St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-26

Christmas day croquet party there,
with such weather as made an ice
palace an idea to be scoffed at. When
the winter reigned in truth, the lot
was flooded and some who are now
men and women complaining of the
price of coal, and otherwise comport-
ing themselves seriously, skated there
in merry abandon with Will His
dreams of financial gain, winged with
the wings Of poultry, lowered around
that lot; his poultry yard was in one
corner. 1t was in fact little patch
Of country, with all the advantages of
the city close around it, If less pre-
tentious than q park, it was more en-
joyable. 1t was a cheerful, breezy bit
Of the foot stool before it was buried
under bricks, and the memory of it is
altogether wholesome. One Of the
Charms Of life with us, then and now,
Is that we are not cramped in the
city. We have our metropolitan adj
yantages and busy thrift, but close, at
hand, within reach of the poorest, are
1akes and woods and broad spreading
fields. Life without these is one-sided.
If you waken the memories of vet
women,
who have known st. Paul almost from
the beginning, they will talk most
lovingly of the trees, and the foot
paths, the birds and the gophers, well
remembered, where now are but
Straight streets and walls and paving.
and you will feel as the talk goes on
that the trees, the birds and the wild
flowers had not a little to do in round
Ing out these characters we so gen.
orally admire, respect and love.
Have you been asked to attend one
OF the rehearsafs Of the amateuEy, who
are making ready for the presentation
of "a Night Off?' If you have YOU
have been very lucky and are envied
by some hundreds of people who have
peen waiting with what patience they
can muster for the coming of the in
yitation that probably will not come;
Tor Mr.. Johnson does not encourage
the presence of spectators at the re-
hearsals and he ought to know what is
pest under the circumstances. The
actors don't care whether there are
spectators present or not now, for
they are all letter perfect in their parts
and most of them have the assurance
that their acting is not bad It is
really excellent. The cast is we'll bal
anced and it is doubtful if in all the
West number of people with as
much natural talent and as we'll
equipped for the performance of such
play as "a Night OFF, could he
found outside of ST. Paul
While the production will. be a social
event, and will bring out all of the
people in society in town at the time Of
Its production it is even more an arts
tic event. 1t is remarkable that so
much real talent should have remained
80 long unused. Even now the as
surance is given that this performance
Of ga Night Off" will result in the
establishment Of theatrical club, and
there is 10 reason why it should not
became famous. Several people very
Well qualified to judge, and who have
seen the rehearsals that have been go
Ing on this week in Conover hall. saw
positively that the company is far and
away ahead of 80 per cent of the
road stock companies. The only COM
parison that the st. Paul theater-goer
is likely to make is with the DAILY COM
pany that produced "a Night OFF, here
last season, and it is not too much TO
say that the amateurs will give an in
depreciation Of the clever humor of tbe
production that will be as satisfactory
as was Mr.. Days company. It would
be absurd to claim that the same tai
emit, or rather diversity of talent. is to
be found in the local company that
there was in Days company, but so
Tar as the production of this particular
comedy is concerned, it will be perfect
Mr. johnson picked the play to suit