
Maryland simply on account of the col
ored man or colOred boy with his never
absent gun. Everything is grist that
comes to his mill. 1t would make
sportsman weep to see some little coun-
try colOred boy upon finding a nest of
pheasant's eggs deliberately devour
every egg in the nest. When sports
men wonder at the scarcity of game
birds in any of the upland counties
they ough to think of this one cause, for
the worst kind of poaching appears to
be insignificant when compared to such
conduct as this. Is
There are many species of squirrels.
but for the hunter in this state there is
only one kind. and that is the ever-pop-
ular gray squirrel The fox squirrel,
the pine squirrel and the ground squirrel,
better known as the ''chipmunk'' in
states farther north, never find their
way into his game-bag, or at least very
rarely, because the first two are not
very common in most seasons, and the
last is considered too small game even
for the pot-hunter.
The shlewd observer of natural signs
in the country, without paying much at
tentlon to the gooSe-bone, has prepared
himself for hard winter, but the squlr-
rels tell him more reliable story about
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

the coming winter than the signal serv-
ice bureau or even Prophet Vennor
could. Both naturalists and sports
men have noticed this fall the i'm
mense migration of squirrels of all
species southwark. IL was one of
those great manifestations of the
forces of nature somewhat like the
flight of the wild pigeons in the
last century. They swarned over fields
with as little regard for their own safety
as a cloud of locusts would. They
passed over rivers, forced their way
through cornfelds, eating as they went,
and travelled through vast forests, with
out paying the least regard to the small
army of men and boys, to say nothing of
the red-tail and cOoper's hawks which
hung upon their TANKS and rear. Thou
sands were killed, but the great majority
continued their passage to the South.
Another sign of an approaching hard
winter is the far migration southwark of
many birds whose summer home is be-
yond the Arctic circle. Early in the
present fall such birds as the snowy
owl and the snow bunting. as well as
other birds which rear their young in
such regions as Greenland and Spitz-
bergen, have been found in places as far
south as New Jersey at remarkably
early period. 5E
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vealed to him, the signor has become
more and more of an enthusiast, and he
now spares neither time nor expense to
reach that degree of skill which is the
goal of his ambition.
When crossing the hemisphere and
"globe trotting" with the Incompatible
Patti he was formerly forced to keep
up his practice on many inferior tables.
Now he takes his own particular table
from continent to continent with him.
and he has special man servant to set
it up in every place where he stops.
Since the beginning of his course
under the great Schaefer he has met
every great professional biIliardist, and
has played with many of them. They
all like this man who loves billiards so
deyotedly for itself alone. and no better
evidence of this is necessary than his
collection of cues. Among those who
have added a cue to his collection are
Slosson, Dion. Cook. GARNER, Plot,
Roberts and Vignanx. His favorite,
however, is a nineteen-ounce beauty
given to him by his teacher. and it is
with this that he generally plays when
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
A Girl Rancher.

A Seattle girl, who had her way to
make i'll the. world, and who does not
fancy the too conventional methods of
keeping the wolf from the door--namely,
teaching and typewriting, has made her
way into the Sank Basin, taken up a
ranch and intends to fill the legal re-
quirements by living on it nextsummer,
Sine is evidently an energetic young
woman, as the Sank City Star has the
following to say of her: Miss May Nor
ris very luckily secured fine ranch
within few miles of the Sank Basin
house, which had been overlooked by
the less fortunate land takers, or per-
haps the Sank ranchers reserved it i'm
anticipation of an agreeable woman
neighbOr. Miss Morris has cabin in
the course of erection" Her niche is
found at any rate, but how many
women readers would care to occupy it?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
Street Wear Materials,

Detroit Free Press.
The most note worthy tendency of the
new cloths, whether for street wear or
for elaborate dress, is toward richness
and tirmness of material. The soft
cloths, which lend themselves grace
fully to draperv, are, for the present,
laid on the back shelf. The new dress
skirts, which are lined with light silk
or fine cambria, and made without a
foundation skirt. severely plain, falling
in straight, classic folds to the feet, and
even for street wear depend for grace
more than is desirable upon their trained
back breadths. ALI paniers, draperies
and hounces are done away with. at
least for street wear. This severity of
style necessitates the use of rich ma
terial which has body enough to hang
properly. Thus it comes that firm.
faced cloths. corded and repped ma
terials-of every variety are used.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

its tip is in good order. Then Schaefer
which he is very proud. 1t is cravat
pin in the form of pair of crossed gold
cues intersecting three billiard balls,
two of which are enormous pearls, while
the other is OF coral.
Just at present Nicolni is Unfortunately
happy. When he arrived at New York
and got nicely settled at the Windsor,
the first thing he did was to saunter into
the billiard room, where he heard that
Schaefer was in town. He got cab as
quick as he could and drove to HeiSer's
billiard rooms, Twenty-seventh street
and Broadway. where he found his
master. and he has spent most of his
time there since.