St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-07

AIS OlAAN Al DoSAO y
and gathers her children together and
sets off on her summer outing would
seem to be more numerous than any
other part of the feminine community.
from the columns of advice and instrnc-
lion given her. Research, however, re-
veals the fact that to every who
goes out to the lakes or off to the East
Dr. northwest to the Yellowstone there
are ninety and nine who do not leave
The city at all, or at most for only a day
now and then.
Life need not look like a dreary waste
TO these Stay-at-homeS, either. There
are many good points in their own
situation, and many bad ones in that of
The one who goes away. For instance.
IN town there are bath tubs and towels
in plenty, instead of the basin and
infinitesimai bits of linen at the summer
hotel or country boarding house. There
is the blessed privilege OF having time
10 get acquainted with ones offspring,
now while these interesting bits of hu-
manity are out of school and always
about one. You have no idea, if you
have never tried it, what All interesting
occupation this can be made. Just for
get that 0 are grown up. and live
Will lOuI CillluIeu OIL dill equality, ana
see how wise they are.
Ii you have a bit of back yard,
swing your hammock in its shaGiest
corner, let the children bring the dolls
and their dishes and scraps. and the kit
ten and the puppy, and just live out
there all you can. Put On your coolest
blouse, such as a wise woman has pro-
vided for the hot days, and q dark skirt;
let your girl tell callers that you are not
at home, and take your ease. The lady
at home has the soda fountain con-
~veniently near, and the postoffice not
far away. She can read the daily paper
while it is hardly dry from the press, get
to the market before the dew has dried
OH the lettuce leaves or stiff bouquets of
oid-faShloned flowers that need only the
deft touch OF womanIy fingers TO fall
into graceful poses and become things
of beauty for the lunch table. She can
take tie car and 90 away out to Shadow
Falls and find the cool %greenneSS of
primitive woods and stream. She can
cross the river on the high bridge and
catch glimpSes of the bluffs above and
below that require only a very little
stretch OF imagination to form into Cas-
tella Sleeps, or The white shores of Al
Dlon." She can go out TO the Fort for
an evening Jaunt, aid cross the romantic
DliuSe DtINctn lldl STRONGHOLD ana
town, or out to While Bear for a day,
and hiIe a boa and paddle III the clear
water at some shady retreat to her
hearts content. She can go down to
Red Rock and obtain spiritual ~elevation
as well as bodily recreation at the same
time.
The who stays at nome will
not need elaborate toilets. Simple skirts
anu Il liberal supply Of white waists are
all she needs, beside wrapper of muslin
or thin silk for home wear. She will
attel d no festivities III town where a
simple suit may not be worn. She will
have plenty of under garments, so that
she may be reckless as TO wearing them.
Her shoes will be larger than her winter
ones, and OF comfortable russell leather
If she is as wise as this article assumes
tina; she is, she will keep as good EN-
pered as possible and at peace with all
mankind. She will read all the inter-
eStlng books she can get hold Of, and
never allow a single fret to corrode her
brow and disturb the even tenor of her
ways. When the cool days come she
will be ahead. in most ways, of the
woman VINO goes away. She will net
have so much sunburn or freckIes as
her Travelled sister, but she can look
back on a very pleasant ummer
AUNT Polly.