St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-19
WOMEN OF ST. PAUL.
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ports Fans General Gossip.
The organization of a chapter of the
Daughters of the Revolution in St Paul
has stimulated ancestral pride to such
a degree that every woman who cannot
point to a Revolutionary patriot as her
great great grandfather feels herself
personally aggrieved. The chapter has
grown rapidly, and it is really astonish-
ing how many women there are who are
entitled to membership in the society.
There are Il great many more colonial
relics in the town. too. than one would
suppose. A visit to the home
of Mrs. Frederick Foster. out
on Osceoa avenue is really
like stepping back into the last century.
Mrs. Foster has exquisite carved cabl-
nets, rare old chairs, quaint tables, and
china dainty and old enough TO turn the
most angelic of women green with envy.
Mrs. Fosters great grandfather was q
very celebrated old general, who fought
in any nunlber of battles in the days of
&c. Mrs Foster has his various conf
missions, and is devoted to the interests
of t. e Daughters of the Revolution. OF
which she is secretary.
Mrs. r. NJ. Newport has solved a diff
fculty which confrOn,S many woman
who owns rare fans. A fan is not beau
tiful unless it is unfurled, and a rare
old fan is soon seriously injured by
constant folding and unfolding. Mrs.
Newport possesses an exquisite Wat
teau fan with beautifully carved ivory
and gold sticks. 1t is framed under glass
iii a. deep fan-shaped frame lined with
black velvet. The glass protects it
from dust and the velvet throws its
carving into bold relief.
There is one thing about the average
St. Paul woman that one cannot help
observing. and that is the wretched way
in which she carries herself. She
means well, poor thing, and when you
say 10 her, ''Straighten up" she throws
her shoulders back and struts off with
the consciousness of being irrcpyo lcIl
ably correct in carriage. Correct? Dear
lie. the way she walks is enough to
make Mother Nature have spaSms.
The shoulders are back, perhaps. but
from the waist the body sways forward
so that lie chest is fiattened the stom-
ach prominent, the waist longer in
the back tman in the front, and
the weight of The body all Oh
the heels The walk is heavy,
Of course. 1t is uugraceful. the figure
is ruined. and my physician declares
that thousand and one Ills are induced.
When Mrs. .ienneSs Miller was here,
she urged the necessity of standing
well. Tie shoulders have nothing to
DO with ii. Leave them severely alone.
Stand in such way that you can rise
Oh tip-toe without Swaying the body for
ward at all. Then hold your chest as
high as you can. and for goodness sake,
don't sway the lower part of your body
forward from the waist. That is the
way to stand we'll, and until you do
stand so. your walk will be ungraceful,
your figure bad, and your clothes.
though they be made by Felix himself,
totally devoid Of chic.
Now is the season when hay fever
stalks abroad in the land, and heredit-
airy victims of catarrhal blue blood are
siieeZiHg, rcd-eyed on every hand.
Since cocaine came into use hay fever
victims have been wont to use per
cent spray Of the drug to obtain relief
from their Sufferings, and the way the
medicine is abused is appalling. for it is
the most dangerous thing on earth, next
to mad dog and a young widow. 1t
skaters the nerves and unSettieS the
brain. ami ought never to be used un-
less a physician prescribes it. Hay
fever victims occasionally rage at the
discovery, but unless | am very much
mistaken, there is not a drug store in
all st. Paul where cocaine can be
bought without a prescription. Suffer
erS Will thank ne for mentioning the
fact that menthol inhalers are quite as
relieving as cocaine spray, ami are not
at all dangerous to health.