St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-06


Pleasures "A Few Redeem
Fashions
New York, Aug. $685. How can
one have the heart toSEggest new gar
mentS when the heat-stricken world
finds itself already too heavily clad?
Who can leave-off tanning herself and
arouse her dormant energies to the ar
rangement of tanciful draperies? There
is but one thing to do, and that is, get
away. No matter at what cost, get
away somewhere far from the mad
ding crowd" the hot pavements, the
noisy traffic, the irrepressible cars. the
restaurant odOrs; in short, from all that
suggests city life.
Fortunately this fleeing from the
cares of the heated metropolis is not
limited to the wealthy. AS there are all
sorts and conditions of men, so also
there are all sorts and conditions of
trips. You can spend several hundred
dollars in a very few days. if you care
TO have that labOriOuS kind of 4 holiday,
which is chrOnicled With such personal
details in what we call the society
papers. You can spend thousands, in
fact, if you aspire to have What, in the
elegant phraseolOgy of the day, is de-
scribed asa stunning gown" written
up every day. If you are trying to keep
up The bubble reputation" of leader
of society, which is such a daily in
creaSing matter to keep up, the summer
season will give you vast opportunities
of consuming a goodly proportion of
that filthy lucre which hes been ac-
cumulated. as you vaguely understand
it down town. somewhere.
As butterfly of fashion you are
rot expected to know where exactly.
But althOu-h this letter is written To
such fortunate ladies as are accustomed
TO wear Redfern gowns. and have them
described in the Sunday papers at the
summer resorts with an eXactitude that
is worthy of, if possible, a better sub
ject, ii will set forth this week the de-
lights of seaside trip that can be pro-
cured for twenty cents. For this twenty
cents you 90 to the sea. but you do not
get away from the "madding crowd"
1t is characteristic of the ''mas5es" and
anti-refinPment that they have no de-
sire for solitude. To them the seaShore
trip means carOnsals, switch-backs.
automatic machines. weighing ma
chimes. loudly popping corn, odor-
Gus Franlfurters ard constant
AFTER the Ball'' style of music
a lonely sea-washed rock.
stretch of picturesque Ochre beach. a
few sea gullS skimming the changing
ocean-these unpurchasable pleasures
cannot in their taste compare with their
many five-cent Injuries. But il is not
only the lower strata of society that like
to buy their pleasures. When you
have bought your ticket, dropped it into
its receptacle, and are awaiting the ar
rival of your ferry boat which is to con-
vey you 10 your sea-waShed shore, you
have time to study your fellow pasSen-
gers. You look round you and wonder
invOluntarlv where the real Americans
90 for their holidays. or If there are any
real Americans. You notice good
many SONS and daughters of Erin,
more or less mOngrrliZed. You are
elbOWed by StOlid Cinnamon or China
women, perhapS-they always look alike
10 me, but, whatever their sex. they
have left their laundries and are taking
their 90 cents worth of enjoyment with
the apparent feeling and the expression
of 50 many craven images. Some fam
taStically dressed mOnkey-faced ltal-
ians, with their inevitable picturesque
ness not yet taken from them by the
materialiSm of New York life, make
little group together The remainder
appear to be fat beery Germans and
few vouble French. A trio of shop
girls, with 1913 Eton suits, worn
jauntily, and sailor hats well draped
TO protect compilations which would
be far better for little sun, seem to be
The only representatives of the Amer
=
some natural affinity the children and
the automatic candy machines come
into close contact. The chocolate that
comes out in such a wonderful way is
very nasty, but this is one of the cases
where ignorance is bliss. and the fasci-
nation OF seeing it come out is worth
five cents alone The New Yorker al
ways knows how much he weighs: it is
a knowledge which is part of his nation
ality, so the weighing machines are well
patroniZed. When New Yorker dies
it is not what he did and what he knew
that are chrOnicled, but how much he
made and how much he weighed. The
weighing machine is never empty. The
photograph has few listeners, but it
is not SO popular. A stall at the back
dispenses at low prices such choice
VlapdS as beer, ice cream, DretZelS and
pop corn. When the boat arrives there
is a huStlng of all natiOnaIities, and a
chatterng like that at the building of
the Tower Of Babel. When we are fairly
started the crowd eats peanuts and
listens cOnteptedly TO After the Ball."
The sail is short, the air grows beauti-
fully cooler. and when we land we have
put cur handkeTchiefS in out pocket and
closed cur fans.
Then every one has lager beer. This
Is The first thing, and then before the
starch is out of the gowns and collars
are wilted and bangs uncurled by frolic
the proper thing to do is To have YOUR
photograph taken. For p cents YOU
can be grossly libeled twice. The pic
ture will represent a grinning, GRO
teSque image that even your mother
would not knOW-but it is the correct
thing TO purchase one of these souve-
Mrs. Ladies who go on twenty-cent
expeditions are usually taken with their
temporary young man behind them
his hand or her shoulder, and pervad-
ing appearance of embarrassment.
After the photography the next ten
minutes is trified away with poor pop
corn or a soda drink, and then 10
cents may be invested in paying
for the chance OF seeing one of a
dozen leaden horses win a mechanical
race. If you win-which you never do
you get emma cup III plush box, or
a clock that does not go, or some other
elegant trihe, heap of which triies
are piled about in tempting profuson.
When you have gambled at this for
awhile and grown desperate over your
losses you can go and watch the batherS.
/ don't suggest that any one going on
2O-cent trip should battle; It's too ex-
pensiye: besides it's better fun to
watch. If you don't get some amuse-
ment out of this you must indeed be a
cynic. There were no costumes such
as were published in the New York
Herald lately; neither does any one
look rs charming as the prize picture.
If they did it wouldn't be so amusing to