The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-06

wondering youth who has just met a
young woman whom he has known as
Miss Amy r. DeLacy, but whose shirt
waist bears the initials "B. f. D." will
be dispelled when the young woman
explains, as she notes his wonderment,
that she put on her sisters shirt
waist by mistake"
The new fashion in monograms is
matter of much profit to those who do
embroidering, and to the engraVerS.
The cost of an embroidered monogram
of the most simple invention is so
cents, and the expense runs up into
several dollars where the design is
elaborate.
The style is infectious, for it has
spread to the men, but so far no one
has his monogram anywhere else than
on his shirt sleeve.
Monogram Styles for Men.
The men have also copied the gem
erous proportions of the size of mono
gram adopted by the women, and have
banished from the position so long &C
corded to 1.-THE bottom of the bosom
the single letter, the first Of their
Christian name, by which they have
been wont to identify their shirts.
A rather pretty eccentricity of the
monogram habit is the fashion which
few of the early summer girls have
recently adopted of embroidering the
| initials of their sweethearts beside
their own initials on the inside Of their
] dainty collars.
Various complications may be ex-
pected from this romantic variation of
| the popular fad. Mary Jane, for in
stance, cannot always keep inviolate
| from the eyes of her girl friends the
| letters of his monogram, and 1T may
quite possibly come to pass that they
| shall be read by the last girl in the
world who should be trusted with the
information-the very girl who has
| been casting Sleeps eyes at that lden-
| teal young man.
| An Awful Possibility.
| And, horror of horrors, what would
| happen, what is there in the realm Of
| the imagination that could adequately
| happen-if, on some awful occasion,
| two of these monogram summer girls
| should by chance reveal TO each other
| on the smooth surface of their collar
| bands the initials of the same young
1 man!
| Countless plots and counterplots are
also possible-short stories and long,
many Of them false, ana some OF them
| true-with the craze for embroidered
| initials as their basis. 1.-THE Stolen
| Monogram" There is a title for a ro-
| nance of the summer of 1902. 1t will
| Cor may, at least), tell how the
l SCH6IlllUS FIGIlCA SONSIHSSS, WIN lids
plotted against the heroine, appears at
the seaside resort, and by imperson-
ating the heroine and wearing the
| monogram of her initials, involves her
in no end of trouble. The French gov
erness may be a trif1e ancient, as the
villainess Of a twentieth century plot
| but the up-to- date story writer will
be able to dress her up for the occa-
sion as he dresses UP so many other
| antique themes and characters for
| modern tastes. Then we could have
1.-THE Lost Monogram" "the Mono
gram in Cold" and a hundred other
variations that might, and doubtless
| will, suggest themselves.
Hard Word for the Poets.
Perhaps the chief sufferers from the
monogram craze will be that class OF
poets who earn from nothing to 25
cents per line by their timely contribu-
tons to magazines and newspapers
Ping-p pong has been a hard proposition
for these martyrs, who have found
great difficulty in getting anything
but ding dong to rhyme with it; and
when they come to monogram
we'll, think II out for yourself. What
in the world will rhyme with mono