St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-06

week temple where Sc veral thousand
women did homage to Paderewskl. 1t
is difficult to discover wherein Pader-
ewski's fascination lies, but the women
go wild over him. 1t isn't his playing,
either, that eXcites them so. 1t is him.
self, though why only the undiscovered
man who understands women knows.
Paderewski's hair in aniOrdnary man
would be called red. 1t is worn In the
fashion familiarized by the CircasSian
girl on the circus posters. Paderewski
is slender, and-One whispers 1t with
fear and trembing-he is just shade
bOw-legged. But what do women care
for these things? He is Paderewski,
and since Kyrle Bellew fell from grace
and Della Fox grew fat, he has become
their idol. After his last concert he
went for a ride on the little lagoon III a
gaily painted gOndOla. and the women
stood on shore and looked at him, and
pointed him out to each other, and eX-
claimed and admired as if he were some
new kind of bird. He is not poetcal-
looking in the open air, either, for some
where near the middle of his hair he
sets a small silk hat. You can fancy q
poet in a sombrero or Tam O'Shanter,
but somehow you can't associate poetry
and silk nat.
dOlierS are great deal of a shock to fair
visitors. They have the appearance Of
a South st. Paul cowboy, and they wear
Derby hats. They haven't even SIN
gle bright ribbon about them, and as for
trolling baTcarOlle or lay or any
thing like that, they are too hOarse TO
say anything, except few choice re-
marks in the language of profanity all
OYel the earth, English.
At Skies and Seyens.
AS for the eternal fitness of things,
there's very little of that at this fair. |
saw Turk yesterday in tan Piccadilly
shoes, and an Arab in a tennis bla ger.
Even Columbus descendant is distinct
ly disappointment. You always fancy
a grandee Of Spain dukes are grandees,
aren't they?-as tremendously bruA
nette person with a fiery temper and
taste for bull fights. Now, the Duke of
Veragua may be peaceful with diff
Guilty, and for all l know is pining
for a bull fight, but he doesn't
look it. His eyes are a faded blue, his
face is sallOW, with mutton-chOp whis-
kers a shade darker, and he looks alto
gether like Snutfy little Englishman,
The duchess has kindly face, but
looks like a woman OF any country but
L
lars turned back over his coat, is doubt
less at his worst age, and has lost the
beauty of boyhOOd without having yet
gained the comelinesS of manhood. lie
has a ruddy complexion and oily, black
hair; his forehead is low, his chin re-
treating, and altogether he Is far from
handsome. The whole family, how-
ever. seem to be simple folk, exceed
ingly courteous, and easily pleased.
For my part, 1 don't think they have
been treated with any too much court
eSy in this country. considering the fact
that his grace of Neragua has come as
guest of the nation. In Washington
there was no official function In his
honor, except an informal reception
by the president and Mrs. Cleveland.
However, Chicago has receiYed him
rOyally, and mas entertained him as the
lineal descendant OF so great a man
should be entertained. The town is
prepared to entertain everybody on
earth, in fact. Hotels have sprung up
about Jackson park in every imaginable
STYLE of architecture and with every i'm
aginable name. One man has turned
an old factory into hotel, and, by a
sudden stroke of genius, has turned
American about and named his hotel
the Nacirema. Furnished rooms arc
to rent in the upper stories OF livery
stables, in ramshackIe business blocks,
and in houses so small one can't Imagine
even room enough to live in being there.
Everybody Is possessed with desire TO
make money, and | think the families
who live here have either gone boarding
to escape their visitors, or are preparing
to sleep in the bath tub or on the kitchen
range. l say preparing, for not all the
rooms are filled, nor will they be. Prices
will stay high till one day somebody
sees that all the world isn't coming to
this fair, and then-well, then will be
the time when people who don't own
gold mines can come to the fair with
out being obliged 10 spend the rest OF
their days in the pOorhouse.
RUTH KIMBALL.