The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-21

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rlcn enough or big enough to possess
q class of people who make the pursuit
OF pleasure an occupation. There is
no leisure class in the Western cities,
but he did not say, as he might have
they would probably 81 dle y b5feS Ses e.
In the olden days they weI)e building
cities and evolving homes and pleasant
surroundings from unpromising condi-
tons, and while the cities are large
and are practically built, they are not
finished. and there is still enough to
do to keep several generations at work.
Mr.. FIandrau pays well deserved
compliment to the hospitality of the
West. He says every man is taken
for~a gentleman until he is proven the
other thing, and on the whole they
make few mistakes. The% merely ask
that the stranger shall be- interesting,
and If it be a young woman who is
visiting girl who is at all popular,
she has ''the time of her life"
- Society Is Not Too Serious.
For this. he says. there are several
reasons, 'tthe chief one, think, is that
Northwestern society, as such does not
as yet take itself too seriously. There
is little of the invariable~. quantity
about it. 1t shifts and changes with
astonishing rapidity. People arrive
from heaven knows where stay for a
time and then-"drop out" They are
welcomed cordially when they come,
but their departure is of little impor-
tance. Society does not consider that
in9having admitted them it has in any
way committed itself. To that extent
it's self sufficiency has scarcely cryS-
talized- ST. Paul society, for instance,
has arrived at the point at which it
annually wonders whether or not it
will go to the charity ball; but it has
not yet reached the point at which it
stays away"
Not Sheer in 1t.
MI. F1andrau did not start out to
write an ethical or philosophical trea-
tise on society in general, or Western
society in particular, but merely to de-
scribe society in the West, and the
point which it has reached in it's de-
Velopment. And he has done this very
well; his ideas are clothed in good
English, and he knows thoroughly
what he writes about. Had he been
going into the philosophy of the sub
Ject he might have been willing to adj
init that the points at which Western
society either fails or does not come up
to an Older society are precisely in
those things that are of no practical
value in themselves, and are evidence
merely Of more experience and more
thought expended on the matter, and
not signs of better breeding or man
ners. But it would take a very carp
ing critic indeed to find a sheer in
Mr.. Flandrau's. article on Western So
| ciety.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank D. Shepard, of
Dayton avenue, and their family arr
spending the summer in their cottaL.e
at White Bear lake, and will ..eturn
to town on the 1st of September. Mr..
and Mrs. Alvin Krech, of New York,
formerly of St. Paul, are this summer
at the Catskill mountains Mr.. and
Mrs. Ambrose Tighe, of Dayton ave-
nue., have been at Clearwater lake this
summer, where Mrs. Arthur B. Dris-
coll and family of Summit avenue, are
also spending the months Of July and
August.
Mrs. Charles S. Rogers and her
daughters, the Misses Francis and
Charlotte Rogers, have purchased the
L. S. Tompkins house, 113 Virginia,
and will occupy it when they return
from White Bear lake in September.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tompkins now make
their home in California. Mr.. and
Mrs. Gardner Moore, of Goodrich ave-
nue., who spend their summers at Bald
Eagle lake, have purchased the house
on Grand avenue at the corner of Oak
land, and will move into it in the early
autumn. Mrs. John Morrison Din oc-
cupy the Goodrich avenue residence,
vacated by Mr.. and Mrs Moore, which
is owned by Mrs. Morrison.
Mr.. Louis Maxfeld, second son of
Mrs. L. H. Maxfeld, of Goodrich ave-
nue., has gone to Boston to enter the