St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-28
IT IS HOT And COLD.
Chicago Has the Most Abom-
Unable Weather on the
Whole Earth.
BreeZes Which Freeze the
Filling OF the Teeth to
the Tongue.
A Town for Shirt Waists One
Day, and Heavy Furs
the Next.
Hints at Some Of the Strange
Sights Seen on Exhibi-
ton at Chicago.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, May 27.-The greatest ex-
hlbit at the worlds fair is being made
by his highness, the clerk of the weather.
On ordinary occasions you can find
more kinds of weather to the square
inch in Chicago than any other place
on top the earth; but since the subject
of this expositionwaS first broached, the
powers that be have fairly tried them
selves to show a wondering world what
Chicago can do in all emergency. There
has been no snow this week. There
has been everything else, though, and
| really can't say what will happen by
tomorrow night. 1t blows hot, and as
soon as you have taken off your winter
flannels it blows cold. And Chica go
cold isn't the pleasant thing we
used to have in Manitoba with the
thermometer registering so deg below
zero. That was spring balmness COM
pared to this. In Chicago when you
are cold you are cold way into the mar
row of your bones, and the gold filling
in your back teeth freezes to your
tongue. You get blue and shlVery, ana
altogether Wretched, and you sneeze
and cough and wish you had not come
so soon. Hereafter, these things will
be the same. You will run little
greater risk of sunstroke next month,
YOUR chances for avoiding cold won't be
any better, for this is the sort of wealth
er that happens in Chicago, regardless
of the calendar.
Today's biting winds make sight-see-
ing anything but frolicsome pastime.
The cold detractS from the eternal fit
ness of things, too. Over in the Midway
plaisance in the beauty show one of the
harem beauties wears fur boa, and an
other has wrathed herself in mackin-
tosh with plaid so loud she wears a
muffler with it. The lemonade and soda
water stands which are thick as leaves
in Vallambrosa, send SILVER down the
back of every paSSer. The hOrtlcult-
ural building is the only place on the
grounds where one can be warm. and
every one Of its corners is filled with
blue-noSed, shivering tourists. You see,
the most of them, the women, at any
rate, have been beguiled into coming
here with the nice little Wardrobes the
Women'S papers have been advising,
Next week they may be fried in their
own fat, but today they are stiff with
the Chill. The proper wardrobe to bring
to this fair consists of lot of thin mus
In shirt waists and heavy fur coat,
with suudry other indispensable arti-
cles.
You might think petticoat among
the indispensableS, but, dear me, it isn't
at all. At least, whole petticoat isn't
necessary The dress reformer is abroad,
although, thank heaven, she has not yet
arrived in sufficient numbers to serl-
ously mar the landscape. 1t was only
this morning that my eye fell on one OF
her in the corridor of the hotel. She
was about forty. In fact, have never
seen her younger than that. Her head
was crowned with a rather dressy bon
net and dotted veil. Her jacket was a
close-titting affair in black, but between
the lower edge of her yelyeteen skirt and
the top of her high-laced boot showed
at least four inches of her black stock
ing. II it had been my first day here, l
should have been distinctly startled,
but one becomes Injured to these things
very rapidly. The town is fairly over
run with advanced women, anyway, and
| one hears a deal about the cause and
the wonderful way in which women are
| coming forward. For my part l don't
see any reason to be surprised about it.
| The very first person in the world to
come forward and do anything was a
woman, Eve. Women, | must say, are
like hens. They lay an egg early in the
morning. 1t may be poem, or story,
| or a speech, or-an accident, and then
| they go about-to wOmen's conventions
and that sort of thing, eternally cack-
ling. The reformerS are the strangest-
| looking set Of women you ever laid eyes
on. The women who really earn theiI
own livingS and knock about in the
world have precious little nonsense
about them. They haven't time tt
cackle, but the reformers-well, Susar
B. Anthony is the only passable-lookine
one among them. She is always wei
dressed. and the extremely old-fashionee
way in which she wears her smooth
gray hair is Just now The
height of fashion. But Rachel Eos
ter Avery! You ought to see her
Now, nature made her very nice tt
look at, but she has done her best to de
feat Dame Natures intentions. | saw
her at dinner the other day, in the pub
lie cafe of hotel, too, it was. He
gown was an elaborate affair of whit
MORE made in that almost prehistoric
period before full sleeves came in. [
had a tremendous train, and tight
fitting waist that had evidently beef
made to wear over a corset, AM
wasn't. You can fancy the figur
it gave her. 1t was degre
more dowdy than her Syria
costume. Why, q woman whose fies
has grown flabby with years of the col
set VIII suddenly discard that articl
.. and make no effort to reduce the mus
Giles of her waist to firmneSs, OF put he
shoulder blades where shoulder blade
ought to go, is beyond my compreher
sion, but have yet to see single dress
; reformer, with the delightful exceptio
of Mrs. Jeuness- Miller, who is not
perfect sight. Mrs. Miller's gown
are always we'll designed, an
made of elegant materials by compe
= tent dressmakers, and consequently e;
cape the faults of the average hyglen
cally constructed gown. This, of course
: has really nothing to do with the fai
= but wish merely to remark that no n
, form that makes women look like guy
= is ever going to succeed. At least,
hope it isn't, for l confess the sight of
:, fat woman of middle age in an abbrt
! waited petticoat makes me apprehensiI
:. of all this fooliSlness.
But to return to the fair. The pro-
: ress that has been made in installin
| exhibits since the first week of May
astonishing. Booths and pavilion
spring up as if by magic. Progress
I the mining building is extremely rapi
| went into that building today with
d newspaper woman from Kentucky.
}. course, we went first to the Kentucl
v exhibit. Really, | don't believe Ke
lucky people will be happy in heav,