St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-24
CAPITAL CITY GOSSIP.

Specfal 10 the GloDe-
WASHINGTON, April 23.-There are
people the rest of us could do without,
and the woman who paints her face is
one of them. There is no other town in
these United States in which so many
women go about with drug store com
plexions. The majority of them, con-
trary to ones expectations. are evidently
respectable women. for they are to be
seen in public with men one knows. OF
course, Southern w0menspOwder. Dear
only knows why. but they all do 1t, and
nobody notices that, but the women on
the avenue of an afternoon don't stop
with rice powder. They rouge to the
eyes. and cover the glare OF red and
white with still more startling veil.
This is in il certain sense an insult to
the passer-by, for it says 10 him. You
are so dull, can easily deceive you.
You think this is real" But of course
you don't. and nobody but the woman
who does it thinks you do. The effect
Of rouge beneath purple veil is some
thing narrowing TO ones nerves, but
the worst thing in Washington is an
apple green veil. 1t belongs to woman
with yellow hair who wasn't born with
it. She is very sallow, and behind the
veil she looks like corpse that has
lain in water for weeks. Horrible, isn't
it? And she owns pug dog, which she
kisses. She is fright, but what more
can one expect OF a woman who kisses
dog in town where there are so many
kiSSable babies. and men, too, for that
matter?
Rouged women are some of the odd
things one sees in Washington, but
there are a great many odd things in
Washington the authorities will not let
one see. Tights on bill boards are among
them. There's never OurleSque COM
pany billed here, but the bill board
pictures are mOdestly doctOred up with
smaller placards so that not single
Amazon or burlesque prince appears as
the artist drew her. Tights are inter
dicted and must be covered UPON the
bill boards, that is. This is bit odd,
but not one person in fifty notices 1t.
However. everybody Oh the avenue
noticed frame OF Wang" pictures tlie
other day, for every shaDely woman
had her tights concealed be-
hind petticoat of paper, cut
out and pasted on. Even the
delightful picture of Della Fox, who.
by the way, is by no means so slender
nor so charming as she was last year,
was married by magenta Dettlcoat,
where the graceful Della does not
usually appear i'll any sort of petit
coat whatever This is doubtless pleas
ing to Anthony C0mstock and his fol-
lowers, but to the rest OF US it seems
extremely absurd and we'll calculated
to advertise the particular neither
limbs so carefully concealed. W hat
surprises me is that some theatrical
manager hasn't thought up this very
| to love, religion, poetry" and lot of
other things, Owen Meredith says, and
! 1 think the activeneSs of these scantily
| clad damselS is very much enhanced by
the posters they hide behind.
A theatrical manager is an extremely
wary and delusive person, by the way.
! He comes and confdeS to you a great
many Interesting things about his star,
| and 10! while you think he is telling
| you this because you are personally so
| engaging he is making you give him
| untold and wholly unintentiOnal adver-
! Using. Now, think the way Stuart
RobSon'S manager has of getting public
| curiosity aroused is about as clever as
anything ole often finds. He comes
around and tells you in the course OF
casual conversation about the weather
| and the financial SITUATION InaI MT.
Robson is going to play Comedy of
Errors again next season. Of course,
biting on this bait. you ask who is to
play the other Dromio. This is where the
clever. part comes iii, for the manager
doesn't tell you. It's somebody whose
voice squeaks just like RObson's. and
whose face and figure are so much like
RobSon's that nobody can tell the two
men apart. The unknown passes for
MIR. Robson. even with people who
know Robson best. You can see for
yourself that there is a glorious Oppor-
tunity for any number Of interesting
stories based on this singular and mis-
leading likeness. AS for me, knowing
the ways of the stage world, l believe
the great unknown is like MIR. Harris.
81 don't believe there is no such per-
son." But, dear me. it's clever idea,
and it's going to take immensely. It's
the things we don't know that we want
TO talk about. which is why the inten-
tions of Mr.. Cleveland and plans of Mrs.
| Cleveland are discussed by everybody
in Washington. RUTH KIMBALL.