St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-12
How the American Girl APP
pears Upon the Stylish
Avenue.
There Is q Subtle Something,
Who Can Say What, That
She Lacks.
The Cold, Clear Spring Sum
shine Shows UP Its I'M
PROJECTIONS.
Spring Eccentricities in
Fashion Which Are Very
Catching.

Special Letter to the Globe.
NEW York, March 1.-THE snow in
Madison square begins to have dirty
passee look, like faded woman who
has been out to two or three balls in the
space of one night without redressing
herself. The cold, clear spring sun
shine shows :up its impertectlons, as
the rouge OH worn cheek is betrayed
by morning light. But it also does good
and pretty work in casting delicate
tracery of shadows on the broad paths
from the trees that will soon be cover
ing their nude limbs in the finery of
spring foliage. The cabmen, combining
pleasure with business, while keeping
one eye open for possible fares
devote the other TO Winking at the Serv-
ant girls who, with their Well-dreSSed
young charges, are taking the beautiful,
invigOrating, yet saddening, spring air.
| There is without doubt something very
| saddening about it. Old people tell us
that whatever doleful poems are written
about autumn and falling leaves, it is
the bright, beautiful, verdant spring,
and not the fading, declining autumn,
| that produces melancholy. Is il not,
| think you, because spring has such
always coming out just as young as
| ever, year after year, while every ad-
vancing spring ageS-be it ever so I'M
! erceptibly-every mothers son that
| enjoys seasons as they glide by?
The aristocratic babies who are being
| summed in the square are not rendered
| more pensive than usual by the pene-
| trating air. They always look more or
less pensive. From their expression
they might be seriously rejecting on
the briefness and emptiness of this
transitory life. But then, rich babies
always have that look of grave, uncom-
unhappy. have seen dirty baby eX-
press wild enjoyment, by al almost in
| artlculate gurgle; l have seen
what you might call fairly re-
spectacle babies laugh, and show
a keen interest in their surround
ings. but have never seen the babies
who are taken out in white permula-
tors in Madison Square park, much
more than calm and self-possessed.
They are very pink, and kisSable, and
daintily gowned in pure virgin white,
with due regard for cut and fashion;
and when the sun is warm at about 2
O'Clock there is quite show of them,
like so many fashionable young cherubS;
they have begun life in this advanced
wayetheY will exhaust it dreadfully
soon.
On the avenue there is every sign Of
life. Not the least distinctive among
these are the Fifth avenue stages. which.
with mud-bespattered sides, go on SEEM
ingly oblivious of unkind criticism. car
rying their freight of people ''up for the
day." up to the museum of art. There
are any amount OF smartly dressed
women out, and not few we'll dressed
ones. The two terms are not synOny-
nous, you know. The American girl is
almost deity in her own country, but
she has yet to learn how not to dress too
much, how to do her hair Stylishly, and
how to wear less aggre ssiye millinery.
When she has acquired these slight
points, she will be indeed "a thing of
beauty" and when she has sOftened
that voice that so many men reckon
"her one fault"-then she will be "a joy
forever"
On the avenue capes are moving
about like n growth of velvety blossoms.
of which there is a very sudden and i'm
mense profusion. Like the petals of an
overgroWn flower, they are seen III
masses Of velvet and lace, and passe-
menterie, also in eccentric cloths of
OStentatious pattern and color. One
which saw at Redfern'S portals, whilst
its wearer arranged meeting with her
impatient cavalier, was made OF an
amethyst colored cloth, with large