St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-09
FANCY SHOTS.

IL is entirely too early to know. or even con-
lecture what the spring novelties will be.
They do say, though, those favored few who
feel now and then the pulse of fashion in
Paris that the season will be ribbon season.
Fancy edged ribbons are to be had for a song
for their day is over. The correct thing Just
now is plain gross grain ribbon, but the
satin ribbon is expected to prove the seasons
favorite. After all, there is really no trim
ming so pretty as ribbon. and nothing else
so attractive and freshening OH gown as a
bright bow, so it is to be hoped that Dame
Rumor has spoken truly this time
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Not one person in ten in all this town
knows anything about one of the most prac-
teal charities we have-the newsboys' home.
Every evening in the year young woman
OF the highest refinement and of the best
breeding goes down into the rooms under
the chamber of commerce, and takes charge
OF the newsboys who congregate there. She
never misses night. and she gives her
whole heart to the work. Of course she is
paid salary, but she actually deyotes the
entire salary to the boys and the home She
loves the boys and she helps them, but she
really ought to have more encouragement
from st. Paul people, However foul of
mouth the boys may be OH the street. they
hN'SA oWSol III buG SluD IOpIuS. MY are
noisy sometimes, and some of them are de-
ceitful, but the work of the home has ac-
complished among them is wonderful. AS
rule they are fond of reading, and. the Min
nesota club contributes old magazines every
month, which are greedily devoured. 1t is
financial encouragement the home needs.
and for the credit of the city it ought to have
plenty of it. 1t is doing work the city needs,
and such work as cannot be done by few.
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After all, the newsboys are not half so bad
as circumstances encourage them to be- Not
long ago one of their number, who had
strayed out to Brainerd, died. kilograms
were sent to St. Paul 20 the boys acquaint-
ances, and at first it was decided to bury
him at the expense of the county i'll Brain
erd, but his newsboy friends wouldn't have
it, so at their expense the poor little fellows
body was sent to st. Paul and given decent
burial 1t was heavy expense, but the boys
wanted it so, and will pay for it-every cent
of it.
What do you suppose is the popular candy
just now! Nothing more nor less than the
brandy drop. 1t looks as harmless and limo
cent as plain everyday chocolate cream,
and it is about the size of the largest speci-
mems of that species of candy; but when
you bite it-well. it's as wicked as wicked
can be, but decidedly delicious-at least, so
they say.
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There are fashions in perfumes, too.
Time was when in the barbarity of her soul
woman used musk and patchouli, but, thank
goodness, that day is past and gone. Just
now there are some bewilderingly sweet per-
fumes. Lilac sweets breathes all the fresh
Of he c,1ri,, fho
family reminiscent of patch and powder
days. Jockey Club and white rose are, of
course, used by the multitude, and the wom-
an with no sense of the eternal fitness of
things uses mixed perfumes. 1t is crime
worthy of decapitation, but she does it.
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Now that it grows SO cold that the filing in
ones back teeth takes the skin off ones
tongue, the fooIishness OF man becomes
more glaringly apparent. 1t is all very well
to talk of the nonsenscal fashion women
have of wearing bonnets that don't protect
their heads and gloves that don't keep their
hands warm, but those little toibes are not
TO be compared to the colossal folly
of the man who rides on the grip car. He
wants it distinctly understood that lords of
creation are not to be dictated to by the
clerk of the weather bureau, and, with collar
turned up to the edge of his useless Derby,
he rides in the face of Providence all the
way down town. 1t stands to reason he's
chilled through and rendered liable to the
destinations of that grasping dame, LaGrippe,
but ride he will and ride he does.
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And-O these men. There's fad for 60
ing without rubbers or overshoes. No extra
foot covering is permissible-that is if one is
man and cares to be correct-unlesS the
thermometer stands at zero Or below. When
it rains or is sloppy and muddy, the fashion
able man paddles around in his heayy-soled
shoes and is just as uncomfortable as he
likes. Of course it's foolish, but it will OBJ
tain because it's fashionable, and it's fash
ionable because it $ English.