St. Paul daily globe., 1893-04-19
MINNEAPOLIS.
NOTE AND COMMENT.

The new style gowns made possible
by the failure of the Bleecker anti
crnoline bill are not numerous in Min
neapolis, but they are numerous enough
TO prove their coming into general
fashion a fact. Already the practical
women who abhOr the style, but who
are inclined to make the best Of II, are
turning their thoughts to finding some
merit in the fashion. Apparently they
have found it.
Yesterday GLOBE mans peramDula-
tiOnS brought him within view or 4 Sc
Questered nook in the rear OF young
ladies school, a nook supposedly pro-
tecteG from the proclamation OF male OO-
serVGtiOn. lie was somewhat surprised,
though interested, TO see dozen young
ladies array6d in what looked
like the groundwork OF hoOp-
Skirted gown, and acting IN a
most unfeminine manner They seemed
about 10 engage in ventureSome athletlc
paStimeS pracuced only by the small
boy who has not yet emerged from the
state OF Savagery common 10 ms klnd.
What were they up to? were those
timid, shrinking girls about 10 leap from
height to The hard ground that would
have appalled, the most dare-deVll Small
boy. 1t looked so. They did jump,
every one of the dozen or more.
from height fully thirty
/. feet in the air. The guileleSs
reporter expected to see their foolhardl-
ness result in broken legs and bleeding
hands, but il didn't. The girls alighted
like feathers, but chattering like real
girls 1t was learned, on inquiry, that
the girls were merely going through the
new fire drill, the result of the new
fashion In gowns. The crlnOiine para
chute beats the ladder all hollow, and
can be worked quicker.
All last year and good part OF the
year before the board of corrections and
charities was loud in It's complaint Of
the city councils refusal 10 furnish
money for the much-needed city hos
pital. The newspapers were all with
the board. ana several times the
council was rOundly scored for
refusing to allow the city sick
to be cared for as human be-
ingS have 4 right to be cared for
The people were with the board. While
the failure OF the council 10 provide the
cash was not, of necessity, bar 10 the
board aSCeTIainlng what sort OF a hos
pital It wanted and where II wanted TO
build, the councils attitude was always
city hospital question. This excuse was
accepted without question. But it eX-
lists no longer. The legislature has EN-
powered the council to find the money,
and the council is supposed to be
willing to find il. The board
seems to have no reasonable excuse
for inacti0H left. 1t could have selected
a site long ago had it chosen TO do so.
1t should select one now. The board
does not seem to be any nearer the Sc
lection of a site, though, than 1t was
when it became board, year ago last
July.
If it does much more cOquetting with
this question, the skirts of the council
will not be wide enough, even with the
aid of CrinOline, to conceal the board OF
corrections and charities.
1t is now generally admitted that
Minneapolis will have new city char
ter wheD Capt. McDOugalPs whale
backs load up with lumber and -four for
LIVERPOOL via the Duluth-IWin City
canal, and the cruiser Minneapolis an
chOrs off Capt. c. Il. Renos head of
Mississippi navigation.
"Where am l at?" asked Judge J. c.
NeIhaway. of Saltwater, yesterday, as
he fell out of line at the Lyceum the
ater. He was promptly told that he
was in Minneapolis and outside the pa
trOl limits.
If Insurance Agent McCord doesn't
want his llnOleum-cOveTed floor SOlled
by the patent feathers of newspaper
reporters. he should hang out a sign.
Only two kinds of rooms are sacred to
reporters banks and sewing society
meeting rooms.
To allay the perturbation of spirit
noticed in the journal staff over the pos
Sible effect of the new game law, the
GLOBE states authOritatlvely that the
law will not be construed as applicable
10 authors, scoop, Lotto, buttOn-buttOn
O's-gOt-the-buttOn, or lawn tennis.
The company playing at the Grand
opera house this week may truthtully
be said to be an organization which is
great in small Things.
Mrs. l.. P Hunt Iikens those Chicago
worlds fair hotels to the house that was
built upon the sands. Why didn't the
Chicago people build their hotels on the
Chicago river?
Look out for lively tits over the dog
question this summer. Humane Society
Agent Tatro has declared himself on
the policy Of his organization, and
those who know the new dog catcher
VOuch for il that he does not entertain
the tenderest recolleetiOns OF Mr.. Tatro.
Ex-Gov. Andy McGill now under
stands what it is to be judge in an ora
tOrical contest. Several hundred yOung
college men stand forever in his back
track toward the state house.
If some enterpriSing man should get
up a lot of pictures showing MinneapO
lis during warm weather he would make
a fortune. Summer to the average citi-
zen is but vague memory OF the by
cones.
The health department is fast becOm-
ing a mOnopOlistic concern. Not content
with keeping the record of births and
deaths, Commissioner Kelly has sue
ceeded in bringing under his wing the
milk and bread inspections and the
quarantine physician. If the depart
ment could only be authorized to inspect
the whisky and cigarettes sold in the
city it would be right in line.
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