St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-03
VOICES OF THE PAST.
Life Bemoans the Cruel Flight
of Needless, Impassioned,
"a q Giddy Youth.
The Beginning Of Another
Year Conducive to Sepi-
Gus Reflections.
But With the Coming of Each
New Year Come Also MANY
New Plans.
Feminine Readers Who Derive
Feminine Readers Who Derive
No Small Comfort in Be-
ing Frivolous.

Special Letter to the Globe
Life saw Youth fly on beyond her.
So she hurried 10 pursue him
Begged him still with her to wander,
Tried thus sweety to subdue him.
Pretty Youth, with feet Tying.
etTell me why you run so fieetly,
Wlsdom's grave advice defying
W hen she bids YOU walk discreetly.
See, love you tender STRIPPING,
Every day my love grows stronger;
Mock lee not with laugh so ripping;
Stay with me little longer
Youth was flushed with heat and laughter,
But he paused not coldly leaving
Life behind, who struggled after
Feet aweary. bosom heaving-
Lies desire for Youth grew stronger;
Youth looked backward to deride her,
Shouting We are friends no longer;
Every year the breech grows WIDER
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-Another year be-
ginning. 1t makes one feel serious. 1t
is very rarely in this century, or this
end of the century, that people do feel
really serious. 1t is an old-fashioned
frame of mind. and has tendency to
age people. The portrait painters of to-
day send smiling statesmen and BEAM
ing ladies of fashion to deck the walls
of academy and salon. Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds, Lawrence Lely and GainsbOr-
Ough painted serious-eyed. soft-faced,
pensive- women. My lady Betty, of
1902, gazed dreamly into posterity from
her canvas. Tho wife of President
Smith or Miss Ponsonby Jones, of Ven
eering house, 1892. smirks at us viva
ciously from hers. 1t takes something
very, very forcible to smooth out our
habitual modern complacency. AS we
don't quite believe in anything,
we can't be frightened at any
thing. The one thing which
produces real. unmistakable gravity is
the nearer approach to that other myS-
ferrous world beyond this, which even
the most sneering skeptic has a con-
vincing inward, though unacknowl-
edged, belief in. Every Year takes us
unyieldingly closer to it. Every New
Year, when one figure in the calendar
is altered. we are reminded of the fact
in a way that no sermon of the most eff
feeting kind could produce. Men with
strong nerves and keen enjoyment of
this life of ours, SO full of all sorts of
tangible enjoylnentS, feel their hold OH
these -lessened, as it were, by one link.
Women scan their faces eagerly in that
candid friend, their looking glass, and
realize that sit is not always May"
After all. it is that which gives flavor to
life, that realization that is going so
quickly, though the conviction comes
on US with cold shiver.
We should not enjoy pudding, how
ever nicely favored. if we felt we could
have progressive, continual helping of
1t. However, as long as it goes on, this
''fever called living" every fresh year
brings fresh plans, fresh resolutions,
fresh hopes. Hope springs eternal in
the human breast. If the past year has
been unsuccessful and Disappointing
well, here is another chance. After all
there is sort of comfort Ill being frivO-
lous. is 1t not SO, my pretty feminine
readers? And then such things as new
fashions. the spring modes, the new
WaltzeS are as important matters as we
can give our attention to.
Redfern has prepared costumes in
hopes of really cold weather. Skating
costumes, he says, can be fashioned
more fancifully and unennventionallv
than any other class of tailor-made
gowns. Bright colors may be chosen
with advantage, and small caps should
be worn in preference to large hats.
The skirts are usually made short, so
that special attention should be given
to the foot gear. A smart, warm coat is
often sufficient to make skater look
stylish, without going to the expense of
Il whole costume. The Russian coats
are considered by Redfern to be more
suitable for skating than the ordinary
tight fitting ulsters and REFERS of Ordi-
nary wear.