St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-13
HOLIDAYS EN- R0UTE.
now TO PREPARE FOR THEM AND
How TO 6EST ENJOY THEN.
THE TNEPROMPrU GALA BAYS.

Holiday Men as Scarce as the
ProverbiaI Dancing Man -
What Will Society Do to Sup
ply the Deficiency? Will They
Have TO Be Hired? News OF
the Accordion Fad.
NEW YORK, Aug. 11.-Every paper
that read, and no one can attempt to
read anything heavier than a paper
just now, gives directions about enjoy
ing hOlidays-how t. prepare for them,
how to spend them, how TO rest after
wards. These accounts and recipes
tell you what to eat and how TO dress
they suggest even what to talk about
and how to talk during this period Of
relaxation. Verify, everything is re-
duced to fine art reduced, did | say?
that's mistake, l should have said
elevated.
But, even when all these directions
are followed, if the elegant gowns have
been prepared, the exquisite lingerie
and Lewitching bathing costume-if the
gloves are quite the correct thing and
the shoes the kind that combine COM
fort with elegance-if the books are of
that light amusing Order-IiOweil. Je-
rome, kipling and Meredith, or J. w.
RIley'S pOemS-lf the menu at the hotel
is beyond Reproductive attendance
gOod-if you study 10 enjoy Yourself
and make the most of the tleeting hours,
it is not always a success. l think it is
generally accidental effects that are
most successful-we study and plan
everything too much ourselves in
ciuded).
The masterpieces of art are not
mapped out beforehand; our fin de
steele artists may write, paint and play
according TO precOncelved idea.
planned out by some one else; but
the old masters, whose work will last
long after the fin de steele ones are
forgotten, gained their laurels by acct
dental effects.
Ii is perhaps a strange parallel to
draw, but successful holiday is little,
at any rate, like a successful work OF
art. 1t lives in the memory, it gives
pleasure to life, it has beauty about it
that sprung up and Was not planned
out.
AT Newport read the sad announce
ment Men are scarce" IL is badly
stated, but it is really tragic remark.
In spite of the beauty, the gowns and
the attractions of society the one thing
needful has not followed. l have just
been reading "How to Enjoy Hoii-
day" Some one had better write "How
TO Enjoy Holiday Without Men," Or
will they have to be hired? holiday men
Instead of dancing ones, which are al
ready an established fact.
Accordion pleating t1Ourishes-
ing-p.ease excuse the pun-where it
can be introduced, it is introduced.
Redfern has new crepOn gown of
golden brown, with fall of accordion
pleatlng from the collar to the shout
derS, confined about the buSts with
bands of white satin embroidered in
dull shades of ard blue. This is very
recherche, although the top part may be
TO the superficial observer little Sug-
gestive of the lamp shade.
En- PEASANT, 1 may observe that neck
triiles of the lamp shade pattern-or the
dog Toby style (after all, what's in a
name, so long us one is understOUd). are
extremely fashionable. They are not
the same color as the g0wn-the day of
matched shades and harmony is over
and they can be of any color you please,
OF lace chiffon, satin with bugal trim
ming, OF colored embroidery. These
necklets are prettiest with long ends to
them which have pretty pendants at the
lend. Black and white is the most styi-
ish combination.