St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-08
De BREMONT'S GOSSIP
The Flatness That. Comes
After the Holiday Fes-
Invites.
It Is Much the Same Feeling
That Comes After a
Wedding. "a
Heaven Must Be a Place
Where There Is No
Reaction.
Some Pertinent Observations
on Winter Gowns and
Wraps. :


NEW YORK, Jan. 7.--After the festiy-
itv of Christmas time, there comes de-
cided flatness that all the indulgence in
the seasons luxuries, the reviewing of
its frlvolities, and the inevitable good
plans for turning over new leaves can
not destroy.
1t is the same feeling that comes after
a wedding. Who hasn'tieXperienced 1t?
The guests are gone, the debris OF
champagne bottles. flowers and cake is
depressing; the preparation which took
so long has lead up to the. climax, which
in its turn becomes thing of the past,
and then reaction sets IN.
Reaction, a word that means a combi-
nation of all kinds of feeiings-Wearl-
ness, ennui, safety, disgust, repent
ance, remorSe- why must these always
be experienced in some form or other,
even by the Youngest among us after
the keeneSt enloym9nts?.
Tommy enjoys his cake or his candies.
or has an unparalleled lovely time"
nth a bigger plateful OF pudding than
usual; the few minutes when Tommy
spoons his flaming pudding, and toys
ship among its liquid flames, are mo-
ments that will never be exactly repro
duced in the remainder of Tommy's
short life. He, for those golden min
uteS. goWS with pride, with power, with
possession, with gratified ambition, With
that strange mixture ofsall comfortable
feelings -Satisfaction!
But there comes time when Tommy
experiences sense OF nausea, when a
big plateful of pudding 10 longer seems
to him most desirable thing, when
any body else may have it and there is
no generosity in the glftthus bestowed.
Some Peep lie will say that Tommy has
overea!ea himself. but it is not exactly
that. Tommy probably thought with
Doctor Johnson, (though he didn't
know IT'D
Catch, then, Oh catch the transient hour
Improve each moment as it flies
LIES a short summer. man flower
He dies, alas How soon he dies !"
Tommy's elder sister enjoys divine
half hour in which her desire for adj
miratiOn is satisfied and her moment of
conquest as secure as anything can be
in this uncertain life. But, though next
morning as she sips her chocolate IN
bed, she can see the roses that were
glowing from a vase near, and though
the tender speeches breathed over them
are still fresh in her memory, the SER
pent has entered her Eden, and she
wonders how many other girls had roses
from the same donor, and whether the
tender speeches have not been rendered
perfect from practice. Tommy's sister
doesn't feel half as sure of anybody's
devotion on the day after Christmas day
as on the day itself
Surely heaven must be a place where
there is no reaction. where the impress
sonS Of last night are not ruthlessly
destroyed by the next morning. lrrev-
erent as this sounds, there is a deep
enough moral in it for those who look
deep enough.
AS to fashion, we are reveling in a
good many different styles, among which
that OF Charles Ii. and the Empire
period, and also that Of 1880, are the
most popular. The style of Charles H.,
with its deep collar, large putTed sleeves
and immense amount Of hip drapery,
with the front panel braided or EN-
broidered, is generally designed for
matrons, while the Empire seems made
expressly for maidens. The collars that
decorate the Charles ii. gowns may
almost be called capes, they are sodeep.
These collars allow of good deal OF
novel decoration, and are sometimes
quite stiff with jet beading.
Everything, of course, is trimmed
with fur, gowns, coats and caps, and
still another rule without exceptions is
that everything, no matter what gar
ment, has something about it Of black
satin. The gown has belt or bow, the
coat tippet, the cap collar or lining
some little finish of black satin is seen
on every garment. 1t seems to give an
air of refinement to everything.