The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-30

will be ready to put together in about
two weeks
Professional Women Entertain
Mrs. Leslie Carriers $4,000 hair and Miss
! Anne Rhodes rattlesnake story enter
tanned the Professional Women's league.
| Incidentally there were musical selections,
recitations and refreshments
! Everyone had an opportunity to meet
Mrs Carter before the programme began.
and many, after passing the receiving
/ line, stood gazing from a distance and
| discussing whether the story was true
| that Mrs. Carter pays a French special
| lst $1,000 year to keep kat peculiar
| shade of red exclusively for her hair.
! Mrs Garter was gowned in white with
I touch Of light blue on the front of the
| bodice. and Wore large black hat with
| lace dTapeTies falling over the back Of
| her red hair
/ Lillian Russell, who stood next to her,
! also was in white, with a very springlike
! hat, trimmed with lilacs. Guests were
! presented by Mrs. Edwin Knowles and
| Mrs. Louisa Eldridge president and vice
president of the league
Nixon Suffers for Croker
The sins of Croker, apparently, are to be
visited upon his successor in the manage
| ment Of Tammany Opposition developed
| IN Democratic ranks to Lewis Nixon, the
the
! place of treasurer of the reOrganized ma
! tionaI congress committee of the Demo-
| cratic party.
| When the proposition was advanced a
/ week ago, to reOrganize the committee.
| with a Southern man as chairman. a
! Western man as manager of the cam
/ paign committee and a Tammany man as
! treasurer. there were indications that the
minority might get together and succeed
| in effecting an organization that promised
| to be harmonious.
| Mr.. Nixon came to town this morning,
| and about the first thing he heard was
! that some of the Democrats from the
! South and West were opposed to his hav-
| ing any official connection with the Dem
| ocratic national committee.
Newest Thing in Cafes
Women seem to succeed in the conduct
| of restaurants where men fail. But we
| have among US an Irishman with a
1 French pronunciation Of name who is do
! ing something never done before by man
| or woman with even a show of profit or
| good fortune. He recently removed from
a third hand house to a second hand
4 house, near Madison square, and estab-
| lshed himself at $1.50 for dinner. The
| rains of society descended and the floods
| of Vanity Fair came and beat upon his
| house with so great fury that men with
/ cut evening CiOllleS were barred, ana inc
| price of dinner was raised to 81. That Il
| something hitherto unheard Of in New
| York-$2 for a table d'hote dinner. The
| overflow that happens nightly is taken
| care of by an Italian restaurant in Tween
| ty-ninth street
In the meantime, the celebrated eating
house that occupied with tremendous
profit the old house into which the
| FrancO-Irishman has moved, but a few
| I
ing into innocuous desuetude. 1t is doing
| a quiet and respectable business but how
| it manages to pay rent is a mystery. No
| longer the vogue, its black-finished cafe
| fOreshadows the funeral that is coming,
| Its sombre elegance accentuates the too
| evident change from the life. gayety and
| high favor Of past years to the present
| heartless desertion of the Four Hundred
| and its enVirOnS. IAe glittering
| glamour of the Waldorf-AstOria and the
-obtrusiye refinement of Sherry's are hard
J to surpass